Maleny Film Society in Maleny, Queensland | Community organisation

Maleny Film Society

Locality: Maleny, Queensland

Address: 23 Maple St 4552 Maleny, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.malenyfilmsociety.info

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24.01.2022 The 25th Australian Film Festival is nearly here! This year we're featuring films that are both entertaining and thought-provoking for all age groups. Check out the program details, extra sessions and social events - purchase your tickets in advance on our website as either a Festival Pass, 3 pack film pack, or single tickets. 13 - 15 March at Maleny Community Centre.

22.01.2022 2040 is screening at our film festival Sun 15th March 10am - limited tickets on sale, book now! https://malenyfilmsociety.info/australian-film-festival-an/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dejFR5xZwxM

20.01.2022 The AFF is this weekend! Starting Friday night - featuring the launch party with catering by Spaghetti Junction and SLAM. We're celebrating Australian drama and documentaries over the weekend, with films for families and youth for the first time in our AFF history! The MFS works tirelessly to bring the films our members prefer to the big screen, locally. Come along and see what we're all about and see how you can contribute to local, community-run film screenings in the future! Book online, or purchase single film tickets at the box office 30mins before film session start times: https://malenyfilmsociety.info/australian-film-festival-and

20.01.2022 An interesting blog on Palace Cinema's website from one of our favourite filmmakers PEDRO ALMODÓVAR about living in Quarantine https://www.palacecinemas.com.au//pedro-almodovar-living/

19.01.2022 Both melancholic and heart-warming, this award-winning film MFS screened in 2018, deals with the unlikely friendship that develops between a Finnish businessman and a Syrian asylum seeker. After leaving both his wife and his job, travelling salesman Wikstrom gambles his savings in a poker game, wins big, and invests in an unprofitable restaurant. He then has a chance encounter with Kaled, a Syrian refugee staying illegally after failing to gain asylum. Wikstrom offers Kaled a... job in his restaurant and helps him find and rescue his sister who had become separated from him during their escape from Syria. Delivering a message of hope in the face of tragedy, the film illustrates the need for understanding and generosity in dealing with the difficult challenges faced by refugees in desperate situations. FREE viewing on SBS on Demand - let us know what you think! https://www.sbs.com.au//16629100197/the-other-side-of-hope See more

19.01.2022 Maleny Film Society would like to pay tribute to Peter Erdman, who recently passed away. Peter, along with his many achievements, captured a plethora of film footage of Maleny's happenings over many decades. Thank you, Peter, for your enthusiasm for our town. We pass on our condolences to Peter's family and friends.

18.01.2022 'Frantz', screened during our Members Only Program in 2018 is truly worth a second viewing. Anna is a bereft young German woman whose fiance, Frantz, was killed in the trenches of World War I. Adrien, a French veteran of the war, makes a mysterious appearance in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave. Adrien's presence is met with resistance by the small community still reeling from Germany's defeat, yet Anna gradually becomes closer to the handsome and melancholy young man, as she learns of his deep friendship with Frantz. Currently screening for FREE on SBS on demand. check it out! https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1700938819685/frantz

18.01.2022 2040 screens today at 10am as part of our Australian Film Festival. Maleny Community Centre. Tickets on sale from the Box Office from 9:30am. Park in Bicentenary Lane. Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a personal journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends documentary with dramatic sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter. http://tix.malenyfilmsociety.info/Events/2040-AFF

14.01.2022 Another wonderful Australian Movie. MFS featured this film during the 2017 Celebration of Books in Maleny. The year is 1965, the place a Western Australian country town simmering with racial tensions. An Aboriginal boy discovers the body of a murder victim. Fearing he will be blamed, he seeks the help of the bookish fourteen-year-old Jasper Jones, who bravely sets out to try and solve the crime. Based on the well-loved award-winning novel by Craig Silvey, who helped adapt it for the screen, the film is directed by Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Day) and the fine cast includes Toni Collette and Hugo Weaving. https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand//1360255043938/jasper-jones

14.01.2022 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: THE 67th SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL GOES VIRTUAL AND NATIONAL THIS YEAR From 10-21 JUNE PROGRAM LAUNCHES AND SALES OPEN 27 MAY This year, Sydney Film Festival will be virtual and national for the first time!... The special 67th Sydney Film Festival: Virtual Edition and Awards is all about bringing audiences across the nation together at a particularly challenging time in celebration of filmmakers and the Australian film industry. From 10 to 21 June, SFF will present important elements of its 2020 lineup: world premieres of compelling true stories from some of Australia’s most exciting documentary filmmakers, a program of shorts from rising stars of the Australian film industry, and films from Europe’s most cutting-edge female directors. The 67th SFF will present the Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, and Europe! Voices of Women in Film. Tickets will be available to buy on 27 May when the full program launches at sff.org.au. https://www.sff.org.au/

