Behold, the Great Unlock is upon us and we are spoiled rotten for film festivals to keep us in the dark while opening up a window to the world.
The grand dame of them all opens in November, when the Sydney Film Festival takes over a bunch of our best cinemas, and you can warm up for that movie marathon with the sun-kissed flicks of the Italian Film Festival from the end of October or go off-world with the SciFi Film Festival.
Read on for more celebrations of big screen dreams.