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... we are all human beings and, if you take the wrong exit, then we can create these horrible systems and it happens again."

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, with special advance screenings Fri 29, Sat 30 Nov and Sun 1 Dec now on sale at selected venues!

Doing for Naples what The Great Beauty did for Rome, Academy Award-winner Paolo Sorrentino's PARTHENOPE - which achieved a career-topping opening for the acclaimed auteur at the Italian box office in late 2024 - is a visually and aurally stunning, decades-spanning romantic drama about a Neapolitan woman’s search for happiness and fulfilment. With gasp-worthy visuals from award-winning cinematographer Daria D’Antonio (The Hand Of God), fashion design by Saint Laurent, and a perfectly pitched soundscape, it’s a spectacular and immersive big screen experience to savour this summer.