Brisbane International Film Festival
Australia
All genres
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
2011
- Won
- Curse of the Gothic Symphony, The
- Showtime Top Ten Awards
2011
- Won
- Tall Man, The
- Showtime Top Ten Awards
2010
- Won
- Futility
- Audience Favourite
2009
- Won
- Balibo
- Interfaith
- Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values
2009
- Won
- Balibo
- FIPRESCI
2009
- Won
- Behind Blue Eyes
- Audience Choice Award
- Queensland Short Film Competition
2008
- Won
- Nine Miles Beautiful
- Audience Favourite Award
- Queensland Short Film Competition
2008
- Won
- Seize The Day
- Critics Choice Award
- Queensland Short Film Competition
2005
- Won
- Dole-umentary, A
- Best Film
- Fast Film Competition
Screenings
2024
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Ten Canoes
2024
- Queensland Premiere
- Andamooka
2024
- Queensland Premiere
- Aquarius
2024
- Queensland Premiere
- Audrey
2024
- World Premiere
- Double or Nothing
2024
- Queensland Premiere
- Flathead
2024
- Queensland Premiere
- In Vitro
2024
- Australian Premiere
- Sharko
2024
- Queensland Premiere
- Aegean, The
2024
- World Premiere
- Lost Tiger, The
2024
- Queensland Premiere
- Organist, The
2024
- World Premiere
- Unbreakable - The Jelena Dokic Story
2023
- WTF
- Late Night with the Devil
2023
- New Wave
- Savage Christmas, A
2023
- New Wave
- Birdeater
2023
- Australian Highlights
- Bring Him To Me
2023
- Australian Highlights
- Bromley: Light After Dark
2023
- Young At Heart
- Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
2023
- Australian Highlights
- Kindred
2023
- Rediscover
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
2023
- New Wave
- Sunflower
2023
- Australian Highlights
- Rooster, The
2023
- Special Presentation
- Royal Hotel, The
2023
- Australian Highlights
- You Should Have Been Here Yesterday
2023
- WTF
- You'll Never Find Me
2023
- Shorts from afar: Australian and International
- Hafekasi
2023
- Shorts from afar: Australian and International
- Jia
2023
- Shorts From Home: Brisbane
- Wilted Rose, The
2022
- Documentary - World Premiere
- To Never Forget
2022
- Documentary - Queensland Premiere
- General Hercules
2022
- Documentary - Queensland Premiere
- Keep Stepping
2022
- Documentary, Indigenous - Queensland Premiere
- Audrey Napanangka
2022
- Documentary - Queensland Premiere
- Because We Have Each Other
2022
- Action, Drama, Thriller - Australian Premiere
- Black Site
2022
- Drama - Queensland Premiere
- Sweet As
2022
- Ride Shorts Gala - World Premiere
- Journey of Hope
2022
- Ride Shorts Gala - World Premiere
- Epilogue
2022
- Special Event - Queensland Premiere
- Sorella's Story
2022
- Drama - Queensland Premiere
- Longest Weekend, The
2022
- Documentary - World Premiere
- To Never Forget
2022
- Drama - Independent New Wave - Australian Premiere
- Unravelling
2022
- Comedy, Drama - Queensland Premiere
- Seriously Red
2022
- Comedy, Drama - Queensland Premiere
- Bassendream
2022
- Comedy, Drama - Queensland Premiere
- Evicted! A Modern Romance
2022
- Documentary, Human Rights - Queensland Premiere
- Gloriavale
2022
- Gala - Ride Shorts Gala
- Ageless
2022
- Gala - World Premiere - Ride Shorts Gala
- Journey of Hope
2022
- Shorts: Australian Highlights - Queensland Premiere
- Hatchback
2022
- Shorts: Australian Highlights - Queensland Premiere
- Mark Targets
2022
- Shorts: Australian Highlights - Queensland Premiere
- Mate
2022
- Shorts: Australian Highlights - Queensland Premiere
- Nest
2022
- Shorts: Australian Highlights - Queensland Premiere
- Pink Reef
2022
- Shorts: Australian Highlights - Queensland Premiere
- Victim
2022
- Shorts: Brisbane Showcase
- Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It, An
2022
- Shorts: Brisbane Showcase
- Call The Paperboys
2022
- Shorts: Brisbane Showcase - World Premiere
- Dance With Me
2022
- Shorts: Brisbane Showcase - Australian Premiere
- Demolition: Staging A Protest
2022
- Shorts: Brisbane Showcase - Queensland Premiere
- Enemy Alien
2022
- Shorts: Brisbane Showcase - Queensland Premiere
- Lumber
2022
- Shorts: Brisbane Showcase
- Pause
2022
- Shorts: Brisbane Showcase - World Premiere
- We'll Always Have Dance
2022
- Drama - Rediscover, Restorations
- Strictly Ballroom
2022
