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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The Cycle
Jess Newman | AUS | 2016 | Documentary/Comedy | 11 min | English | European Premiere
Jimmy loses his license after being caught drink driving, so his mum suggests he take up cycling. Their relationship is tested when Jimmy believes he can become the greatest cyclist of all time. (...) -
Playpals
Yianni Warnock | AUS | 2012 | Comedy, drama | 12 min | English | German Premiere
A man yearns helplessly to master the small task of existing. This study of human loneliness, communication and miscommunication is nothing short of irony. (...) -
Meat
Sunday Emerson Gullifer |AUS| 2015| Drama | 09:20 min | English| German Premiere
Behind the closed doors of an elite boarding school, Matthews and his friends are cruising through life – but when a weekend joyride ends in disaster, he has to deal with the guilt that consumes him. (...) -
Mrs McCutcheon
John Sheedy | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 16 min | English | Berlin Premiere
Having always felt he was born in the wrong body and now at his third school, 10-year-old Tom is having trouble settling in and finding acceptance from his newfound peers - but a school dance is about to revolutionize it all. (...) -
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. (...) -
Foal
Vanessa Gazy | AUS| 2015| Drama | 24:02 min | English| German Premiere
Rural Australia, 1915: Aurora is pregnant from her young lover, Joe. As she braces for the imminent return of her older husband, her daughter Annie struggles to make sense of the adult world. (...) -
Short Films: The Future is Now
Diverse directors | AUS | 2014 - 2015 | 59 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, Down Under Berlin serves its audience a fine selection of exquisite film nibbles. Bon appétit! I Remember the Future Klayton Stainer | AUS | 2014 | Drama, sci-fi | 26:32 min | German Premiere The D (...) -
Ross & Beth
Hamish Bennett | NZ | 2014 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
The story of a humble farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour. (...) -
Shorts: Sunday Selection
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2015-2017 | 64 min | English & German| Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, Down Under Berlin serves its audience a fine selection of exquisite film nibbles. Bon appétit! AFTER LIFE Prisca Bouchet & Nick Mayow | NZ | 2016 | 16 min | German Premiere No Monsters in Berli (...) -
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. (...) -
Fantail
Curtis Vowell | NZ| 2013| Comedy, drama | 83min | English| German Premiere
A petrol station in Auckland: Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Tania (Sophie Henderson), who identifies as Māori and tries to figure out her place in life, works the graveyard shifts. She wants to save money to take her little Maori brot (...) -
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. (...) -
I Am Emmanuel
Genevieve Clay-Smith | AUS | 2013 | Drama | 20 min | English | German Premiere
21-year-old Sudanese refugee Emmanuel seeks a future in Australia that is not determined by his past. Where words are not available, emotions erupt into movement. (...) -
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 (...) -
Message from Mungo
Andrew Pike & Ann McGrath | AUS | 2014 | Documentary | 70 min | English | European Premiere
When archaeologists discovered Mungo Lady, the remains of a 40 000 year-old human, it dramatically changed the knowledge about Australian history. Where some see old bones, others see a part of their family and their ancestry. A c (...) -
Baby?
Mark Prebble | NZ | 2017 | Drama | 12 min | English | European Premiere
Isabelle, determined not to spend her 65th birthday alone, invites herself into the home of her new neighbour, a struggling mum in the middle of a nervous breakdown. (...) -
Australian Short Film Today
Diverse directors | AUS | 1982, 2016-2017 | 101 min | English| Diverse Premieres
Down Under Berlin is proud to present this international travelling road show that showcases the very best of recent short films from Australia in cooperation with the Chris and Francesca Beale Foundation! An Exercise (...) -
Parasites
Michael Cannon Miller | NZ | 2016 | Drama | 12 min | English | European Premiere
Everyone wants Jude to have a baby. Even the parasite living in her brain. (...) -
And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night
Nick Pollack | AUS | 2017 | Drama | 29 min | English | German Premiere
The lives of three disparate people - a grieving mother, a man with early stage Alzheimer's and a lonely nurse - intersect through one tragic moment. (...) -
Bless You
Philip Watts | AUS | 2013 | Animation | 3 min | English | German Premiere
An architect in the skies grows bored with his creation and decides to spice things up. (...)