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One of the most ambitious titles at this year's Sydney Film Festival is unequivocally Death of an Undertaker. It is an experimental fusion of truth and invention. It centres on Sparrow, an underli…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Amalie Atkins loving documentary Agatha's Almanac follows Agatha Bock, Am…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Queensland: Beautiful one day, deadly the next! For American drifter Zephyr (…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Director Justin Kurzel has crafted a filmography built on exploring the impac…
One of the most powerful moments at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — and perhaps in its history — came when Iranian director Jafar Panahi learned he had won the Palme d’Or. As jury president Juliett…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. There's a delirious level of dark comedy that thrives in the new short fi…
A person who promised forever elects to turn unfaithful, knowing full well the shame and hurt they will inflict on their spouse. It's not an uncommon situation, but variance springs from how the v…
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s fourth feature film Harvest is also her first in English. Set in an indistinct historical period it is the story of a small crofting village that faces extinction due to the E…
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…