They're just the bookends, with Festival Director Nashen Moodley's full selection of flicks overflowing with other highlights.
It's been a difficult couple of years for the prestigious event, after being forced to move online in 2020, and then shift its 2021 dates not once but twice however, the time for losing yourself in the State Theatre - and other darkened rooms in picture palaces all around Sydney - is finally here.Īs it does every year, SFF has the lineup for the occasion. What starts with an anthology drama that tells eight tales by Western Sydney writers, then ends with Wes Anderson's latest? That'd be the fest's 2021 program. From Wednesday, November 3 till Sunday, November 14, the Sydney Film Festival is back - in person. Sinking into the cavernous auditorium, being surrounded by its gorgeous gothic and art deco architecture, watching movies that may never grace its big screen again - it's the cinephile version of a religious experience. Understandably, that makes trips to the nearly 100-year-old venue for the Sydney Film Festival all the more special. The CBD isn't short on movie-going options, but you can't head to the glorious Market Street spot to get your film fix whenever you like. For 353 days each year - 354 days in leap years - Sydney's State Theatre doesn't operate as a cinema.
