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Desire, detective work and disease: the French Film Festival has it all

Famous faces line up alongside new discoveries in this year’s feast of Gallic cinema.

  • Stephanie Bunbury

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‘Pain and anger’: How art and politics collided at the Berlin film festival

Neil Patrick Harris, Rupert Grint and Michelle Yeoh are just some of the big names to cop politically pointed questions this week, much to the discomfort of festival organisers.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Warwick Thornton at the Berlinale this week.

The Berlin film festival is desperate not to get political. Somebody forgot to tell Warwick Thornton

The Indigenous filmmaker took aim at Australia’s colonial history as he premiered his new movie Wolfram at the prestigious Berlinale on Tuesday.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Neil Patrick Harris was among those copping tricky political questions as they spoke about their films.

‘Jaw-dropping’: Politics casts a long shadow over cinema at Berlin film festival

From Wim Wenders’ controversial plea to “stay out of politics” to Arundhati Roy’s abrupt withdrawal, the prestigious German festival is engulfed in a geopolitical fight.

  • Michael Idato
Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has pulled out of the Berlin Film Festival following remarks made by jury president Wim Wenders.

Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlin Film Festival over jury comments on political films

Jury president Wim Wenders’ comments that cinema should remain a non-political “counterweight” to politics has triggered widespread criticism.

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Tony Jones on the demise of Q+A and walking the red carpet at Sundance

Should we take drugs that have been tested on animals in appalling conditions? The veteran journalist has directed a groundbreaking documentary on the topic.

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Georgina Haig’s short film is one of the finalists in this year’s Tropfest.

Comic film about the struggle to say ‘thank you’ makes Tropfest

In Georgina Haig’s short, a grieving woman’s inability to say those two words makes her a social outcast.

  • Garry Maddox
Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson in court in a scene from the Australian documentary Silenced, which debuted at Sundance in January 2026. 

Filmmakers face legal warning over Brittany Higgins’ story

The makers of a documentary about the way the law prevents women speaking out about sexual abuse have been sent a warning letter by lawyers for Linda Reynolds.

  • Karl Quinn
Taika Waititi and Mia Wasikowska feature in Fing!, one of the seven Australian films featured at Sundance this year.

Australian talent shines at Sundance Film Festival with seven films on show

Seven Australian productions made it into the line-up of this year’s premier independent US film festival, an event that has been punctuated by protests against ICE raids.

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Brittany Higgins 9right) with husband David Shiraz at the Silenced premiere on Saturday (local time).

Brittany Higgins at Sundance for premiere of Australian doco about post #MeToo era

Higgins gave her first interview in five years for Silenced, a new Australian film examining the weaponisation of defamation laws in the post #MeToo era.

  • Chris Hook