Welcome
This is my 26th year organising this festival, a celebration of Italian language, culture and cinema from north to south. We pride ourselves on screening the best new Italian films—from critically acclaimed auteur works to star-studded box office hits—alongside much-loved classics and emerging talent.
Thanks to the wonderful Italian community, our ever-growing family of sponsors, and all the non-Italians who love “all things Italian,” this is the biggest Festival of Italian cinema in the world, boasting over 90,000 admissions and growing every year. Grazie di cuore!
- FESTIVAL DIRECTOR, Elysia Zeccola
I am proud to announce that also for the year 2025 the Italian Embassy in Canberra is supporting the Italian Film Festival, together with our consular network in Australia.
It is a great pleasure to keep collaborating with the Zeccola family, Palace Cinemas and Palace Films, with the aim at strengthening the cultural ties between our countries through the exhibition of an unmissable collection of movies. The Italian Film Festival - among comedies, dramas and stories - will offer to the public a pleasant and appealing narrative of the present and the past times of our beautiful country.
Enjoy the festival, I hope you will find the right movie for you!
- AMBASSADOR OF ITALY TO AUSTRALIA, Paolo Crudele