Fresh out of the Sydney Film Festival program, the 50th anniversary of the Travelling Film Festival (TFF) is coming to Bundaberg Moncrieff Entertainment Centre from 11 to 13 October.
Co-founded by David Stratton in 1974, the TFF celebrates five decades of bringing diverse stories to regional cinemas around Australia.
Opening this year’s festival is the Italian box office phenomenon There’s Still Tomorrow.
Directed by Paola Cortellesi, the film is a moving, witty, and empowering melodrama about an industrious woman in post-WWII Rome.
“The winner of this year’s top prize at the Sydney Film Festival, There’s Still Tomorrow, is the perfect film to kick off the festival in Bundaberg,” TFF programmer Karina Libbey said.
“With it’s audacious and creative storytelling technique, and magnetic performance by Cortellesi herself, audiences are in for a treat.”
The opening night film kicks off a weekend of the best new films from around the world including two 2024 Cannes major prize winners; All We Imagine As Light – a dreamlike journey into Mumbai and the desires of two women who live there.
The winner of Cannes Jury Special Award and Sydney Film Festival GIO Audience Award, The Seed of The Sacred Fig – a brave film which angered the Iranian government forcing director Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil, 2021) to undertake a daring escape from Iran to avoid flogging and a prison sentence.
There is plenty of Australian and New Zealand content this year – including the winner of the Sydney Film Festival Documentary Australia Award, Welcome to Babel, an absorbing documentary about notable Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen’s plans to create an epic work – in scope and scale – depicting his homeland’s tumultuous history.
Selected Sundance and CPH:DOX, Every Little Thing, where exquisite hummingbirds fill the screen, directed by Australian filmmaker Sally Aitken, is a captivating story of a woman finding herself as she cares for the tiny birds.
From New Zealand, Ka Whawhai Tonu, by celebrated Māori director Mike Jonathan, stars Temuera Morrison and Cliff Curtis, who reunite from Once Were Warriors (1994), for an action-packed epic about Aotearoa’s first land war.
More acclaimed international hits that you don’t want to miss out on are the witty homage to classic Italian cinema and the great Marcello Mastroianni, Marcello Mio, with an all-star French cast including Catherine Deneuve (playing herself).
The Istanbul Film Festival multi-prize winner, legal thriller Hesitation Wound, follows a criminal lawyer over the course of 24 hours as she deals with a major case.
Selected for Berlinale 2024, Shambhala, where a woman embarks on a physical and spiritual journey across the Himalayas to find her husband.
This year’s short films selection includes First Horse which won the First Nations Award at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival, which screens with Ka Whawhai Tonu.
Also screening is Rehabilitating, directed by Inez Playford, which will screen before the feature film Every Little Thing.
Travelling Film Festival Bundaberg will run from 11 to 13 October 2024.
Tickets, subscriptions and Flexipasses to Travelling Film Festival 2024 are on sale now.
Call 1300 733 733 or visit here for more information and booking.
Travelling Film Festival 2024 acknowledges the financial assistance of Screen Australia and Screen Queensland.
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