Written by Ben Clay
May 7, 2024
What To See At The 2024 Sydney Film Festival
The program for the 2024 Sydney Film Festival has arrived!
This winter, Sydney will come alive with over 200 films screening at the 71st Sydney Film Festival. With a total of 16 films brought to you by Madman, here’s the full list of our films in the program this year. Tickets are on sale to the public today.
Sydney Film Festival will run in cinemas from June 5 – 16.
Check out the full program HERE
Aquarius
The story of a radical 10-day Festival in 1973 where the idealists face down police interference, internal chaos, drugs and personal dramas to create a living template for survival on earth…and almost succeed.
Director Wendy Champagne.
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Architecton
An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?
Directed by Viktor Kossakovsky.
Blur: To The End
Blur’s recent reunion, captured across a year in which they made a surprise return with their first record in 8 years.
Directed by Toby L.
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Copa '71
The rip-roaring story, shamefully untold for decades, of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Cup, revealed by the awe-inspiring players who competed in the trailblazing tournament.
Directed by Rachel Ramsay & James Erskine.
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Crossing
Lia, a retired teacher, made a promise to find her long lost niece Tekla. Together with Achi, who offers to be her guide, she sets off to search for Tekla in the Istanbul trans community. But looking for someone who never intended to be found is harder than Lia and Achi thought. Could Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, help them?
Directed by Levan Akın.
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In Vitro
On an isolated cattle farm, a couple experimenting with biotechnology have their lives upended when they discover a disturbing presence on their property.
Directed by Tom McKeith & Will Howarth.
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Kid Snow
The story involves a washed-up Irish boxer named Kid Snow who is finally given a chance to redeem himself when he is offered a rematch against the man he fought a decade prior, on a night that changed his life forever. When Kid Snow meets single mother Sunny, he is forced to contemplate a future beyond boxing.
Directed by Paul Goldman.
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Kneecap
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
Directed by Rich Peppiatt.
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Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Directed by David Hinton.
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Menus Plaisirs - Les Troigros
An overview of the day-to-day operations of a Michelin 3-star restaurant in central France.
Directed by Frederick Wiseman.
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Occupied City
The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what’s to come.
Directed by Steve McQueen.
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Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Directed by Johan Grimonprez.
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The Mountain
Explores the journey of three young people as they seek solace under the watchful gaze of the Taranaki mountain and companionship in the spirit of adventure.
Directed by Rachel House.
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We Were Dangerous
Nellie and Daisy attempt to escape the institution for delinquent girls in 1954 New Zealand, however not only are they caught, it triggers a relocation to a facility on a remote island. The duo become a trio as well-to-do Lou joins them, and life on the island takes shape under the command of devout Matron.
The trio rail against the system, dubious of the benevolence of the bible and taking refuge in their blossoming friendship. It’s hard to reform girls who don’t believe they need reforming.
Directed by Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu.
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Wilding
Knepp is a beacon of hope for England’s wildlife. When Isabella and her husband inherited the estate to farm, they recognised how sick the land was. But a groundbreaking radical experiment has been nothing short of transformative.
This is a charming, hopeful and necessary story of ecological regeneration.
Directed by David Allen.
Book ticketsWith 200+ films, at 12 venues, over 12 Days, it’s your Festival to do your way. Your city, your celebration of cinema, your community, your new favourite films. See it your way at Sydney Film Festival 5-16 June 2024.
