The Sydney Film Festival program celebrates the best of world cinema, screening features, documentaries, short films, retrospectives and a series of industry and public talks.
Find the links for reviews, interviews, and more for the Sydney Film Festival submitted by AFCA members here:
Michael Walsh – Third Space – Coverage: Sydney Film Festival 2024 – Reel Dialogue Collection
- Excerpt: Film is a medium that allows voices from all walks of life to be heard. And the Sydney Film Festival remains dedicated to showcasing the most ambitious, cutting edge and courageous films from around the globe. Films covered at the festival include: The Bikeriders, The Convert, Rumours, The Substance, and more.
Andrew Fraser – Rough Cut – Review: Actors’ Playground: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Punishing Freedoms
- Excerpt: The director, with the assistance of longtime writing partner Efthimis Filippou, triples down on his pet themes of domination, alienation, and humiliation. Lanthimos is famous for placing his characters in situations where the absurdity of human behaviour is turned up to eleven. In Kinds of Kindness, new relationships begin with self-inflicted injury, a body part is offered as proof of companionship, and a character’s worthiness is assessed based on the purity of their sweat. The most mundane of actions are rendered as excruciating or life-threatening tasks, the body is always in a state of duress, and his performer’s stylised affectations amplify the ludicrous ways people sabotage even the most vital of human needs: connection.
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