A highly curated festival of conscious documentary cinema by the sea — exploring people, planet, health and human potential.
On the Sunshine Coast, SCIFF brings together remarkable documentaries, filmmaker conversations and thought-provoking talks designed to connect us to ourselves, each other and the world around us.
Our programme is curated across four strands. Explore the films, or register your interest in a strand and we'll keep you close to what's next.
Documentaries on the body, the mind and how we heal — the science and the human story behind wellbeing.
A doctor returns to the Sunshine Coast to test whether 'blue zone' living can be rebuilt in a modern town.
Three surfers navigate recovery, anxiety and the sea as therapy — a study of men's mental health.
Films that explore human potential, attention and the inner life — what it means to be awake to our own experience.
Neuroscientists and meditators map the edge of attention, presence and the examined life.
What the fight for our focus is doing to a generation — and how some are reclaiming it.
Cinema of the natural world and our place in it — ocean, land and the climate we share, seen from the coast.
A year on one stretch of coast as king tides, development and community collide.
Marine scientists race to seed heat-resilient coral before the next bleaching.
Stories of people and communities changing the world around them, and the conversations they start.
A town buys back its own main street — a story of local ownership and belonging.
First Nations storytellers pass knowledge to a new generation of filmmakers.
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