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Brisbane International Film Festival


Genre: All genre

An 11 day festival held annually in October and screening over 150 titles, BIFF showcases the best of Australian and international features, documentaries and shorts alongside retrospectives and live talks. It attracts locals, intrastate and interstate audiences.


Awards

2021 - Won - Earl's Town - Short Film Awards - Screen Queensland Short Film Award

2020 - Won - I Want to Make a Film About Women - Short Film Awards - Creative Achievement

2020 - Won - Egg, The - Short Film Awards - Best Australian Short Film

2017 - Won - Red Kite - BIFF Centurion Short Film Award

2011 - Won - Curse of the Gothic Symphony, The - Showtime Top Ten Awards

2011 - Won - Tall Man, The - Showtime Top Ten Awards

2010 - Won - Push Bike - Best Short Film

2010 - Won - Futility - Audience Favourite

2009 - Won - Balibo - Interfaith

2009 - Won - Balibo - FIPRESCI

2009 - Won - Seersucker - Critic’s Choice Award

2009 - Won - Behind Blue Eyes - Audience Choice Award

2008 - Won - Nine Miles Beautiful - Audience Favourite Award

2008 - Won - Seize The Day - Critics Choice Award

2005 - Won - Dole-umentary, A - Best Film

2005 - Won - Freddie's Story - Best Young Filmmaker - Rob Barbuto

2002 - Won - Silence of the Sea - Best film

2001 - Won - Gordon - First Prize

1998 - Won - My Ears Are Ringing - First Place

1998 - Won - Centaurus - Second Place

Screenings

2025 - Badlands Rising

2025 - Flathead

2025 - Fwends

2025 - Imagine

2025 - Iron Winter

2025 - It Will Find You

2025 - Serpent's Skin,The

2025 - Shirt Off Your Back, The

2025 - Write a Letter

2025 - Some Kind of Blue

2025 - Scatterer, The

2025 - They Kill by Night

2025 - Fling, The

2025 - All These Faces are Starting to Look Bizarrely Familiar

2025 - Full-Time Love Rat, The

2025 - We Bury The Dead

2024 - Ten Canoes

2024 - Andamooka

2024 - Aquarius

2024 - Audrey

2024 - Carnage for Christmas

2024 - Double or Nothing

2024 - Flathead

2024 - In Vitro

2024 - Sharko

2024 - Aegean, The

2024 - Lost Tiger, The

2024 - Moogai, The

2024 - Organist, The

2024 - Red, The

2024 - Unbreakable - The Jelena Dokic Story

2023 - Late Night with the Devil

2023 - Ending Goes Forever, The

2023 - Savage Christmas, A

2023 - Birdeater

2023 - Bring Him To Me

2023 - Bromley: Light After Dark

2023 - Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back

2023 - Kindred

2023 - Rabbit-Proof Fence

2023 - Sunflower

2023 - Rooster, The

2023 - Royal Hotel, The

2023 - You Should Have Been Here Yesterday

2023 - You'll Never Find Me

2023 - Hafekasi

2023 - Jia

2023 - Imoan

2023 - Envy

2023 - First-ish Contact

2023 - Girl Coded

2023 - It'll Pass

2023 - Mud Man

2023 - Otter and Fox

2023 - Wilful Murder

2023 - Wilted Rose, The

2023 - Sonos

2023 - Hell Yeah

2022 - Greenhouse by Joost

2022 - To Never Forget

2022 - Transfusion

2022 - General Hercules

2022 - Keep Stepping

2022 - Audrey Napanangka

2022 - Because We Have Each Other

2022 - Black Site

2022 - Sweet As

2022 - Journey of Hope

2022 - Cattle Duff

2022 - Epilogue

2022 - Sorella's Story

2022 - Longest Weekend, The

2022 - Other Side of Darkness, The

2022 - To Never Forget

2022 - Transfusion

2022 - Unravelling

2022 - Seriously Red

2022 - League of their Own, A

2022 - Bassendream

2022 - Evicted! A Modern Romance

2022 - Gloriavale

2022 - Ageless

2022 - Journey of Hope

2022 - Mitta

2022 - Generations of Men

2022 - Hatchback

2022 - Mark Targets

2022 - Mate

2022 - Nest

2022 - Pink Reef

2022 - Prawn

2022 - Right There

2022 - Victim

2022 - Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It, An

2022 - Call The Paperboys

2022 - Dance With Me

2022 - Demolition: Staging A Protest

2022 - Enemy Alien

2022 - Lumber

2022 - Pause

2022 - We'll Always Have Dance

2022 - Strictly Ballroom

2022 - Angels: Kickin' Down the Door, The

2022 - Longest Weekend, The

2022 - Tunnel: The Other Side Of Darkness,The

2022 - Three Chords and the Truth

2022 - To Never Forget

2022 - Beyond The Reef

2021 - Ramblin' Racer

2021 - Facing Monsters

2021 - River

2021 - Radiance

2021 - Paris Funeral, 1972

2021 - Little Tornadoes

2021 - Floating Life

2021 - Friends and Strangers

2021 - Lone Wolf

2021 - Meet the Wallers

2021 - Love in Bloom

2021 - Chef Antonio’s Recipes for Revolution

2021 - Alick and Albert

2021 - Strong Female Lead

2021 - Ablaze

2021 - Araatika: Rise Up!

