FILM: NFSA RESTORES: STORM BOY (1976)

11 Apr 2019
11.00am - 1.00pm

A 10-year-old boy, living with his father in the wild Coorong wetlands of South Australia, rescues a baby pelican orphaned by hunters.

FILM: ITALIAN FILM SCREENING: SCUSATE SE ESISTO

11 Apr 2019
7.30pm - 9.10pm

Serena Bruno returns to Italy to be an architect and help people but she will struggle to convince her fellow co-workers that they have to be more open minded.

FILM: ITALIAN FILM SCREENING: SIGNORINA EFFE

7 May 2019
7.30pm - 9.10pm

Emma was born and raised in a working-class family, but she's long had bourgeois ambitions and has risen through the ranks to become a white-collar employee with the Fiat automobile company.

FILM: SFF PRESENTS: APOLLO 11

15 Jun 2019
4.00pm - 4.00pm

50 years after Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, the epic story from lift-off to touchdown is told using never-before-seen footage from July 1969.

FILM: SFF PRESENTS: VAI

15 Jun 2019
7.30pm - 9.30pm

Fabulously rich storytelling from the South Pacific: the imaginary figure Vai is every woman of every age. A beautifully crafted portmanteau feature by nine women filmmakers.

FILM: SFF PRESENTS: PHOTOGRAPH

16 Jun 2019
7.00pm - 9.00pm

Ritesh Bhatra (The Lunchbox, SFF 2014) returns with a whimsical love story about a Mumbai street photographer who convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée.

FILM: ITALIAN FILM SCREENING: IL SOLE DENTRO

6 Aug 2019
7.30pm - 9.20pm

Two adventures between Europe and Africa. The true story of Yaguine e Fodè. The story of Thabo and Rocco, victims of the football slavery.

FILM: ITALIAN FILM SCREENING: COVER BOY

5 Sep 2019
7.30pm - 9.00pm

The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins of a Western society.

FILM: SYDNEY LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL: DELFIN

21 Sep 2019
6.00pm - 7.30pm

Life isn’t easy for 11-year-old Delfín, who lives alone with his father in the muddy outskirts of a provincial town in Argentina.

FILM: SYDNEY LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL: NIDO DE MANTIS

21 Sep 2019
8.00pm - 10.00pm

Arturo Sotto (Boccaccerías Habaneras, La noche de los inocentes) challenges viewers with his latest feature involving an epic love story and apparent murder.

FILM: ITALIAN FILM SCREENING: IL PADRE D'ITALIA

1 Oct 2019
7.30pm - 9.00pm

Paolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia's unborn daughter.

FILM: NFSA RESTORES: NEWSFRONT (1978)

17 Oct 2019
11.00am - 1.00pm

In Australia in the late 1940s, before the coming of television, Len Maguire and his young sidekick Chris cover the big news stories for the Cinetone newsreel company.