Antipodean Film Festival - Rencontres Internationales du Cinéma des Antipodes

Following the stars to the Festival des Antipodes – All is in Saint-Tropez.

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From across the seas, following the stars, the best of Australian and New Zealand cinema comes to the Star Cinema in Saint-Tropez. While work continues on the future La Renaissance Cultural Center, a renovation that will provide a magnificent setting for cinema and the arts on the legendary Place des Lices, the 28th edition of the Festival des Antipodes will offer an equally rich and eclectic program at the Star Cinema in 2026. Ideally located near the superb Gendarmerie and Cinema Museum, you can follow Louis de Funès in The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez, stroll along the port of Saint-Tropez with Claude Chabrol's Les Biches or dance wildly with Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman. And upon leaving the Museum, you can head straight to the ends of the earth to explore a little-known film industry and let your curiosity lead you to discover Australian and New Zealand cinema, the immensity of this Terra Australis, and the raw energy of the land of the long white cloud through a wide range of feature films and short films, documentaries, meetings, and of course, a beautiful exhibition curated by Céline Emery-Demion (Red Dunes Gallery) featuring an eclectic and refined selection of Aboriginal art, housed in a charming and historic location: the Vasserot wash house.

To whet your appetite, let's share a few details about the 2026 edition. A cornerstone of the program, the Antipodes Juniors selection will once again offer around fifteen short films in competition, judged by nearly one hundred high school students from schools such as the Lycée du Golfe de Saint-Tropez, the Lycée de Lorgues, and the Lycée de Saint-Raphäel. These students traditionally form a serious jury, fully aware of their responsibility in choosing the recipient of the Nicolas Baudin Prize.

PALMARES 2025

Audience Award

DON'T TELL
by Tori Garrett

Nicolas Baudin Prize for best short film

UNSPOKEN
by Damian Walshe-Howling
Awarded by a jury of students from the Saint-Tropez region

Australian and NZ films!
Easy, head to Saint-Tropez, cinema Le Star.

After 26 years of the Festival des Antipodes in the magnificent and legendary cinema on Place des Lices, it's undergoing a makeover, will reborn bigger, more modern, and worthy of the history of Saint-Tropez and cinema. While this renovation is underway, let's meet at Le Star cinema, ideally located near the superb Museum of the Gendarmerie and Cinema, where you can follow Louis de Funès in The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez, swim with the sublime Romy Schneider in The Swimming Pool, or dance furiously with Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman. And upon leaving the Museum, you can head straight to the ends of the world to explore not enough known fabulous antipodean cinematography and let your curiosity carry you away to discover Australian and New Zealand films, the immensity of this Terra Australis, the telluric energy of the country with the long white cloud through a wide range of feature-length and short films, documentaries, encounters, and of course, a beautiful exhibition this year in a place full of charm and history, the Vasserot washhouse. Many thanks to Céline Emery-Demion (Red Dunes Gallery, Mougins) and her eclectic and refined selection of pictorial works by Aboriginal peoples.