Travelling Film Festival

The Travelling Film Festival (TFF), the regional tour of Sydney Film Festival, will return to Tamworth. Straight from the most prestigious festivals of 2018, including Cannes, Sundance and Sydney Film Festival, the program will screen eight feature films and one incredible documentary.

The Program:

Opening Night: Friday 22 March
- Hotel Mumbai – Starring Dev Patel and Armie Hammer, award-winning Australian director Anthony Maras explores the dramatic real-life events that occurred in Mumbai's upscale Taj Mahal Palace Hotel during 2008’s Mumbai terror attacks.

Saturday 23 March
- Woman At War – Gloriously funny, 2018 Cannes Critics’ Week award-winner from Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses and Men, Sydney Film Festival 2014) is about a DIY Icelandic eco-warrior taking on heavy industry.

- Cold War – Pawel Pawlikowski (Oscar-winner Ida) won the Best Director prize at Cannes for his passionate, music-filled love story set in Cold War-era Europe and based on the relationship of his own parents. Screens with short film Lovelost.

- The Guilty – This breath-quickening Scandi crime drama follows an emergency services operator who receives a call from a mother who claims she’s been kidnapped by her violent ex-husband. Screens with short film Judas Collar.

- Shoplifters – Hirokazu Kore-Eda's (After Life; Nobody Knows) latest masterpiece is about an impoverished group of affectionate misfits who commit petty crimes to survive.

Sunday 24 March

- Three Identical Strangers – The unbelievable-but-true tale of three strangers who discover they’re identical triplets separated at birth, with one of the most surprising twists you’ll ever encounter. Screens with short film Lost & Found.

- At Eternity’s Gate – Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate is a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite scepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the worlds most beloved and stunning works of art.

- Happy As Lazzaro – Winner of best screenplay at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Alice Rohrwacher directs a beautiful and inventive fable which tells the tale of a naïve peasant who unwittingly finds himself entwined in a world of tragedy, deception and time travel.

- Capharnaüm – Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2018, Nadine Labaki’s funny yet tough feature film tells the genuinely moving story of a troubled 12-year-old Lebanese boy. Screens with short film Judas Collar.