Adelaide Film Festival

About

Adelaide Film Festival (ADL Film Fest) is a biennial eleven-day celebration and exploration of Australian and international screen culture with a unique program of screenings, forums and special events. 

The Adelaide Film Festival creates, presents and markets a challenging and inventive screening program accompanied by a substantial forum program which profiles and explores key program themes and approaches to screen practice. The festival will be relevant to both the general public and the industry, attracting a broad audience demographic and introducing this audience to innovative areas of screen practice. It reflects current and future trends in the film and screen-based industries.

Rules

• AFF accepts feature film and shorts (drama, documentary, experimental and animation) made in Australia and internationally;
• Short films are considered to be under 40 minutes duration;
• Films must have been completed after 1 October 2024.

We do not accept:

• works that are exclusively educational, scientific or for training or promotion
• music videos
• films that have been exhibited in South Australia, in any form, prior to 30 October 2024. 

Subtitles language: English

Premiere Requirements

Regional premiere required.

Jury and Organizers

• Adele Hann (Associate Director);
• Amanda Duthie (Festival Director);
• Marg Winterhalder (Finance Manager).