2021 - Blind Ambition

2021 - Wash My Soul in the River's Flow

2021 - Love In Bright Landscapes: The Story of David McComb of the Triffids

2021 - Anonymous Club

2021 - Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, The

2021 - Wyrmwood: Apocalypse

2021 - Our Greatest Escape

2021 - Metropius

2021 - Home

2021 - Thoughts on the Purpose of Friendship

2021 - Perfect Park

2021 - Torch Song

2021 - Jarli

2021 - Delta of Venus

2021 - As One

2021 - Bala

2021 - Prom Night

2021 - With the Cattle

2021 - Une Belle Journée

2021 - Ninth Tower, The

2021 - Each Other

2021 - Shift

2020 - Blessed

2020 - Bloody Hell

2020 - Brazen Hussies

2020 - Burke and Wills

2020 - Combat Wombat

2020 - Ellie and Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt)

2020 - Firestarter - The Story of Bangarra

2020 - High Ground

2020 - Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky

2020 - Never Too Late

2020 - Ningla A-Na

2020 - Dressmaker, The

2020 - Yolngu Boy

2020 - Hook Up

2020 - Wirun

2020 - Man And A Cat, A

2020 - Grevillea

2020 - Sunburn

2020 - We're Not Here

2020 - 37 Things

2020 - I Want to Make a Film About Women

2020 - White Elephant

2020 - Cuckoo Roller

2020 - Wrong Barber, The

2020 - Speech of Foxes

2020 - Lost Boy

2020 - Djuwalpada

2020 - Greatest Battle Lies Within, The

2020 - Fall, The

2020 - Egg, The

2020 - Last Day, The

2020 - Mother Bunker

2020 - Call History

2020 - Problematic Gesture Toward Auteur Theory, A

2020 - Earl's Town

2020 - Mystic Pines

2019 - Emu Runner

2019 - Hearts and Bones

2019 - Judy & Punch

2019 - Measure for Measure

2019 - Sequin in a Blue Room

2019 - Slam

2019 - Wishmas Tree, The

2019 - Brabham

2019 - In My Blood It Runs

2019 - Lili

2019 - Love Opera

2019 - Martha: A Picture Story

2019 - Leunig Fragments, The

2019 - White Light

2019 - Moulin Rouge

2019 - Strictly Ballroom

2019 - Australia

2019 - Dark Place

2019 - Little Monsters

2019 - Athlete Wrestling A Python, An

2019 - Blackwood

2019 - Demonic

2019 - Here There Be Monsters

2019 - Silica

2019 - Troll Bridge

2019 - Wild Will

2019 - All Good Things

2019 - Backpedal

2019 - Bus Stop

2019 - Desperate Pleasures

2019 - Marion

2019 - Room 264

2019 - Gertrude

2019 - Roughnut

2019 - Witkacy & Malinowski: a cinematic séance in 23 scenes

2018 - Celeste

2018 - [CENSORED]

