Brunswick Underground Film Festival, 43-47 Melville Road, Brunswick West, Melbourne (2026)

14/05/2026

"FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: WE HAVE MANY NAMES (1976) 🐴🤦‍♀️⛓️

Acclaimed feminist Swedish actor/director Mai Zetterling's rarely shown heartbreak ballad exploring despair and hope in the wake of divorce—co-presented by

Swedish multi-hyphenate Mai Zetterling directs and stars in this deeply personal study of a self-sacrificing woman reeling from her husband’s abandonment, told through flashbacks and fantasies.Zetterling blends the theatrical and cinematic to express a woman’s mind and body on the verge. Intense monologues whisper over Zetterling’s cropped hair and grieving eyes as she tries to rebuild and reconceive her life, and the movie howls for her all the while.

Screens with Lotte Reiniger's THE STOLEN HEART (10 mins), a 1934 German stop motion shadow puppet also about the ways men can take all that's meaningful to someone.

See them Saturday May 16, 11:00am, at BUFF 2026!

12/05/2026

SCREENING ANNOUNCEMENTS: LOCAL SHORTS I THOUGHT I WASN’T + WE AIM TO PLEASE 💀🏃‍♂️🚬

BUFF 2026 is beyond proud to present two sessions of bleeding-edge Australian shorts that push the movies forward with inventive style and hard questions! We adore these sessions and know they’ll inspire provocative conversations all around the fest.

On Saturday 16 May at 12:45pm, the I THOUGHT IT WASN’T program explores the daily dealings with doom on this wretched Earth. From eerie, spiralling horror to tactile celluloid documentary, living, working and creating in Australia while dealing with mundane evil is explored through spellbinding images and unique, personal stories. Featuring films by Kim Miles, Noah Jordan, Camille Perry, John Hewison, Owen Lawie, and Hector Hennessey + Bianca Pritchard.

On Sunday 17 May at 2:00pm, the WE AIM TO PLEASE program explodes filmmaking conventions with a boundary-pushing survey of s*x, gender, violence and liberation in contemporary Australia. A ghost haunts a gay sauna, a goddess goes to a strip club, and a jaded trans girl hooks up with a cop in shorts that range provocatively across intimate drama, expressionist doomscape and DV collage. Featuring films by Margot Nash and Robin Laurie, Xoori K. Sarhadi, Angus McGrath, Benjamin Woodard, Hamish Bruce, and Sophie Bagster.

Watch these spicy shorts, only at BUFF 2026!

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12/05/2026

FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE (2025) 📖🙏❤️

A WOMAN WRITES A TOME OF HER FANTASTICAL VISIONS—co-presented by .s.bookshop !

True story: In the 14th century, a woman named Julian experiences extraordinary visions—of a crucifix weeping blood, of herself strangled by the devil, of all God’s love held in a hazelnut. In response, she decides to live in ascetic seclusion and utmost passion as a nun, determined to record these visions on paper. Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love, are the earliest surviving texts in the English language to have been written by a woman.

Julian of Norwich chronicled her manifestations in the midst of a global pandemic, a national uprising, and a societal shift in gender roles and norms. This film borrows its title from her book and expands on her account with ecstatic speculation. With its handmade production design, sincere spiritual inquiry, and DIY ambition, this movie projects the medieval past onto the present dark ages and finds much in common. Only at BUFF 2026.

11/05/2026

FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: HARD TIME LOVER (2026) 🗺️🎷🔔

A darkly funny and supremely creepy conspiracy takes a slacker through the nocturnal Rio streets—co-presented by !

Rio de Janeiro, the night time: Miguel runs into his ex-girlfriend outside his apartment, and she speaks to him in riddles. Then Miguel meets a masked enigma in the hallway, who may put something inside his head. Driven by forces beyond his understanding, Miguel follows an occult pattern through the city streets that will take him to a dark underworld haunted by past and future violence, as well as harsh noise music.

HARD TIME LOVER (AMANTE DIFÍCIL) is movie that will put a bad spell on you, like a country puts a curse on its citizens. From strange angles, the architecture grows menacing and the mountains enormous, so it’s only terrifying inevitability when hooded figures appear from the shadows, some with knives and one with a saxophone. A darkly funny and spooky time!

Screens with FEUERWERK (2026, dir. Timothy George Kelly)

A dizzying, explosive tradition unfolds across decades of New Year’s in Berlin. From booze-soaked streets to the outer reaches of cosmos, this short documentary ricochets through time with the unpredictability of a misfiring firework. A spectacle like no other!

See them both on Saturday May 16, 7:10pm, only at BUFF 2026!

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11/05/2026

FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: ANYTHING THAT MOVES (2025) 🚴‍♂️🚐🍆

TAKE A BIKE RIDE THROUGH MIDNIGHT CHICAGO WITH A MIRACULOUS S*X WORKER, HIS MANY SATISFIED CLIENTS, AND A KILLER CLOSE BEHIND ... co-presented by !

Divine s*x worker Liam bikes through Chicago delivering snacks and pure satisfaction to his love-hungry clients, while a serial killer begins targeting his clients that leaves a trail of blood to his innocent lover's own bed in Alex Phillips' underground odyssey through the gutters of s*x, commerce, love, hate and all that's inbetween.

