Arts Margaret River exists to support and nurture the work of artists across all disciplines, and to foster a love of the arts within our community.
What's On Cinema Comedy Family Free Literature Music Performing Arts Sundowners Visual Arts Young@HEART2040 Documentary ‧ 1h32m Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply 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...
Free event to celebrate Seniors Week FACES PLACES| D. Agnès Varda| 89mins |France |In French with English subtitles 2018 Oscar Nominee–Best Documentary Feature “Enchanting, profound, and beautifully moving”-Variety Agnès Varda,...
Global premiere of the 2020 program! - SOLD OUT This carefully curated selection of short films document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers...
Iyengar: The man, yoga, and the student's journey Special screening - not available in Australian cinemas! This intimate portrait of B.K.S. Iyengar, recognized worldwide as one of yoga's foremost teachers, explores his legacy and wide-reaching influence among yoga practitioners. Through never-before-seen interviews with family, students, and Guruji himself, Jake Clennell's documentary explores how his teachings have...
Iyengar: The man, yoga, and the student's journey Special screening - not available in Australian cinemas! This intimate portrait of B.K.S. Iyengar, recognized worldwide as one of yoga's foremost teachers, explores his legacy and wide-reaching influence among yoga practitioners. Through never-before-seen interviews with family, students, and Guruji himself, Jake Clennell's documentary explores how his teachings have...
Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the south-west of WA could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done to protect their habitats.
Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the south-west of WA could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done to protect their habitats.
A film by Paul TaubliebThe logical thing, the sane thing, is to stay on land. But they paddle out. Why do these big wave surfers risk their lives to ride these mountain-sized waves?The answer is overcoming fear. "Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear" is an in-depth look at the 2021-22 big wave season through...
Follow filmmakers Spencer Frost and Guy Williment and surfers Letty Mortenson and Fraser Dovell as they journey to Kamchatka in the far east of Russia in search of new waves along the frozen, unexplored coastline.
Premiere Screening on Wadandi Boodja, Margaret River HEART19 May, 6-7.30 pmFREE (spaces are limited)Join this Margaret River Premiere screening of the new film ‘Fighting Giants’ on Wadandi Country. Friday 19 May, 6-7:30 pm at the Margaret River HEART.The Kimberley has some of the largest intact natural landscapes left in the world. It is also a...
The 2023 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is a 3 hour celebration of the mountain and adventure sport world.
Sharing over 2 1/2 hours of the most exhilarating short films from explorers, runners, mountain bikers, skiers, paddlers and climbers from around the globe.
Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the south-west of WA could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done to protect their habitats.
THE GIANTS explores the intertwined fates of tress and humans in this cinematic portrait of environmental folk hero and gay icon Bob Brown who took greens politics to the center of power.
The Gutsy Girls Adventure Film Tour serves up a curation of action-packed, inspiring all-female short adventure films like no other.
Australia’s largest destination film festival CinefestOZ returns to Western Australia’s beautiful South West from 29 August to 3 September.
Film director and actor Rachel Ward is not the first person you’d expect to join a farming revolution. In this triumphant film, director and actress Rachel Ward voyages from her own wilful ignorance about the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture, to championing a movement to restore the health of our farmland, food and climate.
This feature documentary follows the wild ride of Michael Gudinski over five decades as he forges his own maverick path consumed by his ambition and enduring passion for Australian music.
Follow Nick Colbey on an incredible surfing adventure around Australia with his partner and two step kids.
Climate Changers follows acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery as he searches for the missing ingredient in our fight against climate change – leadership. Where are the climate leaders who will drive change? How might they succeed where others have failed?
Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal family.
Despite being detained, silenced and hidden from public view in maximum security Belmarsh Prison, multi-award-winning Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange has become one of the loudest voices for free speech of our times. He has also risked everything to bring truth to light. The disclosures of WikiLeaks and Assange from 2010 onwards ignited a...
Designed to mesmerise and enthral, the Ocean Film Festival World Tour showcases a 3 hour celebration of our oceans comprised of sublime footage taken above and below the water’s surface. This unique collection of short films from around the globe document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers and oceanographers who live for the sea’s salt spray; who chase the crests of waves; and who marvel at the mysteries of the big blue.
A Margaret River Hockey Club Fundraiser in support of the Bycroft Family
Journey into the mysterious world of owls at the premiere of "Night Calling," presented by Owl Friendly Margaret River and Capes Foundation.
Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn's first feature documentary Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Po Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time. They formed Hipgnosis in Cambridge during...
Three elite surfers travel to eight remote destinations searching for pristine waves and an escape from the pressures of competition.
The Road to Patagonia is a stunning, intimate and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary – firstly a love between two people, and secondly between humanity and the Earth.
The 2024 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is a celebration of the mountain and adventure sport world.
Wildlife carers observe an increase in sick and injured koalas coming into care.
A government enquiry finds that the koala could be extinct in the wild by 2050. Firestorms in 2019/20 followed by floods kill an estimated 61,000 koalas. Saving the koala will take more than the promise of emergency government funding, scientific research, or rescue and care. This film follows the fate of individual koalas that have survived so far but whose future is uncertain. Weaving stories with compelling characters- wildlife carers, scientists, and ecologists in the field, and informed commentary the film questions whether Australia can save an iconic threatened species like the koala. If not, what does it say about us?
Legendary music and activism are front and centre in this exciting documentary, created with unfettered access to seminal Australian rock band Midnight Oil, who emerged from politically charged 1970s Sydney to become global icons.
Celebrate the canine connection through this carefully curated collection of heartwarming stories about dogs and their people at the 2024 Top Dog Film Festival.
The Gutsy Girls Adventure Film Tour showcases a 2 1/2 hour program of the most inspiring, heartfelt, and entertaining films celebrating adventurous women from independent filmmakers around the globe.
To celebrate the 25th anniversaries of Mark Occhilupo’s 1999 ASP World Title and multi award winning film The Occumentary, legendary surf film maker Jack McCoy and Occhilupo will be hitting the east coast of Australia.
CinefestOZ has evolved from an annual event, to a year round organisation promoting and celebrating remarkable screen content and storytellers.
Revelation Perth International Film Festival is thrilled to showcase a selection of short films that celebrate the positivity of ageing and include:
LIKE MY BROTHER is a joyful, entertaining and inspiring story of relationships and respect, heartbreak and triumph.
