The Greek Film Festival promotes contemporary Greek cinema and provides a platform for Greek filmmakers to share their unique stories and perspectives. It also offers cultural initiatives through collaboration with modern Australian society and its film festivals, fostering multiculturalism in a respectful, modern, and diverse manner. 

GFF25 Kapetan Mihalis

Collaborators for the last 30 years, with films such as Everynight... Everynight, Silent Partner, Tom White, and The Taverna, Alkinos Tsilimidos and David Field come toge

GFF25 The Kink

On the night he turns fifty a seasoned late-night radio presenter realises, with unease, that his youth is gone forever. While he unravels his life on air and messages fr

GFF25 Athens Midnight Radio

After an accident Maria Aliki (or Alice), a failed actress in search of big roles, gets thrust into a reality where she is called on to play all the parts that life could

GFF25 Murphy's Law

Set in 1922, Brides is the story of a mail-order bride – one of 700 from every corner of Greece, Turkey, Russia and Armenia – aboard the SS King Alexander bound for the U

GFF25 Brides

The touching story of the singer Stelios Kazantzidis, a child of a refugee family from Pontus, who managed to create a brilliant career thanks to his enormous talent

GFF25 Stelios

The enigmatic old woman, Rosa from Izmir (Smyrna), and the powerful Ismael have lived for decades with the weight of a well-kept secret. Dimitris, an avid collector of Gr

GFF25 Roza of Smyrna

In a stunning mountain village, a quirky pastry chef named Mr. Panagiotis (Alexandros Antonopoulos) is forced by circumstance to hide a little girl, Fani (Ariadni Velli),

GFF25 Santa's Snow Candy

Four undertakers in financial trouble latch onto a one-off opportunity to change their lives and bid farewell to a profession they entered for a while but got stuck in fo

GFF25 4 Black Suits

In 1987 the Giannakopoulos family, fans of the Panathinaikos Athletic Club, decided to take over management of the men's basketball department. The decision would launch 

GFF25 A Journey To The Stars

Alex, a Greek Orthodox schoolteacher, falls for Eve, a Lebanese Muslim lawyer. The relationship is forbidden by both families, so the lovers find themselves in a critical

GFF25 Alex and Eve

A story about a Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a touch of spice

GFF25 A Touch of Spice

Elias lives in a village in the mountains near Olympia and is about to finish primary school. But nobody calls him by his real name; he’s mostly known as “The Flea”

GFF25 The Flea

Pantelis Voulgaris’s most recent film deals with one of the most important chapters of modern Greek history: the execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German 

GFF25 The Last Note

The Taverna follows one utterly chaotic evening in a family run Greek restaurant. Taverna owner, Kostas gets more than he bargained for when his popular belly dancer refu

GFF25 The Taverna

A supernatural, heartwarming and award-winning romantic comedy from writer-director Rachel Suissa.

GFF25 Greek Mothers Never Die

The excavations at Dhaskalio (directed by Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd of the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge) have completely transformed our understanding

GFF25 The Enigma of Keros

Stavros and Fotis, both penniless thirty-somethings and close friends with contrasting personalities, are trying to survive in a small town in Northern Greece. 

GFF25 Balkanisateur

Unable to make ends meet, aspiring filmmaker Eirinaios still dreams about making the ideal independent sci-fi movie. He can't secure funding until shady entrepreneur and 

GFF25 No Budget Story

The highly acclaimed Rembetiko (1983, director’s cut 2024) is a poignant musical drama that chronicles the life of Marika, a gifted singer whose journey mirrors the turbu

GFF25 Rembetiko

Kostas is a policeman, divorced with a child and with his mother in a nursing home. He is having a hard time financially, so he often steals jewelry from the corpses he c

GFF25 Diversion

Rediscover Yorgos Lanthimos’ iconic feature film that defined his style and launched his career. Awarded the Un Certain Regard Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

GFF25 Dogtooth

A mosaic of moments of Athenian life in the last summer of the twentieth century. A carefree and enigmatic walker collects the best moments of a city that the laziness of

GFF25 Cheap Smokes

Three people head towards a turning point in their lives: at a dig in Philippi, an archaeologist discovers an unlooted tomb; at a bird sanctuary in Thrace, a game warden 

GFF25 It's a Long Road

In 1930s Andros, the island known as “Little England” because of its maritime tradition, local women mostly marry seamen and spend lonely lives, with their menfolk absent

GFF25 Little England

A middle-aged woman, Smaragda, moves into her late mother's house in Ayia Napa, a tourist town in Cyprus, taking on the care of Bella, her mother's guide dog. Concerned a

GFF25 Smaragda - I Got Thick Skin And I Can't Jump

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie is Maria Callas, one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century, in acclaimed director Pablo Larrain's biographical drama Maria

GFF25 Maria

Two Homelands is both a commemoration of war and a celebration of community. 2024 marked 50 years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Six elderly Australian Greek Cypri

GFF25 Two Homelands

Anna and Philippos meet on an island after a year of separation in order to ﬁnalise their divorce and negotiate the future of their two children. Anna seems conﬁdent in h

GFF25 Together Apart

After twenty years away Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognisable. The king has finally returned home but much has changed in

GFF25 The Return

His advanced studies in philosophy have caused Stephanos to view all people as his inferiors. When he is discharged from army service (which is obligatory in Greece), he 

GFF25 The Heart of the Beast

A loco Greek-Aussie-Lesbian is visiting the Greeks of South and Latin America in 2024 and 2025.


