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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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Filmmaker Michael Shanks has his debut film, Together, opening Sydney Film Festival. It’s a horror film which sold to US distributor Neon for a reported $US17 million at Sundance this year - a remarkable result for a director who came up making films on YouTube.

How an Australian YouTube star’s ‘scream-worthy’ horror debut sparked a bidding war

After racking up more than 65 million views on YouTube, Michael Shanks is making a splash with Together.

  • Garry Maddox
Director Sophie Somerville, centre, with actors Melissa Gan, left, and Emmanuelle Mattana in Melbourne.

The Australian film with a ‘tiny’ budget winning international awards

Sophie Somerville had no money to shoot Fwends. So she packed her camera gear in a beach cart and followed her actors through the streets.

  • Garry Maddox
Peter Dutton’s nuclear power plants will be built at seven sites around the country.

Unanswered questions dog Dutton’s nuclear dream

The Nuclear Energy Institute estimates that one nuclear reactor needs billions of litres of water per year for cooling, and “all of this water requires filtering somehow”. As nuclear reactors need to be operational 24/7 and can’t be switched on and off at short notice to cover peak demand times, where does Dutton suggest this water will come from for his chosen sites?

Paola Cortellesi in There’s Still Tomorrow.

‘Bigger than Barbie’ Italian movie wins Sydney Film Festival competition

There’s Still Tomorrow has a surprising light touch for a film about a woman trapped in a toxic marriage.

  • Garry Maddox
Adam Driver in Megalopolis. 

With Megalopolis, Coppola makes Baz Luhrmann seem like a shy introvert

Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious sci-fi drama has had its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.

  • Garry Maddox
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Charmian Clift in a new documentary, Rachel Lane’s Charmian Clift: Life Burns High, that is screening at Sydney Film Festival.

Charmian Clift, ‘radicalising force’ for feminism, finally gets to shine

A new documentary shows the Australian writer as a glamorous rebel and unrecognised collaborator on George Johnston’s novel My Brother Jack.

  • Garry Maddox
Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe in Kinds of Kindness.

Midnight Oil to a ‘jaw-dropping’ Demi Moore: 15 highlights of the Sydney Film Festival

From Cannes award winners to local documentaries and big-name stars, these are the festival’s top picks.

  • Garry Maddox
A TV star who had no idea he was on TV … Tomoaki Hamatsu aka Nasubi in The Contestant.

Still scarred: The Japanese comedian who unknowingly starred in a reality TV show

Twenty-five years ago Nasubi went through his own version of The Truman Show.

  • Garry Maddox
Bondi Icebergs is the belle of Sydney’s ocean baths – and will soon be the star of its own documentary.

How Bondi Icebergs morphed from somewhere to swim into a place to heal

Swimming is about more than exercise. It’s about solace, meditation, emotional sustenance – and, at this Sydney ocean pool, community.

  • David Leser

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