Program - Gold Coast Film Festival

2025 Film Program

An impassioned surfer, Taylor Lane, creates a functional surfboard with 10,000 littered cigarette butts collected...

Documentary

THE CIGARETTE SURFBOARD

Director / Ben Judkins

The legendary Mick “Crocodile” Dundee returns to the big screen. Crocodile Dundee: The Encore Cut,...

Comedy

CROCODILE DUNDEE: THE ENCORE CUT

Director / Peter Faiman

Three young women – an Aussie sprinter, a First Nations powerlifter, and a Japanese Paralympic...

Drama

THE EDGE

Director / Jane Larkin

This is the remarkable true story of 19-year-old Polish nurse Irena Gut Opdyke and her...

Drama

IRENA’S VOW

Director / Louise Archambault

Charlie returns from boarding school to take care of her sick mother Laura, owner of...

Drama

FUNNY BIRDS

Director / Hannah Ladoul, Marco La Via

Lou Wells (Rebecca Breeds) has hit rock bottom. After a promising start to her acting...

Drama

KANGAROO ISLAND

Director / Timothy David

The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key) , an eccentric lottery winner who...

Comedy

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND

Director / James Griffiths

420 ‘ballkids’ are selected from a field of thousands of applicants – each desperately hoping...

Documentary

BALLKIDS

Director / Scott Baskett

Based on Truman Capote’s novel, this is the story of a young woman, Holly Golightly...

Romantic Comedy

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S

Director / Blake Edwards

In the world of competitive freediving, Jessea Lu (Lu Wenjie) is a legendary figure. The...

Documentary

7 BEATS PER MINUTE

Director / Yuqi Kang

Eleven-year-old Mary loves cooking and loves her Granny, who is sadly dying. But Granny can’t...

Animation

A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL

Director / Enzo D'Alo

When Optometrist Alana discovers her daughter has a rare inherited eye disease, she must look...

Drama

MY EYES

Director / Angela How

Tom, a devoted Father, and his daughter, Grace, make the big move from the sunny...

Romance

CHRISTMAS KEEPSAKE

Director / Colin Budds

From the moment they meet, Bolude, the dutiful daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and Carmen,...

Comedy

CARMEN AND BOLUDE

Director / Maria Isabel Delaossa, Michela Carattini

An examination of the iconic 90s indie band, PAVEMENTS appears to be just another music...

Documentary

PAVEMENTS

Director / Alex Ross Perry

Two friends – the chronically unemployed, aimless Liv and cemetery groundskeeper Alex – find themselves...

Romance

CARNAL VESSELS

Director / Angus Kirby

After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo (60s) and his son Toshi (30s) receive an...

Drama

COTTONTAIL

Director / Patrick Dickinson

On May 1st, 1979, a group of young Māori and Pasifika activists, He Taua, confronted...

Documentary

THE HAKA PARTY INCIDENT

Director / Katie Wolfe

Queens of Concrete is a seven-year journey following three talented young skateboarders—Hayley (14), Ava (13),...

Documentary

QUEENS OF CONCRETE

Director / Eliza Cox

Hagar’s Hut follows Skye, a young girl fleeing from the clutches of abuse inflicted upon...

Drama

HAGAR’S HUT

Director / Stephen Osborne

Gazza, a small-time crook from London, needs £35,000 in just 21 days to cover his...

Comedy

JAFAICAN

Director / Fredi Nwaka

From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky (GUNA, AQUARELA) comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture...

Art

ARCHITECTON

Director / Victor Kossakovsky

Tai and his lifelong friend Noah, along with bar manager Maeve and the staff of...

Comedy

MY TAI

Director / Hannah Smith

Blue Horizon tells the story of Maris Le Marcus, a famous and privileged musician, who...

Comedy

BLUE HORIZON

Director / Josh Hale

Good girl Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) and greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) fell in love...

Romantic Comedy

GREASE

Director / Randal Kleiser

A desperately single bookseller, lost in a fantasy world, finds herself forced to fulfil her...

Romance

JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE

Director / Laura Piani