66th Sydney Film Festival
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Opening filmPalm Beach
by Rachel Ward
by Rachel Ward
Closing filmYesterday
by Danny Boyle
by Danny Boyle
LocationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Founded1954
| Opening film | Palm Beach by Rachel Ward |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Yesterday by Danny Boyle |
| Location | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Festival date | 5–16 June 2019 |
| Website | sff |
The 66th annual Sydney Film Festival was held from 5 to 16 June 2019.[1] Comedy drama film Palm Beach opened the festival and musical romantic comedy film Yesterday was the closing film.[2][3]
Bong Joon-ho's dark comedy thriller film Parasite won the Sydney Film Prize.[4]
Sydney Film Prize
The following were named as the festival juries:[5]
- John Maynard, Australian film producer – Jury President
- Ana Kokkinos, Australian filmmaker
- Wagner Moura, Brazilian actor
- Gaylene Preston, New Zealand filmmaker
- Ritu Sarin, Indian filmmaker
Documentary Australia Foundation Award
- Robert Nugent, Australian filmmaker
- Jialing Zhang, Chinese director
- Toni Stowers, Australian film producer
Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films
- Dany Cooper, Australian film editor
- Bill Gosden, New Zealand International Film Festival former director
- Teona Strugar Mitevska, Macedonian director
Official selection
In competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles | Brazil, France | |
| Bellbird | Hamish Bennett | New Zealand | |
| Dirty God | Sacha Polak | United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland | |
| God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija | Gospod postoi, imeto ì e Petrunija | Teona Strugar Mitevska | Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, France, Croatia |
| Hearts and Bones | Ben Lawrence | Australia | |
| Judy and Punch | Mirrah Foulkes | Australia | |
| Monos | Alejandro Landes | Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay | |
| Never Look Away | Werk ohne Autor | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
| Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Parasite | 기생충 | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| The Souvenir | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom | |
| Synonyms | Synonymes | Nadav Lapid | France, Germany |
- Highlighted title indicates Sydney Film Prize winner.
Documentary Australia Foundation Award
| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| I Am No Bird | Em Baker | |
| In My Blood It Runs | Maya Newell | |
| It All Started with a Stale Sandwich | Samantha Lang | |
| The Leunig Fragments | Kasimir Burgess | |
| Life After the Oasis | Sascha Ettinger Epstein | |
| Lili | Peter Hegedus | |
| Martha: A Picture Story | Selina Miles | |
| Sanctuary | Kaye Harrison | |
| She Who Must Be Loved | Erica Glynn | |
| White Light | George Gittoes | |
Special Presentations
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Biggest Little Farm | John Chester | United States | |
| Blinded by the Light | Gurinder Chadha | United Kingdom | |
| Children of the Sea | 海獣の子供 | Ayumu Watanabe | Japan |
| The Dead Don't Die | Jim Jarmusch | United States | |
| The Final Quarter | Ian Darling | Australia | |
| High Life | Claire Denis | France, Germany, United Kingdom | |
| Marighella | Wagner Moura | Brazil | |
| Mystify: Michael Hutchence | Richard Lowenstein | Australia | |
| Photograph | Ritesh Batra | India, United States, Germany | |
| Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese | United States | |
| Skin | Guy Nattiv | United States | |
| Slam | Partho Sen-Gupta | Australia, France | |
| So Long, My Son | 地久天长 | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
| Standing Up for Sunny | Steven Vidler | Australia | |
| Varda by Agnès | Agnès Varda | France | |
Features
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akasha | Hajooj Kuka | Sudan, South Africa, Qatar, Germany | |
| Alpha, The Right To Kill | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines | |
| American Woman | Jake Scott | United States | |
| Angelo | Markus Schleinzer | Austria, Luxembourg | |
| Animals | Sophie Hyde | Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom | |
| Bait | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom | |
| Brittany Runs a Marathon | Paul Downs Colaizzo | United States | |
| Clean Up | 호흡 | Kwon Man-ki | South Korea |
| Cold Sweat | عرق سرد | Soheil Beiraghi | Iran |
| Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan | Kriv Stenders | Australia | |
| Divine Love | Divino amor | Gabriel Mascaro | Brazil, Uruguay, Denmark, Norway, Chile, Sweden |
| Dolce Fine Giornata | Jacek Borcuch | Poland | |
| The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia | El viaje extraordinario de Celeste García | Arturo Infante | Cuba, Germany |
| Flatland | Jenna Bass | South Africa, Luxembourg, Germany | |
| Ghost Town Anthology | Répertoire des villes disparues | Denis Côté | Canada |
| Her Smell | Alex Ross Perry | United States | |
| Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | Ben Wheatley | United Kingdom | |
| I Am Mother | Grant Sputore | Australia | |
| In Fabric | Peter Strickland | United Kingdom | |
| Jesus | 僕はイエス様が嫌い | Hiroshi Okuyama | Japan |
| Journey to a Mother's Room | Viaje al cuarto de una madre | Celia Rico Clavellino | Spain, France |
| Kursk | Thomas Vinterberg | France, Belgium, Luxembourg | |
| Ladyworld | Amanda Kramer | United States | |
| Manta Ray | กระเบนราหู | Phuttiphong Aroonpheng | Thailand, France, China |
| The Mountain | Rick Alverson | United States | |
| The Nightingale | Jennifer Kent | Australia | |
| Öndög | Wang Quan'an | Mongolia | |
| Our Time | Nuestro tiempo | Carlos Reygadas | Germany, Mexico, France, Sweden, Denmark |
| Papi Chulo | John Butler | United States, Ireland | |
| Piranhas | La paranza dei bambini | Claudio Giovannesi | Italy |
| The Public | Emilio Estevez | United States | |
