Winner · Camera d’Or, Queer Palm, Un Certain Regard Best Actor, FIPRESCI · Cannes Film Festival Lara has two dreams: to become a professional ballet dancer, and to complete her gender transition. She is close to achieving both goals, with a place at an extremely prestigious ballet academy, and a supportive family and team of …
Academy Award winner Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) is back in true form, as he turns his attention to examine Donald Trump’s election win on November 9, 2016. For many, Michael Moore is as much a personal essayist as a documentarian. In his follow-up to his critique of the Bush administration in the Palme d’Or …
Best First Feature – Locarno Film Festival In 1929, author Virginia Woolf famously declared “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” a proto-feminist article of faith which is starkly illustrated in this inimitably Georgian story with global resonance. Manana is a woman in crisis, aching …
Highly political two-person art collective Soda_Jerk will help launch the Screenwave International Film Festival’s fourth edition with their hilarious and radical film, Terror Nullius, the Opening Night film of the festival on Thursday January 10. The Australian, New York-based video art duo made headlines recently when one of the films funding bodies, the Ian Potter …
The 2019 Screenwave International Film Festival was announced today, with the summer event set to return to Coffs Harbour and Bellingen from January 10th to the 25th. For the film lovers around the Coffs Coast, first release festival passes, along with tickets for the festival’s popular Preview Gala on December 8th where the 2019 full …
Here at SWIFF headquarters we’re gearing up for more movie watching and on the hunt for those precious gems for SWIFF in January 2019! One film in particular we wanted to share with you is an important local feature documentary that is nearing completion called, ‘Becoming Colleen: Finding the Shoe That Fits’. The film tells …
The next SWIFF is quickly approaching, bringing with it a world of cinema, travelling festivalgoers, live events, and new festival guests. The festival is made possible for the Coffs Coast and its travelling audiences thanks to our line-up of festival partners and advertisers, and also thanks to the corporate entertainment packages sold each year. If …
Australia says YES! Queer cinema is one of the liveliest filmmaking veins emerging in modern cinema. See the stories that break the stereotypes. Once sidelined as a niche genre, queer cinema is undeniably a voice for everyone to hear – LGBTIQ+ films are here to stay.
New voices. Fresh ideas.Australia’s independent filmmakers are challenging the status quo. From the brothels of Kalgoorlie to the streets of your town, see the next stories that shape the identity of Australia.
