Touring Program

We are proud to bring two extraordinary films to Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide this July. Mortician, by Abdolreza Kahani, and The Stranger and the Fog, the restored masterpiece by one of Iranian cinema’s greatest filmmakers, Bahram Beyzaie.

CineCircle

The Festival’s CineCircle series presents two special screenings in Sydney, honouring the legacies of Abbas Kiarostami with a screening of his early masterpiece The Traveller, and we pay tribute to Marjane Satrapi with a special memorial screening of Persepolis.

The 12th Persian Film Festival Australia will tour to other Australian capitals in July 2026.

We are here. We continue.

The 12th Persian Film Festival will be held in April to May 2026. The program will include an official competition in feature, documentary and short film categories where the festival jury will present the Golden Gazelle Award to the best film in each section. The festival will open in Sydney and will tour to other major Australian capitals.

In light of the ongoing events in the past few months and the devastating realities facing Iran today, including the silencing of people through state-imposed internet shutdowns, the festival reaffirms its commitment to being a space where those voices are heard.

The films we have curated speak directly to the Iranian experience as it is lived right now, and through the last decades.

Learn more about the festival.

Films & Events

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The Traveller

by Abbas Kiarostami

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Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

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The Stranger And The Fog

by Bahram Beyzaie

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Mortician

by Abdolreza Kahani

News & Updates

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  • Introducing PFFA Membership

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  • The 11th Persian Film Festival Opening Night

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