- Documentary, Music - Queensland Premiere
- Angels: Kickin' Down the Door, The
2022
- Drama - Queensland Premiere
- Longest Weekend, The
2022
- Behind the Scenes, Documentary - Queensland Premiere
- Tunnel: The Other Side Of Darkness,The
2022
- Drama, Music - Independent New Wave - World Premiere
- Three Chords and the Truth
2022
- Documentary - Australian Highlights - World Premiere
- To Never Forget
2022
- Documentary, Environment - Family - World Premiere
- Beyond The Reef
2021
- Adrenalin
- Ramblin' Racer
2021
- Adrenalin
- Facing Monsters
2021
- Australian Highlights
- River
2021
- Australian Highlights
- Radiance
2021
- Australian Highlights
- Floating Life
2021
- Australian Highlights
- Friends and Strangers
2021
- Australian Highlights
- Lone Wolf
2021
- Australian Highlights
- Meet the Wallers
2021
- Australian Highlights
- Love in Bloom
2021
- Australian Highlights
- Chef Antonio’s Recipes for Revolution
2021
- Australian Highlights
- Alick and Albert
2021
- Grit, Power, Politics
- Strong Female Lead
2021
- Grit, Power, Politics
- Ablaze
2021
- Grit, Power, Politics
- Araatika: Rise Up!
2021
- International Highlights
- Blind Ambition
2021
- Music
- Wash My Soul in the River's Flow
2021
- Music
- Love In Bright Landscapes: The Story of David McComb of the Triffids
2021
- Music
- Anonymous Club
2021
- Opening Night
- Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, The
2021
- Shock Corridor
- Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
2021
- Shorts - Focus: Brisbane
- Our Greatest Escape
2021
- Shorts - Focus: Brisbane
- Metropius
2021
- Shorts - Focus: Brisbane
- Home
2021
- Shorts - Focus: Brisbane
- Thoughts on the Purpose of Friendship
2021
- Shorts - Focus: Brisbane
- Perfect Park
2021
- Shorts - Focus: Brisbane
- Torch Song
2021
- Shorts - Focus: Brisbane
- Jarli
2021
- Shorts - Focus: Brisbane
- Delta of Venus
2021
- Shorts - Australian Festival Highlights
- As One
2021
- Shorts - Australian Festival Highlights
- Prom Night
2021
- Shorts - Australian Festival Highlights
- With the Cattle
2021
- Shorts - Australian Festival Highlights
- Une Belle Journée
2021
- Shorts - Australian Festival Highlights
- Ninth Tower, The
2021
- Shorts - Australian Festival Highlights
- Each Other
2021
- Shorts - Australian Festival Highlights
- Shift
2020
- Jill Bilcock Edits
- Blessed
2020
- Homecoming
- Bloody Hell
2020
- Documentaries
- Brazen Hussies
2020
- Jack Thompson Performs
- Burke and Wills
2020
- Homecoming
- Combat Wombat
2020
- Features
- Ellie and Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt)
2020
- Documentaries
- Firestarter - The Story of Bangarra
2020
- Features
- High Ground
2020
- Documentaries
- Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky
2020
- Jack Thompson Presents
- Never Too Late
2020
- Jill Bilcock Edits
- Dressmaker, The
2020
- Jack Thompson Performs
- Yolngu Boy
2020
- Short Films: Heart Beats
- Wirun
2020
- Short Films: Life Beats
- Grevillea
2020
- Short Films: Life Beats
- We're Not Here
2020
- Short Films: Mind Beats
- I Want to Make a Film About Women
2020
- Short Films: Off Beats
- Cuckoo Roller
2020
- BIFF | Screen Queensland Short Film Award nominee
- Wrong Barber, The
2020
- Short Films: Short Beats
- Egg, The
2020
- Short Films: Short Beats
- Call History
2020
- BIFF | Screen Queensland Short Film Award Nominee
- Earl's Town
2019
- Features
- Emu Runner
2019
- Features
- Hearts and Bones
2019
- Features
- Judy & Punch
2019
- Features
- Measure for Measure
2019
- Features
- Sequin in a Blue Room
2019
- Features
- Slam
2019
- Features
- Wishmas Tree, The
2019
- Documentaries
- Brabham
2019
- Documentaries
- In My Blood It Runs
2019
- Documentaries
- Lili
2019
- Documentaries
- Love Opera
2019
- Documentaries
- Martha: A Picture Story
2019
- Documentaries
- Leunig Fragments, The
2019
- Documentaries
- White Light
2019
- Baz Luhrmann + Catherine Martin Films
- Moulin Rouge
2019
- Baz Luhrmann + Catherine Martin Films
- Strictly Ballroom
2019
- Baz Luhrmann + Catherine Martin Films
- Australia
2019
- The Walking Dead Have Brains!!!
- Dark Place
2019
- The Walking Dead Have Brains!!!
- Little Monsters
2019
- Shorts: Heart Beats
- Athlete Wrestling A Python, An
2019
- Shorts: Short Beats
- Blackwood
2019