13.01.2022 For those who have some time on their hands now is the time to catch up on Icelandic eco-thrillers such as ’Woman at War’. This movie was one of MFS’s screening highlights in 2019. "This quirky film, full of surprises is co-written and directed by Benedikt Erlingssen, who illustrates the action with the music of an ever-present folk choir. Feisty forty-year-old female Halla, environmental activist, in passionate environmental frustration, shoots arrows from her bow to brin...g down power towers and sabotage the aluminum industry which is destroying her pristine Arctic homeland of geyser steam and icy peaks. The community dilemma regarding a crusading lawbreaker is paralleled by Halla’spersonal story: her desperate desire to adopt a Ukrainian orphan. This is a heart-warming drama with a happy and surprising comedic side. (In a range of languages including English, with English subtitles.") Watch this for free at SBS on demand. https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand//1697720899899/woman-at-war

12.01.2022 Each month SIMA studios picks a film worth sharing FREE of charge https://simastudios.org/simarama/

12.01.2022 The National Film and Sound Archive have released a new initiative our Maleny Film Society film lovers will be sure to enjoy TAKE A DEEP DIVE WITH DAVID STRATTON Every Thursday the NSFA will publish previously unreleased recordings of their best on-site events, and establish connections between them and the NFSA collection, as well as other audiovisual content online. From today, check out a fascinating Q&A with legendary film author David Stratton. He visited last year to discuss his book 101 Marvellous Movies You May Have Missed and his thoughts on hidden gems in Australian film history. https://www.nfsa.gov.au//deep-dive-david-stratton-conversa

08.01.2022 Hello all - due to COVID-19, we've unfortunately had to cancel the rest of the General Screenings program (up to and including May), and Members Only Screenings (up to and including July). We'll be in touch again with any updates and confirmation of when screenings will recommence. Thank you for your understanding, and from all of us on the committee, we hope that you and your family are healthy and are coping satisfactorily with all of the current challenges.

07.01.2022 Another great film with Geoffrey Rush SCREENING FREE on SBS: BEST OFFER Virgil Oldman, the director of an esteemed auction house, falls in love with a reclusive young heiress. After he shows her his priceless collection of portraits, she soon disappears with all of his paintings. https://www.sbs.com.au/ondem//1684091971959/the-best-offer

07.01.2022 Hello cinephiles: this film proved popular at one of our Australian Film Festivals. Now it's FREE to watch on SBS On Demand. SYNOPSIS: The son of a Muslim cleric finds himself caught between his sense of duty and following his heart. He must follow through with his arranged marriage or be with the girl he truly loves'. Enjoy! https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand//1530527299888/alis-wedding

07.01.2022 Don't start watching this until you have a box of tissues by your side! OMG I am not sure if MFS screened this one (2006), however, I can highly recommend this for those who ever had an imaginary friend - or ever wanted one - or for those who just love solid, well-made movies with a great storyline and beautiful cinematography! What a Wrap to live up to! Judge for yourself! https://www.sbs.com.au/ondema/video/838201411573/opal-dream

06.01.2022 We'd like to extend a massive thank you to all our members and guests who supported MFS, and came along to enjoy the best of Australian film this weekend at our Australian Film Festival! We couldn't have done it without our incredibly hard-working committee, projectionists, volunteers and sponsors. A real team effort, a real example of community working together to keep the magic of cinema alive in Maleny.

04.01.2022 Dear members and MFS advocates, I thought I would occasionally post a movie that we have screened in the past, that is on SBS currently, for free that you can watch in these times of isolation. I highly recommend the following movie for those who have access to SBS on demand...'After running away from his negligent parents, and committing a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for giving him life'. Don't miss this movie...the end is worth it. Stay safe, cheers Paula. https://www.sbs.com.au/ondema/video/1691234371716/capernaum

03.01.2022 If you did not see 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' you MUST see it now, screening for FREE - SBS on demand. See it especially if you liked the Academy Award winning film 'JoJo Rabbit', directed by the same filmmaker, Taika Waititi. ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’ is just as laughable (and just as poignant) the second time around - I can vouch for that! Great for the whole family (warning some swearing involved) cheers Paula. Synopses is: Ricky is a roly-poly, hip-hop, juvenile del...inquent who writes haunting haiku. Uncle Hec, played by Sam Neil, is his cantankerous foster uncle who never learned to read or write. When this odd- ball pair end up on the run through the remote and gorgeous countryside of New Zealand there is opportunity for the director, Taika Waititi, to bring in plenty of action and comedy. Yet this film gives more than clashing and bonding between adult and youth. It celebrates individualism, as the protagonists run from a bureaucratic world wanting to turn them into form-filling humans. https://www.sbs.com.au//11394023/hunt-for-the-wilderpeople