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A story within a story. In Australia’s Northern Territory, a man tells one of the...
Adventure
10 CANOES
Director / Rolf de Heer
Queensland Premiere. Having just robbed a jewellery store only to discover their getaway car has...
Comedy
A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA
Director / Artus
Queensland Premiere. How can you measure happiness? The country of Bhutan invented Gross National Happiness...
Documentary
AGENT OF HAPPINESS
Director / Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó
Queensland Premiere. All We Imagine as Light follows the lives of two roommates living in...
Drama
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
Director / Payal Kapadia
Queensland Premiere – Stay with us after the film screening, in Premium 5, for a...
Drama
ANDAMOOKA
Director / Mara Jean Quinn
Queensland Premiere. A young sex worker from Brooklyn marries the son of a Russian oligarch,...
Comedy
ANORA
Director / Sean Baker
Queensland Premiere – join us after the screening at The Angelika Cinemas for a Q&A....
Documentary
AQUARIUS
Director / Wendy Champagne
Queensland Premiere – join us after the Dendy Coorparoo screening for a Q&A with the...
Comedy
AUDREY
Director / Natalie Bailey
Queensland Premiere. Inseparable childhood besties Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) live totally different...
Comedy
BABES
Director / Pamela Adlon
Brisbane Premiere. After serving time in prison, Lang returns to his hometown on the edge...
Drama
BLACK DOG
Director / Hu Guan
QUEENSLAND PREMIERE AT NEW FARM CINEMAS RED CARPET 6:15pm SCREENING 7:00PM – Q&A AFTER THE...
Horror
CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS
Director / Alice Maio Mackay
Queensland Premiere. Gretchen (Hunter Schafer, Euphoria) is forced to relocate to Bavaria with her distant...
Horror
CUCKOO
Director / Tilman Singer
Queensland Premiere. After landing into JFK airport, a woman takes a taxi ride home to...
Drama
DADDIO
Director / Christy Hall
World Premiere – join us after the Cinema 1 screening for a Q&A. Red Carpet...
Action
DOUBLE OR NOTHING
Director / Dru Brown
Queensland Premiere. Rita, a criminal lawyer at a large firm has hit a slump in...
Comedy
EMILIA PEREZ
Director / Jacques Audiard
Queensland Premiere – join us after the screening at The Angelika Cinemas for a Q&A...
Documentary
FLATHEAD
Director / Jaydon Martin
Queensland Premiere. In this powerful feature documentary, director Damon Gameau successfully brings the future generation...
Documentary
FUTURE COUNCIL
Director / Damon Gameau
Queensland Premiere. Edward, a cowardly civil servant, flees from Rangoon in British Burma, after his...
Drama
GRAND TOUR
Director / Miguel Gomes
Queensland Premiere. In the treacherous forests that make up the so called “green border” between...
Drama
GREEN BORDER
Director / Agnieszka Holland
Queensland Premiere. Owen’s a typical suburban teenager trying to navigate his way through his emotionally...
Horror
I SAW THE TV GLOW
Director / Jane Schoenbrun
Queensland Premiere. This thrilling Australian sci-fi meets mystery meets thriller, follows Layla and her husband,...
Science Fiction
IN VITRO
Director / Tom McKeith and Will Howarth
Queensland Premiere. Mel Blight has recently turned 18, and is being moved from juvenile detention,...
INSIDE
Director / Charles Williams
Queensland Premiere. It’s the lunch rush at The Grill in Manhattan, and money has gone...
Drama
LA COCINA
Director / Alonso Ruizpalacios
Queensland Premiere. Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the...
Biography
MARIA
Director / Pablo Larraín
Queensland Premiere. A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her...
Comedy
NIGHTBITCH
Director / Marielle Heller
World Premiere – join us after the screening for a Q&A with star Erchana Murray-Bartlett....
Documentary
150
Director / Ryan Kennedy
Queensland Premiere. This motion picture reconstructs the magic and brilliance of Pharrell Williams’ music using...
