- Source: 68th Sydney Film Festival
The 68th annual Sydney Film Festival was held from 3 to 21 November 2021. The festival, which traditionally takes place in June, was postponed to August 2021 and eventually rescheduled to be held in November due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film screenings were staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital. It marked as the first major festival following the lifting of the lockdown in New South Wales.
Anthology film Here Out West opened the festival, while Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch was the closing film. Drama film There Is No Evil won the most prestigious award, Sydney Film Prize.
Juries
= Sydney Film Prize
=The following were named as the festival juries:
David Michôd, Australian writer and director – Jury President
Simon Baker, Australian actor
Kyas Hepworth, National Indigenous Television Head of Commissioning and Programming
Maya Newell, Australian filmmaker
Clara Law, Hong Kong-Australian filmmaker
Official Selection
= In competition
=The following films were selected for the main international competition:
Highlighted title indicates Sydney Film Prize winner.
= Documentary Australia Foundation Award
== Special Presentations
== Features
== Special Screening
== International Documentaries
== Europe! Voices of Women in Film
== First Nations
== Freak Me Out
=Awards
The following awards were presented at the festival:
Sydney Film Prize: There Is No Evil by Mohammad Rasoulof
Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award: Karina Holden
Documentary Australia Award for Australian Documentary: I'm Wanita by Matthew Walker
Sustainable Future Award: Burning by Eva Orner
Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films
Dendy Live Action Short Award: Peeps by Sophie Somerville
Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Director: Taylor Ferguson for tough
Yoram Gross Animation Award: Freedom Swimmer by Olivia Martin-McGuire
= Audience Awards
=The following films won the Audience Awards, voted by the festival audience.
Best Narrative Feature Top Five
Beautiful Minds by Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse by Kiah Roache-Turner
Here Out West by Fadia Abboud, Lucy Gaffy, Julie Kalceff, Ana Kokkinos, and Leah Purcell
Friends and Strangers by James Vaughan
Quo Vadis, Aida? by Jasmila Žbanić
Best Documentary Top Five
Blind Ambition by Robert Coe and Warwick Ross
I'm Wanita by Matthew Walker
When the Camera Stopped Rolling by Jane Castle
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva by James Becket and Camilla Becket
Araatika: Rise Up! by Larissa Behrendt and Ithaka by Ben Lawrence
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Toni Collette
- Doug Mitchell
- Ed Sheeran
- 68th Sydney Film Festival
- The Drover's Wife (film)
- Here Out West
- Alps (film)
- Mohammad Rasoulof
- There Is No Evil
- Tilda Cobham-Hervey
- 69th Sydney Film Festival
- 67th Sydney Film Festival
- All We Imagine as Light
