Top 12 Irresistible Films At The 2026 Sydney Film Festival
This year the 73rd SFF has a whopping 248 films from 81 countries, and so we could easily have done a top pick of ten times as many, but here's a starter to…
Vivid Live at The Sydney Opera House Is Showing 12 Brilliant Music Films Delivering A Complete education on Club Culture
Thursday 28 to Sunday 31 May at The Sydney Opera House means Harlem’s drag-balls, Manchester acid house, late-90s UK club kids, and today’s global rave revival, via Australian premieres, 4K…
Warwick Thornton Interview
At a side event at Berlinale Film Festival 2026, the acclaimed filmmaker spoke about his fantastic film Wolfram and how memory stretches both back to the past and out into…
The 2026 HSBC German Film Festival Is Bringing Contemporary Cinema From The Heart Of Europe Direct To Australia During May
What's not to liebe about a dynamic line-up of contemporary cinema including powerful dramas, insightful true-life stories, delightful comedy and charming family films from 6 May – 27 May.
The Persian Film Festival Australia 2026 Champions The Voices Who Have Always Dared To Ask For Change
In its 12th edition, the festival returns with a program drawn directly from the living reality of Iranian and Persian-speaking cinema. Films made under pressure, in defiance, and with the…
Top 12 Irresistible Films At The Alliance Française French Film Festival 2026
Get your French back on for this years festival rolling out across Australia - C'est parti!
Film Review: Pillion
If you've ever needed an excuse to explore gay dom-sub culture, how to wear a padlock with panache, or whether you can love Alexander Skarsgård any more than you already…
Berlinale Talents Highlights 2026: Hiam Abbass
The 24th edition of Berlinale Talents gave us 24,000 reasons to love Hiam Abbass
Berlinale 2026 Film Review: Wolfram
The Indigenous Western is back with a bang, with a hard- sweet- ass story of redemption and survival of family, bathed in the glorious technicolour of Country, plus irresistible interviews…
Berlinale 2026 Film Review: Prosecution/ Staatsschutz
The flawless cinematography of Faraz Shariat’s film puts the viewer inside the protagonist from the opening scenes of this film that is layered with complex themes of racism, justice and…
Berlinale 2026 Film Review: No Good Men
As we suspected, everything is better when sprinkled with a little bit of love, and this Berlinale opener proves that even life under the full force of the Afghani patriarchy…
Berlinale Talents 2026
200 Talents from every corner of the globe converge for 5 days during Berlinale Film Festival to find method in the madness.
Antenna 2026 Film Review: The Last Guest Of The Holloway Motel
A charming study of a complicated man coming to terms with his past, his family, his sexuality, his mortality, and even technology, and proving that it really 'aint over till…
Berlinale 2026 Film Review: Only Rebels Win/ Seuls Les Rebelles
Set in a contemporary Beirut that was too dangerous to film in, Hiam Abbass and Amine Benrachid tenderly explore a romance that crosses all the divides you can think of,…
Top 12 Irresistible Films At The 2026 76th Berlinale Film Festival
Always defining the zeitgeist of film, Berlinale wird super cool this year, und das Irresistible team will be there- Wie Geil!
Behind the Screens: Interview with the Doyenne of Documentaries and Antenna Film Festival Programmer Jane Mills
Antenna Doco Film Festival is round the corner so we chatted to Jane Mills who knows everything about everything, which we loved.
Sundance 2026 Film Review: Public Access
We go back to the 70s for the Public Access cable TV footage from another time but an eerily similar social experiment to the one we are living through.
Cairns Crocodiles Launches New Film & Screen Track with Irresistible
As if it wasn't easy enough already, here's just another reason to get the Côte d'Azur mixed up with the top bit of Queensland
The 98TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS® OSCAR® Nominations Have Dropped
The wait is over and there's plenty to feel hopeful for and excited about in a strong field with lots of Irresistible connections.
The Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2026 Promises to spark the imagination
Some of the best documentaries from around the world will be presented at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2026. Antenna runs 5–15 February 2026 across Sydney.
Top 12 Irresistible Films At Sundance Film Festival 2026
It's the last year in Park City so there's even more reason to make the most of your viewing time, plus the planned tributes to the late founder and who's…
Film Review: The Secret Agent
Oscars Contender. In a hot and humid Recife the past and the present mingle with the political and the personal and the fragments of memory we carry with us.
The FLiCKERFEST 2026 Programme Is The Hottest Thing In Bondi Since The Heatwave
Celebrating its 35th year, this not to be missed ten-day event will showcase a handpicked selection of Australia’s and the world's most exciting short films under the stars and in…
Behind the Screens: Interview with Bronwyn Kidd The Legendary Director Of Flickerfest
Irresistible sat down with Bronwyn to talk the passion the purpose and the magic of the festival at the heart of Bondi.
Behind the Screens: Interview with Manisay Oudomvillay – Programmer Of The Japanese Film Festival
2025 marks the 29th year of JFF Australia, and Manisay Oudomvillay spoke to Irresistible about this years program and how Australians are ready to dig in for a 3 hour…
Behind the Screens: The 2025 NSW Cinematography Awards
The buzzing awards dinner was a hot set of talent and glamour and we run through the awards given to this years batch of cinematographers who are hitting the mark
The 2025 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival lands in Australia 5 November
An unmissable showcase of British screencraft to sink into.
