All My Friends Are Back in Brisbane

All My Friends Are Back in Brisbane (2026)

Coming home alone to the world's 6th most romantic city

After being dumped by her fiance, a 30-something lawyer returns to her home town to discover all her friends are married and settled down – including her ex-boyfriend who refused to follow her to London ten years earlier. As she tries to forge a new life old attractions re-emerge.

Date of release
2026-05-29
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
Director
Louise Alston
Collection
All My Friends Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

All My Friends Are Back in Brisbane is a 2026 Australian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Louise Alston, written by Stephen Vagg and starring Nelle Lee. Based on Vagg's 2023 stage play All My Friends are Returning to Brisbane, it has been described as a "spiritual sequel" to All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (2007), which Alston and Vagg also respectively directed and wrote.

Production

The film is based on Vagg's stage play All My Friends Are Returning to Brisbane, which was given a public reading in 2022 and a staged production in 2023.

The film was shot over April and May 2025 in Brisbane. The budget was given as $13,000 although this appears to be a cash budget and not including deferrals. One of the characters, Neil Hutchison, is named after the head of drama at ABC in the 1950s.

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