Antenna Documentary Film Festival

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THU 5 FEBRUARY

Thu 5 Feb 2026, 7:00pm

Ritz Cinema

Opening Night: The Last Guest Of The Holloway Motel

In 1970s Britain, Tony Powell was a star defender for Norwich City Football Club — until one day he disappeared from…

FRI 6 FEBRUARY

Fri 6 Feb 2026, 6:00pm

Dendy Newtown

An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye unfolds like a real-life courtroom thriller, with stakes as high as life and death. Years after…

Fri 6 Feb 2026, 6:15pm

Dendy Newtown

Khartoum

Playful yet quietly radical, this film was shot before and during Sudan’s latest civil war — a conflict that, since spring…

Fri 6 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Ritz Cinema

Sentient

Fresh from Sundance 2026, the beloved Australian journalist-turned-filmmaker Tony Jones takes us inside animal laboratory research, exposing a hidden world in…

Fri 6 Feb 2026, 8:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Celtic Utopia

After 100 years of independence, a bold new wave of Irish musicians is reclaiming and reinventing the nation’s folk traditions. Celtic…

Fri 6 Feb 2026, 8:15pm

Dendy Newtown

The Castle

Out on the street, chaos reigns. But in an abandoned building in the middle of Sicily, Angelo, Mery and Rosy have…

SAT 7 FEBRUARY

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 12:00pm

Dendy Newtown

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW

A gripping portrait of Russian journalists living and working under the crosshairs of a hostile regime. It’s late 2021, and the…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 12:45pm

Dendy Newtown

La Jetée, The Fifth Shot

Few films have been held historically dearer than Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, a minimalist masterpiece often grouped among the greatest…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 1:00pm

Ritz Cinema

Hair, Paper, Water…

Winner of the ‘Filmmakers of the Present’ award at Locarno, Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý’s second collaboration is a delicate…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 1:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Australian Shorts

EARTH AND THE EXOPLANETS Ceridwen Dovey, Matt Grech | Australia | 2026 | 20 min  To name a planet is an…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 3:00pm

Ritz Cinema

Trains

Trains take families to the seaside, soldiers to the front, prisoners to their doom; they bring loved ones — and bodies…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 3:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Do You Love Me

Do You Love Me is a playful and deeply personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. A…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 3:30pm

Dendy Newtown

The Clown of Gaza

A portrait of the greatly beloved performer Alaa Meqdad, whose life has been upended by the bombings of Gaza City, forcing…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 4:45pm

Dendy Newtown

Stories of a Lie

During a stay in her native Greece, Olia learns that a childhood friend has cancer — a diagnosis her doctors and…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 5:00pm

Ritz Cinema

We Are Jeni

Dr Jeni Haynes’ childhood mind and body are a crime scene and her memories are fractured across 2,500 alternate personalities. Diagnosed…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 5:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Flophouse America

You never really know if it’s day or night in Flophouse America. Here we meet 12-year-old Mikal, a bright boy in…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 7:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Fiume o morte!

Die yes, live no! This was the motto of the flamboyant Italian officer, poet, dandy, aristocrat and fascist Gabriele D’Annunzio. In…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 7:15pm

Dendy Newtown

Nova ’78

Nova ’78 is an electrifying plunge into 1970s counter-culture, constructed from long-lost 16mm footage of the legendary ‘Nova Convention’ in New…

Sat 7 Feb 2026, 8:00pm

Ritz Cinema

PARA VIVIR: The Implacable Times of Pablo Milanés

A deeply personal and music-filled portrait of Cuban icon Pablo Milanés, captured in self-imposed exile during his final years. Co-founder of…

SUN 8 FEBRUARY

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 11:00am

Ritz Cinema

Gillian Armstrong & The Adelaide Three: 50 Years Later In A Longitudinal Series 

Antenna is proud to present a special retrospective celebrating one of Australia’s most extraordinary documentary achievements. In 1976, Gillian Armstrong met…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 12:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Seeds

Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance, Seeds is a lyrical and down-to-earth portrait of life,…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 1:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Soldiers of Light

They are on a crusade against “darkness.” In Germany, the “Citizens of the Reich” (Reichsbürger) movement belongs to the same family…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 2:00pm

Ritz Cinema

With Hasan in Gaza

It is 2001 in Gaza, and Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist Kamal Aljafari travels from north to south, accompanied by a…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 3:15pm

