Daring, unconventional, and cutting-edge cinema is returning to Melbourne and Sydney with the highly anticipated return of the Fantastic Film Festival Australia (FFFA). Running from 14-30 April, FFFA promises to captivate curious audiences with its panoramic celebration of new and provocative films.
This year, the Festival is proud to showcase the best of local filmmaking talent, alongside a carefully curated selection of international films that push the boundaries of cinematic subversion.
With an impressive line-up of 27 features, the Festival promises to be its biggest program yet. From animated cowboys to queer magical realism, shit-stained death-traps to outback horrors, this year’s program is a treasure trove of weird and wonderful curiosities. Alongside the diverse range of films, the Festival is offering a slew of special events, including Q&A screenings, live performances, a world-first scratch-and-sniff screening, music video blind dates, and their highly-anticipated nude sessions.
Spearheading the Australian contingent is The Survival of Kindness, an allegorical journey across a plague-ravaged wilderness by legendary filmmaker Rolf de Heer who will be in attendance for a Q&A at the first Sydney screening.
A film drenched in desolation and dystopia with comments on Colonialism and plague, this mostly wordless horror story is an enthralling odyssey of a black woman traversing a continent of dwellings in disrepair in dusty desert settings to a Utopian forest region, where nature reigns and seems to have survived the ravages of human pestilence and prejudice.
Superb sound design, cinematography and editing make The Survival of Kindness the must see event of the festival
2023 Fantastic Film Festival Australia
Friday, 14 April – Sunday 30 April 2023
Melbourne: Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn
Sydney: Ritz Cinemas, Randwick
Website: www.fantasticfilmfestival.com.au
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