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Festival Highlights

Opening Night

Elyas M’Barek and Jonas Nay deliver star performances in this exciting new drama from Balloon director Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig, about the real-life 2018 fake news scandal involving a disgraced Der Spiegel journalist.

Australian Premiere
Centrepiece
Direct from Berlinale

A dedicated, idealistic teacher is pushed to the brink when she investigates a series of thefts at her new school in this tense drama starring European Shooting Star Leonie Benesch.

Australian Premiere
Special Presentation
Direct from Berlinale

Vicky Krieps shines as charismatic Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann in this stylish biopic from Margarethe von Trotta, which chronicles Bachmann’s unconventional life and tumultuous romance with Swiss playwright Max Frisch.

Australian Premiere
Special Presentation
Direct from Berlinale

A story of the rich and powerful, in the late 19th Century, this wild reinterpretation of the “Sisi” myth starring Susanne Wolff and Sandra Hüller follows the lady-in-waiting of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, as they live in an aristocratic commune in Greece.

Australian Premiere
Closing Night

Twenty-six years ago, four women vowed to celebrate their weddings together and now one of them invites the others to Italy, resulting in a chaotic road trip in this female-led and directed drama.

Australian Premiere