Sydney Film Festival Just Announced The First Movies On Their 2018 Program
It's going to be a great year for movie lovers.
Film buffs, get out your diaries! The Sydney Film Festival is back for another year and they’ve just released the first look at their 2018 program.
This year’s jam-packed program includes Oscar-nominees and festival winners such as inventive Israeli military drama Foxtrot, Afghan animation The Breadwinner, and Ziad Doueiri’s legal drama The Insult.
Inimitable and eccentric fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is the reluctant subject of the documentary Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, which will also screen at the festival. The British fashion designer stomped into the limelight in ’70s London when the Sex Pistols sported her designs, but over the decades Westwood’s focus has shifted from punk to eco-activism.
The documentary, directed by Lorna Tucker, sounds like an amazing insight into an iconic life.
Other documentaries on the SFF program include Sundance winner Genesis 2.0, about cloning and the hunt for mammoth remains, and the story of Afghanistan’s only heavy metal band in RocKabul.
But wait, there’s more! SFF have also scored The Miseducation of Cameron Post, starring Chloë Grace Moritz, a moving comedy-drama set in a “gay conversion” camp. Those who love spooky thrills will be able to catch everyone’s favourite hobbit Martin Freeman in the British chiller Ghost Stories, and see Mia Wasikowska in disturbing murder tale Piercing.
This year’s Sydney Film Festival runs from June 6-17. The full program will be announced on May 9th, when all tickets will go on sale.
For the complete list of first look titles, head here.