Get ready for Sydney Film Festival 2019
Dust off your winter coats, don yourself a pair of uggs, break out the mulled wine and get a head start on your knitting projects, because winter is coming and this means that Sydney Film Festival is on again.
In its 66th edition, the festival runs between the 5th to 16th of June so that’s 12 days and nights of film premieres, talks, parties, international guests, red carpets and other film festival festivities which would mean you’d be more excited than a kid in a candy shop.
Containing a vibrant display of over 250 films from all over the world and industry talks to match, Sydney Film Festival will be held in venues throughout Sydney, including the State Theatre, Event Cinemas George Street, Dendy Opera Quays and Newtown, Randwick Ritz, Hayden Orpheum, Hoyts Entertainment Quarter, Art Gallery NSW, Casula Powerhouse, Pitt Street Mall and Festival Hub at Sydney Town Hall.
Right now there’s already 25 titles announced for this year’s event, including The Final Quarter, a documentary on AFL Champion footballer and Indigenous leader Adam Goodes’ public call-out of racism, a sci-fi thriller starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche titled High Life and described as a, ‘sexually charged sci-fi thriller’, Manta Ray, a story about a friendship between a Thai fisherman and a Rohingya refugee, School or Seduction – three stories from Russia a film about women learning ‘skills for seducing wealthy men’ and The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia, a deadpan Cuban sci-fi comedy which follows a 60-year-old who signs up to visit an alien planet.
In addition, this year’s Sydney Film festival features a retrospective program of Essential Australian Female Directors selected by David Stratton, Screen Day Out – a program for High School students, and an all-night cinema event featuring weird and wonderful films held at Dendy Newtown.
Just under two months away, Sydney Film Festival is the one event in winter you wanna mark in your calendar because before you know June will come around and you’ll wanna catch a couple films instead of catching a cold during the winter months.
So rug up and make plans to attend Sydney Film Festival, the perfect excuse to sit in a dimly lit room with a bunch of strangers for hours on end and stare at a screen.
Sydney Film Festival is on 5-16 June 2019 with the full program announced on May 8th. Flexipasses and Subscriptions are on sale now. For more info see https://www.sff.org.au/
Words by Addy Fong.
