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Melbourne Queer Film Festival reveals 2018 Program

February 13 - Festivals, Film, Latest News

Building on its reputation for showcasing the finest, contemporary queer cinema from Australia and beyond, the 28th Melbourne Queer Film Festival has assembled a line-up of deliciously evocative titles that explore and c...

Sweet Country

February 9 - Film, Latest Reviews

The Australian film industry is in safe hands if director Warwick Thornton continues to produce fine works like this one. Billed as a classic western it surpasses the stereotypical good and evil plot line to expose the r...

Transition Film Festival You're Soaking In It

Transitions Film Festival presents visions for a better world

February 1 - Festivals, Film, Latest News

The 7th annual Transitions Film Festival returns to Cinema Nova this February with another inspiring line-up of world-changing films. Showcasing local and international documentaries aimed at empowering audiences to buil...

Riot Damon Herriman as Lance Gowland - courtesy of ABC TV

ABC TV to premiere Riot in February

January 29 - Film, Television

Shining the spotlight on Australia’s 1970s Gay Rights Movement and the passionate individuals who were unwavering in their fight for decriminalisation, recognition and equality, the highly anticipated telemovie Riot will...

Isaac Julien, Hommage Noir (Looking For Langston Vintage Series) 1989_2017

Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston (1989/2017)

January 23 - Exhibitions, Film

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery presents the seminal work Looking For Langston (1989/2017) by Isaac Julien – one of Britain’s most influential and criti...

Reflections and Celebrations: 25 years of Queer Storytelling

January 10 - Festivals, Film

Celebrating 25 years of queer stories on film, Queer Screen’s 25th Mardi Gras Film Festival is a glorious mix of retrospective treasures and the latest and greatest films celebrating love, life and the journey to equalit...

The Greatest Showman

December 20 - Film

Step right up … and into the spellbinding imagination of a man who set out to reveal that life itself can be the most thrilling show of all, as Hugh Jackman stars as Phineas Taylor Barnum in The Greatest Showman. Inspire...

VIA ALICE

November 30 - Film, Performance

Marking the opening of the 2018 festival, Sugar Mountain presents VIA ALICE – an immersive virtual reality film and performance, which invites audiences to experience the strength and diversity of contemporary Indigenous...