Hiromasa Yonebayashi | France, Japan and United States of America | 2010 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers...
Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | Fantasy, Adventure | 1986 Studio Ghibli's first animated feature film is a jet-propelled adventure ride across a mysterious land with floating castles, magical stones and secret powers. Pazu, an engineer's apprentice finds a young girl, Sheeta, floating down from the sky wearing a glowing pendant. Together they discover...
Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | 1989 Join Kiki, a young witch in training, and her faithful companion Jiji, a talking black cat, as they set out to make a new life in a faraway town. On the night of a full moon, thirteen-year-old Kiki decides it’s time to leave home, as tradition dictates,...
Hayao Miyazaki| Japan | Family/ Fantasy| 2004 When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle. [su_youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwROgK94zcM" title="Howl's Moving...
D. Raoul Peck | Documentary | 2025 From Academy Award-nominated director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), in collaboration with the Orwell Estate, ORWELL 2+2=5 crafts a definitive portrait of the writer alongside an entirely fresh take on how remarkably relevant and prophetic his work has become. George Orwell...
By Bernard Shaw and Directed by Dominic Cooke Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces...
D. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard | Musical | 2024 Bringing to life the remarkable story of the Australian-born Geraldine Flower through a suitcase full of passionate, heartfelt letters of love sent to her in the 1960s and 1970s, THE EXTRAORDINARY MISS FLOWER is part film, part theatre and part...
D. Teemu Nikki | Black Comedy | Finland | 2024 A box office hit in Finland, this summery black comedy is a tribute to the countryside provinces and to the traditional Finnish brew sahti, the liquid gold of Finland. Enjoyed at Midsummer, Christmas, weddings, funerals and parties, the drink has...
A SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING + LIVE Q&A WITH DIRECTOR DIANNE WHELAN Director: Dianne Whelan | Producer: Betsy Carson | Documentary |2024 | USA 500 Days in the Wild follows the epic 6-year journey of filmmaker Dianne Whelan as she sets out to reconnect with nature and become the first person...
D. Jacob Richardson | Drama | Australia | 2024 In a world that has started to forget him, Hector, a widowed fisherman, feels the weight of his age. Everything changes when he encounters Theodore, a resourceful and sharp teenager desperately seeking a saviour to rescue him from a dire situation....
Immerse yourself in a breathtaking 3-hour journey through the world's most spectacular marine environments. The Ocean Film Festival World Tour presents an extraordinary collection of short films that capture the raw beauty, untamed power, and majesty of our oceans. These carefully curated films showcase stunning cinematography from surface to depths,...
The Cream of Short Films Celebrating its 35th year, Flickerfest, Australia’s only Academy Award® and BAFTA qualifying short film festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screens the best of shorts from Australia and the world, selected from over 3,600 entries: ensuring the presentation of A-list...
Best of Australian Short Films:
Friday 10 April
Best of International Short Films:
Saturday 11 April
D. Rebel Wilson | Musical/ Comedy | 2024 The Deb follows lovable farm girl and high school outcast Taylah Simpkins, who is certain the upcoming Debutante Ball, ‘the Deb,’ is her one chance to redefine herself. When her cynical city cousin Maeve is exiled to Taylah's drought-stricken town Dunburn, she...
Presented by World Expeditions, the 2026 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour delivers a thrilling 3-hour adventure through the world of extreme mountain sports. Experience the most captivating short films from fearless explorers, trail runners, mountain bikers, skiers, paddlers and climbers who push boundaries across the globe. Following the legendary...
