SYNOPSIS
With over 250 films, at 12 venues, over 12 Days, it’s your Festival to do your way. Join the party and see your city come alive at your choice of film premieres, red carpets, talks and events at the ultimate celebration of cinema, June 5-16.
The 71st Sydney Film Festival comes to the iconic State Theatre this June 5-16, with the beautiful venue hosting opening night and many other film screenings you won’t usually find in the multiplex. Experience big feels with extraordinary cinema, red carpets, talks and parties with filmmakers from across the world.
As well as showing incredible films, 12 films are selected for the Official Competition, which celebrates “courageous, audacious and cutting-edge” cinema with a $60,000 cash prize. Sydney Film Festival also presents eight other cash awards over the course of the festival.
Sydney Film Festival is supported by the NSW Government through Screen NSW; the Federal Government through Screen Australia; and City of Sydney the Festival’s Principal Local Government Partner. Sydney Film Festival also runs the Travelling Film Festival year-round, taking the best of international and Australian cinema to 22 regional centres around the country.
