Dark Symbols: Violent Awakening in Del Kathryn Barton’s Blaze

Playing Pretend: Shifting Roles in Sara Kern’s Moja Vesna

A Little Less Conversation: The Convenient Omissions of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis

Spinning Tales: Myth and Magic in George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing

Speaking in Riddles: Sex, Comedy and Subtitles in Armağan Ballantyne’s Nude Tuesday

Taking Flight: Deception and Impostor Syndrome in Michelle Savill’s Millie Lies Low

Bad Influence: Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes on Balancing Horror and Social Media Satire in Sissy

Precious Time: Family Life and Togetherness in Sari Braithwaite’s Because We Have Each Other

Starting Afresh: Trauma and Compassion in Lachlan McLeod’s Clean

Cathartic Moves: Competition and Community in Luke Cornish’s Keep Stepping

Life on Show: The Ethical Quandaries of Jason van Genderen’s Everybody’s Oma

The Past Flows into the Future: Kasimir Burgess’ Franklin

Out for Blood: Identity, Colonialism and Vampires in Firebite

No Place to Run: Inescapable Politics in Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon

Out of Water: Genre, Turkish Cinema and Emin Alper’s Burning Days

Cinema Science: Into the Multiverse

Entangled Lives: Trauma, Attachment and Survival in My Brilliant Friend and Pachinko

Making a Scene: Telling Stories and Engaging Audiences on TikTok

Finding the Rhythm: Ambition and Responsibility in Dingo

Strictly Ballroom

Goodbye Neighbours; Hello Reality

What Have the ABC Archives Ever Done for Us?

Bringing the World to Australia: Benjamin Zeccola on Palace Cinemas’ Global Festival Slate

Nurturing Development: VicScreen’s Indie Games Showcase

‘New Rivers Spin Inside’: Women and Witchcraft in Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone

In the Driver’s Seat: The Relatable Radicalism of David Easteal’s The Plains

Future Projection: The Emotional Landscape of Ivan Sen’s Loveland

Aspirational Delight: The Bland Fantasies of Renée Webster’s How to Please a Woman

Breaking Point: Grief and Rebirth in Matthew J Saville’s Juniper

Staying Afloat: Tyler Atkins on Bosch & Rockit

‘Now You’re at Home’: The Power of Music in Macario De Souza’s 6 Festivals

World Without a Map: The Flattening Perspective of Jennifer Peedom’s River

Mechanisms of Control: Yaara Bou Melhem on Unseen Skies

Stolen Lives: Confronting the Past in Allan Clarke’s The Bowraville Murders

Burnishing an Icon: Madeleine Martiniello on Palazzo di Cozzo

An Acquired Taste: Warwick Ross and Rob Coe on Blind Ambition

Lingering Notes: A Song Cycle Remembered in Philippa Bateman’s Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow

Adelaide Dreams Electric: Immersive Possibilities at Adelaide Fringe

A God Is Born: Religion and the Absurd in Ritwik Pareek’s Dug Dug

Cinema Science: Cosmic Collisions and Disaster Denialism in Don’t Look Up