From Cannes award winners to local documentaries and big-name stars, these are the festival’s top picks.
As the winter chill descends, the 71st Sydney Film Festival promises 12 days of entertaining, stimulating and thought-provoking cinema from around the world. There are well-known actors dotted around the program, including Viggo Mortensen as a new American settler inBut the real pleasures of the festival, which runs from June 5 to 16, are traditionally the line-up of new Australian feature films and documentaries, as well as unexpected gems from around the world.
The State Theatre is the focal point for the festival’s competition for “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous” films, with nine other cinemas around the city screening movies including the new theatre at the State Library of NSW and the IMAX in Darling Harbour. Here are 15 highlights.greatest, alongside AC/DC – that opens the festival and screens in competition. It explores their politics and passions with a soundtrack that includes hits such as.
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