Your cart is empty.

23 Oct - 03 Nov 2024

Adelaide Film Festival

Are you ready to see in the dark? Celebrate courageous cinema alongside filmmakers and film lovers at South Australia’s annual premier screen event. See the world in a new light through films, moving image exhibitions, talks and more.

Details

When

23 Oct - 03 Nov 2024

Event type

Film and Digital, Industry Events, Workshops and Talks

Location

Adelaide CBD
Metro SA
Regional SA

Season

Spring

Contact

Adelaide Studios
1 Mulberry Road
Glenside SA 5065
(08) 8394 2505
Email us

Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) is South Australia’s premier screen event and one of Australia’s leading film festivals. It’s a celebration of courageous cinema where filmmakers and audiences come together for two weeks of local and international film premieres, art, talks and parties in October.

AFF is renowned for its warmth and inclusivity, welcoming new audience members and industry guests alike to South Australia and its eclectic cinema theatres. The festival allows all of us to surrender to the screen and be swallowed up by the story.

Named as one of the top 50 film festivals in the world by Variety, and winner of the 2021 Ruby Award for Best Festival, AFF has a reputation for being distinct and innovative. AFF screens features, shorts, documentaries and moving image projects you can’t see anywhere else — from both emerging and established Australian and global talent.

AFF was the first Australian film festival to establish an investment fund, which has seeded and premiered over 150 projects, including some of the most significant Australian films of the last two decades. Alongside the spring festival period, AFF hosts regional initiatives, a film club, an educational AFF Youth program, a filmmaker and artist development AFF Expand Lab, and other experiences that help people see the world in a totally new light

Visit website
  • The Adelaide Film Festival is both nest and provocation, as probably the most daring source of government money in the Australia screen landscape.

    ScreenHub

  • Adelaide is the jewel of Australian film festivals. It has a laid-back laconic nature that invites the individual in. Adelaide is about quality, not quantity or fulfilling a quota. It has a charm and nature that is uniquely South Australian. It is about stories, sharing stories and friendship.

    Wayne Blair (Filmmaker)

  • My association with the Adelaide Film Festival has been a joy over many years. The programming is excellent, the organisation runs smoothly, but what I really love about the Festival experience in Adelaide is its intimacy. Filmgoers and film-lovers mingle on the streets, along with premiers, politicians and artists, conversations flow, everyone has an opinion, and the parties are fun.

    Margaret Pomeranz AM (AFF Patron)

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3

The local guide

Found some downtime between all the events and excitement? Here are some tips on what to see and do in Adelaide and South Australia.

In the Morning

Many Adelaide locations have served as film sets and it’s simple to create a walking tour that takes in the creepy North Adelaide house featured in The Babadook and the Adelaide Botanic Garden where parts of the Academy Award-winning Shine were filmed.  Further afield, spectacular landscapes around the state have provided a backdrop for Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Rabbit Proof Fence and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. What’s more, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Breaker Morant both visited the Clare Valley to capture locations on opposite sides of the globe from the same time. While Picnic at Hanging Rock used Martindale Hall near Mintaro to great effect to capture the dying years of Victorian Australia, Breaker Morant used its sweeping hills to stand in for the South African bush during the same era.

In the Afternoon

Wander through Adelaide’s suburbs and you’ll discover several art deco temples to the silver screen. It doesn’t take much imagination to revive that era when you’re ascending the grand staircase at North Adelaide’s Piccadilly, listening to the wurlitzer organ introduce a feature at Goodwood’s Capri or sitting in the balcony at Kensington Park’s elegant 1925 Regal Theatre.

In the Evening

Adelaide Film Festival, German Film Festival, Vegan Film Festival. Met Opera, Art on Screen, Opera and Ballet, Music on Screen. Palace Nova Cinemas is the centrepiece of film in Adelaide. Catch a movie in one of its two locations, Prospect or Adelaide’s East End, and then enjoy one of the many bars and restaurants nearby.