AFF 2026 Audience Award Winners Announced

You've had your say, Adelaide, and the results are in.

Our Opening Night film, Wild Horse Nine, has won the Audience Choice Feature Fiction Award, while South Australian films KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business and Wet Feathers have taken home the Audience Choice Feature Documentary and Audience Choice Short awards.

AFF 2026 Award Winners Announced

Four films have been recognised across this year's AFF Feature Fiction, Feature Documentary, Shorts and Change Awards.

Congratulations to The Smell of Apples, The Balkan Cowboy, Baby Talk and Steal This Story, Please!, respectively recognised across the four award categories.

Tell us about your AFF 2026 experience and win

We'd love to hear about your experience at AFF 2026.

Your feedback helps us understand what worked, what could be improved and how we can make future editions of AFF even better.

Complete our annual audience survey for your chance to win one of five prizes.

Community Access & Inclusion Feedback

We want Adelaide Film Festival to be a welcoming and accessible experience for everyone.

Whether you've attended a screening, event or conversation at AFF 2026, we'd love to hear about your experience.

Your feedback will help us understand how audiences experience the Festival and identify ways to improve accessibility and inclusion at future events.

Meet SA's Next Filmmakers at AFF Youth 2026

What a week for South Australia's next generation of filmmakers. From our Schools Screening Day to the pink carpet at the AFF Youth Gala, we celebrated young storytellers and their creativity on the big screen.

Congratulations to the winners and nominees of the 2026 AFF Youth Filmmaking Competition.

Photo Galleries

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AFF Investment Fund

Did you know that Adelaide Film Festival is more than just a festival?

The Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund (AFFIF) provides equity investment in Australian screen productions, launches careers, and profiles local stories in an international context.

Explore more than 150 projects from 2003 until now, including some of the most significant Australian films of the 21st Century.

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All donations, of any size, help us showcase South Australia as a creative centre of independent filmmaking and support the next generation of storytellers.

AFF is a registered DGR entity and every donation over $2 is tax-deductible.