LONDON AUSTRALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
#LAFF2024
The Sixth London Australian Film Festival
Held over 4 days, 8 Australian feature films
including the
CRIS JONES Debut Director Prize
held across 3 of London’s coolest cinemas
Picturehouse Central + Finsbury Park Picturehouse + The Garden Cinema
Thu 12 Sept 2024
UK Premiere
The sixth
London Australian Film Festival opens with THE SURVIVAL OF KINDNESS, a powerful dystopian drama that marks the long-awaited return of master-filmmaker Rolf de Heer (Ten Canoes, Bad Boy Bubby, Charlie’s Country).
+ Finding Jedda
Finsbury Park Picturehouse
The
London Australian Film Festival - in partnership with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia - present the UK premiere of WINHANGANHA, a lyrical exploration of Indigenous representation from award-winning Wiradjuri poet, artist and filmmaker, Jazz Money.
Also screening is Tanith Glynn-Maloney's short film, FINDING JEDDA
Where He Waits
8.30pm
The
London Australian Film Festival‘s ‘future cult cinema’ slot returns with Timothy Despina Marshall’s debut feature, IN THE ROOM WHERE HE WAITS, a highly-charged queer horror about longing, anxiety and isolation.
2.00pm
The London Australian Film Festival is proud to present the UK premiere of the wonderful new family film, WINDCATCHER.
Percy Boy Collins is a ten-year-old Aboriginal speed-demon with a quick wit and a heart brimming with untold secrets. In a home filled with love, laughter, and the challenges of caring for his Aunt Prue, Percy dreams big—of becoming the fastest runner his school has ever seen. All he needs? The help of his friends, and a pair of lightning-fast Terminal Velocity sports shoes!
Sat 14 Sept 2024
The
London Australian Film Festival – in partnership with
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery – present the European premiere of BROMLEY: LIGHT AFTER DARK, a warts and all documentary portrait of one of Australian art’s most celebrated, and polarising, figures.
Sat 14 Sept 2024
The Garden Cinema
The London Australian Film Festival continues with utterly unhinged adult animation, THE GREATEST SURF MOVIE IN THE UNIVERSE.
In 2033, after the memory of surfing has been completely washed away following a global apocalypse, the God of Waves (WSL commentator Ronnie Blakey) must enlist the greatest surfers in the Universe to revive the sport once and for all. An intergalactic stop-motion animated adventure comedy, interspersed with wave-based live-action, this is a surf movie like no other!
Picturehouse Central
The final day of the London Australian Film Festival kicks off with the UK premiere of EGO: THE MICHAEL GUDINSKI STORY, a wild rock’n’roll ride with a maverick entrepreneur who defied convention.
As the hitmaker and trailblazer behind Mushroom Records, Michael Gudinski inspired the soundtrack of a nation and revolutionised the Australian music industry. This documentary follows Gudinski's relentless pursuit of success over five decades as he launches the careers of countless artists, promotes legendary international acts, and takes Australian music to the world.
Picturehouse Central
The sixth
London Australian Film Festival draws to a close with the European Premiere of THE ROOSTER, the brilliant debut feature from actor turned writer-director Mark Leonard Winter (Escape from Pretoria, The Dressmaker).
This closing gala will also see Mark Leonard Winter (writer-director) and Geraldine Hakewill (producer) awarded with the
Cris Jones Prize, which honours outstanding debut feature by Australian filmmakers. Presented in honour of British-Australian filmmaker Cris Jones, whose debut The Death and Life of Otto Bloom closed our inaugural festival in 2017.
Rooster plays with the student short film,
PEBBLE (Anastasia James, 2021),
courtesy of the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
