Travelling Film Festival Mackay

Experience extraordinary cinema when the Travelling Film Festival returns to Mackay.

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 multi-award-winning Aussie documentary Songs Inside, the Berlinale Silver Bear winner The Blue Trail from Brazil, and My Father's Shadow an acclaimed award winner at Cannes from Nigeria.

The festival weekend will screen seven acclaimed and awarded films from around the world at exclusive screenings, plus three award winning Aussie short films you need to see!