Rod Quantock: Comedy Warrior
Friday 26th of June 2:00pm FIONA COCHRANE | AUSTRALIA | 2026 | 1’55” Rod Quantock: Comedy Warrior charts the life and career of Australia’s pioneering stand-up comedian, Rod Quantock, and his tireless efforts over five decades to communicate the perils of neoliberalism and the cataclysmic urgency of climate change through comedy. Rod Quantock: Comedy Warrior
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Agridulce (Bittersweet)
Friday 26th of June 5:00pm (Australian Premiere) FRANK PAVICH | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | 2025 | 1’38” A coming-of-age story set in the Dominican Republic, where a group of aspiring young Bachata artists search for answers to love and life through their music. In Cabarete, on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, bachata is woven
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LOCALS + after party at Theatre Royal
LOCALS Encore Screening Saturday 4th of July 4.30pm @Theatre Royal ENCORE SCREENING (4 July) TICKETS LOCALS | REGIONAL VICTORIA | 2026 | 90′ A cornerstone of the festival, LOCALS returns for its fifth year to celebrate homegrown storytelling and champion grassroots creative voices from across the region. From heartfelt to hilarious, this vibrant collection of
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The Golden Spurtle
Saturday 27th of June 11:00am CONSTANTINE COSTI | AUSTRALIA | 2026 | 1’15” Once a year, contenders from around the globe descend on a picturesque village in the Scottish Highlands to compete for the title of World Porridge Champion. Amid intense rivalries, steaming bowls of porridge, and the lives of charmingly eccentric locals, we see
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How Deep is Your Love
Saturday 27th of June 2.00pm ELEANOR MORTIMER | UK | 2025 | 1’40” With deep-sea mining looming, biologists race to collect and name the undiscovered species of the abyss, the last wilderness on earth. HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE follows biologists as they explore the deep sea, where 70% of our planet lies hidden. As
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The Bend in the River
Saturday 27th of June 5:00pm (Australian Premiere) ROB MOSS | USA | 2025 | 1’22” Following and filming friends for nearly fifty-years. THE BEND IN THE RIVER is an exploration of the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living. The Bend in the River chronicles five close friends over nearly fifty years.
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Move Ya Body – The Birth of House + DJ Jen Moore
Saturday 27th of June 8:00pm ELEGANCE BRATTON | USA | 2025 | 1’32” Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement. In the chaos of Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, a teenage usher named Vince Lawrence witnessed the
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We Are Not Powerless
+ live Q & A with Muzafar Ali & Nagina Zahra (20-30″) Sunday 28th of June 11:00am JOLYON HOFF, MUZAFAR ALI | AUSTRALIA | 2025 | 1’30” Stuck in Indonesia after Australia ‘Stops the Boats’, a group of refugees start a school and prove that hope, community and connection can change the world. Ten years
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Buck’s Harbor
Sunday 28th of June 2:00pm (Australian Premiere) PETE MULLER | US | 2026 | 1’37” In a remote American fishing village, where life unfolds with the seasons and the sea, Bucks Harbor explores the ways that men & boys understand their roles and themselves in a changing world. Downeast Maine is a stretch of rugged
Coexistence, My Ass!
Sunday 28th of June 5:00pm (Victorian Premiere) AMBER FARES | USA, FRANCE | 2025 | 1’35” Noam Shuster Eliassi grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment
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Secret Mall Apartment
Sunday 28h of June 8:00pm JEREMY WORKMAN | USA | 2024 | 1’32” In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even constructed a wall, smuggling
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Love Compilations
Inspired by Wendy Clarke’s Love Tapes, The Love Compilations invites the Castlemaine community to record intimate three-minute reflections on love – forming a collective video artwork capturing a wide spectrum of voices and emotional truths. What does love mean to you? That’s the question at the heart of one of this year’s most quietly powerful
Duang’s Porridge & Congee Breakfast
Saturday 10:00am – preceding The Golden Spurtle at 11:00am Join us for a cross-cultural breakfast celebrating the humble but mighty bowl. Western Porridge — rolled oats with all the trimmings: yoghurt, fresh fruit, nuts, and non-dairy yoghurt for vegans. (Contains gluten) Vegetarian Congee — a rice and mung bean base with tofu and all good
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Community House Pop-up Kitchen
A fundraiser for Castlemaine Community House’s food pantry SOUP TO WARM YOUR SOUL Available across the weekend in the Theatre Royal Garden Friday: 6pm – 8pm Saturday: 12pm – 2pm, 5pm – 8pm Sunday: 12pm – 2pm, 5pm – 8pm The Castlemaine Community House’s Pop-up Kitchen is your cosy festival haven, tucked into the backyard
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