Sydney Film Festival
Exiled Russian master continues rebirth with Sydney Film Festival win
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s crime thriller Minotaur claimed the $60,000 competition prize for “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous” cinema.
- Garry Maddox
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Was this the best Aussie summer ever? This filmmaker thinks so
Tamra Davis’ new music doco The Best Summer offers an intimate trip inside a festival with a line-up that reads like the ultimate alt-’90s fever dream.
- Robert Moran
‘People are used like meat’: How Russia’s greatest director is taking on Putin from exile
Against a backdrop of domestic murder, Minotaur director Andrey Zvyagintsev rages against the Russian regime. This time, they won’t mistake the message.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Hugh Jackman’s dark and gritty Robin Hood plus nine other Sydney Film Festival standouts
The Australian star sheds his Wolverine skin for a very different take on the outlaw legend at this year’s festival.
- Garry Maddox
This Tasmanian has tuned 18,000 pianos. Now he’s won a place at Sydney Film Festival
Martin Tucker’s work tuning an estimated 18,000 pianos is the subject of a documentary having a world premiere at Sydney Film Festival.
- Garry Maddox
Three-hour Kangaroo Valley documentary is ‘a real escape from madness’
Ian Darling’s The Valley, which will make its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival in June, is about silence and solitude in a rural community.
- Garry Maddox
Amid conflict at home, Iranian director wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident has been awarded the $60,000 prize in a competition for “audacious, courageous and cutting-edge” films.
- Garry Maddox
The highs and lows of the Sydney Film Festival
After an opening night attraction that lived up to the hype, there was a lot to enjoy and the odd disappointment.
- Garry Maddox
From prison to the Palme d’Or: Jafar Panahi’s defiant message to the world
Iranian director Jafar Panahi said seeing his secretly made film with an audience after 15 years was the most exciting liberty.
- Stephanie Bunbury
The secret plan to bring a dissident Iranian filmmaker to Australia
Jafar Panahi did not know whether he would be allowed to leave Iran after a backlash against his Palme d’Or-winning film.
- Garry Maddox