Film screenings and festivals in Sydney

Friday 9 Oct · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

The 2026 Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival delivers once again on its mission to provide the largest launching pad possible for ground-breaking speculative cinema from Australia and across the globe. This year, our celebration of visionary science fiction/fantasy works will be presenting the World Premieres of three Australian feature films - Enzo Tedeschi's generations-spanning drama RESONANCE; Steven Kastrissios' expansive, brooding, Albanian-set fantasy, SKYBREAKERS; and, Sean Bell's ode to our inner-city denizens of the future, ELECTRIC FEEL.

Friday 9 Oct · 6:00pm – 9:30pm

Please join us for a meaningful film screening, intimate house recital concert, and talks with the filmmaker Alfred Pek and the film subject Nur Azizah via Zoom in the heart of Sydney's inner west, to raise money for the other upcoming international documentary by Alfred Pek called "Emerald Archipelago Documentary". The concert will feature musicians Keyna Wilkins, Alleta Louise, Yolande Cailly, and Sonia De Freitas. An Australian-Indonesian production, Suling Productions presents "Freedom Street" Documentary!

Saturday 10 Oct · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

The 2026 Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival delivers once again on its mission to provide the largest launching pad possible for ground-breaking speculative cinema from Australia and across the globe. This year, our celebration of visionary science fiction/fantasy works will be presenting the World Premieres of three Australian feature films - Enzo Tedeschi's generations-spanning drama RESONANCE; Steven Kastrissios' expansive, brooding, Albanian-set fantasy, SKYBREAKERS; and, Sean Bell's ode to our inner-city denizens of the future, ELECTRIC FEEL.

Sunday 11 Oct · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

The 2026 Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival delivers once again on its mission to provide the largest launching pad possible for ground-breaking speculative cinema from Australia and across the globe. This year, our celebration of visionary science fiction/fantasy works will be presenting the World Premieres of three Australian feature films - Enzo Tedeschi's generations-spanning drama RESONANCE; Steven Kastrissios' expansive, brooding, Albanian-set fantasy, SKYBREAKERS; and, Sean Bell's ode to our inner-city denizens of the future, ELECTRIC FEEL.

Thursday 15 Oct · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Join the Mawson’s Huts Foundation at the Australian National Maritime Museum on Thursday 15 October 2026, Frank Hurley’s birthday, for a special fundraising evening celebrating the extraordinary life, work and Antarctic legacy of one of Australia’s most remarkable photographers and filmmakers. Frank Hurley’s images helped shape the way generations have seen Antarctica. From Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14 to Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition and his later return south with the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), Hurley documented an extraordinary era of Antarctic exploration.

Thursday 22 Oct · 5:30pm – 8:15pm

You can change the world. Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time, and today’s youth aren’t waiting for someone else to solve it.

Wednesday 28 Oct · 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Waverley Library is excited to present a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary Ghost in the Machine (2026) as part of our Technocritical lecture and film series delving deeper into issues of technology and political economy prevalent in today's world. An official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, Ghost in the Machine is a gripping and urgently relevant investigative documentary that exposes the buried history of artificial intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched structures of power long before it entered everyday life.