Welcome to Adelaide Film Festival 2024!

A message from Sophie Hyde, our new AFF Patron.

I am delighted to welcome you to Adelaide Film Festival 2024, and to step into my new role here as patron. 

I would like to acknowledge and warmly thank cinema legends Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, whose passion for cinema helped grow our Australian screen culture and who have been wonderful patrons of this festival for the last decade. 

I attended the first AFF in 2003 and since 2009 have screened more than seven projects at the festival. I continue to be an enthusiastic audience member, delighting in the opportunity AFF offers to celebrate cinema, to connect, to be challenged and to feel. 

For me, cinema is a great pleasure that can brighten and enrich our lives, evoke deep emotion and generate much needed conversation. AFF gives us a chance to  see great films with each other, and to talk about them in the foyers, on the streets, in the bars, to immerse ourselves in stories and ideas, and that is something truly wonderful. 

I’ll see you at AFF 2024.

Sophie Hyde is the award-winning director of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Animals, The Hunting and 52 Tuesdays.

The Hon
Peter Malinauskas MP
Premiere of South Australia

Every year the Adelaide Film Festival brings an eclectic and provocative mix of local and international cinema together, lighting up some of the most beautiful screens across our city.

This year’s exceptional program deftly mixes features, shorts, documentaries and moving image works from all over the globe.

It starts with a bang on opening night with the world premiere of Kriv Stenders’ The Correspondent, a true-life thriller about the imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste, and the global debate it fuelled around the ability to speak truth to power when truth itself is under threat.

I’m proud to lead a government that has supported the Festival to become an annual fixture in our state’s event calendar, and thus to continue to promote and support the next generation of local directors, writers and producers – as we saw earlier this year when the AFF (in partnership with the Marché du Film) sent a delegation of ten SA filmmakers to Festival de Cannes, showcasing South Australia’s talent and expertise to the biggest market in the world.

The arts are how we tell our stories, and how we learn the stories of others. I hope you’ll take the opportunity to immerse yourself in the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival and discover some extraordinary stories for yourself.

The Hon
Andrea Michaels MP
Minister for Arts

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to another year of incredible cinema at the Adelaide Film Festival!

The Malinauskas Government is committed to supporting the Adelaide Film Festival and has invested an additional $6 million into the festival. As a result, the festival is now an annual event, meaning more support for the South Australian screen industry and more opportunities for new voices and untold stories to find their audience. I’m particularly excited to see the Malinauskas Government’s support come to fruition through this year’s AFF Investment Fund projects receiving their premiere, including The Correspondent, Boy on Fire and Lesbian Space Princess – the first animated feature to come out of South Australia.

Thank you to partners, donors, volunteers and eager audiences of the festival for your continual support. I love that AFF asks us to ‘come in, take a seat, surrender to the screen and be swallowed up by the story.’ With such a wonderful selection of films to choose from this year, it’ll be an easy task! I hope you enjoy the 2024 program and discover your new favourite film along the way!

Anton Andreacchio
Chair,
Adelaide Film Festival

I’m delighted to welcome you to the Adelaide Film Festival once again. This year’s festival program is packed with contemporary Australian and international film premieres, talks, events and art exhibitions. Our vision at AFF is to deliver a distinctive festival in the South Australian cultural calendar, which celebrates and explores cinema with a unique program of screenings and special events, and our 21st year proves to be just that! I wish to extend sincere gratitude to those who’ve made this possible with their generous support, including the AFF Luminaries, Donors and Partners, and of course our wonderful volunteers and audiences. It is a pleasure to see all of the films in this year’s program supported by the AFF Investment Fund receive their premieres on the big screen, and I hope you join me in celebrating our local film industry as well as taking a chance to see something new! 

Mat Kesting
CEO & Creative Director,
Adelaide Film Festival

Come and be a part of a warm and welcoming festival that celebrates cinema from near and far and those who dare to make it; this is your invitation to the Adelaide Film Festival!

Cinema brings people together for a chance to meet and reflect on where humanity and the world is at, and AFF 2024 offers a selection of extraordinary films that reflect the interesting times in which we live. With over 110 films from more than 40 countries, AFF 2024 aims to inform, provoke and entertain. Have some fun and put your dancing shoes on for our three galas and be sure to buy a film pass, the most economical way to secure tickets.

We ask that you join us in celebrating the courageous filmmakers and artists whose work is being showcased and the distributors and suppliers who partner with us to put on a great show. The success of AFF is a collective effort of many. We extend the sincerest thanks to Minister Michaels, our Luminaries and donors, partners, our tireless volunteers (including our dedicated Board), our wonderful team – and above all, you, our audience. Thank you, I can't wait to see you at the festival this October.