Essential Films To See At The 2024 Brisbane International Film Festival

The 2024 Brisbane International Film Festival begins this week, and the program is full of amazing surprises, fantastic films, and plenty of exclusive Queensland premieres!

The festival boasts a huge selection of movies from all around the world, and we’ve highlighted some essential films that you can see at the festival, everything from local  documentaries to entrancing thrillers and dramas.

The 2024 Brisbane International Film Festival runs from October 24 till November 3rd, and tickets are on sale now.
Check out the full program HERE

Aquarius

Queensland Premiere

In May 1973, 10,000 artists, activists, hippies, radical students, gurus and visionaries descended on a small diary farm in Nimbin for a 10 day festival of social and cultural exploration that changed a generation. ‍AQUARIUS is a film about the people and the power of change, of unintended consequences and the radical wisdom that reaches down through generations today.

Directed by Wendy Champagne, who will be a guest at the festival.

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Future Council

Queensland Premiere

In this powerful feature documentary, director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film, 2040) brings the future generation to the forefront of climate change conversation. Gameau takes a group of eight kids on a thrilling road trip across Europe where they challenge businesses and leaders in search of solutions to our greatest ecological challenges.

Directed by Damon Gameau.

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In Vitro

Queensland Premiere

This thrilling Australian sci-fi  mystery, starring Talia Zucker (Lake Mungo) and Ashley Zuckerman (Succession TV Series),  is a gripping cinematic film set against the stark Australian landscape, featuring a tense, suspenseful narrative that will pull you in with its chilling realism.

Directed by Tom McKeith and Will Howarth.

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September Says

Queensland Premiere

When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds on holiday in Ireland as a series of surreal encounters test the them all to their limit in this gripping drama, based on the novel Sisters by Daisy Johnson.

Directed by Ariane Labed.

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Tatami

Queensland Premiere

The first feature film co-directed by an Iranian and an Israeli filmmaker, TATAMI is a tense thriller that follows an Iranian Judoka who must make a life-changing decision between staying loyal to her country or winning a Gold Medal at the World Championships.

Directed by Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi.

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Teaches of Peaches

Queensland Premiere

Merrill Nisker, known by her stage name “Peaches”, is a landmark Canadian singer, songwriter, and performance artist known for her provocative and genre-blending music. She’s a trailblazing feminist queer icon whose work explores themes of sexuality, gender, and identity, and this feature documentary explores her origins and her legacy.

Directed by Phillipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer.

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The Balconettes

Queensland Premiere

Part-ghost story, part-horror, part-feminist comedy, THE BALCONNETES is a wickedly funny story of three roommates during a scorching Marseille heatwave. Co-written by Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) and directed by Noemie Merlant, this film is just as dark as it is hilarious.

Directed by Noemie Merlant.

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We Were Dangerous

Queensland Premiere

From executive producer Taika Waititi and director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, comes this funny yet frightening award-winning drama following three defiant girls entangled in New Zealand’s troubling history of eugenics.

Directed by Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu.

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