On the eve of the film's Australian Premiere at the 2024 German Film Festival, ABC News's Steven Russell discussed the impetus behind making FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE with director Andreas Dresen: "Hilde's destiny hit me very hard, because she is a kind of shy hero who wouldn't necessarily call herself a resistance fighter. But she was so brave... In my opinion, it's better to make characters comparable to our time instead of a historical dimension where you can say, 'This happened a long time ago and has nothing to do with my world'. That's dangerous. It's hard to understand that we are all human beings and, if you take the wrong exit, then we can create these horrible systems and it happens again."

The 25th annual ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL tours cinemas nationally 18 Sep-23 Oct. Among the terrific selection is Margherita Vicario's ebullient, music-fuelled drama GLORIA!, Paolo Sorrentino's spectacular new romantic drama PARTHENOPE, Riccardo Milani's box office smash A WORLD APART, Christophe Honore's joyous meta-comedy MARCELLO MIO, Edoardo de Angelis' gripping WWII thriller COMANDANTE, and many more!

Two of contemporary European cinema’s brightest stars - Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher - are electric together in OUT OF SEASON, award-winning writer/director Stéphane Brizé's achingly tender and wryly funny new romance about two former lovers who unexpectedly cross paths in a sleepy holiday town. Drawing comparisons with such humanist and emotionally affecting works as David Lean’s Brief Encounter, Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation and Celine Song’s recent Past Lives, Brizè’s intimate and moving film is a delight. Australian Premiere Season commences 5 Dec.