71st Sydney Film Festival
2024 film festival
The 71st annual Sydney Film Festival was held from 5 to 16 June 2024.[1] The festival opened with Paul Clarke's documentary film Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line,[2] and closed with Coralie Fargeat's horror film The Substance.[3]
Overall the festival screened 197 films, including 28 world premieres and 133 Australian premieres.[4]
Juries
The Sydney Film Prize jury was headed by Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanović.[5]
Official Selection
In competition
The following films were selected for the main international competition:
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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All We Imagine as Light |
Payal Kapadia |
France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
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Dying |
Sterben |
Matthias Glasner |
Germany
|
Grand Tour |
Miguel Gomes |
Portugal, France, Italy
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Kinds of Kindness |
Yorgos Lanthimos |
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
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Kneecap |
Rich Peppiatt |
Ireland, United Kingdom
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Marcello Mio |
Christophe Honoré |
France, Italy
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Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line |
Paul Clarke |
Australia
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Puan |
María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat |
Argentina, Italy, France, Germany, Brazil
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September Says |
Ariane Labed |
France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, United Kingdom
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Sujo |
Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez |
Mexico, United States, France
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There's Still Tomorrow |
C'è ancora domani |
Paola Cortellesi |
Italy
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Viet and Nam |
Trong lòng đất |
Minh Quý Trương |
Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands
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- Highlighted title indicates Sydney Film Prize winner.
Special Presentations
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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The Bikeriders |
Jeff Nichols |
United States
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The Convert |
Lee Tamahori |
Australia, New Zealand
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Dahomey |
Mati Diop |
France, Senegal, Benin
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The Dead Don't Hurt |
Viggo Mortensen |
Canada, Denmark, Mexico
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Despicable Me 4 |
Chris Renaud |
United States
|
A Different Man |
Aaron Schimberg |
United States
|
Green Border |
Zielona granica |
Agnieszka Holland |
Poland, Czechia, France, Belgium
|
Kid Snow |
Paul Goldman |
Australia
|
Lee |
Ellen Kuras |
United Kingdom
|
The Monk and the Gun |
Pawo Choyning Dorji |
Bhutan, Taiwan, France, United States, Hong Kong
|
My Old Ass |
Megan Park |
United States
|
The Outrun |
Nora Fingscheidt |
United Kingdom, Germany
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The Pool |
Ian Darling |
Australia
|
Porcelain War |
Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev |
United States, Ukraine, Australia
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Touch |
Snerting |
Baltasar Kormákur |
Iceland, United Kingdom
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Documentary Australia Award
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Aquarius |
Wendy Champagne
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The Blind Sea |
Daniel Fenech
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Dale Frank: Nobody's Sweetie |
Jenny Hicks
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Every Little Thing |
Sally Aitken
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Mozart's Sister |
Madeleine Hetherton-Miau
|
Otto by Otto |
Gracie Otto
|
Skategoat |
Van Alpert
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Welcome to Babel |
James Bradley
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Welcome to Yiddishland |
Ros Horin
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You Should Have Been Here Yesterday |
Jolyon Hoff
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Features
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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About Dry Grasses |
Kuru Otlar Üstüne |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden
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Achilles |
Farhad Delaram |
Iran, Germany, France
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Alienoid |
Oegye+in 1bu |
Choi Dong-hoon |
South Korea
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Alienoid: Return to the Future |
Euigye+in 2-bu |
Choi Dong-hoon |
South Korea
|
All Shall Be Well |
從今以後 |
Ray Yeung |
Hong Kong
|
Armand |
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel |
Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
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Brief History of a Family |
家庭简史 |
Lin Jianjie |
China, Denmark
|
City of Wind |
Сэр сэр салхи |
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir |
France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar
|
Cottontail |
Patrick Dickinson |
United Kingdom, Japan
|
Crossing |
Levan Akin |
Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia
|
Daddio |
Christy Hall |
United States
|
Death of a Whistleblower |
Ian Gabriel |
South Africa
|
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World |
Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii |
