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Despite the COVID-dictated shift from mid-summer to mid-autumn, SWIFF 2021 organisers Kate and Dave offers a typicaly red-hot selection of great global cinema (Click here)
Despite the COVID-dictated shift from mid-summer to mid-autumn, SWIFF 2021 organisers Kate and Dave offers a typicaly red-hot selection of great global cinema (Click here)
Craig Ferguson finds an all-too-rare bigscreen vehicle for his rogueish charm opposite Kathie Lee Gifford in Then Came You (Click here)
David Fincher's ode to old Hollywood dominated the 2021 Academy Award nominations, which generally reflect the industry's progressive, inclusive new direction (Click here)
No one involved, least of all debutant director Lisa Charlotte Friedrich, could envision how much their production, the speculative drama LIVE, would mirror the social change we all experienced in 2020 (Click here)
World cinema's annual celebration of the briny deep in all its forms and functions, Australia's own Ocean Film Festival, launches its 2021 season this week (Click here).
The World Premiere at IFFR of James Vaughans' Emerald City drama Friends and Strangers (featuring Emma Diaz, left) announces the arrival of a talented new Australian auteur (Click here)
Three women filmmakers and works steeped in indigenous culture are headed to SXSW, amongst the five Australian films selected in the 2021 programs (Click here)
Films from all corners of the globe are honoured by the various IFFR juries in Rotterdam overnight (Click here)
New films from Isabelle Huppert, Romain Duris, Quentin Dupieux, Omar Sy and Gerard Depardieu, plus a restored classic from French cinema's defining moment, are just a fraction of what's on offer at the 2021 Alliance Francais French Film Festival (Click here)
Through their talent initiative Impact Creative Systems, Hollywood heavyweights Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will foster below-the-line talent during their Gold Coast shoot of Thirteen Lives (Click here)
After three introspective dramas, filmmaker Sandra Sciberras decided she needed to exorcise her urge to make a genre pic. The result - the outback-set alien invasion pic The Dustwalker (Click here)
Spokespeople for the ADS community are fired up over singer/choreographer Sia's directorial debut, a drama featuring neurotypical actress Maggie Ziegler as a non-verbal autistic teen (Click here)
Alessio Liguori's monster-movie Shortcut offers just enough narrative ambition to save it from being condemned to 'teen splatter' obscurity (Click here)
One of Europe's most vocal supporters of women and non-binary filmmakers is going global come February 2021 (Click here)
Europe's most progressive major film festival, IFFR will host the World Premiere of Jonathan Ogilvie's future-set surveillance thriller, Lone Wolf, starring Hugo Weaving and Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Click here)