Dendy Newtown

Memory

After her parents’ separation, six-year-old Vladlena Sandu moves from Crimea to Grozny. There, in 1994, she becomes caught up in the…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 3:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Shifting Baselines 

In the quiet border village of Boca Chica, Texas — hemmed in by the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 4:30pm

Ritz Cinema

Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment

It’s 2014, and tech billionaire Elon Musk unveils his plans for a self-driving car before an enthusiastic audience. What consumers don’t…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 5:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Synthetic Sincerity

At the University of Southern England, the Synthetic Sincerity Lab is developing AI characters capable of true emotional authenticity. To teach…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 5:45pm

Dendy Newtown

The Travelers

Along the heavily militarized border between Morocco and the Spanish city of Ceuta on the North African coast, young Sub-Saharan men…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 6:45pm

Ritz Cinema

Trade Secret

Trade Secret is a gripping exposé of one of the world’s most shocking and little-known wildlife trades. It follows three unlikely…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 7:15pm

Dendy Newtown

The Last Guest Of The Holloway Motel

In 1970s Britain, Tony Powell was a star defender for Norwich City Football Club — until one day he disappeared from…

Sun 8 Feb 2026, 7:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Trillion

A woman walks across weather-beaten rocks by the sea. Barefoot in a simple white dress, her face hidden beneath a floppy…

MON 9 FEBRUARY

Mon 9 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Cameraperson

A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family…

Mon 9 Feb 2026, 6:45pm

Dendy Newtown

Iron Winter

Over the generations, as winter approaches and snow descends on Mongolia’s Tsakhir Valley, herders have led thousands of horses across the…

TUE 10 FEBRUARY

Tue 10 Feb 2026, 6:30am

Dendy Newtown

Man With A Movie Camera

Voted one of the ten greatest films ever made in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll — and named the best…

Tue 10 Feb 2026, 10:00am

Eternity Playhouse

DocTalk 2026

10:00AM – 4:30PM | TUE 10 FEB 2026 | ETERNITY PLAYHOUSE DocTalk is a full-day industry event featuring a curated program…

Tue 10 Feb 2026, 6:15pm

Dendy Newtown

The Colleano Heart

Before cinema, the circus was the world’s grandest stage, and the Colleano family were among its brightest stars. Embarking on a…

WED 11 FEBRUARY

Wed 11 Feb 2026, 6:15pm

Dendy Newtown

Sambizanga

This revolutionary bombshell by Sarah Maldoror chronicles the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. Based on a true story, Sambizanga follows a…

Wed 11 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Ritz Cinema

Seeds

Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance, Seeds is a lyrical and down-to-earth portrait of life,…

Wed 11 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Dendy Newtown

The Clown of Gaza

A portrait of the greatly beloved performer Alaa Meqdad, whose life has been upended by the bombings of Gaza City, forcing…

THU 12 FEBRUARY

Thu 12 Feb 2026, 6:15pm

Dendy Newtown

Hair, Paper, Water…

Winner of the ‘Filmmakers of the Present’ award at Locarno, Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý’s second collaboration is a delicate…

Thu 12 Feb 2026, 6:15pm

Dendy Newtown

One Sings, The Other Doesn’t

In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country…

Thu 12 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Ritz Cinema

An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye unfolds like a real-life courtroom thriller, with stakes as high as life and death. Years after…

Thu 12 Feb 2026, 8:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment

It’s 2014, and tech billionaire Elon Musk unveils his plans for a self-driving car before an enthusiastic audience. What consumers don’t…

FRI 13 FEBRUARY

Fri 13 Feb 2026, 6:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Trade Secret

Trade Secret is a gripping exposé of one of the world’s most shocking and little-known wildlife trades. It follows three unlikely…

Fri 13 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Ritz Cinema

Stories of a Lie

During a stay in her native Greece, Olia learns that a childhood friend has cancer — a diagnosis her doctors and…

Fri 13 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Dendy Newtown

The Colleano Heart

Before cinema, the circus was the world’s grandest stage, and the Colleano family were among its brightest stars. Embarking on a…

Fri 13 Feb 2026, 8:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Close Up

Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years,…

Fri 13 Feb 2026, 8:45pm

Dendy Newtown

Nova ’78

Nova ’78 is an electrifying plunge into 1970s counter-culture, constructed from long-lost 16mm footage of the legendary ‘Nova Convention’ in New…