Radu Jude |
Romania
|
Eephus |
Carson Lund |
United States
|
Essential Truths of the Lake |
Lav Diaz |
Philippines
|
Explanation for Everything |
Magyarázat mindenre |
Gábor Reisz |
Hungary, Slovakia
|
Ezra |
Tony Goldwyn |
United States
|
Flathead |
Jaydon Martin |
Australia
|
Ghostlight |
Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson |
United States
|
He Ain't Heavy |
David Vincent Smith |
Australia
|
Hesitation Wound |
Tereddüt Çizgisi |
Selman Nacar |
Turkey, Spain, Romania, France
|
House of the Seasons |
Oh Jung-min |
South Korea
|
I Saw the TV Glow |
Jane Schoenbrun |
United States
|
In Vitro |
Will Howarth, Tom McKeith |
Australia
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Kneecap |
Rich Peppiatt |
Ireland, United Kingdom
|
La cocina |
Alonso Ruizpalacios |
Mexico, United States
|
Memory |
Michel Franco |
United States
|
The Moon Is Upside Down |
Loren Horsley |
New Zealand
|
More Than Strangers |
Sylvie Michel |
Greece, Germany
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Motel Destino |
Karim Aïnouz |
Brazil, France, Germany
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My New Friends |
Les gens d’à côté |
André Téchiné |
France
|
My Sunshine |
ぼくのお日さま |
Hiroshi Okuyama |
Japan
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One Second Ahead, One Second Behind |
Nobuhiro Yamashita |
Japan
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Paradise |
Prasanna Vithanage |
Sri Lanka, India
|
Pepe |
Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias |
Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France
|
Problemista |
Julio Torres |
United States
|
Rapture |
Dominic M. Sangma |
India
|
The Rye Horn |
O Corno |
Jaione Camborda |
Spain, Portugal, Belgium
|
Sasquatch Sunset |
David Zellner, Nathan Zellner |
United States
|
Sex |
Dag Johan Haugerud |
Norway
|
Shambhala |
Min Bahadur Bham |
Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, China, Turkey, United States, Qatar, Taiwan
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Something Like an Autobiography |
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki |
Bangladesh
|
Stress Positions |
Theda Hammel |
United States
|
Thelma |
Josh Margolin |
United States
|
Toll |
Pedágio |
Carolina Markowicz |
Brazil, Portugal
|
Unicorns |
Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd |
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
|
Veni Vidi Vici |
Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann |
Austria
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Woman Of... |
Kobieta z... |
Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert |
Poland, Sweden
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International Documentaries
English title
|
Original title
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Director(s)
|
Production country
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Agent of Happiness |
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó |
Hungary, Bhutan
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Among the Wolves |
Tanguy Dumortier, Olivier Larrey |
France, Belgium
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Architecton |
Viktor Kossakovsky |
Germany, France, United States
|
Balomania |
Sissel Morell Dargis |
Denmark, Spain
|
The Battle for Laikipia |
Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi |
Kenya, United States, Greece
|
Black Box Diaries |
Shiori Itō |
United States, United Kingdom, Japan
|
Black Snow |
Alina Simone |
Denmark, United States
|
The Bones |
Jeremy Xido |
Canada, Germany
|
The Cats of Gogoku Shrine |
Kazuhiro Soda |
Japan, United States
|
Charmian Clift: Life Burns High |
Rachel Lane |
Australia
|
The Contestant |
Clair Titley |
United Kingdom
|
Copa 71 |
Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine |
United States
|
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found |
Raoul Peck |
United States, France
|
Federer: Twelve Final Days |
Asif Kapadia, Joe Sabia |
United Kingdom
|
The Flats |
Alessandra Celesia |
France
|
Flickering Lights |
Anupama Srinivasan, Anirban Dutta |
India
|
The Home Game |
Heimaleikurinn |
Smari Gunn, Logi Sigursveinsson |
Iceland
|
A Horse Named Winx |
Janine Hosking |
Australia
|
Ibelin |
Benjamin Ree |
Norway
|
In the Rearview |
Skąd dokąd |
Maciek Hamela |
Poland, France, Ukraine
|
Life Is Beautiful |
Al Haya Helwa |
Mohamed Jabaly |
Norway, Palestine
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger |
David Hinton |
United Kingdom, United States
|
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros |
Frederick Wiseman |
France
|
My Stolen Planet |
Farahnaz Sharifi |
Germany, Iran
|
A New Kind of Wilderness |
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen |
Norway
|
No Other Land |
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor |
Palestine, Norway
|
Nocturnes |
Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan |
India, United States
|
Occupied City |
Steve McQueen |
United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States
|
Rewards for the Tribe |
Rhys Graham |
Australia
|
Skywalkers: A Love Story |
Jeff Zimbalist, >Maria Bukhonina |
United States
|
Sugarcane |
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie |
United States, Canada
|
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story |
Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui |
United Kingdom, United States
|
Wilding |
David Allen |
United Kingdom
|
Late Announce
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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Black Dog |
狗阵 |
Guan Hu |
China
|
Caught by the Tides |
风流一代 |
Jia Zhangke |
China
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found |
Raoul Peck |
United States, France
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Ghost Trail |
Les Fantômes |
Jonathan Millet |
France, Germany, Belgium
