IFF26 Closing Night: The Echo Chamber

Closing Night Event

Sunday, October 18
Luna Leederville

Bid the festival ‘arrivederci’ with the Australian Premiere screenings of The Echo Chamber, direct from the 2026 Venice International Film Festival. Enjoy a Campari & Soda, or mocktail, and Connoisseur Gourmet Ice Cream on arrival.  

6:45pm arrivals for
7:00pm session start

Luna on SX, Fremantle & Windsor Cinema, Nedlands
Sunday, October 18
Film only screening.

6:30pm

Australian premiere

Direct from competing In Competition at the 2026 Venice International Film Festival, The Echo Chamber is a spellbinding romantic drama about time and memory starring Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Luca Marinelli (The Eight Mountains IFF23) and Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise).

Directed by Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro and featuring a score composed by Academy Award® winner Clément Ducol (Emilia Pérez), this final work of Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, 1900), who wrote the story and screenplay with Ilaria Bernardini (Beloved) and Ludovica Rampoldi (also directs A Brief Affair), follows a love story where the boundaries between presence and absence, care and dependence, desire and control blur until they dissolve.

In an endless cycle of longing and separation, intimacy and distance, Leo (Marinelli) and Anne (Vikander) chase each other, but as they drift apart and search for their way back, they cannot let go nor break free. Meanwhile, songstress Ava’s (Sarandon) voice echoes across time, bringing to the surface that which endures and can no longer be held back.

OFFICAL SELECTION - Venice International Film Festival 2026 (In Competition)

English and Italian with English subtitles