By Jackie Shannon
“The Sydney Film festival is very pleased to announce that another six feature films, two documentaries, and one short film, have been added to the programme, which now stands at 254 films presented over the 12-day festival,” says festival director, Nashen Moodley. Coming directly from The Cannes Film Festival, the newly added films include high profile efforts like The Handmaiden (Korean director, Park Chan-Wook’s sensual, twist-filled drama); Toni Erdmann (FIPRESCI Prize winner Maren Ade’s clever and original comedy about the complexities of familial relationships); Paterson (Jim Jarmusch’s gentle, quietly moving portrait of a bus driver poet, played by Adam Driver); Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas’ spooky ghost story starring Kristen Stewart, pictured above); The Red Turtle (a dialogue-free, animated fable by Japan’s famed Studio Ghibli and London-based artist, Michael Dudok de Wit); The Cinema Travellers (a critically acclaimed, heart-warming doco about India’s travelling picture shows); and Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy (a film to honour the victims of Hissein Habré’s brutal dictatorship, tracing their long fight for justice). And in a special treat for cinephiles, The Sydney Film Festival will also screen a beautifully restored version of the classic 1961 western, One Eyed Jacks – the sole directorial effort of the legendary Marlon Brando – which has been overseen by movie titans (and titanic fans of the film itself), Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
For all session, venue, and ticketing information, head to The Sydney Film Festival.