We may be post-film festival season but February puts us in the middle of the glamour of award season! From Academy Award nominations to breakthrough performances, here’s a round-up of AFF 2024 films sweeping up the accolades.

AFF has announced the winners of this year’s Official Competition and Audience Awards.

As a cinephile and alumnus of the formative Kim’s Video store in New York City, Alex Ross Perry’s approach to filmmaking ultimately comes from the place of a movie fan. It’s this perspective that formed the multi-genre ode to music films, and to an iconic 90s band that didn’t want a music documentary made about them, in Pavements.

Receiving its Australian Premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival, Went Up the Hill, an Australian/New Zealand co-production from director Samuel Van Grinsven, reimagines the nursery rhyme as a ghost story and an allegory of the lingering effects of abuse.

Head of Programming & Industry Gail Kovatseff shares her top picks for AFF 2024.