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  • 2023 Adelaide Film Festival sets new box office record

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    In its first year as an annual event, the Film Festival opened on October 18 with a red-carpet screening of the SA-filmed outback thriller The Royal Hotel at North Adelaide’s Piccadilly cinema and saw the presentation of more than 130 films from 43 countries over 12 days. It officially closed on Sunday night with Adelaide…

  • Adelaide Film Festival sets new box office record

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    In its first year as an annual event, the Film Festival opened on October 18 with a red-carpet screening of the SA-filmed outback thriller The Royal Hotel at North Adelaide’s Piccadilly cinema and saw the presentation of more than 130 films from 43 countries over 12 days. It officially closed on Sunday night with Adelaide…

  • 2023 Adelaide Film Festival to take audiences around the world in 12 days

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    The months-long writers’ strike is holding back the Australian premieres of major international films, including Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, which screened at the Venice Film Festival early this month. While Adelaide Film Festival creative director Mat Kesting has not given up hope of securing at least three international features comparable to last year’s sold-out premiere Australian…

  • The state of science fiction

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    At this month’s Adelaide Film Festival, three of the Investment Fund features – the international creative showcase for SA talent – are science fiction, along with a short film about extra-terrestrial invaders. They build on a growing trend from previous festivals that includes the zombie pandemic thriller Cargo in 2017; the robot psychodrama I Am…

  • Adelaide Film Festival releases 2022 line-up

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    Almost 50 countries are represented across the October 19-30 Film Festival, which launched its full program last night and will include 15 world-premiere feature films and 19 Australian premieres. After “white knuckling it” to present the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival amid the challenges posed by the pandemic, CEO and creative director Mat Kesting says organisers…

  • Adelaide Film Festival on track for 20% box office increase

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    The biennial festival opened on October 14 and has presented films from more than 40 countries over the past 12 days, with many sessions selling out and more than 20 additional screenings added to meet demand. Although it officially closed last night, a five-day extension will see “best of the fest” screenings presented at Palace…

  • First taste of the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival program

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    The biennial festival will take place in cinemas from October 14-25, and is understood to be the first major physical film festival in Australia since COVID-19 restrictions began. “I am excited to share the first films that will be screening,” said festival CEO and creative director Mat Kesting.  “These five films are representative of the…