At a glance
Peninsula Film Festival is the region’s film-culture anchor: part short-film festival, part production and location network for screen work on the Mornington Peninsula. Current-year dates should be treated as TBC until announced by the organisers, but the event has enough local identity to warrant an evergreen Signature Event guide.
What it is
A Peninsula-based film platform centred on short films, workshops, pop-up cinema work and location support through the Peninsula Film Office. The public festival program varies by year, so this page deliberately stays evergreen rather than quoting unconfirmed dates, venues or session numbers.
The useful reader angle is not only “what night is it on?” but how to treat it: as one of the Peninsula’s few recurring screen-culture anchors, especially valuable in a region whose public calendar otherwise leans heavily toward food, wine, markets, sport and live music.
Who it's for
Filmgoers, local creatives, families looking for a cultural night out when a public screening is programmed, and visitors who want a different Peninsula evening from the usual restaurant-and-cellar-door loop. It is also relevant to production teams scouting the Peninsula, though that is a separate professional use case from the public festival audience.
Where it sits in the Peninsula calendar
Gives the Peninsula calendar a screen-culture strand. Where Sorrento Writers Festival owns the literary shoulder-season moment and Mornington Winter Music Festival owns a winter music weekend, Peninsula Film Festival keeps film and short-form storytelling visible in the region’s annual cultural mix.
Getting there
Because the public program can shift by year, confirm the current venue before travelling. For Mornington or central-Peninsula screenings, allow about 75–90 minutes from Melbourne in normal traffic. If the event returns to an outdoor or pop-up format, treat weather, seating, parking and post-screening food as the practical planning points.
Visit the official site → Confirm current-year dates, tickets and program at the official source.