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 2024
Photography: Travelling Film Festival (Black Dog)
This November the Travelling Film Festival (TFF), Australia’s longest running travelling film festival, will kick off a showcase of seven feature films and two shorts, straight from the Sydney Film Festival; including winners from both the prestigious Cannes & Sundance Film Festivals. Championed locally by Stephen Payton of Nomad Pictures, all films will be shown at the beautiful and historic Strand Cinemas.
The opening night film will be ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ (Winner of the Sydney Film Festival: Best Film), a box office phenomenon in its native Italy where it outperformed Barbie and Oppenheimer, the film is an empowering melodrama about an industrious woman in post-WWII Rome.
Other films include Black Dog, Every Little Thing, All We Imagine as Light, Sing Sing, Flathead & Ka Whawhai Tonu. Adult tickets are $19.50 ($18.00 for concession and for students), or buy the weekend pass to see any five films for $16.00 each. Tickets can be found here.
See the full program below.
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Friday, 01 November 2024
6:30PM: THERE'S STILL TOMORROW (Feature)
A box office phenomenon in its native Italy, where it outperformed Barbie and Oppenheimer, There’s Still Tomorrow is a moving, empowering melodrama about an industrious woman in post-WWII Rome. Winner of Sydney Film Festival Official Competition.
6:30PM: THE MEANINGLESS DAYDREAMS OF AUGIE & CELESTE (Short)
Two best friends embark on a high-stakes game of imagination, which takes an unforeseeable turn and threatens to jeopardise their relationship.
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Saturday, 02 November 2024
12:30PM: KA WHAWHAI TONU (Feature)
Once Were Warriors stars Temuera Morrison and Cliff Curtis reunite for an action-packed epic about Aotearoa's first land war, when vastly outnumbered Māori fought against colonial soldiers.
12:30PM: FIRST HORSE (Short)
It's 1826, and Aotearoa is on the cusp of colonisation. A Young Māori girl's encounter with a dying man and his horse exposes her to the best and worst of her rapidly changing world. Inaugural First Nations Award winner, Sydney Film Festival 2024.
3:00PM FLATHEAD (Feature)
This acclaimed Australian debut combines social realism and an immersive documentary feel, to tell the story of an elderly man returning home to Bundaberg on a spiritual quest. Winner of Special Jury Award at the 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award at MIFF 2024.
5:30PM SING SING (Feature)
In this SXSW Audience winner based on an inspiring true story, a small group of prisoners find hope, connection and meaning as they attempt to stage their own original production, “Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code”, from inception to opening night.
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Sunday, 03 November 2024
1:00PM EVERY LITTLE THING (Feature)
Exquisite hummingbirds fill the screen in Australian filmmaker Sally Aitken’s captivating story of a woman finding herself as she cares for the tiny birds. Selected Sundance and CPH:DOX.
3:00PM BLACK DOG (Feature)
A one-of-a-kind crowd pleaser featuring a man and many, many dogs that spectacularly riffs on westerns, Asian indie cinema, neo-noir and even Mad Max. Winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
6:00PM ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Feature)
The first Indian film to appear in the Cannes Competition in 30 years, Payal Kapadia’s dreamy romantic drama follows two women in Mumbai who are thwarted in their quests for love but retain hope. Grand Prix Winner Cannes 2024.