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The Girl with the Needle |
Pigen med nålen |
Magnus von Horn |
Denmark, Poland, Sweden
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Megalopolis |
Francis Ford Coppola |
United States
|
Rumours |
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson |
Canada, Germany
|
The Seed of the Sacred Fig |
دانه انجیر مقدس |
Mohammad Rasoulof |
Iran, Germany, France
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The Substance |
Coralie Fargeat |
United Kingdom, United States, France
|
Freak Me Out
First Nations
Sustainable Future
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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The Battle for Laikipia |
Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi |
Kenya, United States, Greece
|
Black Snow |
Alina Simone |
Denmark, United States
|
The Feast |
Rishi Chandna |
India
|
Grove of Giants |
Bree Sanders |
Australia
|
The Waiting |
Volker Schlecht |
Germany
|
Wilding |
David Allen |
United Kingdom
|
Europe! Voices of Women in Film
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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Afterwar |
Birgitte Stærmose |
Denmark
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Excursion |
Ekskurzija |
Una Gunjak |
Bosnia
|
Immortals |
Maja Tschumi |
Switzerland, Iraq
|
Je'vida |
Katja Gauriloff |
Finland
|
The Lost Children |
Michèle Jacob |
Belgium
|
A Postcard from Rome |
Elza Gauja |
Latvia
|
Sounds on Screen
English title
|
Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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Blur: To the End |
Toby L |
United Kingdom
|
Head South |
Jonathan Ogilvie |
New Zealand
|
Resonance |
Kate Vinen, Jayden Rathsam Hua |
Australia
|
Family
Nancy Savoca Retrospective
Ousmane Sembene Retrospective
Classics Restored
FLUX
Screenability
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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Good Bad Things |
Shane D. Stranger |
United States
|
Rehabilitating |
Inez Playford |
Australia
|
The Ride Ahead |
Samuel Habib, Dan Habib |
United States
|
The Stimming Pool |
Benjamin Brown, Georgia Bradburn, Sam Chown-Ahern, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker, Steven Eastwood |
United Kingdom
|
Threshold |
Sofya Gollan |
Australia
|
Unstoppable |
Jack Byrnes, Marcus Porcaro |
Australia
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Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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Alone |
Alex Weight |
Australia
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Besharam! |
Raghav Rampal
|
Bong Xi Fa Cai |
Johnathan Lo
|
Darwin Story |
Natasha Tonkin
|
Die Bully Die |
Nathan Lacey, Nick Lacey
|
The Disconnected |
Pia Derya
|
The Gay |
Madeleine Purdy
|
The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste |
Pernell Marsden
|
Say |
Chloe Kemp
|
This Will Never Last |
Julia van Oppen, Katrina Lin, Holly May Fletcher
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Shorts airing with features
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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Dancer |
Nomin Gantulga |
Australia, Mongolia
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Dream Creep |
Carlos A.F. Lopez |
United States
|
Earwax |
Jasper Martin |
Australia
|
The Feast |
Rishi Chandna |
India
|
First Horse |
Awanui Simich-Pene |
New Zealand
|
Grove of Giants |
Bree Sanders |
Australia
|
It Will Find You |
Chris Broadbent, Enzo Tedeschi |
Australia
|
Lullaby |
Chi Thai |
United Kingdom
|
Meat Puppet |
Eros V |
United Kingdom
|
Mother Tongue |
Lea Tupu'anga |
Vea Mafile'o |
New Zealand
|
Of the Last Reel in Front of You |
Yan Geng |
Australia
|
Rehabilitating |
Inez Playford |
Australia
|
Tayal Forest Club |
Laha Mebow |
Taiwan
|
Threshold |
Sofya Gollan |
Australia
|
Transylvanie |
Rodrigue Huart |
France
|
Unstoppable |
Jack Byrnes, Marcus Porcaro |
Australia
|
The Waiting |
Volker Schlecht |
Germany
|
Withered Blossoms |
Lionel Seah |
Australia
|
Awards
The following awards were presented at the festival:
- Sydney Film Prize: There's Still Tomorrow (C'è ancora domani) — Paola Cortellesi[6]
- Documentary Australia Award for Australian Documentary: Welcome to Babel — James Bradley[6]
- Sustainable Future Award: Black Snow — Alina Simone[6]
- First Nations Award: First Horse — Awanui Simich-Pene[6]
- Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films
- Dendy Live Action Short Award: Die Bully Die — Nathan Lacey, Nick Lacey[6]
- The Rouben Mamoulian Award: The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste — Pernell Marsden[6]
- Yoram Gross Animation Award: Darwin Story — Natasha Tonkin[6]
- AFTRS Craft Award: Say — Chloe Kemp[6]
- Event Cinemas Rising Talent Award: Bridget Morrison, Say[6]
- Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award: Debbie Lee[6]
- GIO Audience Awards
References
- ^ Luke Buckmaster, "From mythic creatures to innovative documentaries: 10 films to see at Sydney film festival 2024". The Guardian, 7 May 2024.
- ^ Patrick Frater, "‘Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line’ Rockumentary to Open Sydney Film Festival". Variety, 23 April 2024.
- ^ Sean Slatter, "Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’ to close Sydney Film Festival". IF Magazine, 29 May 2024.
- ^ Lars Brandle, "Sydney Film Festival Sets 2024 Program". Variety, 8 May 2024.
- ^ Michael Rosser, "Sydney Film Festival reveals 2024 competition line-up". Screen Daily, 7 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Patrick Frater, "Sydney Film Festival: Italian Box Office Hit ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Wins Top Prize". Variety, 17 June 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "‘The Moogai’, ‘Skategoat’ take home SFF Audience Awards". IF Magazine, 20 June 2024.
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