
2022 Veterans Film Festival Open for Submissions until 31 July!
The 7th Veterans Film Festival (VFF) is is open for submissions for our forthcoming festival! The VFF is an annual event that brings people together to explore recent work from veteran and other filmmakers providing diverse perspectives on conflict and veterans’...

New Board for VFF in 2022
Sydney, NSW - The Veterans Film Festival (VFF) is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Board of Directors, following the move from Canberra to Sydney at the end of 2021. The new board heralds the launch of the festival in Sydney and brings a broad range of...

Voodoo Medics
Voodoo Medics // 51min // Documentary // 2018 // Australia
Director: Kristin Shorten
Voodoo Medics is an eight-part documentary about trauma, resilience and post-traumatic growth in the medics who served with our special forces in Afghanistan.

The Odd Angry Shot
Odd Angry Shot // 92min // Comedy // 1979 // Australia
Writer/Director: Tom Jeffrey
In between drinking cans of Fosters beer, Australian soldiers tread on a few landmines, and generally experience the war in Vietnam.

Missione Grado
Missione Grado // 84min // Documentary // 2014 // Italy, Afghanistan
Director: Carlo Christian Spano
The film chronicles some military activities carried out by the Italian contingent in Herat and Bala Morghab, Afghanistan.

Escape and Evasion
Escape and Evasion // 93min // Drama // 2019 // Australia UAE
Writer/Director: Storm Ashwood
Cast: Rena Owen, Hugh Sheridan, Firass Dirani
After his men are killed in Burma. A lone soldier returns home in search of solace.

Christmas in Baghdad
Christmas in Baghdad // 80min // Documentary // 2020 // USA
Director: Sonya Dunn
Writers: Tymur Yashchenko, Robert Kwilman
A media journalist is allowed unprecedented access to the 2018 USO Holiday Tour with high profile celebrities.

Danger Close
Danger Close // 118min // Drama // 2019 // Australia
Director: Kriv Stenders
Writers: Stuart Beattie, James Nicholas, Karel Segers, Paul Sullivan, Jack Brislee
In August 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, 108 young and inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are fighting for their lives against 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers.

A Mirror for the Sun
A Mirror for the Sun // 60min // Documentary // 2018 // Israel
Writer/Director: Neta Ariel
Producer: Avigail Sperber
Tamar Ariel was the first-ever Jewish Orthodox combat navigator.

Surviving the Silence
Surviving the Silence // 79min // Documentary // 2020 // USA
Director: Cindy L Abel
Writer: Cindy L Abel, Jesse Stephen Freeman
Surviving the Silence tells the story of two women in love who played a part in changing military policy.