SAT 14 FEBRUARY

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 12:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Soldiers of Light

They are on a crusade against “darkness.” In Germany, the “Citizens of the Reich” (Reichsbürger) movement belongs to the same family…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 12:30pm

Dendy Newtown

With Hasan in Gaza

It is 2001 in Gaza, and Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist Kamal Aljafari travels from north to south, accompanied by a…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 2:00pm

Ritz Cinema

Man With A Movie Camera

Voted one of the ten greatest films ever made in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll — and named the best…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 2:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Sambizanga

This revolutionary bombshell by Sarah Maldoror chronicles the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. Based on a true story, Sambizanga follows a…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 3:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Sentient

Fresh from Sundance 2026, the beloved Australian journalist-turned-filmmaker Tony Jones takes us inside animal laboratory research, exposing a hidden world in…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 4:00pm

Ritz Cinema

Flophouse America

You never really know if it’s day or night in Flophouse America. Here we meet 12-year-old Mikal, a bright boy in…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 4:45pm

Dendy Newtown

The Travelers

Along the heavily militarized border between Morocco and the Spanish city of Ceuta on the North African coast, young Sub-Saharan men…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 6:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Iron Winter

Over the generations, as winter approaches and snow descends on Mongolia’s Tsakhir Valley, herders have led thousands of horses across the…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 6:00pm

Ritz Cinema

Fiume o morte!

Die yes, live no! This was the motto of the flamboyant Italian officer, poet, dandy, aristocrat and fascist Gabriele D’Annunzio. In…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Do You Love Me

Do You Love Me is a playful and deeply personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. A…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 8:00pm

Dendy Newtown

PARA VIVIR: The Implacable Times of Pablo Milanés

A deeply personal and music-filled portrait of Cuban icon Pablo Milanés, captured in self-imposed exile during his final years. Co-founder of…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 8:15pm

Dendy Newtown

One Sings, The Other Doesn’t

In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country…

Sat 14 Feb 2026, 8:30pm

Ritz Cinema

Celtic Utopia

After 100 years of independence, a bold new wave of Irish musicians is reclaiming and reinventing the nation’s folk traditions. Celtic…

SUN 15 FEBRUARY

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 11:00am

Ritz Cinema

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW

A gripping portrait of Russian journalists living and working under the crosshairs of a hostile regime. It’s late 2021, and the…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 12:00pm

Ritz Cinema

Close Up

Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years,…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 12:00pm

Dendy Newtown

Shifting Baselines 

In the quiet border village of Boca Chica, Texas — hemmed in by the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 12:15pm

Dendy Newtown

La Jetée, The Fifth Shot

Few films have been held historically dearer than Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, a minimalist masterpiece often grouped among the greatest…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 2:15pm

Ritz Cinema

Trillion

A woman walks across weather-beaten rocks by the sea. Barefoot in a simple white dress, her face hidden beneath a floppy…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 2:15pm

Dendy Newtown

Khartoum

Playful yet quietly radical, this film was shot before and during Sudan’s latest civil war — a conflict that, since spring…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 2:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Trains

Trains take families to the seaside, soldiers to the front, prisoners to their doom; they bring loved ones — and bodies…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 4:00pm

Ritz Cinema

Memory

After her parents’ separation, six-year-old Vladlena Sandu moves from Crimea to Grozny. There, in 1994, she becomes caught up in the…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 4:15pm

Dendy Newtown

We Are Jeni

Dr Jeni Haynes’ childhood mind and body are a crime scene and her memories are fractured across 2,500 alternate personalities. Diagnosed…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 4:30pm

Dendy Newtown

Synthetic Sincerity

At the University of Southern England, the Synthetic Sincerity Lab is developing AI characters capable of true emotional authenticity. To teach…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 6:30pm

Dendy Newtown

The Castle

Out on the street, chaos reigns. But in an abandoned building in the middle of Sicily, Angelo, Mery and Rosy have…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 6:45pm

Dendy Newtown

The Last Guest Of The Holloway Motel

In 1970s Britain, Tony Powell was a star defender for Norwich City Football Club — until one day he disappeared from…

Sun 15 Feb 2026, 7:15pm

Ritz Cinema

Ghost Elephants (Closing Night)

For over sixty years, Werner Herzog has been fascinated by human obsessions, dreams, and imagination. In Ghost Elephants, he continues this…

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