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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎥 Watch the full in-conversation between two storytelling legends, Hideo Kojima and George Miller, recorded live at SFF 2025.

Watch the full conversation between Hideo Kojima and George Miller – Sydney Film Festival

Experience the full conversation between legendary video game designer Hideo Kojima and Australian auteur George Miller, recorded live at Sydney Film Festival 2

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 17

After counting over 23,500 votes, your GIO AUDIENCE AWARD winners for 2025 are... ✨

🏅 ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU for Best International Feature
🏅 LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS for Best Australian Feature
🏅 THE RAFTSMEN for Best Australian Documentary
🏅 PRIME MINISTER for Best International Documentary

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thank you Sydney! This year's #sydfilmfest was the highest selling Festival in our history 🫶

Across 12 days, we welcomed OVER 150,000 ATTENDEES, screened 242 films, and hosted 448 screenings and events, with 150 sessions selling out! 💥😱

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 17

A sensational send-off to a BIG year at Sunday night's SFF Closing Night Ceremony 🤩

Spirits were high as auteurs and first-time filmmakers alike received $200,000 in cash prizes, before the screening of the Closing Night film SPLITSVILLE, introduced by director Michael Angelo Covino.

Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 15

@hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp and George Miller took to the Sydney Town Hall stage for an epic conversation moderated by Hex Steph 🎤

The two icons chatted all things cinematic storytelling, interactive art and the exciting upcoming release of DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH 🎮

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 14

ONE DAY TO GO! This is your last chance to immerse yourself in the biggest and best films of the year at #sydfilmfest⏳

Sunday service is almost in session 🙏📺 Time is running out 🏃‍♂️ sff.org.au

Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 14

Last night, spirits were high at #sydfilmfest 🏙️ with back-to-back premieres of award-winners THE BLUE TRAIL 🇧🇷 and IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 🇮🇷, Jimmy Chin wowing audiences over at his one-night-only talk at Sydney Town Hall, and the inspiring SONGS INSIDE.

Catch festival fever this FINAL WEEKEND 🎥

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 13

See Australian stories shine on the BIG SCREEN at #sydfilmfest ✨

A celebration of Aussie identity and culture too big for a small screen. Shift your spotlight to home soil at SFF 👀

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 13

Last chance to buy your #sydfilmfest merch from The Hub ‼️

Make those movie memories last longer with our limited line of oversized shirts, beanies, and retro totes.

Available from The Hub at Lower Town Hall 📍 until this Sunday, 15 June

📸: BTS from our Hayden Orpheum shoot

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 13

Daring docs and Aussie dramas hit close to home on #sydfilmfest day nine 📆 with a wave of World Premieres washing into Event Cinemas...

Take a big swig Sydney, there's still so much to drink in THIS WEEKEND at #sydfilmfest 💧

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 13

At #sydfilmfest, the crowd is the BIGGEST critic 🍿🌟

Vote as part of the the GIO Audience Awards. With daily prizes and the chance to win your own private film screening, you can't afford to sit on the fence ❌

VOTE NOW 🗳️ sff.org.au/vote/terms-and-conditions-of-the-gio-audience-awards/

Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 12

Sydney's biggest film fans fought it out for first place at #sydfilmfest trivia 📝

Presented by Grifter 🍺, and hosted by movie maestro Alexei Toliopoulos 🎤, this year's trivia also featured a live film score round, courtesy of Ash Quartet

📆 Your big SFF study session starts now

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Something You Said @somethingyousaid.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Agatha’s Almanac perhaps asks us to pause, reflect, and be grateful."

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Agatha’s Almanac at Sydney Film Festival – review

Agatha’s Almanac invites viewers to slow down and celebrate the simple things in life.

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SWITCH. @maketheswitchau.bsky.social · Jun 12

Catch 'The Wailing' ('El llanto') today at the @sydfilmfest.bsky.social. It doesn't make use of cheap jump scares; it succeeds with suspense in the absence of light. We never know if something may be present in the dark corners or hallways. Our #moviereview… https://swtc.au/thewailing #horror

The Wailing Review: Dying to see a more refined rendition of this horror film | Sydney Film Festival Review | SWITCH.