GFF25 The Greeks of South America

Over the past 70 years, Mykonos has experienced transformations that test the limits of imagination: once it was dirt cheap, today it’s unaffordable; once it was “off the

GFF25 Super Paradise

Safe Sex is a vibrant Greek comedy satire that weaves together multiple vignettes about the romantic and sexual entanglements of modern Athenians. 

GFF25 Safe Sex

After the death of his pregnant wife, a religious man rejects his faith and ironically challenges God and the Devil, as he struggles with the desire for revenge. 

GFF25 Sacred Heart

A mysterious stain appears on the wall in one of the rooms of a guest house on the Athenian Riviera, which young Alkistis manages together with her mother, Anna. In her s

GFF25 Riviera

Memento is a lyrical journey into the heart of Giromeri, a fading village nestled in the misty mountains of Epirus, northern Greece. Each Easter Monday, among weathered t

GFF25 Memento

An estate agent interested in investing wanders around the area of Neos Kosmos in Athens, formerly known as Dourgouti. Through his eyes unfolds the past, present and unce

GFF25 Dourgouti Town

Festival Highlights

14 – 26 October

30th Greek Film Festival

The largest celebration of Italian culture and film outside Italy, the ST. ALi Italian Film Festival, returns to cinema screens this September – October with an unmissable selection of the best new Italian cinema!

Award-winning filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek returns with this Italian box office hit, a joyous and touching tribute to the costume designers and seamstresses whose great craft

IFF25 Diamonds

After the global success of PERFECT STRANGERS, writer/director Paolo Genovese’s record-breaking hit SOMEBODY TO LOVE is a hilarious, all-star romantic comedy that reveals

IFF25 Somebody to Love

Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s highly anticipated new drama La Grazia (“Grace”), direct from its world premiere at Venice.

IFF25 La Grazia

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, The Mountain Bride – Vermiglio is an atmospheric, visually breathtaking portrait of a family in the final

IFF25 The Mountain Bride - Vermiglio

A compelling and hopeful coming-of-age story about the duality of dreams and disillusionment, the search for identity and the pursuit of a better life, set in 1949.

IFF25 Napoli - New York

Narrated by Italian-Australian actress Greta Scacchi, this fascinating documentary written, directed and produced by the creators of LYGON ST - Si Parla Italiano, Angelo 

IFF25 Signorinella: Little Miss

Starring popular comic duo Ficarra & Picone and festival favourite Toni Servillo, THE ILLUSION (L'Abbaglio) is a fun re-imagining of Giuseppe Garibaldi’s 1860 campaign th

IFF25 The Illusion

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, all-star Australian classic coming-of-age drama Looking For Alibrandi is presented in a brand new 4K restoration. 

IFF25 Looking for Alibrandi

After the great success of the first two films in the series, the adventures of the Rovelli family continue in this Italian box office hit comedy by Alessandro Genovesi.

IFF25 When Mum Is Away... With the In-laws

Cleverly intertwining past and present, fiction and documentary, with this biopic director/co-writer Mimmo Calopresti tells the story of the growth and success of Gianni 

IFF25 Gianni Versace - Emperor of Dreams

A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin is a psychological giallo thriller directed by Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker later known for pushing the boundaries of the horror genre.

IFF25 A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

A surreal and stylish giallo directed by Sergio Martino, blending psychological thriller, occult horror, and lysergic imagery. The film stars Edwige Fenech as Jane Harris

IFF25 All the Colours of the Dark

Written and directed by Gianni Amelio (Lord of the Ants IFF22), loosely based on the 2018 novel The Challenge by Carlo Patriarca, Battleground is a powerful story of sacr

IFF25 Battleground

Set upon audiences in 1964 Mario Bava’s Blood & Black Lace is a landmark film in the evolution of the giallo genre and a major influence on later slasher cinema. 

IFF25 Blood & Black Lace

A uniquely Italian blend of mystery, psychological thriller, and graphic horror, and widely regarded as one of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s greatest films, Deep

IFF25 Deep Red

19 September – 16 October

ST. ALi Italian Film Festival

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