2018 - Birthday Party, A

2018 - Pocketful of Song, A

2018 - Acute Misfortune

2018 - All These Creatures

2018 - Act of Love, An

2018 - Backtrack Boys

2018 - Black Robe

2018 - Breaker Morant

2018 - Cloudy with a Chance of Rain

2018 - Coat of Arms

2018 - Dots

2018 - Drum Wave

2018 - Dying to Live

2018 - Finke: There & Back

2018 - Fitting

2018 - Ghosthunter

2018 - Island of the Hungry Ghosts

2018 - Jirga

2018 - Ladies in Black

2018 - Lost & Found

2018 - Lost Property Office

2018 - Mao's Last Dancer

2018 - Second Best

2018 - Terror Nullius

2018 - Eulogy, The

2018 - Picture Show Men, The

2018 - Sapphires, The

2018 - Under the Cover of Cloud

2018 - Undermined: Tales From The Kimberley

2018 - Undiscovered Country

2018 - Wibble Wobble

2018 - Wik vs Queensland

2018 - Yulubidyi - Until The End

2018 - Dabblers,The

2017 - Go-Betweens, The: Right Here

2017 - Ali's Wedding

2017 - Australia Day

2017 - That's Not Me

2017 - Watch the Sunset

2017 - Blue

2017 - Life is a Very Strange Thing

2017 - Namatjira Project

2017 - Blight

2017 - Woman With an Editing Bench

2017 - Twin Beaks

2017 - Wolfe

2017 - One Small Step

2017 - Empathy is the Devil

2017 - Body

2017 - Red Kite

2017 - Toll, The

2017 - Grey Space

2017 - Mechanophile

2017 - Furu Ike: Ancient Pond

2013 - Patrick: Evil Awakens

2013 - Darkside, The

2013 - Butterflies

2013 - Eileen Pratt

2013 - Ghost Train

2013 - Hunter, The

2013 - Lala Road, The

2013 - Landing, The

2013 - Man On Earth

2013 - Ngurrumbang

2013 - Old Mate

2013 - Photocopier

2013 - Woody

2013 - You Like It, I Love It

2013 - Tomorrow's Canberra

2013 - Libido

2013 - Devil's Playground, The

2013 - Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The

2013 - Shortchanged

2013 - Tale of Longing, A

2013 - There's No Place

2013 - Tinny

2013 - What Remains

2013 - Why Ryan is on Detention

2013 - By This River

2013 - Maiden

2013 - Railway Man, The

2013 - People Make Papers

2013 - Shape of Quality, The

2012 - Blackbuster

2012 - She. Say.

2012 - Scar

2012 - In The Air

2012 - Abalone

2012 - Coniston

2012 - Despite The Gods

2012 - Errors of the Human Body

2012 - Mongolian Bling

2012 - Save Your Legs!

2012 - Show Me the Magic

2012 - 25th Reich, The

2012 - Nullarbor Nymph, The

2012 - Waziz

2012 - Coral Rekindling Venus

2012 - ALI 707

2012 - Date With Fate

2012 - Grace

2012 - I'm the One

2012 - Men of the Earth

2012 - Relationship Rehab

2012 - Transmission

2012 - Yardbird

2012 - Ellipsis

2012 - Faraways

2012 - Huge

2012 - Instructions Inside

2012 - Mud Crab

2012 - Skull Punch

2012 - Fears of Young Caroline, The

2012 - Wedding, The

2012 - Deadbox

2012 - First Contact

2012 - Kin

2012 - Kitchen Sink Drama

2012 - Lois

2012 - Marla

2012 - Playpals

2012 - Hunter, The

2012 - Rauch Und Spiegel

2012 - Do Look Now

2011 - Red Dog

2011 - Curse of the Gothic Symphony, The

2011 - Outback Fight Club

2011 - My America

2011 - Tall Man, The

2011 - Chad Morgan: I'm Not Dead Yet

2011 - Dancing with Dictators

2011 - Fantome Island

2011 - Trouble With St Mary's, The

2011 - On Borrowed Time

2011 - Searching For Michael Peterson

2011 - First Love

2011 - Crystal Voyager

2011 - Morning of the Earth

2011 - Puberty Blues

2011 - Going Vertical

2011 - First Interview, The

2011 - Via Gori

2011 - Nullarbor

2011 - Quinkin

2011 - At The Formal

2011 - Golden Girl

2011 - Rakkas

2011 - Murder Mouth

2011 - Kiss

2011 - Boats

2011 - Why Do You Want To See My Face?

2011 - Shelling Peas

2011 - Tinman

2011 - NotArt

2011 - Black & White & Sex

2010 - Loving Friend, A

2010 - Strange Birds in Paradise - A West Papuan Story

2010 - 6ft Hick: Notes from the Underground

2010 - In Her Skin

2010 - Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon

2010 - Machete Maidens Unleashed!

2010 - Orchids

2010 - Reef, The

2010 - Uninhabited

2010 - Sisters of War

2009 - Subdivision

2009 - Prime Mover

2009 - Horseman, The

2009 - Storage

2009 - Yes Madam, Sir

2009 - Dreamland

2009 - Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun

2009 - Darra Dogs

2009 - His Mother's Voice

2009 - Balibo

2009 - Behind Blue Eyes

2009 - Seersucker

2008 - Seize The Day

2008 - Burley

2008 - Dan

2008 - Dog With Electric Collar

2008 - Joonba

2008 - Nine Miles Beautiful

2008 - Sound of CRY, The

2008 - Prams, The

2008 - Weight of Sunken Treasure, The

2008 - Up the White Eyes

2008 - Ephemeral

2008 - Chainsaw

2008 - Mutt

2008 - Edgar and Elizabeth

2008 - Funk, The

2008 - Farmer Gumboot & the Grubs

2002 - Silence of the Sea

2001 - Gordon

2001 -

1998 - My Ears Are Ringing

1998 - Centaurus

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