Animal Liberation Film Festival
The Animal Liberation Film Festival (ALFF) joins Cinema Nova with a carefully curated programme exploring the ethical, cultural and political dimensions of human–animal relations. Spanning documentaries, narrative film, animation and experimental work, ALFF brings together hopeful, imaginative, entertaining and thought-provoking stories from Australia and around the world — inviting audiences to see animals, and our shared world, from new perspectives.
ALFF26 OPENING NIGHT: Friday November 6, 6.45pm Join animal right activist and philanthropist Philip Wollen for a festival introduction and post-screening, in-cinema Q&A. SHEPHERD BOY (17:25) Abandoned on the outskirts of Doha, a dog named Shepherd Boy ... more
After escaping an industrial farm, a determined hen finds refuge in a crumbling Greek seaside restaurant. As she fights to protect her eggs, she becomes an unwitting witness to greed, people-smuggling and the moral failures of the humans around her. Györg ... more
IN CONVERSATION: Saturday November 7, 12.30pm Join Edgar's Mission Founder Pam for a post-screening Q&A live, in-cinema. Questioning whether his lifelong compassion for animals has made a difference, filmmaker Lucas Spiegel travels the world to ... more
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday November 7, 3.00pm. Join filmmakers Isabella Holgate and Jack Hinz for a post-screening Q&A, live in-cinema. A collection of shorts screening as part of the Animal Liberation Film Festival. RUNT (6:45): Seven-year-old Molly ... more
IN CONVERSATION: Saturday November 7, 6.00pm Join Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell for a post-screening discussion on animal rights. THE EMPATHY PROJECT (30:00) From farmers and French chefs to radical activists, twelve people re-examine their r ... more
LIBERATION (04:40) A mysterious young girl races against time to free a doomed calf from a factory farm. This concise animation turns an urgent rescue into a haunting confrontation with confinement, courage and compassion. ANIMAL JUSTICE (1:23:00) Afte ... more
Veteran Australian journalist Tony Jones enters the secretive world of laboratory animal research, following primatologist Dr Lisa Jones-Engel as she confronts the moral consequences of her former work. Combining rare access, testimony and undercover foot ... more
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday November 8, 12.00pm Join Director & Producer Alessio Schiazza for a post-screening Zoom Q&A following her feature documentary. As Russia’s full-scale war forces millions to flee Ukraine, animal rescuers move in the opposite ... more
PANEL DISCUSSION: Sunday November 8, 4.30pm. Join us for an in-cinema panel discussion after the conclusion of the screening. MOMO GARDEN: The Cows Who Survived Fukushima (11:11) After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, farmed animals left inside the ... more
ALFF CLOSING NIGHT: Sunday November 8, 6.50pm BEARS IN HOT TUBS (17:00) Black bears wander garden paths and soak in backyard tubs across suburban Los Angeles. Centring the bears’ own lives rather than treating them as problems to manage, this tender doc ... more
