Adelaide Film Festival

The Adelaide Film Festival celebrates the moving image in all its glorious forms. It fills the city and surrounds with feature films, documentaries, shorts, animation and new media works. In cinemas, galleries and on the street, #ADLFF sends you around the globe in a cinema seat

Adelaide (October 2025)

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Free Solo

Free Solo

Very few films are ground-breaking in a visual, technical or narrative sense. To manage all ...
Adelaide Film Festival, Byron Bay Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Reviews / /
ARCTIC

ARCTIC

Sometimes abstract just doesn’t work ...
Adelaide Film Festival, Jewish International Film Festival, Queer Screen - Mardi Gras Film Festival, Reviews / /
Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

For such a well known actress, Melissa McCarthy is strangely underrated ...
Adelaide Film Festival, Reviews, Winda Film Festival / /
Sweet Country

Sweet Country

Sometimes it’s never too early to reckon a film has the makings of a classic ...
Adelaide Film Festival, Reviews, Sydney Film Festival, Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival / /
Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories

Have you ever wanted to be scared by one of those old spook houses before ...
Adelaide Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Reviews, Sydney Film Festival / /
Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace

It’s rare you see something so powerful emerge from that so inscrutable ...