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 - 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