Sydney Film Festival

Silenced producer Blayke Hoffman fills us in on what it took to make the documentary adaptation of the book How Many More Women: How The Law Fails Women by Jennifer Robinson

Born into a class of Austro-Hungarian autocrats and hailing from British rock royalty of the ‘60s, in a new documentary, Broken English, singer–songwriter-actress Marianne Faithfull offers a nuanced verdict about

… spectacle without substance: a film that gestures toward scandal and intensity but offers little emotional resonance or intellectual insight in return.

… elegantly realised …

Praised for being the first feature-length film shot in Longtian (Fuqing), Time and Tide captures a texture of rural China that has never been seen before.

… brims with jubilant possibilities

… leaves its audience nostalgic for better movies.

After stealing scenes in Here Come The Habibs!, Amazing Grace and Play Dirty, Aussie actress Kat Hoyos gets her meatiest role yet as a cop caught up in a bizarre

This year, Cannes critics were largely united in their belief that Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland were the best films in the competition. Both films won major prizes,

The Sydney Film Festival always offers up a diverse and fascinating array of features, docos and events…and this year is no different. After a stroll through the extensive 2026 programme,