Opening film | Palm Beach by Rachel Ward |
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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]
The following were named as the festival juries: [5]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 |
English title | Original title | Director(s) |
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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 |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 | |
The following awards were presented at the festival: [6]
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