Travelling Film Festival 2024
Founded by David Stratton in 1974, the TFF is committed to providing audiences in regional Australia with access to films they would otherwise not have the opportunity to see on the big screen.
The TFF presents cinema in a festival environment and promotes a film experience that encourages debate, community involvement and interaction.
In addition to screenings, the TFF presents regional Australia with the opportunity to meet film industry professionals through its film industry guest and workshop program, whenever possible.
The TFF facilitates a direct and invaluable dialogue between regional audiences, local film practitioners and Australia’s wider film community, an opportunity enthusiastically embraced by all parties.
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9 August 2024
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11 August 2024
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Runtime: 145 MinutesStarring: Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Antonio Te Maioha, Jacqueline McKenzie, Lawrence MakoareLanguage: In English and Māori with English subtitlesGuy Pearce stars as a British preacher caught up in 1830s Māori wars in Lee Tamahori’s (Once Were Warriors, 1993; Mahana, SFF 2016) sweeping historical drama. Toronto 2023.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 112 MinutesStarring: Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Sonam, Choeying Jatsho, Deki Lhamo, Pema Zangmo SherpaLanguage: In Dzongkha and English with English subtitlesKingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernization has finally arrived. Bhutan becomes the last country in the world to connect to the internet and television, and now the biggest change of all: democracy. To teach the people how to vote, the authorities organize a mock election, but the locals seem unconvinced. Travelling to rural Bhutan where religion is more popular than politics, the election supervisor discovers that a monk is planning a mysterious ceremony for the election day.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 105 MinutesStarring: Isabella Tree, Rhiannon Hughes, Matthew CollyerLanguage: In EnglishKnepp is a beacon of hope for England’s wildlife. When Isabella and her husband inherited the estate to farm, they recognised how sick the land was. But a groundbreaking radical experiment has been nothing short of transformative. Now it’s a place where mussel-diving pigs, storks and butterflies find sanctuary, and where thriving flora and a vast array of animals have taken back the land. This is a charming, hopeful and necessary story of ecological regeneration.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 126 MinutesStarring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, Nicole Garcia, Benjamin BiolayLanguage: In French and Italian with English subtitlesChristophe Honoré’s inventive Cannes Competition entry brings together an all-star French cast including Catherine Deneuve (playing herself) in this delightfully meta comedy paying homage to the great Marcello Mastroianni.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 123 MinutesStarring: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren LyleLanguage: In EnglishSaoirse Ronan (Brooklyn, Little Women) is terrific as a recovering addict in this moving adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s 2017 bestseller set in Scotland’s Orkney Islands.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 94 MinutesStarring: Elizabeth Atkinson, Terence Daniel, Fern Sutherland, Byron Coll, Troy KingiLanguage: In English and Maori with English subtitlesRachel House (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) makes her directorial debut with this riotous and colourful drama about three children discovering friendship's healing power through the spirit of adventure. From executive producer Taika Waititi.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 85 MinutesStarring: Directed by Rachel LaneLanguage: In EnglishAn intriguing portrait of Charmian Clift: a household name in the 1960’s and one of Australia’s finest writers. Born in 1920s Kiama, teenage Charmian escaped to Sydney and after the war scored a newspaper job in Melbourne where she met leading war correspondent George Johnston. Tired of Australian postwar conservatism, the couple left for Europe, finally settling on Hydra, where an artists’ colony formed which included Leonard Cohen. Returning to Sydney, Charmian found success writing a newspaper column, but George’s ill health and a new novel rumoured to be critical of his wife, fractured their creative partnership, and tragedy ensued. Interest in Charmian’s work has revived with the recent publication of her unfinished novel The End of Morning, which was put aside to help her husband write his Miles Franklin winner My Brother Jack. This absorbing documentary is the latest film to explore undermined female artists.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 115 MinutesStarring: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees NedumangadLanguage: In Malayalam and Hindi with English subtitlesIn Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 115 MinutesStarring: Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yi, Yuan HongLanguage: In Mandarin with English subtitlesA one-of-a-kind crowd pleaser featuring a man and many, many dogs that spectacularly riffs on westerns, Asian indie cinema, neo-noir and even Mad Max. Winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Click time to order tickets
