The Adelaide Film Festival Just Dropped Its Massive 2018 Program

Back for another year this October, Adelaide Film Festival has dropped its stacked line-up, featuring standouts from the Venice Film Festival, early Oscar-buzz generators, and world premieres that’d make Cannes blush.

Taking over the City Of Churches from October 10 to 21, the festival is screening more than 130 features, spanning Hollywood dramas to foreign favourites, home-grown horror to VR adventures.

If you’re a little overwhelmed by options, you could always stick to the standouts from last month’s Venice Film Festival. For starters, there’s Roma from Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron – it took out the Gold Lion, Venice’s top honour. It’ll be competing again in Adelaide’s feature competition against fellow Venice favourite The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, written by the Coen Brothers, and At Eternity’s Gate, where Willem DaFoe plays Vincent Van Gogh.

Three Cannes titles also made the cut, including Murikami adaptation Burning and Queer Palm winner Girl. They’ll join a bevvy of top-notch Hollywood dramas, such as Beautiful Boy with Timotheé Chalamet, and intriguing docos, including the hyped Bad Reputation, which retraces Joan Jett’s turbulent life.

But it’s not all imports – this year, 44 percent of the festival’s films are Australian, including Jennifer Kent’s much-hyped colonial thriller The Nightingale.

Coincidentally, 44 percent’s the same number of women-directed films, too, with a spotlight on female directors from the Middle-East.

We’re not going to lie: there’s a lot going on, possibly more than we could fit here. You’re best to have a look yourself, so head to the Adelaide Film Festival’s website and check out the full program for yourself.

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