- Shorts: Pia Borg
- Demonic
2019
- Shorts: Heart Beats
- Here There Be Monsters
2019
- Shorts: Short Beats
- Troll Bridge
2019
- Shorts: Wild Beats
- Wild Will
2019
- Shorts: Heart Beats
- All Good Things
2019
- Shorts: Heart Beats
- Backpedal
2019
- Shorts: Heart Beats
- Bus Stop
2019
- Shorts: Wild Beats
- Desperate Pleasures
2019
- Shorts: Wild Beats
- Marion
2019
- Shorts: Heart Beats
- Room 264
2019
- Shorts: Short Beats
- Gertrude
2019
- Shorts: Wild Beats
- Roughnut
2019
- Features
- Witkacy & Malinowski: a cinematic séance in 23 scenes
2018
- Opening Night - Features
- Celeste
2018
- Documentaries
- [CENSORED]
2018
- Shorts
- Birthday Party, A
2018
- Shorts
- Pocketful of Song, A
2018
- Features
- Acute Misfortune
2018
- Shorts
- All These Creatures
2018
- Shorts
- Act of Love, An
2018
- Documentaries
- Backtrack Boys
2018
- Features
- Black Robe
2018
- Features
- Breaker Morant
2018
- Shorts
- Coat of Arms
2018
- Shorts
- Dots
2018
- Shorts
- Drum Wave
2018
- Documentaries
- Dying to Live
2018
- Documentaries
- Finke: There & Back
2018
- Shorts
- Fitting
2018
- Documentaries
- Ghosthunter
2018
- Documentaries
- Island of the Hungry Ghosts
2018
- Features
- Jirga
2018
- Bruce Beresford Directs
- Ladies in Black
2018
- Shorts
- Lost & Found
2018
- Shorts
- Lost Property Office
2018
- Features
- Mao's Last Dancer
2018
- Shorts
- Terror Nullius
2018
- Documentaries
- Eulogy, The
2018
- Features
- Sapphires, The
2018
- Documentaries
- Undermined: Tales From The Kimberley
2018
- Shorts
- Wibble Wobble
2018
- Documentaries
- Wik vs Queensland
2018
- Shorts
- Yulubidyi - Until The End
2018
- Shorts
- Dabblers,The
2017
- Closing Night
- Go-Betweens, The: Right Here
2017
- Features
- Ali's Wedding
2017
- Features
- Australia Day
2017
- Features
- That's Not Me
2017
- Documentaries
- Blue
2017
- Documentaries
- Namatjira Project
2017
- Short Films
- Blight
2017
- Short Films
- Woman With an Editing Bench
2017
- BIFF Centurion Short Film Award
- Twin Beaks
2017
- BIFF Centurion Short Film Award
- Wolfe
2017
- BIFF Centurion Short Film Award
- Empathy is the Devil
2013
- The Late Shift
- Patrick: Evil Awakens
2013
- Documentaries
- Darkside, The
2013
- Australian Shorts 1
- Butterflies
2013
- Australian Shorts 1
- Eileen Pratt
2013
- Australian Shorts 1
- Ghost Train
2013
- Queensland Shorts
- Hunter, The
2013
- Australian Shorts 2
- Lala Road, The
2013
- Queensland Shorts
- Landing, The
2013
- Australian Shorts 2
- Ngurrumbang
2013
- Queensland Shorts
- Old Mate
2013
- Australian Shorts 2
- Photocopier
2013
- Australian Shorts 2
- You Like It, I Love It
2013
- The Brilliance of Fred Schepisi
- Libido
2013
- The Brilliance of Fred Schepisi
- Devil's Playground, The
2013
- The Brilliance of Fred Schepisi
- Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The
2013
- Queensland Shorts
- Tale of Longing, A
2013
- Australian Shorts 1
- By This River
2013
- Opening Night
- Railway Man, The
2012
- Blackfella Films
- Blackbuster
2012
- Blackfella Films
- She. Say.
2012
- Blackfella Films
- Scar
2012
- Blackfella Films
- In The Air
2012
- Blackfella Films
- Abalone
2012
- Blackfella Films
- Coniston
2012
- Curtain Raisers, World Cinema
- Despite The Gods
2012
- Beatbox
- Mongolian Bling
2012
- Bubbles at BIFF
- Save Your Legs!
2012
- BIFFDOCS
- Show Me the Magic
2012
- Monster Fest Presents
- 25th Reich, The
2012
- Fulldome Films at the Planetarium
- Coral Rekindling Venus
2012
- Australian Shorts
- ALI 707
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Date With Fate
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Grace
2012
- Australian Shorts
- I'm the One
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Men of the Earth
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Relationship Rehab
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Transmission
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Yardbird
2012
- Queensland Shorts
- Faraways
2012
- Queensland Shorts
- Huge
2012
- Queensland Shorts
- Skull Punch
2012
- Queensland Shorts
- Fears of Young Caroline, The
2012
- Queensland Shorts
- Wedding, The
2012
- Australian Shorts
- First Contact
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Kin
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Kitchen Sink Drama
