News & Events
Follow our News & Events page to keep updated about Down Under Berlin and trends and talents in Australian and New Zealand film.
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DUB board members: from Australia to Berlin and back.
The Down Under Berlin board members are going through a little change, so we thought it a good idea to keep you informed at what they are up to.
Since its inception in 2011, the Down Under Berlin film festival has had three boa (...)
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Submissions are OPEN!
Down Under Berlin's Call For Entries for the 2019 festival is open!
It's true, the moment you've all been waiting for! (well, waiting since the end of the last festival at least!) Submissions are open for this year's festival. (...)
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Berlinale 2019 celebrates New Zealand and Australia!
With an impressive list of Australian and New Zealand films at the Berlinale 2019, DUB will be there to cheer them on!
As per usual, the Berlinale Film Festival has been drip-feeding information to the public about their 2019 (...)
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Film Schools in Berlin
Want to learn filmmaking in Berlin? Guest DUB blogger Georgina Titheridge gets her hands dirty researching the best film schools in Berlin.
For all of you who came to this year’s Down Under Festival, and as Winter set in, (...)
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Festival wrap up 2018
Well, those few days from 19-23 September 2018 were an absolute whirlwind of film from down under! As the festival wraps up for 2018, we bring you all the important information about the festival week, the winners, news on ou (...)
Videos & Photos
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Past Festival Films
Find out more what we had in store over the past years in our Films A-Z or click below for some samples.
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Skin
Emma Blakey, Jason Lance David | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Fantasy | 17 min | English | German Premiere
When a lonely fisherman takes in a Selkie woman who is unable to return to sea, an unsustainable love forms with devastating repercussions. (...) -
Shorts: Discover Your Self
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2016 | 65 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, the protagonists of these Australian and New Zeland short films discover their past, future and their inner truth. Deep Storage Susan Earl | AUS | 2016 | 14 min | International Premiere Without Cons (...) -
Embrace
George-Alex Nagle | AUS | 2013 | Drama | 16 min | English | German Premiere
Therese is bed stricken and spends her days motionless and seemingly unaware of the world. When she turns 18, pent up issues between family members surface. (...) -
Darksong
Arthur Gay | NZ | 2018 | Music Video | 8 min | English
A music video exploring the dualities and ambiguities of the ego and a journey to confront them. (...) -
I Remember the Future
Klayton Stainer | AUS| 2014| Drama, sci-fi | 26:32 min | English| German Premiere
It is a harsh reality that separates him from his dreams, when Abe discovers that he will fall victim to an irreversible illness. Confronted by his only daughter he makes the consequential decision to finally let her go. (...) -
Hip Hop-eration
Bryn Evans | NZ | 2014 | Documentary | 93 min | English with German subtitles | German Premiere
Who said your grandmother couldn't be a hip hop star? Join Kara, Maynie, and Terri – all in their mid 90s - from a small town in New Zealand. On their journey to the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas. Along with t (...) -
Sleeping Dogs
Roger Donaldson | NZ| 1977| Action, drama, thriller | 107 min | English|
This Kiwi classic based on C.K. Stead’s novel marks the birth of NZ cinema on its own. Sam Neill plays Smith, an outlaw on the run accidentally caught between a repressive government and a violent resistance movement. He becomes (...) -
Library of Love
Miranda Edmonds, Khrob Edmonds | AUS | 2017 | Musical, Romance, Comedy| 12 min | English | German Premiere
Isabelle is a hopeless romantic who spends her days as a librarian reading too many romance novels and dreaming of true love. Can she pull her nose out of the books long enough to write her own love story? (...) -
The World In Your Window
Zoe McIntosh | NZ | 2017 | Drama | 15 min | English | German Premiere
Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a world of sadness and silence, stuck in a tiny caravan with his grief-stricken father. His friendship with a V8-driving transsexual gives Jesse hope for the future. (...) -
Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff | AUS | 1971 | Drama, thriller | 114 min | English
Brilliant and terrifying, this Australian classic inspired many films both Down Under and around the world. The story of a young teacher passing through a rough country town turns into a wild trip of booze, guns and kangaroos. Bru (...) -
We're Here Now
Nikki Richardson | AUS| 2015| Drama | 06:42 min | English | German Premiere
Two sisters find themselves hiding out in a public toilet cubicle when the youngest has to take a pregnancy test. (...) -
Mother
David Rusanow | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Dark Comedy | 13 min | English | European Premiere
A suburban housewife finds a used condom while vacuuming her house. It could only have come from one of two people, her fifteen-year-old daughter or her husband. (...) -
Shorts: Late Night Special
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2015-2016 | 60 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, meat-eating monsters, long-lost lovers and a wannabe Tour de France winner inhabit the big screen. Feeder Christian Rivers | NZ | 2016 | 16 min | European Premiere The Dam Brendon McDonall | AUS | (...) -
Misimpressions
Sinead Lau | NZ | 2017 | Drama, Comedy, Music | 10 min | English | German Premiere
Louie and Darius are young practitioners of classical arts, living together in a small flat. Louie is a still-life painter and Darius is a zealous violinist in the midst of composing a violin solo. When they receive a letter from (...) -
The Unicorn
Chloé Boreham | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Thriller | 11 min | French, English | German Premiere
Sophie and Christophe are on the verge of making love when they are interrupted by a strange phone call which sends their night into disarray. (...) -
Bo Mi
Andrew Lee | AUS | 2013 | Drama | 13:30 min | English | International
Alone on an island, two people depend only on one another for company and for love. But can they move on from their past and the moment that changed both their lives? (...) -
Kiwi Shorts
Diverse directors | NZ | 2014; 2017-2018 | 78 min | English, Māori| Diverse Premieres
What combines Berlin street vibe, cow farmers, a struggling teenager and a longing-for-sex couple? Our "Kiwi Shorts" at Down Under Berlin 2018! Darksong Arthur Gay | NZ | 2018 | Music Video | 8 min | English (...) -
Your Call Is Important to Us
TJ Power | AUS | 2017 | Comedy | 14 min | English | German Premiere
This short comedy confirms our fears about what really goes on at call-centers when we’re asked, 'Please hold?' We peek behind the scenes of one particularly specialized call-centre on that fateful day when big-shot CEO, Simon, (...) -
The Couple
David White | NZ | 2016 | Drama | 8 min | English | German Premiere
Following his diagnosis with cancer, Patrick withdraws from his wife, Stephanie. As the relationship struggles, they reach a point of emotional honesty that ultimately saves them. (...) -
We Keep On Dancing
Jessica Barclay Lawton | AUS | 2013 | Comedy, drama | 8 min | English | German Premiere
Two strangers meet through a haze of smoke from a broken down Volkswagen Beetle in this sweet tale of love, loss, human connection and car trouble. (...)