Adelaide Film Festival 2025

The Capri is super excited for the return of the Adelaide Film Festival.

Over 120 films from 54 countries will be presented at #AFF2025, featuring more than 20 World Premieres and 37 Australian Premieres at venues across Adelaide – it’s their biggest festival yet!

Award-winning films direct from prestigious festivals, directorial debuts and triumphant follow-ups, thought-provoking documentaries and retrospectives, horror that’ll have you screaming, animation and heartfelt youth films – there’s something for everyone at AFF 2025, and we welcome you to take a seat and surrender to the screen.

The full program is now on sale: https://www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/program

Below are the titles that will be screening right here at the Capri!

15th October, 7pm – JIMPA: OPENING NIGHT GALA

In Amsterdam, an Adelaide filmmaker and their non-binary teen reconnect with the family’s flamboyant patriarch. As old tensions resurface, Jimpa becomes a tender, emotionally precise portrait of queer family, care and the shifting boundaries between generations. Sophie Hyde’s most personal film yet, fresh from Sundance acclaim.

17th October, 6pm – IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY

In It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, documentary filmmaker Amy Berg turns the camera on his bandmates and the women who loved him and knew him best, to tell the story of a poetic artist full of life, with a natural born talent and an uncanny musical ear.

17th October, 8:30pm – IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

Rose Byrne is astonishing as a working mother hanging on by the barest thread in this darkly comic dramedy. Therapist Linda’s 10-yearold daughter has some mysterious illness, is being fed by tube requiring constant care. At the same time Linda’s husband is away and the house floods.

19th October, 4.15pm: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Despite bans and imprisonment, Iranian master filmmaker Jafar Panahi continues to make great humanist films. In the middle of the night a damaged car arrives at mechanic Vahid’s garage. He hears something that triggers him to believe that the driver of the car is the official who had tortured him. But as he never saw his face, can he really be sure?

19th October, 7pm – THE FOX

A trickster fox is let loose in the henhouse of Australian culture. Nick is an average good bloke, but when his fiancée strays, a fox promises to tame his foxy lady. An all-star cast is headed by Jai Courtney and Emily Browning, with the voices of Olivia Colman and Sam Neill.

25th October, 2pm – MAYA, GIVE ME A TITLE

Michel Gondry writes features, makes the coolest videos, and has the cutest daughter in the universe. He phones her every evening, and asks “Maya, give me a title,” then creates low-tech animations like Maya in the sea with a bottle of ketchup. Maya’s fantastic voyages will have the little ones dreaming, and the grown-ups smiling.

25th October, 4pm – JIMMY BARNES: WORKING CLASS MAN

Barnesy tells it straight. No varnish, no mythmaking. In Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Man, the Cold Chisel frontman traces how childhood harm became adult chaos, then a hard-won recovery, laying mental health on the table with humour, frankness and zero rock star mystique.

26th October, 6pm – WOLFRAM

Warwick Thornton’s Wolfram unfolds in 1932 Central Australia, marking the follow up to his acclaimed Sweet Country (AFF 2017). Aboriginal children are forced into wolfram (tungsten) mining until violence entangles them with ruthless outlaws. At the heart of the story is Pansy, longing for her stolen children in a tightly wrought western of reckoning.