AFF 2023

Adelaide Film Festival 18 - 19 Oct 2023

In our first year as an annual festival, we set a new box office record. The festival saw a 15% increase on the previous year’s ticket sales and a massive 81% increase on the last pre-pandemic event in 2018, thanks to your support!

The AFF 2023 program offered audiences an opportunity to ‘see in the dark’ with a festival program featuring directorial debuts, acclaimed stars, and winners from Cannes, Venice and Sundance.

The festival opened with Kitty Green’s SA-made outback thriller The Royal Hotel, and featured gala events for an AFF Investment Fund special preview of Speedway by Luke Rynderman and Adam Kamien, and world premiere of MY NAME’S BEN FOLDS i play piano by Scott Hicks. Plus, a highly popular Music on Film program with documentaries on the likes of The Birthday Party, Indigo Girls, Joan Baez, Daniel Johns and David Helfgott taking to the stage and screen.

We also cast a spotlight on the cinema of our close neighbour Indonesia, with filmmakers and actors touching down in Adelaide to be our guests for the festival.

Mat Kesting, AFF CEO & Creative Director, said: “I’m incredibly proud of the work of the AFF team in creating a festival that has been so warmly embraced by audiences and one that nurtures screen culture and builds new audience for the cinema arts. My thanks to the South Australian Government for their continued and passionate support for the festival and to our many other partners and sponsors who have contributed to making AFF23 our most successful yet.”

Find all the 2023 event photos here.

The Program

Apolonia

Greg

Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)

Mating Call

Prove to Me You Are Human

Red Earth

The Unrequited Life of Farrah Bruce

White Time

000 Species of Bees

14 in February

20,000 Species of Bees

A Kind of Testament

Afire

After Work

Aikāne

All Of Us Strangers

An Asian Ghost Story

Anatomy of a Fall

Apolonia, Apolonia

Appropriate Measure

Armat

Between Earth & Sky

Black Cockatoo Crisis

Black Time

Black Time, White Time

Blaga's Lessons

Blame The Rabbit

Bromley: Light After Dark

Bulldog

Bulls

Call It Anything

Caravan Park

Chomp It!

Club Zero

Coming Out Autistic

Critical Zone

Dancing Queen

Dig Deeper

Disgrace

Dog Apartment

Earth Mama

Embryo Larva Butterfly

Emotion Is Dead

Empty Nets

Evacuation of Mama Emola

Fingernails

Foe

Four Daughters

Galang

Goodbye Julia

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Her Name is Nanny Nellie

Hollywoodgate

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

Housekeeping for Beginners

How to Build a Forest

I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs

I Used to Be Funny

If Only I Could Hibernate

Is There Anybody Out There?

Isla's Way

It's Only Life After All

Joan Baez I Am a Noise

Joy

Lakota Nation vs. United States

Late Night with the Devil

Like & Share

Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill

Mars Express

May December

Monisme

Monster

Mr Ikegami's Flight

Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party

My Darling in Stirling

MY NAME’S BEN FOLDS i play piano

Nothing Gold Can Stay

On the Adamant

On the Go

One Hundred A Day

Only the River Flows

Orpa

Our Uniform

Peel

Perfect Days

Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin

Poor Things

Praying for Armageddon

Prosinecki

Raging Grace

Return Chute: The Survival of a Small Town Video Store

Rewards For The Tribe

Robot Dreams

Room for One More

Sahela

Salt Dreams

Saltburn

SCALA!!!

Scenes with My Father

Seven Winters in Tehran

Slimane

Speedway

Strange Way of Life

Sunflower

Tambo

The Birds Beyond the Lake

The Burnt Half

The Debutante

The Delinquents

The Drag Tour

The Drover's Wife

The Exiles

The Eye of the Storm

The Fantastic Three

The Getaway

The Hidden Spring

The House That Hungers

The Hypnosis

The Miracle

The Mountains

THE MUSICAL MIND a portrait in process

The Persian Version

The Rooster

The Royal Hotel

The Settlers

The Shadowless Tower

The Surf Film Archive & Headland Live

The Sweet East

The Third Note

The Tone Wheels

To Be Silent

Undercurrents: Meditations on Power

Uproar

Warm Strangers

What Are We Fighting For?

White Ant

You Should Have Been Here Yesterday

You'll Never Find Me