Film Festivals
Is this how it feels to be young, broke, scammed and cast out on the street?
The new film Mad Rush, premiering at Melbourne International Film Festival, is urgent and powerful – and couldn’t be more relevant to many young people.
- Karl Quinn
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Brisbane International Film Festival cancelled for 2026, ‘new operating model’ sought
Screen Queensland has revealed BIFF will be “paused” and its executive director has departed.
- Nick Dent
Two rarely screened documentaries capture St Kilda’s sticky carpet heyday
Punkline and Last Drinks are love letters to the once-thriving music and punk scenes of the south-side suburb.
- Kylie Northover
No Berlin-style fracas, but at Cannes, the politics were on screen and off
A film about political polarisation has won the festival’s top prize – a fitting choice given the temper of the times.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Sneakers and sheer gowns: The celebs who broke all the rules at Cannes
Bella Hadid and Demi Moore were among the most rebellious celebrities at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Plus, all the best red carpet moments.
- Damien Woolnough
He stole their film – so they made a movie about him as revenge
When two young filmmakers in Germany discovered an American was passing off their work as his own, they confronted him – with the cameras rolling.
- Karl Quinn
John Travolta flags Australian visit after donating ‘majestic’ Boeing 707 to museum
The veteran star was in Cannes for the premiere of his directorial debut Propeller One-Way Night Coach when he delivered an update on the future of the plane.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Why John Lennon’s son Sean watched Steven Soderbergh’s latest film with a lawyer
The director’s film John Lennon: The Last Interview uses a conversation conducted hours before the musician’s death in 1980. But that’s not what has observers feeling anxious.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Cate Blanchett laments that #MeToo movement ‘got killed very quickly’ in Hollywood
The Oscar-winning Australian star was speaking in Cannes when she took aim at how little has changed on film sets, despite the #MeToo movement.
- Chris Hook
Adam Driver responds to Lena Dunham’s memoir allegations
Dunham accused her Girls co-star and on-screen love interest of behaving “something feral … half-man, half-beast” on set. Now he has broken his silence.
- Chris Hook