Following its World Premiere at AFF2025, We Are Not Powerless will screen at the Odeon Star Semaphore on Tuesday, 25 November at 6:30pm.
Join us for a special AFF Film Club screening of Jolyon Hoff and Muzafar Ali's latest film.

We Are Not Powerless
When a small group of refugees defy authorities and start a school, they inspire a refugee-led education revolution which changes the lives of thousands. Ten years later, we uncover the global impact of this brave act.

Donation information for the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre (CRLC) will be made available the night of the screening. There will be a Q&A with the filmmakers and Mat Kesting, AFF CEO and Creative Director.

A cocky young father (Josh O’Connor) regressing into the working class aims to turn his life around with a foolproof art heist. Finding his crime under-planned, he is forced on the run. The great Kelly Reichardt brings a breezy charm to the tale of an ordinary man without the chops to break free.

A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Director Sophie Hyde and Jimpa cast members Daniel Henshall, Kate Box, and Aud Mason-Hyde talk about Opening Night film Jimpa and their other work.

Horror has come out of the shadows and sparked conversations worldwide. Mia'Kate Russell (Penny Lane is Dead), Alice May Connolly and Finnius Teppett (The Weed Eaters) along with Hadrah Daeng Ratu and Lele Laila (The Book of Sijjin and Illiyyin) talk about their love of the genre.

In Morocco’s illicit mountain rave parties, a father and son search for a daughter and sister who has been missing for far too long. Music drives them deeper into the desert, where joy and danger share the same beat and the path offers no closure, only transformation.

Adelaide’s Daniel J. Phillips aims to make your blood curdle – a religious cult, a troubled young woman, hallucinogenic therapy, and an evil that refuses to die. Diabolic showcases the cream of local talent to produce what is sure to be a breakout horror success.

A Cannes standout set in 1977 Brazil, The Secret Agent follows a fugitive father returning home during Carnival to escape with his son. Vivid bursts of carnivalesque playfulness collide with the stark brutality of military rule, revealing the absurdities and dangers of authoritarian life.

Jeremy Allen White stars as the Boss, alongside Jeremy Strong, Stephen Graham and Australia’s Odessa Young in this portrait of an artist chasing perfection and battling generational demons. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a rare candid biopic based on the book by Warren Zanes.

A circus family’s hidden legacy unfolds as descendants reunite across continents, uncovering their Aboriginal ancestry, global stardom, and the extraordinary secrets they kept in order to survive. Through the Colleano family's remarkable home movies, never-before-seen footage, family interviews and archival recordings, their extraordinary story is brought to life.

Despite bans and imprisonment, Iranian master filmmaker Jafar Panahi continues to make great humanist films. In the middle of the night a damaged car arrives at mechanic Vahid’s garage. He hears something that triggers him to believe that the driver of the car is the official who had tortured him. But as he never saw his face, can he really be sure?

The near future. A plague has ravaged the land, anarchy reigns, everyone’s on the run. Mac does delivery runs for an unseen manipulator. Aliah seizes her baby and runs for sanctuary. This stylish thriller from local director Stephen de Villiers uses SA locations as an appropriately harsh backdrop for white-knuckle suspense.