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It’s 1988 and Newcastle P.E. teacher Jean Newman (Rosy McEwen) is surrounded by noise. A naturally rather tense woman who needs relaxation tapes to sleep, the noise is breaking her down. It isn’t just…
Love Road is Ulysses Oliver’s directorial debut. It’s also one of five films that have screened at the Sydney Film Festival in 2022 and 2023 that hail from production company Breathless Films. In 2022…
This Afternoon screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 10 and 11. Dutch/Iranian director Nafiss Nia’s debut feature That Afternoon is an intimate two-hander about Iranian refugees Roya (Hoda Niku…
Iranian/Dutch director, poet, writer, and producer asks the audience of That Afternoon (link review) to consider the plight of refugees and immigrants who seek a better life. As an author of multiple…
Behind the Haystacks screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 10 and 11. Asimina Proedrou’s debut feature, Behind the Haystacks is a modern morality tale. Set in Greece near the border of Macedoni…
Angus McDonald’s work as a filmmaker and an artist is steeped in activist storytelling. His 2019 short film Manus transported viewers to the cruelly neglected refugees isolated and trapped on Manus I…
The Girl from Tomorrow screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 8 and 9. In The Girl from Tomorrow Marta Savina extends her award-winning short film Viola, Franca about the woman who challenged th…
How to Blow Up a Pipeline screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 9, 12 and 14. In an era where comparatively tame protests by groups such as Extinction Rebellion are viewed by far too many as “e…
Reality screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 11, 12, and 17, ahead of a national release later in 2023. “I knew it was secret. But I also knew I had pledged service to the American People.”…
Band screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 8 and 10. Band begins with a subtle Björk joke which is apt because for many audiences their knowledge of Icelandic culture and music will be limited…
Sunflower, written and directed by Gabriel Carrubba is a tender, yet tough coming-of-age queer story set in the suburbs of Melbourne. The film documents a turbulent time in the life of high schooler L…
PRESS RELEASE A remarkable line up of esteemed filmmakers from around the world are set to descend on Sydney. Over the duration of Sydney Film Festival, 7-18 June, they will present their films or pr…