'The Wailing' stumbles far more than it succeeds. It's a horror film that is outright boring for considerable slabs of time. There doesn't need to be gore, there doesn't need to be terror - but there does need to be something to keep the audience engaged for the duration.

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Glenn Charlie Dunks @glenncharliedunks.bsky.social · Jun 12

Alexandre O. Philippe’s great CHAIN REACTIONS has one more @sydfilmfest.bsky.social session this Friday (the 13th!). I wrote about how much I enjoyed its unconventional take on a movie that feels as if it has been, let’s be honest, talked about to death.

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Sydney Film Festival – Chain Reactions (dir. Alexandre O. Philippe)

We don’t necessarily need another documentary about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Between features and home entertainment productions, general horror docs plus cast and crew biographies, Tobe Hooper’s...

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · Jun 12

"a domestic tale of property, paternity and a dysfunctional (gene) pool": Zoe Pepper’s fraught, funny drama BIRTHRIGHT (2025) screens 8.30pm tonight at Event Cinemas George St for @sydfilmfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/06/08/b...

Birthright (2025) - Projected Figures

Zoe Pepper's fraught, funny drama BIRTHRIGHT is a domestic tale of property, paternity and a dysfunctional (gene) pool

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 12

The stars were out on day seven of #sydfilmfest 🌠✨

See dozens of directors and filmmakers from across the SFF program, and the world 🌎, at Sydney Film Festival. Three days to go. Go BIG!

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 11

Palme d'Or. Best Director. Caméra d'Or special mention. The big winners from Cannes are at #sydfilmfest 🏆😎

📸 Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Akinola Davies Jr. are in Sydney

Final tix to IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, THE SECRET AGENT, and MY FATHER'S SHADOW available now 🎟️

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 11

We raised the bar, plus a few glasses 🥂, on day seven of #sydfilmfest!

International guests touched down to show-off their films to stacks of spirited screen geeks 🫵

Your seats are waiting, Sydney. Don't miss the biggest films of the year ⏳

Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 10

Charli XCX confirms that coming-of-age Cannes thriller THE PLAGUE is, in fact, BRAT 🍏✅

This future classic premieres TONIGHT at #sydfilmfest with special guest director Charlie Polinger in attendance *Lorde TBC

See it before the internet goes crazy 🎟️ sff.org.au/program/event/the-plague/

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 10

Fantasy fans and SFF first-timers flew to the Australian Premiere of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 🐉💥

After the smoke settled, Amy Wang's twisted satire SLANTED struck the State Theatre; and elsewhere, restorations of restored classics reclaimed the big screen.

Think cinema... Now think BIGGER ☁️

Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 10

📣 Special guest announcement! 📣 Michael Angelo Covino, director and star of #sydfilmfest Closing Night film SPLITSVILLE will present the Australian Premiere this Sunday, 15 June

Join us for a fitting festival farewell ✨ 🎟️ sff.org.au/program/event/closing-night-splitsville/

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Stephen A Russell @stephenarussell.bsky.social · Jun 10

Could not believe my luck, chatting to cinematic hero Jafar Panahi ahead of his latest film screening @sydfilmfest.bsky.social (more on It Was Just an Accident later) ab.co/3SJxtQ5

This filmmaker couldn't say he was coming to Sydney until he was on the plane

This world-renowned Iranian director was barred from making films in his own country. Now, he has come to Sydney under a veil of secrecy to promote his latest work, which is based on his interrogation...

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Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social · Jun 10

Aussie auteurs and big new names took centre stage on #sydfilmfest day six 🎤

One week to go Sydney 👀 and the BIGGEST is yet to come. Join the queue and experience the best films from around the world in week two of SFF

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taggstigress.bsky.social @taggstigress.bsky.social · Jun 9

First film of the day @sydfilmfest.bsky.social #sydfilmfest was a Panahi classic from 2009 OFFSIDE! Still so funny,relevant and tragic. Such magic one liners

Girl: "So why were the Japanese women allowed to sit with their men?
Soldier: (thinks) "Because they wouldn't understand the swear words."

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