Fantastic Film Festival Australia

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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.

Voting is open for the 2026 FFFA Audience Award! Help us crown the best of the fest and cast your vote at the link below...
09/05/2026

Voting is open for the 2026 FFFA Audience Award! Help us crown the best of the fest and cast your vote at the link below and you'll go in the running to win a 10-Pass to FFFA 2027.

Voting closes Saturday 16 May. FFFA is now showing at Lido Cinemas, Thornbury Picture House, Brunswick Picture House and Ritz Cinemas 👁

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/audience-awards

Future Fantastic Film Prize winners? Our shorts packages are always a program highlight and this year was no different, ...
08/05/2026

Future Fantastic Film Prize winners? Our shorts packages are always a program highlight and this year was no different, with stacked showcases earlier this week in Melbourne and Sydney!

Thanks to everyone who came out in support of the future of Australian genre filmmaking (and watched some scary good short films).

📷 Melbourne Shorts Filmmakers. Fotografa AU

07/05/2026

Trailer drop! Take a look at the upcoming Aussie horror (and FFFA Closing Night selection!) PENNY LANE IS DEAD.

Strap in for the Victorian and NSW premiere at our Closing Night followed by a Q&A with director Mia'Kate Russell.

SYDNEY. Thursday 14 May, 7pm
MELBOURNE. Friday 15 May, 7pm and 7:30pm

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/events/closing-night-penny-lane

Five 4K restorations. Seven spine-tingling J-Horror classics. One weekend only.From this Friday 8 to Sunday 10 May, delv...
06/05/2026

Five 4K restorations. Seven spine-tingling J-Horror classics. One weekend only.

From this Friday 8 to Sunday 10 May, delve into the depths of depravity and terror with FLESH//GHOST//MACHINE, our retrospective of Japanese horror cinema from the 1960s to the new millennium, presented by Umbrella Entertainment.

Feast on 4K restorations of ICHI THE KILLER (2001), DEMONS (A.K.A SHURA, 1971), SU***DE CLUB (2001), UZUMAKI (2000) and DARK WATER (2002). Then enter the nightmarish worlds of early J-Horror icons ONIBABA and TETSUO: THE IRON MAN.

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/theme/japanese-nightmares

Victory lap encore sessions have been added for Fantastic Film Prize winner WOLF CAT FEVER at , and . Wild, original an...
06/05/2026

Victory lap encore sessions have been added for Fantastic Film Prize winner WOLF CAT FEVER at , and .

Wild, original and rock-and-roll, WOLF CAT FEVER is a must-see for aficionados of schlock and devotees of distorted guitars.

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/films/wolf-cat-fever

We were lucky enough to be joined by Richard E. Williams in Melbourne and Sydney over the weekend for the Aus premiere o...
05/05/2026

We were lucky enough to be joined by Richard E. Williams in Melbourne and Sydney over the weekend for the Aus premiere of his SXSW hit DEAD EYES, the relentless first-person thriller.

Screening alonside short film Parasomnia, DEAD EYES encores tomorrow night at Ritz Cinemas and Sunday at Lido Cinemas. Do not miss it.

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/films/dead-eyes

🥁🥁🥁 And the winner of the inaugural Fantastic Film Prize is... WOLF CAT FEVER.Congratulations to director-producer-desig...
04/05/2026

🥁🥁🥁 And the winner of the inaugural Fantastic Film Prize is... WOLF CAT FEVER.

Congratulations to director-producer-designer Josh 'Sinbad' Collins, producer Babzotica Collins, cinematographer Alexander Orlando Sith, the cast and crew, and the entire team at Zombie Zoo productions.

Thank you so much to Umbrella Entertainment for co-presenting this award, our incredible jury panel, all the filmmakers who entered, everyone who bought a ticket and came out to support Australian film and, of course, to our four finalists: the teams behind Wolf Cat Fever, Cruel Hands, Squids and Lenore. Weird Aussie cinema forever 🤘

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/theme/fantastic-film-prize

Over the weekend, we played host to the filmmakers of Fantastic Film Prize selections SQUIDS and WOLF CAT FEVER for two ...
04/05/2026

Over the weekend, we played host to the filmmakers of Fantastic Film Prize selections SQUIDS and WOLF CAT FEVER for two packed out Q&A screenings.

If you haven't already, you can catch our four Fantastic Film Prize selections at encore screenings across Melbourne and Sydney. If you're in the mood for some filmmaking goss, Thornbury Picture House will be hosting an additional WOLF CAT FEVER Q&A on Thursday 7 May and Brunswick Picture House will host the team behind LENORE next Tuesday 12 May.

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/theme/fantastic-film-prize

02/05/2026

Be careful who you wish for...

Check out the trailer for the new Blumhouse horror OBSESSION. Screening over just two days at FFFA, Curry Barker's (Milk & Serial) fully-realised sophomore feature expertly shifts from rom-com to possession horror to outright psychosexual nightmare.

See it at FFFA. Friday 8 and Saturday 9 May.

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/films/obsession

Such a joy to host the filmmakers of Fantastic Film Prize selections CRUEL HANDS and LENORE for Q&A screenings at Lido C...
02/05/2026

Such a joy to host the filmmakers of Fantastic Film Prize selections CRUEL HANDS and LENORE for Q&A screenings at Lido Cinemas on Thursday evening.

Tonight, we welcome the creatives behind SQUIDS and WOLF CAT FEVER for special Q&As and will finish up the night with out Fantastic Film Prize Awards Ceremony at 9.30pm - free to attend in the Lido foyer.

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Tonight, we begin our three-day Vampire Weekend with the striking new 4K restoration of Abel Ferrara's THE ADDICTION.One...
01/05/2026

Tonight, we begin our three-day Vampire Weekend with the striking new 4K restoration of Abel Ferrara's THE ADDICTION.

One of FFFA programmer Alexei's top picks of the fest, this nihilistic black-and-white masterpiece sees Lili Taylor as a vampiric doctoral student as she tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

Vampire Weekend screens from 1-3 May at Lido Cinemas and Ritz Cinemas🩸

🎟 fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/theme/vampire-weekend

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