Le festival du film d’Adélaïde (AFF) est le premier événement cinématographique d’Australie-Méridionale et l’un des principaux festivals du film d’Australie. Il s’agit d’une célébration annuelle du cinéma courageux où cinéastes et public se rencontrent en octobre. Parallèlement au festival, l’AFF dispose d’un fond d’investissement qui permet de lancer des carrières et de présenter des histoires locales dans un contexte international.
Goes to Cannes
Adelaide Film Festival
Détails du Showcase
Dates clés : 16 mai 2025 (14:00-16:05)
Accès : Détenteurs d’un badge Marché du Film
Lieu principal : Palais K (Palais des Festivals)
Projects
Goes to Cannes
The Run
Category: Adelaide Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Stephen de Villiers
Produced by: Chloe Gardner | D2V Entertainment Pty Ltd T/A Watchpost. Exile
Country of production: Australia
Genre: Thriller
Language: English
Completed in: 2025
In a dystopian near-future plagued by lockdowns and widespread infertility, Mac has turned to smuggling contraband through the wasteland. His morals collide with his means of survival when he meets Alia, a teenager on the run, who is mother to the first baby born in three years.
Goes to Cannes
Diabolic
Category: Adelaide Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Daniel J. Phillips
Produced by: Daniel J. Phillips | Empire Road Pictures & Sunjive Studios
Country of production: Australia
Genre: Horror
Language: English
Completed in: 2025
A decade after her excommunication, Elise returns to a fundamentalist Mormon settlement at the behest of her psychiatrist. She undergoes a healing ceremony, which uncovers buried memories of her forbidden love, and invokes a 19th century witch who resurfaces to unleash brutal revenge.
Goes to Cannes
Troublemaker
Category: Adelaide Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Jared Nicholson & Ben Lawrence
Produced by: Rebecca Barry (Producer) | Media Stockade, Scott Baskett (Co-Producer) | Run Wild Productions, Madeleine Hetherton-Miau (Producer) | Media Stockade, Deanne Weir (Executive Producer) | WeirAnderson Films
Country of production: Australia
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Completed in: 2026
After discovering Port Arthur Massacre survivor Wendy Scurr on InfoWars, director Jared Nicholson starts observing her and her paranoid inner circle but is soon drawn in himself. Troublemaker is a true-crime psychological thriller exposing the unprecedented crisis of belief threatening our society.
Goes to Cannes
Acts of Forgetting
Category: Adelaide Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Rhys Graham
Produced by: Philippa Campey | Film Camp Pty Ltd & Daybreak Films Pty Ltd
Country of production: Australia, Spain
Genre: Documentary
Language: English & Spanish
Completed in: 2025
As contemporary Spain experiences political upheaval, a group of formidable Australian and Spanish artists gather in Madrid over several years to resurrect painful stories of Franco’s dictatorship in pursuit of a new and bold work of theatre.
Goes to Cannes
Rewilder
Category: Adelaide Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Cameron Nelson
Produced by: Cameron Nelson, Hannah Moore | Aleatoria Pictures, Madeleine Parry, Peter Hanlon | Mess Productions
Country of production: Australia
Genre: Science-fiction
Language: English
Completed in: 2025
On a near-future sheep farm run by drones, Sai Damon grapples with rural decay, meth-fueled tensions between neighbours, and a haunting mystery when a trespassing toddler – sharing the same name as his estranged adult daughter – sparks revelations about his past and the land’s dark, buried secrets.