With 200-plus films, Sydney Film Festival's line-up can be overwhelming. Our film critics offer nine must-sees.
While the glamour of Cannes can feel a world away, the Sydney Film Festival brings local and international films — some 200-plus films from 69 countries — to our shores, most for the very first time, including plenty straight from La Croisette., with 10 Indigenous filmmakers from across the globe competing for a $35,000 cash prize – the world's largest for global Indigenous filmmaking.
Pepe the movie lets the eponymous pachyderm tell the story in his own words, switching between Spanish, Afrikaans and the Namibian dialect Mbukushu as he recounts his journey from Africa to Central America — and the absurd circumstances of his demise. The DreamWorks remake should be just around the corner.made history as the first black woman to compete at the Cannes Film Festival.
It's all counterbalanced by a playful surrealism, expressed through picture-book visuals and a lush, emotive score. For all its cruelty, the world never loses its sense of magic.Coming straight from the Berlin International Film Festival where it won best documentary, this film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of activists depicts the attempted expulsion – and ongoing resistance – of residents from the Masafer Yatta region in the West Bank.
The film's credit dedicates Flathead to the "working class, migrants and indentured workers of Australia", often interspersing Cumerford's scenes with footage of factory workers, fish and chip shop workers and butchers, slowly forming a sense of exhaustion. It is the rare Australian work of art about working class people that doesn't patronise or romanticise them.Directors David and Nathan Zellner told A.
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