10–20 September 2026 · Port Averley

Meridian Film Festival

Eleven days of independent cinema across Port Averley’s picture houses.

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Two surveyors with a tripod on a misty tidal flat

Australian premiere The Salt Line

Hiroto Tanimizu · Japan · 134 minutes

Sat 12 Sep, 3:15pm · Almanac Cinema

Saturday 12 September

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2:30 pm

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Tidal Shore

Dir. Maya Lindqvist · Sweden · 112m

Kestrel Picture House Cinema 135mm printOpen captions

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3:15 pm

The Salt Line

Dir. Hiroto Tanimizu · Japan · 134m

Almanac Cinema Cinema 235mm presentation

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4:45 pm

A Summer in the Archive

Dir. Camila Morales · Chile · 108m

Kestrel Picture House Cinema 1English subtitles

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From the programme

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A woman looks out across the harbour from the deck of a ferry

Opening night

The Coastal Path

Nora Thackwell · Australia · 112 minutes

A ferry deckhand spends one last summer on the harbour run before the route is retired, and finds the city looks different from the water.

Sun 13 Sep, 6:30pm · Sandbar Cinema

A boatbuilder polishing a wooden hull in a sunlit workshop

Pacific currents

The Last Pilot Boat

Mateo Ríos · Chile · 96 minutes

A boatbuilder restores the last wooden pilot boat on the river while his town decides what to keep.

Mon 14 Sep, 6:00pm · Kestrel Picture House

Two figures walking along an empty beach beneath sandstone cliffs

Restored and rediscovered

Headland Solitude

Margaret Ellery · Australia · 1968 · 88 minutes

A newly restored print of a quiet harbour two-hander, unseen in cinemas for decades.

Tue 15 Sep, 4:00pm · Almanac Cinema

Curated streams

Tides & Cartographies14 films → Restored & Rediscovered8 films → New Currents in Pacific Cinema18 films → Midnight Projections7 films →