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Queensland Film Fest

@QLDFF

Queensland Film Festival is dedicated to screening and supporting the best in film and art.

 Brisbane, Queensland
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Joined January 2015
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Chris Kennedy@secretflix23 Jul 2024
Two of my films are showing at @the8fest this weekend. The time-lapse film, "Brisbane River", shot last summer*, and "4x8x3", an early film of mine which was made on unsplit Regular 8mm film. the8fest.com  July 26-28, 2024 (* thanks to @ContainerBFS)
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Restoring Parajanov is our next event! Thursday 7 March with & at @ima_brisbane With Daniel Bird presenting restorations of Sergei Parajanov's rare shorts: Kyiv Frescoes (1967) Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967) & Arabesques on the Theme of Pirosmani (1985) ima.org.au/ima-events/ima-x-…
Daniel Bird: Restoring Parajanov | Institute of Modern Art

Daniel Bird: Restoring Parajanov | Institute of Modern Art

Between 1966 and 1985, Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov made three remarkable short films: Kyiv Frescoes (1967), Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967), and Arabesques on the Theme of…

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SCMS@SCMStudies1 Mar 2024
It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of David Bordwell. Professor Bordwell’s contributions to film theory and history have been instrumental in shaping our understanding of cinema as an art form and storytelling practice.
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Restoring Parajanov is our next event! Thursday 7 March with & at @ima_brisbane With Daniel Bird presenting restorations of Sergei Parajanov's rare shorts: Kyiv Frescoes (1967) Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967) & Arabesques on the Theme of Pirosmani (1985) ima.org.au/ima-events/ima-x-…
Daniel Bird: Restoring Parajanov | Institute of Modern Art

Daniel Bird: Restoring Parajanov | Institute of Modern Art

Between 1966 and 1985, Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov made three remarkable short films: Kyiv Frescoes (1967), Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967), and Arabesques on the Theme of…

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Thank you We’ll be back in 2024, with more details in January Enjoy the break, or what you want to enjoy Image: Tomonari Nishikawa | Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke | 2023 A complex interplay between fireworks footage & sound shot during a Japanese summer festival
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Confess, Fletch (Gregg Mottola) screens next week! QLD premiere, 7pm Tuesday 12 Dec at The Elizabeth The charming/troublesome Fletch (Jon Hamm) becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art. An addled noir comedy. Our summer xmas goodbye to 2023
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thomas violence@thomas_violence6 Dec 2023
hell yeah!! loved the hell out of this, thrilled to get to see it on the big screen
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Confess, Fletch (Gregg Mottola) screens next week! QLD premiere, 7pm Tuesday 12 Dec at The Elizabeth The charming/troublesome Fletch (Jon Hamm) becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art. An addled noir comedy. Our summer xmas goodbye to 2023
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Confess, Fletch (Gregg Mottola) screens next week! QLD premiere, 7pm Tuesday 12 Dec at The Elizabeth The charming/troublesome Fletch (Jon Hamm) becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art. An addled noir comedy. Our summer xmas goodbye to 2023
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Blackhat (Michael Mann) screens next! Aus prem, 7pm Tues 6 Dec at The Elizabeth Nick (Chris Hemsworth) is released from jail to investigate the destructive hacking of a nuclear plant & stock exchange. A film that traces the relationship between the digital & the physical world.
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Blackhat (Michael Mann) screens next! Aus prem, 7pm Tues 6 Dec at The Elizabeth Nick (Chris Hemsworth) is released from jail to investigate the destructive hacking of a nuclear plant & stock exchange. A film that traces the relationship between the digital & the physical world.
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Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles) is our next screening! QLD prem, 7pm Tues 21 Nov at The Elizabeth Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão or outback, notices their community has somehow vanished from the map. A band of mercenaries appear.
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Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles) is our next screening! QLD prem, 7pm Tues 21 Nov at The Elizabeth Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão or outback, notices their community has somehow vanished from the map. A band of mercenaries appear.
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Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) is our next screening! QLD prem, 7pm Tues 7 Nov at The Elizabeth A comedy drama about the life & death stakes felt by a minor artist preparing for a minor exhibition. Acutely observed & with a typically apt performance from Michelle Williams.
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Kelly Reichardt in an in-depth interview with @brofromanother in @CinemaScopeMag covering the context and thought process behind her latest film Showing Up. Which happens to be our next screening: 7pm, Tuesday 7 November at The Elizabeth Picture Theatre. cinema-scope.com/cinema-scop…
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Not our screening, but one we want to highlight: @QAGOMA and its free presentation of The Films of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers and Gregory J Markopoulos. With Ute and Robert in attendance. qagoma.qld.gov.au/cinema/pro…
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Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) is our next screening! QLD prem, 7pm Tues 7 Nov at The Elizabeth A comedy drama about the life & death stakes felt by a minor artist preparing for a minor exhibition. Acutely observed & with a typically apt performance from Michelle Williams.
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Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 93m) screens next Tuesday, following Aquarius. QLD prem, 9:15pm Tues 24 Oct at The Elizabeth KMF's latest (Cannes 2023) is a personal essay on his beloved city of Recife, whose development both disavows history & draws attention to it
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Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 146m) is our next screening! QLD prem, 7pm Tues 24 Oct at The Elizabeth Clara (the great Sônia Braga) is the last resident of the historic seaside apartment complex Aquarius. Despite plans to demolish Aquarius, Clara wants to stay.
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Our latest newsletter is out, with information on our upcoming Tuesday screenings, future films, and other potential things. We do recommend subscribing because social media will always be ruined. containerbrisbane.substack.c…
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A sharp interview between @kmendoncafilho and @jdrrr on Aquarius which we're screening next Tuesday at 7pm at the @ElizabethTheatr as part of our gradual Filho retrospective. (Pictures of Ghosts directly follows this screening.) Thanks to @RialtoMovies abc.net.au/listen/radionatio…

Aquarius: review and interview with writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho - ABC Radio National

A thriller about shady dealings in the world of beachside real estate set in Recife in Brazil, starring the beautiful Sonia Braga as a woman facing down unscrupulous property developers.

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