Cause Film Festival
Cause Film Festival is a festival where creative film makers and charitable organisations can share their messages through the art of film and entertainment. It is an event where the public can join...
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A Sacred Exchange
Five of Australia’s leading sacred music practitioners are ‘unpacking’ their own sacred tradition for our audiences via solo performances and discussion and then coming together to create a unique...
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Filmmaker Forum
Join festival Director John L Simpson as he has an open and insightful conversation with award winning filmmaker Sotiris Dounoukos and producer Chloe Rickard. Sotiris is currently in post-production on...
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Gayby Baby
Featuring Q&A with Producer Charlotte Mars At a time when the world is questioning the politics of same-sex families, Gayby Baby takes us into the homes and personal dramas of four kids approaching...
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Prison Songs
Featuring Q&A with Director Kelrick Martin Aboriginal citizens make up 30% of the Northern Territory’s population but in its largest prison, over 80% of the inmates are Aboriginal. The inmates of...
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Freedom
Featuring Q&A with Hollywood Director Peter Cousens (Live) A tale of two men, separated by time and circumstance, but united in their search for freedom and redemption. In 1856, a man born into...
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Closing Night Gala: Holding the Man
Timothy Conigrave’s beloved, bestselling memoir became an award-winning stage play; now, at last, it’s been adapted for the big screen. A tender, celebratory and refreshingly honest memoir about the...
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Student Film Competition
A screening of the finalist’s films in the Indie Gems Student Film Competition followed by an announcement of the winners, each vying for a share in a fantastic prize pool. The theme this year is...
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Opening Night Gala
Join us for Opening Night, where we’ll screen some of Australia’s best new short films and web-series, followed by a fun networking event designed to have you meeting other like-minded indie filmmakers...
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The Tree of Life
From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s....
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Silent Souls
When Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a...
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas Satellite 2015
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) is an annual event that brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Indie Gems Film Festival
Our annual Indie Gems Film Festival, a festival of independent international and Australian films returns to Riverside in September for its sixth year. This year promises screenings of primarily...
View ArticleHit the SPOT these school holidays with our children’s festival
Once a year, during the Spring school holidays, Riverside is transformed by thousands of children and their families, dozens of artists and oodles of imagination with our annual Spot On Children’s...
View ArticleA Selection of Persian Shorts
Co-presented with University of Western Sydney and in partnership with Riverside Theatres, the 4th Persian Film Festival is hosting a free screening of a number of award-winning short films and...
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Opening Night: Coach Zoran and His African Tigers
Australian Premiere | Dir Sam Benstead, 2014, UK, 76min, U18+, Serbian, Arabic, English, w/English Subtitles | Cast Zoran Djordjevic | Presented by Cat & Docs Coach Zoran is a darkly comic and...
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Offside + “Fair Game” Football Forum
Dir Jafar Panahi, 2006, Iran, 88min, PG, Farsi w/English Subtitles | Cast Danny Choi, Sunny Kyoung-soon | Keywords Drama, Comedy, Women | Presented by Madman Entertainment The story of Soccer in...
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Western Sydney Wanderers: Asian Champions
Dir Paul Connorton, 2015, Australia, 52min, U18+, English | Cast Tony Popovic, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Shannon Cole, Ante Covic | Keywords Documentary, ACL, A-League | Presented by Fox Sports Re-live...
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Aussie Chuk-Gu Dream
World Premiere | Dir Ahn Jae-yong, 2015, Australia, 50min, U12+, Korean w/English Subtitles | Cast Danny Choi, Sunny Kyoung-soon, Son Heung-min | Keywords Documentary, Korea, Dreams | Presented by...
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Writing YA for Books and Film
Sydney Writers’ Festival 2018 presents WRITING YA FOR BOOKS AND FILM Do you want to know the secrets behind how Young Adult writers flesh out page-turning plots? Or how they bring depth to their...
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