Brisbane film festival’s program highlights and locations
Queens of the Dead
Five Star Cinemas, New Farm, Thu 27 November, 19.45
Dendy Coorparoo, Friday, November 28, 20:00
Drag queens and club kids join forces to fight flesh-eating zombies at a warehouse party in Brooklyn. If that wasn’t enough of a recommendation, the film is directed by Tina Romero, daughter of zombie movie legend George A. Romero. (Night of the Living Dead).
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Five Star Cinemas, Yeni Çiftlik, Friday, November 28, 13:00
The acclaimed film by Queensland director Jaydon Martin. flat head A beautiful black and white documentary fiction about two unforgettable characters in Bundaberg. Cass is an old man in failing health who discovers religion. Local fish and chip shop owner Andrew uses Buddhism to cope with the loss of his father.
No Other Choice
Five Star Cinemas, New Farm, Thu 27 November, 19.30
Reading Newmarket, Friday 28 November, 7.25pm
Palace Barracks, Saturday, November 29, 16.30
Korean writer Park Chan-wook (Old Boy) He directs this darkly funny tale of a man who cannot find a job to save himself and resorts to increasingly violent and irrational behavior to cut down on the competition.
Rose Byrne’s character struggles to get her confiscated car back pull.Credit: Courtesy of BIFF
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Five Star Cinemas, Yeni Çiftlik, Friday, November 28, 17.15
Rose Byrne plays a homeless woman fighting to have her confiscated car returned. Well-known US TV director Stephanie Laing will be visiting for the international premiere of her timely drama.
Bring it on
Star Entertainment Deck, Friday, November 28, 18:00
Live cheerleaders and a visit from famous Hollywood director Peyton Reed (Ant-Man) Those are just two reasons to attend the 25th anniversary screening of Kirsten Dunst’s teen comedy, which is also a biting satire. For an extra $30 you can get a meal and a welcome drink.
Retreat A thriller made by deaf filmmakers and starring a deaf cast.Credit: Courtesy of BIFF
Retreat
Palace Barracks, Friday, November 28, 20:00
Reading Newmarket, Saturday 29 November, 17:00
Maybe you’ve watched a lot of foreign language movies, but have you ever watched a movie in British Sign Language? Retreat A film by deaf director Ted Evans set in the deaf community in Berlin.
PUREE
Palace Barracks, Saturday, November 29, 14:00
Robert Altman’s groundbreaking 1970 war comedy made the late Donald Sutherland a star and inspired one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Selected by Crazy Maximum Returning to BIFF as patron for the first time in 20 years is filmmaker George Miller.
premiere screening An Enlightened Life It will feature a panel with director Tasha Van Zandt and a show by Dead Puppet Society puppeteers.Credit: Courtesy of BIFF
An Enlightened Life
The Star Leisure Deck, Saturday, November 29, 18:00 (premiere)
Palace Barracks, Sunday, November 30, 17.10
This documentary follows marine biologist Dr. who explores the oceans in search of bioluminescence, marine creatures that create their own light. It is about Edith Widder. The gala event includes a panel with director Tasha Van Zandt as well as Dead Puppet Society puppeteers who bring the underwater world to life in the open air.
It’s Never Over by Jeff Buckley This will be followed by a concert starring Katie Noonan.Credit: Courtesy of BIFF
It’s Never Over by Jeff Buckley
South Bank Piazza, Sunday 30 November, 18:00
Thirty years after the release of Jeff Buckley’s album GraceFilmmaker Amy Berg (and producer Brad Pitt) has created a powerful tribute to the troubled singer with rich footage. After the movie, sit back and listen to the live performance of each track. Grace Voiced by Jack Carty, Asha Jefferies, Jaguar Jonze, Moreton, Mark Moroney, Katie Noonan, Tyrone Noonan, Sue Ray and Jude York. Don’t forget the textures.
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Ten more important points
The award-winning thrillers of this year’s Cannes Film Festival are being released. Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident A low-budget effort by Iranian dissidents Cafer Panahi. WagnerMoura (narcos) The stars of an epic political thriller from Brazil, Secret agent; and destructive Sirat There is a father and his daughter searching for a missing family member in Morocco.
Prolific cult director Takashi Miike from Japan (Killer Ichi) directing a prison crime movie about aspiring MMA fighters, Flaming Fistswhile the threshold horror of video games Exit 8 It was adapted into a movie in which an office worker travels in a vast subway.
Satirical horror displayed with an irreverent approach Dracula Made in Transylvania and in Thailand A Helpful Ghost The spirit of a dead woman is in the vacuum cleaner.
Happy birthdayThe film, about an eight-year-old girl, reveals class discrimination, poverty and child abuse.Credit: Courtesy of BIFF
Inside Happy birthdayAn eight-year-old maid’s efforts to organize her employer’s party reveal Egypt’s class divisions. Learn the story of Asian-American burlesque movie star Tura Satana (Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) inside Heads!; during Imagine It is a futuristic animated film by Australian First Nations filmmakers.
BIFF 2025 will take place on 27-30 November.
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