The Travelling Film Festival returns to Toowoomba
Cinephiles unite! Here’s your chance to see films that may not make it to local cinemas otherwise – including winners from the Cannes & Sundance Film Festivals.
Updated November 2025
Photography: My Father’s Shadow
The Travelling Film Festival returns to Toowoomba
This November, the Travelling Film Festival (TFF) - Australia’s longest-running travelling film festival - returns to Toowoomba with an exceptional lineup direct from the Sydney Film Festival, showcasing seven feature films from around the globe, including award-winners from Sundance, Cannes, and Berlinale.
The opening night film, DJ Ahmet (Documentary Australia Award Winner, SFF 2025), is a charming, funny and uplifting story about a 15-year-old North Macedonian boy who finds refuge in dance music and first love. Winner of the Sundance Audience Award, this feel-good gem kicks off the festival on Friday 7 November at 7pm.
Other highlights include the Berlinale prize-winner The Blue Trail - a poetic and defiant adventure down the Amazon River; My Father’s Shadow, the first Nigerian film to feature in Cannes’ Official Selection; Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s highly anticipated follow-up to The Worst Person in the World starring Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning; and Mr. Nobody Against Putin, an urgent Sundance-winning documentary following a Russian teacher’s fight against propaganda.
Also on the program are Deaf, a Berlinale-selected Spanish drama exploring parenthood through the lens of sound and silence, and It Was Just An Accident, a gripping darkly humorous thriller from Iranian master filmmaker Jafar Panahi.
Tickets and full program details can be found via Sydney Film Festival’s Travelling Film Festival page.
Friday, 7 November 2025
7:00PM – DJ AHMET (Feature)
Charming, funny and uplifting, this Sundance Audience Award-winner tells the story of a 15-year-old North Macedonian boy who finds refuge in dance music and first love. (Documentary Australia Award Winner, SFF 2025)
Saturday, 8 November 2025
1:45PM – THE BLUE TRAIL (Feature)
In this Berlinale prize-winning gem, a remarkable grandmother defies a dystopian government order to leave her home, courageously pursuing her own dreams down the Amazon River on a rousing and at times hallucinatory journey.
4:30PM – MY FATHER’S SHADOW (Feature)
The first Nigerian film in the Cannes Official Selection, this bold, poetic drama set over a heady day in Lagos is sure to be one of the year’s most acclaimed debuts and stars Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Slow Horses, Gangs of London). Caméra d'Or - Special Mention, Cannes 2025.
7:00PM – SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Feature)
Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve reunite following The Worst Person in the Worldfor this intimate family drama about the power of art. Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning join the stellar ensemble cast.
Sunday, 9 November 2025
12:30PM – MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN (Documentary)
This urgent, Sundance prize-winning documentary follows a brave and charismatic Russian teacher as he exposes shocking new propaganda at his school amid the invasion of Ukraine.
3:15PM – DEAF (Feature)
A happy Spanish couple - one deaf and one hearing - encounter strains on their tight bond when a new baby leads to drastically different experiences of parenthood. Berlinale 2025.
6:00PM – IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Feature)
A former political prisoner abducts the man he believes responsible for his suffering in this gripping and darkly humorous thriller from master Iranian director Jafar Panahi.
