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 September 2023
Photography: Travelling Film Festival (Blackberry)
This October the Travelling Film Festival (TFF), Australia’s longest running travelling film festival, will kick off a showcase of six feature films and three shorts, straight from the Sydney Film Festival; including winners from both the prestigeous Cannes & Sundance Film Festivals. Championed locally by Stephen Payton of Nomad Pictures (and Banter Coffee Kitchen incidentally), all films will be shown at the beautiful Strand Cinemas.
The opening night film will be Blackberry, the true story of the meteoric rise & catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, Blackberry and a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
Other films include Hit the Road, Last Film Show, La Chimera, Fallen Leaves (2023 Cannes Jury Winner) & Shayda (Aundance Audience Award Winner). Adult tickets are $19.00 ($16.00 for concession and $15 for students), or buy the weekend pass to see all the films for $13.50 each. Tickets can be found here.
See the full program below.
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Friday, 13 October 2023
The true story of the meteoric rise & catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, Blackberry is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
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Saturday, 14 October 2023
FEATURE: In Pan Nalin’s (Samsara, 2001; Angry Indian Goddesses, SFF 2016) glorious love letter to cinema – and food – a 9-year-old boy discovers films for the first time and becomes wholly obsessed.
SHORT FILM: Martha, an Indigenous woman, works tirelessly in a laundromat, until the monotonous routine is interrupted by a mysterious visitor who reminds her of the life she left behind. Winner Best Australian Short at MIFF.
FEATURE: Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir-Ebrahimi (Holy Spider, Cannes 2022) gives a powerful performance in this Sundance Audience Award–winner, tracing the lives of an Iranian-born mother seeking a new life for herself and her daughter in Australia.
SHORT FIILM: A passion for craft helps four people overcome adversity, from knitting to yarn making, ceramics to recycling textiles.
FEATURE: In this enchanting romantic adventure and ripping heist movie like no other, a young British archaeologist (Josh O’Connor) gets caught up in an international network dealing in stolen Italian artefacts.
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Sunday, 15 October 2023
FEATURE: A married couple meet their doppelgängers in a riveting psychological mystery by leading Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi (Pig, SFF 2018). Toronto, 2022.
FEATURE: Winner of the 2023 Cannes Jury Prize, the Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki’s compassionate comedy has two lonely people meet by chance and then try, in turbulent times, to find love. Voted best film of the year by the International Film Critics Federation.
SHORT FILM: When Mary, a fiercely independent woman with vision impairment, has a mishap, a friendly stranger steps in to help. The two bond – but Mary notices all isn’t quite as it seems.