Shot in woozy 16mm by Hunter Zimmy (FUNNY PAGES), ANYTHING THAT MOVES is part gory giallo, part swooning romantic fantasy, all ode to s*x workers and s*x films—including cameos by Golden Age p**n legends Ginger Lynn and Nina Hartley. Cinemas are rarely blessed with a worthy heir to Jess Franco, so take a taste while the going's good on Saturday 16 May, 10:50pm … only at BUFF 2026!!

10/05/2026

FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: EVERYTHING GROWS IN EDEN (2026)🖕🚙🥽

In this micro-budget road movie about dreaming, dying, and living with other people, a young woman promises to take her suicidal best friend to an alternative retreat but when their volatile mutual friend joins the trip, an unexpected detour to a local commune forces all three to confront some painful truths.

Emerging auteur Jack Johnston grew up in a place like the fictional Eden, where a communal style of living can be nurturing but also oppressive. He brings a nuanced approach to this engrossing, funny and ultimately very moving story of three young people struggling to find their place in the world. A true Australian banger, only at BUFF 2026 on Friday 15 May, 5:30pm!

Screens with a live Q&A!

08/05/2026

FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: BUFFET INFINITY 😋🍔📺

Two restaurants wage war in the fictional town of Westridge County, as seen through fragments of local television. Ads for insurance, used car rivals, a local religious scholar, and a recording artist converge to tell the story of an expanding sinkhole, a cult, and an ever-growing restaurant that becomes unsettlingly sentient. Whoever wins, we lose.

This uproarious experimental cosmic horror arrives at BUFF via Fantasia + SXSW Sydney. Co-presented by the ever-wonderful - members get $2 off tickets with code BUFFXUNIMELB ✌

05/05/2026

FREE OUTDOOR FILMS + INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCED 🤩🎤🌕

On Friday and Saturday evening (May 15/16) at the festival, BUFF and Umbrella Entertainment are proud to co-present a selection of cult, underground favourites from around the globe, screening free in 's undercover outdoor theatre at Balam Balam Place.

Titles include RAD, a BMX-laden blast-from-the-past; DEAD END DRIVE-IN, an ozploitation classic from the King of ozploitation, Brian Trenchard-Smith and SHAOLIN SOCCER, an infamously hilarious kung-fu soccer comedy + more! These screenings are open to all, and generally friendly for adventurous families.

THAT’S NOT ALL

On Saturday May 16th, BUFF presents a free, day-long industry symposium. Secrets will be spilled, careers will be developed, forbidden knowledge will be un-vaulted!

Our panels focus on alternative film distribution, contemporary film criticism, getting started in the industry, film programming, submitting to film festivals and more—hosted by and featuring many talented and insightful industry figures!

More info will be up on the BUFF website, Wednesday, May 6th. Our full schedules are below:

OUTDOOR SCREENING SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY, MAY 15 - BALAM BALAM PLACE
15:30: Report to Mother
17:30: Three Stooges session 1
18:00: Microcosmos
19:30: Three Stooges session 2
20:00: Shaolin Soccer

SATURDAY, MAY 16 - BALAM BALAM PLACE
17:00: Three Stooges session 3
17:20: Rad
19:10: Three Stooges session 4
19:30: Dead End Drive-In

INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
SATURDAY, MAY 16 - BALAM BALAM PLACE
11:00: How Did You Get Started?
12:00: Film Clubs and Exhibition in Australia
13:00: Transgressive Cinema
14:00: BUFF Critics’ Roundtable
15:00: How to Release Your Independent Film
16:00: Festival Programming Roundtable

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30/04/2026

FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: 100% PURE RAGE (2025) 👊🔫🤯

After his deal with ruthless crime lord King Goldstein ends in a bloodbath, small-time dealer Ricky is enlisted by masked vigilante Hammertime and charming ex-con Anton to take down a doomsday cult who have plans to send the Earth into a new ice age. Their quest to save the world will result in thousands of punches thrown, swords sliced, bullets shot, and bodies goopified.

Writer/director Haruki Ryles was 18 years old when he and fellow student filmmakers set out to make an action-comedy epic for $3,000, and 100% PURE RAGE looks better than most movies made with exponentially more money and support—Ryles and co honour stated inspiration Wong Kar-Wai with gorgeous neon hues, lonesome cityscapes, and a romantic melancholy that holds steady through all the inventively staged action sequences. It’s spectacular, then moving.

Screens with a Live Q&A with action master Haruki Ryles .

Co-presented with !

30/04/2026

FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE (2025) 📖🙏❤️

True story: In the 14th century, a woman named Julian experiences extraordinary visions—of a crucifix weeping blood, of herself strangled by the devil, of all God’s love held in a hazelnut. In response, she decides to live in ascetic seclusion and utmost passion as a nun, determined to record these visions on paper. Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love, are the earliest surviving texts in the English language to have been written by a woman.

Julian of Norwich chronicled her manifestations in the midst of a global pandemic, a national uprising, and a societal shift in gender roles and norms. This film borrows its title from her book and expands on her account with ecstatic speculation. With its handmade production design, sincere spiritual inquiry, and DIY ambition, this movie projects the medieval past onto the present dark ages and finds much in common. Only at BUFF 2026.

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