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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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 (...)
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2018 winners announced!
Down Under Berlin 2018 has come to a close and here are all your winning films! Voted by our audience, 5 films have won prizes from our award sponsors. Read about who won which prize......did you cast your vote?
Congratulations (...)
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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Black Divaz
Adrian Russell Wills | AUS | 2018 | LGBTQI, Indigenous | 60 min | English | German Premiere
Following the inaugural Miss First Nation pageant where six Aboriginal drag queens from around Australia battle it out over five days for the coveted crown, Black Divaz goes beyond the glitz, glue guns and glamour of black drag to (...) -
Motel
Lauren Porteous | NZ | 2017 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
A lonely rural motelier befriends one of her guests. For one night, the lives of someone who can't move, and another who can't stop, intersect. (...) -
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Taika Waititi| NZ| 2016| Adventure, comedy, drama | 93 min | English| German Premiere
Taika Waititi is back with a fulminant new film which takes you on a hilarious hunt through NZ wilderness in search of an unusual couple: misfit kid Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) and grumpy uncle Hec (Sam Neill). Full of nerdy but (...) -
Symphony on Skis
Carla Braun-Elwert | NZ | 2017 | Documentary | 60 min | English, German w/ English subtitles | Berlin Premiere
In 1985, emigrant German mountain guide Gottlieb Braun-Elwert and two friends set out on a spectacular ski crossing of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, covering over 40km and 4000 vertical metres in only 18 hours. He named the now i (...) -
Coral
Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard | AUS| 2014| Drama | 10:16 min | English| German Premiere
When the floodlights at his twilight football training fail to light his path, Kevin allows the surrounding darkness to consume him. (...) -
Lemons
Eloise Walker | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 13 min | English | World Premiere
A hollow young woman shares a final joke with her dead mother. (...) -
I Am Heath Ledger
Adrian Buitenhuis & Derik Murray | AUS | 2017 | Documentary | 91 min | English | European Premiere
This intimate documentary celebrates the life of Heath Ledger: actor, artist and icon. Through the lens of Heath’s camera, as he films and often performs in his own personal journey, we are taken along for the ride. His creative (...) -
Liz Drives
Mia'kate Russell | AUS | 2017 | Thriller | 11 min | English | European Premiere
For estranged sisters Liz and Ellie being a family has never been easy – but there are some horrors you create yourself. (...) -
Madam Black
Ivan Barge | AUS | 2015 | Comedy | 11 min | English
An errant photographer must concoct an elaborate story when he runs over a beloved pet. (...) -
The Dam
Brendon McDonall | AUS | 2016 | Drama | 16 min | English | German Premiere
A lifelong friendship is under siege when two mature men visit the monolithic dam that defined their young lives, and are confronted by feelings that cannot be contained any longer. (...) -
Barbecue
Matthew Salleh | AUS | 2017 | Documentary | 101 min | Diverse w. Engl. subtl. | European Premiere
Barbecue is about more than grilling a piece of meat. From South Africa to Sweden, people light the coals, gather, and tell their story. From the Syrian border to an outback Australian town, intimate portraits of those who stoke t (...) -
The Pretend One
Tony Prescott | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 86 min | English | European Premiere
When young female farmer Charlie who lives alone with her father in the Australian outback begins to fall for Guy, a TV producer from the city, her imaginary friend Hugo realises he’s in love with Charlie. Unable to face losing (...) -
Deep Storage
Susan Earl | AUS | 2016 | Romance | 14 min | English | International Premiere
Gus is a stuttering loner who finds himself with nowhere to live when his mum dies. One day he moves his mum’s possessions into a storage unit, and the solution to his homelessness becomes clear. (...) -
Hitch
Patch Sinclair & Tessa Rex | AUS | 2013 | Animation | 3 min | English | European Premiere
Two young hitchhikers Tessa and Julia are waiting by the highway at a camel farm near Alice Springs in the outback. At dusk, a ute rolls up and without thinking they jump in, embarking on an all-night adventure to Adelaide. Only 1 (...) -
The Lake
Michael Gupta | AUS | 2016 | Drama | 10 min | English | German Premiere
Luke is learning to swim in the lake, but his older brother won’t let him face this challenge alone. (...) -
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. (...) -
Guerilla Bay
Hannah Dougherty | AUS | 2017 | Thriller, Horror | 8 min | no dialogue | World Premiere
A young woman searches for an escape from her everyday life in a holiday home on the South Coast of Australia but finds herself followed by a sinister figure. (...) -
Late Moves
Thomas Hudson & Cameron James | AUS | 2017 | Drama | 11 min | English | German Premiere
An innocent drink between two old friends reveals an infatuation with the past, a fear of the present, and the possibility of a future. (...) -
Nowhere
Carolina Izquierdo | AUS | 2013 | Drama | 14:17 min | English | International
A couple goes hiking and tries to rekindle their relationship but when they get separated in the bush, they realise that sometimes you need to get lost in order to get found. (...) -
Waltzing Tilda
Jonathan Wilhelmsson | AUS | 2017 | Coming-of-Age | 15 min | English | German Premiere
Tilda wakes up and finds herself all alone. With only her bunny rabbit Shane for company, she goes out into the empty world. (...)