Palace Films

27/10/2023

Encore sessions are now showing for festival favourite CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW! Don't miss this epic historical drama starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel 📽🎨

View sessions and book now via our website: https://www.italianfilmfestival.com.au/films/caravaggios-shadow

28/08/2023

Book now for the 2023 ST. ALi ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL, screening nationally 19 Sep-25 Oct.

It's proven an outstanding year for Italian cinema, and among the Festival's tremendous line-up is the stylish Opening Night thriller THE LAST NIGHT OF AMORE, Alice Rohrwacher's captivating new romantic fable LA CHIMERA, the breathtaking Cannes Jury Prize-winner THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS and gripping new historical dramas from Marco Bellocchio, KIDNAPPED, and Michele Placido, CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW.

Discover the full programme at: http://www.italianfilmfestival.com.au

In case you missed the news, tickets are now on sale for the 2023 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival! 🎉
Explore the full programme now on our website. Andiamo!
https://www.italianfilmfestival.com.au/

16/08/2023

In three films by Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason, there is a moment of rupture in which the narrative is held up and we see instead a montage of various characters standing still and looking directly at the camera – an example of what has been called a planimetric shot. This particular type o...

15/08/2023

SMH/The Age's Stephanie Bunbury speaks to Hlynur Pálmason, director of the incredible GODLAND. In cinemas across Aus from Thursday!

A stubborn priest pits himself against the Icelandic elements in Hlynur Palmason’s riveting new film.

10/08/2023

★★★★★ for GODLAND from Limelight's Jason Blake.
Advance screenings in cinemas this Fri, Sat & Sun (11-13 Aug)

Read the review from Limelight's August 2023 issue.

11/07/2023

Melbourne - Melbourne International Film Festival has revealed its programme, running Aug 3-20. Amongst a stellar line-up is your first chance to catch four new PF titles from Cannes - KIDNAPPED, LA CHIMERA, AMA GLORIA and INSHALLAH A BOY. See you there 🙌

10/07/2023

The 2023 Saxo Scandinavian Film Festival opens this week in Melbourne, before touring nationally.

Don't miss the opening night galas in each city - featuring Ole Giæver’s elegant, multi award-winning historical drama LET THE RIVER FLOW, based on true events that inspired a generation of young Norwegians.

Full details -> http://www.lettheriverflow.com.au

10/07/2023

Join us this Fri 14 July evening in Melbourne, and Fri 21 July in all other cities, for a singular big-screen experience: Hlynur Pálmason’s GODLAND.
https://scandinavianfilmfestival.com/films/godland

Be among the first to see GODLAND at the Festival, with Centrepiece Premiere screenings on Friday 14 July in Melbourne and Friday 21 July in all other cities. Enjoy a glass of sparkling on arrival, before Hlynur Pálmason’s stunning historical drama.

Book your tickets here! https://scandinavianfilmfestival.com/films/godland

09/07/2023

In cinemas now! http://www.palacefilms.com.au/other-peoples-children

Writer-director Rebecca Zlotowski and actress Virginie Efira discuss the French drama…

05/06/2023

"A film about loss, forgetting, and letting go, but it is also an unfolding story of discovery and change...."

The Australian Premiere season of ONE FINE MORNING commences Thursday!

In French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning (Un beau matin), books play a significant role: as physical objects, gifts, talismans, sources of connection, works in progress. Above all, books can represent a life.

30/05/2023

"Simply stunning... What a deeply emotional movie this 2022 Venice International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning feature is, understandably and unsurprisingly. What a heartbreaking and harrowing work it proves as well. SAINT OMER is also an astoundingly multilayered excavation of being in a country but never being seen as truly part it, and what that does to someone's sense of self." - Sarah Ward, Concrete Playground Melbourne

Inspired not only by a true story, but by filmmaker Alice Diop's obsession with it, this Oscar-shortlisted French legal drama is simply stunning.

26/05/2023

★★★★★ "This film is a triumph."
Francisco Silva, The Law Society of NSW

Alice Diop signs her first fiction with a tremendous film about generational trauma in the immigrant experience.

24/05/2023

Screening across Australia from 14 June. Don't miss it!

Writer/director Carla Simón’s eagerly anticipated follow up to her debut breakthrough Summer 1993 is a personal and beautifully observed ensemble drama about a family of Catalonian farmers who, after generations harvesting the same land, face eviction and an uncertain future.

19/05/2023

Tickets are now on sale for the 2023 HSBC Spanish Film Festival! 🎉

Jump on to the website and explore the full lineup of films and special events.
https://www.spanishfilmfestival.com/

15/05/2023

Opening nationally from Thurs 25 May, with special advance screenings this Fri, Sat & Sun 19-21 May, Alice Diop's remarkable SAINT OMER was chosen as France's 2023 Oscar selection for very good reason.

… a dark and brooding tale full of mythic resonances…

04/04/2023

The French actor on his fourth outing as director, The Innocent…

16/03/2023

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