| Saturday Afternoon | Shonibar Bikel | Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | Bangladesh, Germany |
| School's Out | L'heure de la sortie | Sébastien Marnier | France |
| Screwdriver | Mafak | Bassam Jarbawi | Palestine, United States, Qatar |
| Sequin in a Blue Room | Samuel Van Grinsven | Australia | |
| Sibel | Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti | France, Germany, Turkey, Luxembourg | |
| Suburban Wildlife | Imogen McCluskey | Australia | |
| The Sweet Requiem | སྐྱོ་དབྱངས་མངར་མོ། | Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam | India, United States |
| A Tale of Three Sisters | Kız Kardeşler | Emin Alper | Turkey, Germany |
| The Third Wife | Vợ ba | Ash Mayfair | Vietnam |
| This Is Not Berlin | Esto no es Berlín | Hari Sama | Mexico |
| The Wedding Guest | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom | |
| The White Crow | Ralph Fiennes | United Kingdom, United States, Serbia | |
| Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story | Icíar Bollaín | Spain, Cuba, United Kingdom, Germany | |
International Documentary
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Amazing Johnathan Documentary | Ben Berman | United States | |
| American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert | United States | |
| Anthropocene: The Human Epoch | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky | Canada | |
| Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller | United States | |
| The Biggest Little Farm | John Chester | United States | |
| The Brink | Alison Klayman | United States | |
| Buddha in Africa | Nicole Schafer | Sweden, South Africa | |
| The Edge of Democracy | Petra Costa | Brazil | |
| Hail Satan? | Penny Lane | United States | |
| Halston | Frédéric Tcheng | United States | |
| Honeyland | Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska | Macedonia | |
| Just Don't Think I'll Scream | Ne croyez surtout pas que je hurle | Frank Beauvais | France |
| The Kleptocrats | Sam Hobkinson, Havana Marking | United Kingdom | |
| Leftover Women | Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam | Germany | |
| Maiden | Alex Holmes | United Kingdom | |
| Meeting Gorbachev | Werner Herzog, André Singer | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | |
| Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen | Heperi Mita | New Zealand | |
| Midnight Family | Luke Lorentzen | United States, Mexico | |
| Midnight Traveler | Hassan Fazili | United States, Qatar, Canada, United Kingdom | |
| The Miracle of the Little Prince | Marjoleine Boonstra | Netherlands | |
| Monrovia, Indiana | Frederick Wiseman | United States | |
| Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy | Elizabeth Carroll | United States | |
| On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship | Karen Stokkendal Poulsen | Denmark, France | |
| One Child Nation | Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang | China, United States | |
| Picture Character | Ian Cheney, Martha Shane | United States, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Austria, United Kingdom, Scotland | |
| Reason | Anand Patwardhan | India | |
| School of Seduction | Alina Rudnitskaya | Denmark | |
| Sea of Shadows | Richard Ladkani | Austria | |
| Shooting the Mafia | Kim Longinotto | Ireland, United States | |
| Talking About Trees | Suhaib Gasmelbari | France, Germany, Sudan, Chad, Qatar | |
| Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts | Nick Zeig-Owens | United States | |
| Untouchable | Ursula Macfarlane | United States | |
| Up the Mountain | Zhang Yang | China | |
| Varda by Agnès | Agnès Varda | France | |
| The Wandering Chef | 밥정 | Park Hye-ryeong | South Korea |
| What Will Become of Us | Steven Cantor | United States | |
| XY Chelsea | Tim Travers Hawkins | United States | |
Sounds On Screen
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazing Grace | Alan Elliott | United States | |
| David Crosby: Remember My Name | A. J. Eaton | United States | |
| A Dog Called Money | Seamus Murphy | United Kingdom, Ireland | |
| Inna de Yard: The Soul of Jamaica | Peter Webber | France | |
| Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love | Nick Broomfield | United Kingdom | |
| Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Stanley Nelson Jr. | United States, United Kingdom | |
Europe! Voices of Women in Film
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Best of Dorien B. | Anke Blondé | Belgium, Netherlands | |
| Caviar | Kaviar | Elena Tikhonova | Austria |
| The Deposit | Tryggð | Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir | Iceland |
| Ever After | Endzeit | Carolina Hellsgård | Germany |
| Only You | Harry Wootliff | United Kingdom | |
| Pause | Παύση | Tonia Mishiali | Cyprus, Greece |
| Queen of Hearts | Dronningen | May el-Toukhy | Denmark, Sweden |
| Retrospekt | Esther Rots | Netherlands, Belgium | |
| Scheme Birds | Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin | Sweden, United Kingdom | |
| When Tomatoes Met Wagner | Marianna Economou | Greece | |
Focus on New Zealand
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital in the 21st Century | Justin Pemberton | New Zealand | |
| The Chills: The Triumph & Tragedy of Martin Phillipps | Julia Parnell | New Zealand | |
| Daffodils | David Stubbs | New Zealand | |
| The Heart Dances | Rebecca Tansley | New Zealand | |
| Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen | Heperi Mita | New Zealand | |
First Nations
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn | Canada, Norway | |
| Dark Place | Kodie Bedford, Perun Bonser, Rob Braslin, Liam Phillips, Bjorn Stewart | Australia | |
| She Who Must Be Loved | Erica Glynn | Australia | |
| Vai | Nicole Whippy, Amberley Jo Aumua, Becs Arahanga, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Mīria George, ʻOfa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Marina Alofagia McCartney, Sharon Whippy | New Zealand | |