The full official program for the 62nd Sydney Film Festival has arrived. The 2015 edition of the annual film event is now just under a month away, and film buffs are more than ready to sift through the huge list of films on offer this year, so let’s get cracking.
Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley says this year’s Sydney Film Festival will feature some new venues and an impressive increase in the number of films available.
“As well as adding two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool, the numbers of titles to be screened have jumped from 183 last year to 251 this year. They come from 68 countries, up from 47 last year and we are pleased to present 33 World Premieres, up from 15 in 2014,” Moodley says.
“Through the Festival, audiences, critics, creators and curators alike experience new countries, cultures, and perspectives, together. In so many ways, we are made of movies; we’ve grown up through cinema, come to know ourselves, our community and other communities; and the Festival celebrates these contributions to our collective culture.”
Two highly anticipated Australian feature films will open and close the 2015 Sydney Film Festival: Ruben Guthrie, Brendan Cowell’s adaptation of his hit play starring Patrick Brammall, Alex Dimitriades, Abbey Lee, Jack Thompson and Robyn Nevin, and Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man, staring Ryan Corr, Anthony LaPaglia, Guy Pearce, and Sarah Snook.
Other notable films in this year’s program include Amy, Asif Kapadia’s documentary about the late singer Amy Winehouse, a double feature of ’50s horror classics Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Them!, and Strangerland, an Australian-Irish thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, and Hugo Weaving.
This year’s Sydney Film Festival is also bringing a number of festival highlights to other capital cities directly after the festival ends, thanks to its SFF Presents program.
The 2015 Sydney Film Festival runs from 3rd to the 14th June. For more information, and to view the official program in full, visit the Sydney Film Festival website.
Check out some of the trailers for this year’s films, below.
