Sydney Film Festival announces lineup for 70th edition

Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy has been set to open next month’s Sydney Film Festival, which will celebrate its 70th anniversary^day Edition, June 7-18. The film, a story of spirituality and survival in 1940s Australia, starring Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mellman, Wayne Blair and Aswan Reed, will also be at the festival screened in competition.

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Other entries include: the world premiere of Alan Clarke’s Australian documentary “The Story of the Black Emu”; Christian Petzold’s Previously announced “Afire”; Charlotte Regan’s Sundance Jury Prize winner “Scrapper”; Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster”; Aki Kaurismäki’s compassionate comedy “Falling Leaves”; Kim Ji-woon’s “Spider’s Web”; Asmae El Moudir’s Mother of Lies; Alice Englert’s directorial debut, Bad Behavior; Celine Song’s 2023 Sundance and Berlin Film Festival romance Past Life; Liu Jian, 2023 Berlinale Selection Animation “Art Academy 1994”; “Joram” by Devashish Makhija, a thriller about fugitive laborers in Mumbai.

The winner of the competition will be announced on closing night, June 18.

In total, the festival will screen 90 feature films and 54 documentaries.

Ten documentaries will compete for the 2023 Australian Documentary Awards. These include: the world premiere of The Defenders; Michael Weir’s The Cape; and Isabel Darling’s Carnival. Other contenders include: Tim Flannery’s “The Climate Changeers”; homegrown actor Mark Coles Smith’s “Keeping Hope”; Gillian Moody and Adrian Russell Wills’ “Kins”; the previously announced “Rachel’s Farm”; “Earthlings” by Amiel Courtin-Wilson; and “The Last Daughter.”

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A special display area presents a collection of films premiering at Cannes in May. These include: Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City”; Anurag Kashyap’s noir thriller “JFK”; Wim Wenders’ Japanese version of “Perfect Days”; Amat Escalante’s Mexican thriller “Lost in the Night”; · The love story “Ghost Painting” by Kleber Mendonça Filho.

Stories from Asia include the monster movie “Ultraman New”; Zhang Lu’s drama “No Shadow House”; Rema Das’s TV series “Tiger’s Husband”; Amir Bashir’s “Inner Winter”; Jafar Panahi’s previously announced “No Bears”; drama “Sand”; and Ho Shu Ming’s “Ajoomma”.

Freak Me Out section by type Critic Richard Kuipers includes: “Late Night with the Devil, a documentary-style horror flick; “Becky’s Fury,” which sees a 16-year-old waitress take staggeringly bloody revenge on a right-wing misogynistic scumbag ; “Raging Race,” in which a single Filipino mother becomes the butler of a creepy British mansion; revenge thriller “Sisu”; and Sitges Award-winning “Nightsiren.” Unidentified” and Park Se-young’s grotesque body horror film “The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra.”

“Bringing together diverse perspectives, the festival provides a collective snapshot of the global zeitgeist, allowing us to delve deeper into current realities,” said Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley. “For 70 years, The Sydney Film Festival has been privileged to capture and embody these moments, presenting rich stories that reflect our collective desire to understand the world we live in.”

The festival will also showcase a Tribute to Jane Campion That includes all nine of her films and the Julie Bertuccielli biopic Jane Campion.

Following Indian screen legend Amitabh Bachchan’s 80th birthday last year, Sydney will present four of his restored classics: ‘Deewaar’, ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’, ‘Don’ and ‘Kaala Patthar’ “.

Other highlights scattered throughout the sections include: “20,000 Kinds of Bees,” which won Sofia Otero the Silver Bear Berlin; “Autobiography,” the first feature film by Indonesian filmmaker Makbul Mubarak; Lee Jeong -hong’s “A Wild Roomer” won the New Trends Competition and NETPAC Awards in Busan; “Riceboy Sleeps,” Anthony Shim’s semi-autobiographical series, won over 20 international awards; “World War III,” about A filmmaker becomes an unexpected star; “Bobi Wine: The People’s President,” chronicling a Ugandan musician-turned-politician’s anti-authoritarian campaign; Berlinale Golden Bear winner Nicolas Philibert )’s “Unwavering”; and “Run Rabbit Run” starring Sarah Snook.

The festival has also scheduled the first two episodes of the new Australian series Bay of Fire, a darkly comedic crime story starring Marta Dusseldorp about a mother forced to flee city life and find herself in a A story of finding asylum in the Tasmanian wilderness.

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