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Travelling Film Festival Cairns

Portsmith, Queensland, Australia

Thu, Nov 6, 2025 — Sun, Nov 9, 2025 (Australia/Brisbane)

Experience extraordinary cinema when the Travelling Film Festival returns to Cairns. This long running Festival established by the late great David Stratton is your chance to see highly anticipated Oscar contenders, Cannes prize winners and multi award-winning Australian films. Program highlights include: Don't miss the Opening Night screening of the heartwarming DJ Ahmet, or the most acclaimed film of 2025 so far, the Palme d'Or winning It Was Just an Accident, plus see Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård in the intimate and tender Oscar favourite Sentimental Value. Plus the jaw dropping Aussie documentary The Raftsmen with director (and regular collaborator of David Attenborough) Chadden Hunter in attendance, the Berlinale Silver Bear winner The Blue Trail, and Sydney Film Festival audience award winner from Palestine, All That's Left Of You and much more! The festival weekend will screen nine acclaimed and awarded films from around the world at exclusive screenings, plus three award winning Aussie short films you need to see!