Animation
PIECE BY PIECE
Director / Morgan Neville
Queensland Premiere. This satire comedy follows the leaders of the wealthy G7 nations – the...
Comedy
RUMOURS
Director / Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin
Queensland Premiere. A family of Sasquatches, on a quest to find others of their species,...
Adventure
SASQUATCH SUNSET
Director / David Zellner and Nathan Zellner
Queensland Premiere – join us to celebrate Opening Night of the 2024 Brisbane International Film...
Comedy
SATURDAY NIGHT
Director / Jason Reitman
Queensland Premiere. Born just 10 months apart, teenage sisters July and September are inseparable, though...
Drama
SEPTEMBER SAYS
Director / Ariane Labed
Australian Premiere – join us after the screening for a Q&A. Red Carpet from 4:30pm...
Documentary
SHARKO
Director / Luke Graham
Queensland Premiere. Back when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world, a gay man named...
Comedy
STRESS POSITIONS
Director / Theda Hammel
Queensland Premiere. After a cartel gunman from a small Mexican town is murdered, Sujo, his...
Drama
SUJO
Director / Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez
Queensland Premiere. An Iranian Judoka must make a life-changing decision between staying loyal to her...
Thriller
TATAMI
Director / Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir
Queensland Premiere. Merrill Nisker, known by her stage name “Peaches”, is a Canadian singer, songwriter,...
Documentary
TEACHES OF PEACHES
Director / Phillipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer
Queensland Premiere – join us after the screening, in Cinema 1, for a Q&A with...
Drama
THE AEGEAN
Director / Jacob Richardson
Queensland Premiere. This part-ghost story, part-horror, part-feminist comedy takes place during a scorching Marseille heatwave....
Comedy
THE BALCONETTES
Director / Noemie Merlant
Special Presentation. When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in...
Drama
THE BRUTALIST
Director / Brady Corbet
Queensland Premiere. A teenage girl with the special ability to see the colors of others,...
Animation
THE COLORS WITHIN
Director / Naoko Yamada
Queensland Premiere. In the early 1860s, two immigrants meet and agree to settle down together...
Drama
THE DEAD DON’T HURT
Director / Viggo Mortensen
Queensland Premiere – join us after the screening for a Q&A. Red Carpet from 1:00pm...
Documentary
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF WESTERLY WINDINA
Director / Alan White and Jamie Brisick
World Premiere – join us after the screening at Reading Cinemas Newmarket for a Q&A...
Animation
THE LOST TIGER
Director / Chantelle Murray
Brisbane Premiere – Red Carpet from 6:00pm for a 7:10pm screening at the Palace Barracks...
Horror
THE MOOGAI
Director / Jon Bell
Queensland Premiere. Three very different women’s lives fleetingly intersect as they search for belonging in...
Comedy
THE MOON IS UPSIDE DOWN
Director / Loren Taylor
Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, is in a long-term stable but somewhat socially-conforming relationship with...
Comedy
THE NATURE OF LOVE
Director / Monia Chokri
 QUEENSLAND PREMIERE AT ANGELIKA CINEMAS RED CARPET 7:15PM SCREENING 8:00PM – Q&A AFTER THE SCREENING...
Comedy
THE ORGANIST
Director / Andy Burkitt
Australian Premiere. A brother and sister’s battle over a prized heirloom piano unleashes haunting truths...
THE PIANO LESSON
Director / Malcolm Washington
World Premiere – join us for a ripper of a good time celebrating the World...
Drama
THE RED
Director / Ryan Coonan
Special Presentation.  Martha’s strained relationship with her mother fractures completely when a misunderstanding drives them...
Drama
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
Director / Pedro Almodóvar
Queensland Premiere. When an investigator’s gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian...
Drama
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
Director / Mohammad Rasoulof
World Premiere at Dendy Coorparoo as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival Closing Night...
Documentary
UNBREAKABLE: THE JELENA DOKIC STORY
Director / Ivan O’Mahoney and Jessica Halloran
Queensland Premiere. From renowned executive producer Taika Waititi and director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, comes this...
Drama
WE WERE DANGEROUS
Director / Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu

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