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Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) began in 1992 with the premiere of Strictly Ballroom, but Its prestige has fallen even as film production in the state has ramped up.

‘Bold and transformative’: New-look BIFF readies for its close-up in Cannes

The new boss of Brisbane International Film Festival will announce BIFF’s reinvention as a co-production marketplace at the world’s premier film festival.

  • Nick Dent

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Adolf Hitler with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl on Nazi party day in Nuremberg, 1934.

Hitler’s favourite filmmaker always denied she was a Nazi. Now we know the truth

The director of a new documentary on Leni Riefenstahl trawled through 700 boxes of material from her estate to find answers.

  • Garry Maddox
In one scene in Dying, Lissy (Corinna Harfouch) tells her son that she never liked him.

The mother in this film is so awful she couldn’t be anything but real

Director Matthias Glasner turns his bleak upbringing into an award-winning – and unexpectedly funny – film.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Gabriel Shipton at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, February 2025.

How Julian Assange’s brother and a crypto artist raised $74m to free him

Gabriel Shipton and the cyber artist Pak joined forces to create an NFT artwork that played a major role in securing the WikiLeaks founder’s release.

  • Karl Quinn
Rose Byrne poses with her Silver Bear for best lead performance.

Rose Byrne scoops top award at Berlin Film Festival

The Australian actor wins the best performance award for her role in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

Jacob Elordi (left) and Justin Kurzel, director of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. 

Why ‘superfan’ Jacob Elordi took the Long Road home to Australia

The Saltburn and Euphoria star was in Berlin for the premiere of Richard Flanagan’s POW drama, directed by Justin Kurzel.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
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A still from the trailer for Russians at War.

Film festival defends screening of Ukraine war documentary branded Russian propaganda

Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia wrote to the chair of the Antenna Documentary Film Festival urging him to cancel screenings of the film Russians at War.

  • Matthew Knott
Donald Trump and Jennifer Lopez have very different views on gender.

Jennifer Lopez speaks up for LGBTQ rights at Kiss of the Spider Woman debut

Donald Trump may have declared there are just two genders, but the singer and actor has other ideas.

  • Jada Yuan
Gary Sweet and Steve Bastoni are actors and mates, and a judge and the founder (respectively) of the Peninsula Film Festival.

In the ’90s these actors jumped head-first into everything, friendship included

Steve Bastoni and Gary Sweet met on their first day on the set of Police Rescue. More than 30 years, on they’re still cracking each other up on their latest venture together.

  • Karl Quinn
Nash Edgerton (left) has directed a short film called Candy Bar, starring Damon Herriman (right) and Nash’s daughter Zumi, that has its world premiere at Flickerfest that runs at Bondi Pavilion.

When Nash Edgerton’s daughter caught the acting bug, he decided to shoot a new film

The director of Mr Inbetween wanted to work with nine-year-old Zumi, who has “got a real bug” for acting.

  • Garry Maddox

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