The 62nd Sydney Film Festival will feature an Ingmar Bergman retrospective, curated by David Stratton, alongside 27 new films. The event, supported by Destination NSW, will feature more than 200 films, a new screening venue, Dendy Newtown, and an enhanced family film program.
Leading the titles are the Australian-Irish thriller Strangerland, starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving; winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Slow West, a new twist on the classic western starring Michael Fassbender, with Australians Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn; Mr Holmes starring Sir Ian McKellen as a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes obsessing over his last unsolved case; and the surreal pitch-black comedy A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, from the great Swedish director Roy Andersson, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
True stories on offer include Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Alex Gibney’s shocking exposé of the movement’s sway over Hollywood; Love & Mercy, the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys biopic starring John Cusack and Paul Dano; and The Look of Silence, the highly anticipated follow up to Joshua Oppenheimer’s phenomenal The Act of Killing (SFF 2013).
In 2015 the Festival extends its reach even further to include Sydney’s Inner West, bringing around 20 screenings, including highlights of the popular Freak Me Out program of horror and midnight fare, to Dendy Newtown. The State Theatre, Dendy Opera Quays, Art Gallery of NSW, Event Cinemas George Street and the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Cremorne will continue as official festival screening venues.
The Festival will be held June 3 to 14. For a full program and more information go to sff.org.au
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