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Lois
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Playpals
2012
- Australian Shorts
- Hunter, The
2012
- Art Matters
- Rauch Und Spiegel
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Black & White & Sex
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Why Do You Want To See My Face?
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Shelling Peas
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Kiss
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Boats
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Red Dog
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Curse of the Gothic Symphony, The
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Outback Fight Club
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- My America
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Tall Man, The
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Chad Morgan: I'm Not Dead Yet
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Dancing with Dictators
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Trouble With St Mary's, The
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- On Borrowed Time
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Searching For Michael Peterson
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- First Love
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Puberty Blues
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Going Vertical
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- First Interview, The
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Via Gori
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Nullarbor
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Quinkin
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- At The Formal
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Golden Girl
2011
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Rakkas
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Sisters of War
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Loving Friend, A
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Strange Birds in Paradise - A West Papuan Story
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- 6ft Hick: Notes from the Underground
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- In Her Skin
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Orchids
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Reef, The
2010
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Uninhabited
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Subdivision
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Prime Mover
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Horseman, The
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Storage
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Yes Madam, Sir
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Dreamland
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Darra Dogs
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- His Mother's Voice
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Balibo
2009
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Behind Blue Eyes
2008
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Funk, The
2008
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Edgar and Elizabeth
2008
- Official Competition
- Chainsaw
2008
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Mutt
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Seize The Day
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Burley
2008
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Ephemeral
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Dog With Electric Collar
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Joonba
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Nine Miles Beautiful
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Sound of CRY, The
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Prams, The
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Weight of Sunken Treasure, The
2008
- Queensland Short Film Competition
- Up the White Eyes
2008
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Farmer Gumboot & the Grubs