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Nadine Whitney and Andrew F Peirce put their heads together and come up with some unmissable films at the upcoming 2025 Sydney Film Festival. The Sydney Film Festival runs from 4 to 15 June 2025, tak…
If you had the power to change your ethnicity, would you? That is the question filmmaker Amy Wang poses in her debut feature, Slanted. She introduces us to Joan Huang [Shirley Chen], a Chinese Ameri…
PRESS RELEASE Sydney Film Festival today announces the Australian Premiere of the most talked about Australian film of the year, Together. Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks…
PRESS RELEASE Sydney Film Festival will present JAFAR PANAHI: CINEMA IN REBELLION, a major retrospective of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker’s work, screening as part of the 72nd Sydney Film Festival…
PRESS RELEASE The 72nd Sydney Film Festival (4–15 June) today revealed a sneak peek of 16 bold new films set to screen this June, offering a taste of the 2025 program ahead of the full Festival annou…
PRESS RELEASE Filmmakers worldwide have just weeks left to submit their films for the 72nd Sydney Film Festival (SFF), set to take place in cinemas across Sydney in June 2025. Submissions will close…
PRESS RELEASE Sydney Film Festival invites filmmakers from around Australia and the globe to submit their films for the 72nd edition of the Festival, which will run in cinemas across Sydney in June 2…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. In the wake of Afterwar’s screening at Sydney Film Festival,…
How do you break the back of a crisis? If you’re writer/director David Vincent Smith (DVS) you shine a spotlight on the humanity that persists through the darkest days. In his feature debut He Ain’t H…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. There's space in this Bluey obsessed world for two Aussie…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. The boxing film subgenre gets an esteemed new entry in the fo…
Thanks to Sydney Film Festival for providing the Curb with the opportunity to speak with Loren. Ozu famously had a character say, “Isn’t life disappointing?” through a fixed and sad smile at the end…