Program - Gold Coast Film Festival

2024 Film Program

Growing up in the Amazon rainforest gave Autumn the rarest of friendships – a lost...

Adventure

AUTUMN & THE BLACK JAGUAR

Director / Gilles de Maistre

“An audacious reckoning with identity told through a familiar scenario gone wrong. Borrowing a page...

Drama

BIRDEATER

Director / Jack Clark and Jim Weir

BLEEDING LOVE shares the story of a man attempting to reunite with his daughter after...

Drama

BLEEDING LOVE (CLOSING NIGHT)

Director / Emma Westenberg

Join us for the first in our series of Film and Frothies, a collaboration between...

Action

SPECIAL PRESENTATION – CLIFFHANGER

Director / Renny Harlin

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, and recluse…...

Biography

DANCE FIRST

Director / James Marsh

Graham Reilly, a man who has retired from life, lives alone in his garage workshop...

Horror

THE DEMON DISORDER

Director / Steven Boyle

During her record-breaking circumnavigation of Australia by paddle, Bonnie Hancock encountered sharks, crocodiles, huge seas,...

Documentary

DIAMOND OF THE SEA

Director / Jack Lawrence

“A boldly demented science fiction saga (executive-produced by Steven Soderbergh) that melds the unsettling body...

Sci-fi

DIVINITY

Director / Eddie Alcazar

Wild child, mother, abuse survivor, UFC contender, bare-knuckle boxing champion, ‘Rowdy’ Bec Rawlings is many...

Documentary

FIGHT TO LIVE

Director / Tom Haramis

A feature adaptation of the ‘THE BAND’ musical, featuring the songs of Take That. Five...

Comedy

GREATEST DAYS

Director / Coky Giedroyc

In the heart of the unforgiving Outback, a relentless drought tightens its grip on the...

Documentary

GROWING HAPPINESS

Director / Neil McGregor

An aspiring actress chosen as a wild card for a reality TV dating show uses...

Romantic Comedy

HE LOVES ME NOT

Director / Tam Sainsbury

A desperate boxing coach pushes his son to become the champion he could never be...

Drama

HEART OF THE MAN

Director / David Cook

The story of the last Australian cowboy follows 87-year-old queer great-grandmother, sheep-shearer and carriage driving...

Documentary

ISLA’S WAY

Director / Marion Pilowsky

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can...

Comedy

SPECIAL PRESENTATION – MY FAIR LADY

Director / George Cukor

Arch nemeses Mallikajaan and Fareedan are locked in a battle for succession of Heeramandi, where...

Drama

NETFLIX SPECIAL PRESENTATION – HEERAMANDI: THE DIAMOND BAZAAR

Director / Sanjay Leela Bhansali

One cold, stormy night in New York City, a mysterious object falls from the sky...

Horror

STING

Director / Kiah Roache-Turner

Enjoy the most recent film from wonderful Director, Michel Gondry (MOOD INDIGO, BE KIND REWIND,...

Comedy

THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS

Director / Michel Gondry

An absurdist reimagining of Australia’s historical battle with the native Emu back in 1932, complete...

Action

THE EMU WAR

Director / John Campbell, Lisa Fineberg and Jay Morrissey

THE ENDING GOES FOREVER: THE SCREAMFEEDER STORY is a feature-length documentary about a band that...

Documentary

FILM AND CONCERT – THE ENDING GOES FOREVER: THE SCREAMFEEDER STORY

Director / Jacob Schiotz

THE LIE reminds of us the tragic death of 21-year-old Grace Millane while on a...

Documentary

THE LIE: THE MURDER OF GRACE MILLANE

Director / Helena Coan

An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths...

Comedy

THE MONK AND THE GUN

Director / Pawo Choyning Dorji

THE PEASANTS tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own...

Animation

THE PEASANTS

Director / DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman

“This violent, intense and brilliant bulletfest from Indonesia puts western action movies to shame…” –...

Action

THE RAID

Director / Gareth Evans

THE WAY, MY WAY is a charming and captivating true story of an Australian man’s...

Documentary

THE WAY, MY WAY (OPENING NIGHT)

Director / Bill Bennett