Bus Stop Films’ Accessible Filmmaking Programs is open for 2026 enrolments
Bringing the award-winning program to communities across Australia.
Film Review: Splitsville Plus An Irresistible Interview with Director Michael Angelo Corvino
Two couples explosively explore multiple relationships in their lives while working out what's going to stick and wants going to split.
Irresistible Hollywood: Jeremy Piven The Actor, The Stand-up And The Big Fan of Down Under
Fresh off a nationwide comedy tour and out hitting the red carpet with his latest movie Primitive War, Jeremy got the Irresistible investigative once-over where we found out about his…
Film Review: DJ Ahmet At Sydney Film Festival
One to also watch at Melbourne International Film Festival, the shepherding business and deejay world collide in this romantic and hopeful glimpse into the lives of the Yuruk community of…
2025 HSBC Spanish Film Festival Program Of Thirty Must-See Film From Spain And Latin America
Bringing the fiesta to cities around Australia this June, showing at Palace Cinemas, Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas
Film Review: My Father’s Shadow At Sydney Film Festival
The first feature from filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. that garnered a Special Mention at Cannes, takes in the 1993 Nigerian presidential election, and the memories, myths and magic that make…
Film Review: The Ballad Of Wallace Island At Sydney Film Festival
Going next to Melbourne International Film Festival, this utterly charming wish-fulfilment story pulls off a huge idea in a small place- the yearning for what was that keeps us from…
Film Review: Birthright At Sydney Film Festival
Screening at Sydney Film Festival on its way back from a buzzy debut at Tribeca, this funny Australian made film tackles intergenerational wealth warfare, so we had an Irresistible chat…
Film Review: Songs Inside At Sydney Film Festival
The winner of the Documentary Australia Award at Sydney Film Festival is an extraordinary close- up look at the lives of incarcerated women as they explore the power of music…
The Children’s International Film Festival Takes Care Of The Winter School Holidays
Screening at Ritz Cinemas in Sydney, and Classic, Lido and Cameo Cinemas in Melbourne, CHIFF returns for another joyful celebration of global storytelling, adventure, and imagination.
Change Direction Film By Aboriginal Creatives Aims To Fund The Next Generation Of Indigenous Psychologists
At the heart of a national awareness campaign about the suicide crisis devastating Aboriginal communities is the short film, written by poet Dakota Feirer and directed by Cannes-winning filmmaker Warwick…
All About You: The Irresistible Sydney Film Festival Selections For Your Star Sign
There's over 200 films in the festival - so where to begin? and what is irresistible ? We've got you covered with our top picks that you can still book…
Film Review: Make It Look Real
A candid lens on consent and cinematic intimacy, in a great example of Australian female filmmakers taking on a controversial topic, and making it their own.
Behind the Screens: Interview with Lesbian Space Princess Filmmakers Emma Hough Hobbs And Leela Varghese
Sydney Film Festival is screening the animated sci-fi gay-lactic comedy that is pushing forward the frontiers of gay space, and taking up a healthy amount of queer room on the…
Behind the Screens: Interview with The End Director Joshua Oppenheimer
Ahead of Sydney Film Festival, the Oscar- nominated director gets Irresistible about his latest film The End, and his Arctic inspirations.
Film Review: La Cocina
Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones keep the temperatures high and the action cooking in this gritty workplace drama set in a loud and terrible New York Kitchen. Bake Off it…
Behind the Screens: Interview with Director of Fwends Sophie Somerville
The director of FWENDS, the Berlinale Innovation Award Winning Film that's redefining friendship on screen, sat down with Irresistible ahead of Sydney Film Festival
German Film Festival Review: Dying
Matthias Glasner masterpiece is emotional and cool, epic and suburban, funny and tragic, complex and everyday, magnanimous and small, just like life, just like dying.
German Film Festival Review: Two to One
A group of East Germans in the dying days of the German Democratic Republic explore the personal, political, and financial crisis that is was for many, and figure out a…
Behind the Screens: Interview with Filmmakers Kate Blackmore and Bethany Bruce
Fresh from making serious waves at SXSW, where their debut feature documentary Make It Look Real drew critical acclaim and lively festival buzz, the duo are ready to shake up…
The International Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist Videos Have Arrived
The line-up of critically acclaimed actors starring in the films showcasing the six books shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize are: Lucy Boynton; Jamie Demetriou; Omari Douglas; Rosalind Eleazar;…
Persian Film Festival Review: The Witness
A powerful story about women's fight for justice and quite literally the right to a life, in the face of a brutal regime and a patriarchal system that just won't…
Behind the Screens: Interview with Dr Amin Palangi – Director Of The Persian Film Festival
We sat down with the Irresistible Amin Palangi, celebrated Iranian–Australian filmmaker and academic, about being a vessel for the voices, why Persian films are smart-house cinema, and his 11th edition…
