NAME OF FESTIVAL: Sydney Film Festival
SINCE: 1954
WHERE: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Sydney Film Festival is one of the world's longest-running film festivals, and is a major event on the New South Wales cultural calendar.
Sydney Film Festival
The coronavirus is having a devastating impact on film festivals. San Francisco and RiverRun International Film Festivals have canceled.
The Heiresses, the debut feature of Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, won the prestigious Sydney Film Prize, out of a selection of 12 Official Competition films, at the 65th Sydney Film Festival.
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The Breaker Upperers, by New Zealand directors Jackie van Beek, Madeleine Sami will open the 2018 Sydney Film Festival on June 6.
The Sydney Film Festival has revealed a sneak peek of 26 new films to be featured in this year’s 65th edition of the festival, taking place from June 6th to 17th, 2018
On Body and Soul, directed by Ildikó Enyedi, beat 12 other films to win the prestigious 10th anniversary Sydney Film Prize at the 64th Sydney Film Festival.
The Australian premiere of 20,000 Days on Earth, described as an innovative film about international cultural icon Nick Cave, will serve as the Opening Night Film of the Sydney Film Festival on Wednesday June 4th, 2014. 20,000 Days on Earth is the first feature-length film by UK visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and was recently awarded the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary and the Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2014.
ONLY GOD FORGIVES
ONLY GOD FORGIVES, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn won the Sydney Film Festival‘s prestigious Sydney Film Prize. Starring Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringarm, ONLY GOD FORGIVES is described as a brutal and stylish story of betrayal, rage and redemption set in the Thai underworld. This is the second time Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has won the Sydney Prize, previously winning it in 2009 with the British prison thriller Bronson.
Durban International Film Festival manager Nashen Moodley has been appointed as director of the Sydney Film Festival. Moodley will take up his new position in January. The Sydney Film Festival takes place from June 6 to 17, 2012 while the Durban International Film Festival runs from July 19 to 29, 2012.{jathumbnail off}
The full 12 day film festival program for the 58th Sydney Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday, June 8-19, 2011 encompasses 161 titles: 75 features, 39 documentaries, 34 short films, 13 retrospective titles, 10 World premieres, 86 Australian premieres, 42 countries, 47 languages and 29 Australian productions (1 retrospective, 6 features, 10 documentaries, 12 short films). OPENING NIGHT GALAThe Australian premiere of espionage thriller Hanna – directed by Joe Wright (Atonement) and starring Saoirse Ronan, […]