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A film festival celebrating genre and alternative cinema from around the globe; cinema that is subversive and thought-provoking, outside-of-the-box and a little bit wild.

25/09/2026

It's back! Fantastic Film Festival Australia and Umbrella Entertainment present the Fantastic Film Prize, a landmark initiative celebrating the boldest voices in Australian genre cinema, returning for the second year.

We're seeking original, completed Australian feature films that dare to thrill, provoke and defy expectations and entries are now open! Previous prize contenders include Lenore, Cruel Hands, Squids and the 2026 winner Wolf Cat Fever.

The selected films will screen in competition at Fantastic Film Festival Australia and will vie for a $10,000 cash prize. The winner of the Fantastic Film Prize will be chosen by a jury of esteemed industry leaders, and presented at an awards ceremony during the festival.

Entries are now open 👁 Learn more here: bit.ly/fantasticfilmprize-fffa

27/08/2026

If you can’t beat Hollywood...knock it off! When Adelaide filmmaker Anthony signs on to make a dinosaur B-movie with the notorious studio behind 'Sharknado', he turns the camera on himself to document the chaos.

Don't miss the hilarious and unexpectedly tender doco MOCKBUSTER, currently on a Q&A tour across Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Catch it at FFFA venues Lido (Sat 29 August, 3pm) and the Ritz (Mon 31 August, 6.45pm) this week!

26/06/2026

Tomorrow night's SACCHARINE Victorian premiere at Lido Cinemas is almost sold out! Sn**ch up the last tickets at the link in bio 💊

Our screening of the sickly supernatural body horror will be followed by a Q&A with director Natalie Erika James. See it first on Saturday 27 June, 6:30pm.

06/06/2026

Hungry for more Aussie horror? Join us for the Victorian Premiere and director Q&A screening of supernatural body horror SACCHARINE on Saturday 27 June, presented by FFFA.

From director Natalie Erika James (Relic, Apartment 7A), SACCHARINE sees a lovelorn medical student (Midori Francis) succumb to an obscure weight-loss craze with a terrifying catch.

See it first on Saturday 27 June at 6:30pm, followed by a Q&A with director Natalie Erika James.

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/upcoming-films-and-screenings

27/05/2026

Skrrrrrrrrrrt 🛴 The winner of this year's FFFA Audience Award is Ryan Zorzut's whacky scooter-racing comedy SQUIDS!

You took to this candy-coloured cringe comedy like a razor scooter to the ankle calling it "the bizarro Australian razor scooter championships sports comedy you never knew you needed". Your five-star reviews described it as "a heap of fun from start to finish" and you felt it was "so great to see a film with so much love, passion and joy put into it!" We have to agree.

This year's runner-ups are the wild and original WOLF CAT FEVER and the box-office destroying OBSESSION (we can brag about being early adopters).

Congratulations to the passionate local filmmakers behind SQUIDS and WOLF CAT FEVER (and to Curry Barker if you ever see this - we're obsessed with OBSESSION).

26/05/2026

Tomorrow, three films will join this esteemed Letterboxd list when we announce the 2026 FFFA Audience Award winner (and runner-ups).

In case you need a quick refresher, here's a quick guide to the winners of previous years (and where you can watch them!)

👁 PURE SCUM - 2025 👁
Not currently available on streaming or VOD. Follow for updates on pop-up screenings (there's one this Thursday 28 May at Swinburne Uni!)

👁 THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY - 2024 👁
Available to stream on Shudder, BeamaFilm, 7plus, Prime Video and Foxtel Now. Available to rent and buy on VOD.

👁 THE END OF HISTORY - 2023 👁
Available to rent on the official .films website (autocrash.icu/the-end-of-history)

👁 ACTORS - 2022 👁
Available to rent or buy on the official film website (actors.movie)

24/05/2026

That's a wrap on FFFA for 2026. From our opening night screenings of HOKUM to our closing night cracker PENNY LANE IS DEAD and all the chaos and Q&As in between - thank you for another incredible year of celebrating genre cinema.

Stay tuned for the Audience Award results 🫨

20/05/2026

See you tonight for our encore screening of Toshio Matsumoto's DEMONS (1971) AKA Shura. Feeling good about this one, you guys.

SYDNEY. Tonight, Wed 20 May, 8.20pm.
MELBOURNE. Tonight, Wed 20 May, 9.10pm.

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/films/demons

18/05/2026

FFFA 2026 is Dead. We went out with a bang (and a whole lot of blood and gore) last week at our Closing Night screenings of the new Aussie slasher PENNY LANE IS DEAD, from director Mia'Kate Russell. We were joined by Russell and cast and crew for Q&A screenings and some cheeky foyer drinks to close out another banner year for Fantastic Film Festival Australia.

Be sure to check out PENNY LANE IS DEAD when it releases 23 July in Australian cinemas.

17/05/2026

FFFA presents a first look at the hugely anticipated debut from Aussie director Adrian Chiarella, LEVITICUS.

In this breakout Sundance hit, two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.

See it first on Friday 12 June at 7pm at Lido Cinemas and Ritz Cinemas.

🎟 bit.ly/fffa-specialevents

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