Tag: 2025 Adelaide Film Festival

A quirky celebration of childlike wonder, Maya Give Me a Title is a charming, stop-motion adventure, dedicated to creativity and connection. Directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and made in collaboration with his daughter, Maya, this French-made animated feature transforms a simple father-daughter ritual into a playful, heartfelt cinematic experiment, one…

Despite their geographical closeness, the cultural divide between North and South Korea is extreme. Directed by Morten Traavik and Christina Sun Kim, North South Man Woman explores this divide through marriages arranged across the Korean demilitarised zone. Filmed over a period of five years, we follow Yujin, the owner of a matchmaking company for North…

Think globally, watch locally! If you’re going to see one thing at the Adelaide Film Fest, make it Made in SA. Arguably the most important screening of the Adelaide Film Festival is Made in SA, where local filmmakers showcase their shorts. These are the state’s up-and-comers, and their stories are our stories. Featuring eight films…

Rohan Kanawade’s feature directorial debut, Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda), first made waves at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the prestigious World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic. The film has since continued capturing hearts around the world. Cactus Pears observes Anand (Bhushaan Manoj), a Mumbai call-centre worker who returns to the West…

The world runs on the labour of women, the hands that feed, provide and package our modern-day privileges. She (2025), directed by Italian filmmaker and anthropologist Parsifal Reparato, uses several documentary styles to tell this story including observation, interviews and stylised re-creations. She focuses on a Vietnamese electronic factory in the Bac Ninh province, and…

Goodwood’s Capri Theatre may not have drink holders attached to its seats like many modern multiplexes, but it does have an organ that rises from the pit of the stage floor, and someone to play for the audience as they crowd into their seats. It’s a nice way to open the Adelaide Film Festival, and…

When Sophie Hyde’s father Jim died in 2018, the director was left pondering what might have been. Her father had come out when she was a child, and like many LGBTQIA+ people eventually left Adelaide and their family for the more cosmopolitan outlook of the eastern states. Back in Adelaide, Sophie’s own child, Aud Mason-Hyde,…