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In 2025, the Official Competition celebrates 17 years of the prestigious Sydney Film Prize, which sees $60,000 awarded each year to the most “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous” film.

All That’s Left of You
Cherien Dabis (Amreeka, SFF 2009) directs and stars in this deeply moving epic chronicling the loves, hopes, losses and traumas of a Palestinian family over seven decades. Sundance 2025.
The Blue Trail
This 2025 Berlinale Grand Jury Prize-winning delight from Gabriel Mascaro (Neon Bull, SFF 2016) sees a remarkable woman try to evade a dystopian fate via a grand Amazonian quest.
DJ Ahmet
Charming, funny and uplifting, this Sundance Audience Award-winner tells the story of a 15-year-old North Macedonian boy who finds refuge in dance music and in first love.
It Was Just An Accident
Direct from the Cannes Competition, Jafar Panahi’s road movie thriller melds moral dilemmas, comic moments and shocking revelations to extraordinary, potent effect.
The Love That Remains
Hlynur Pálmason follows up Godland (SFF 2022) with this tender, poignant, and delightfully surprising Cannes selection, a hilarious portrait of an Icelandic family as the parents navigate their separation.
The Mastermind
Kelly Reichardt brings her unique sensibility to this breezy, 1970s-set art heist drama, a Cannes Competition contender starring Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, John Magaro and Gaby Hoffman.
Mirrors No. 3
SFF favourite Christian Petzold (Afire, SFF 2023; Barbara, SFF 2012) reunites with Paula Beer in this Cannes selected, intrigue-filled, intimate drama about a woman who gets entwined with a family following a car crash.
My Father’s Shadow
The first Nigerian film in the Cannes Official Selection, this bold, poetic drama set over a heady day in Lagos is sure to be one of the year’s most acclaimed debuts and stars Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Slow Horses, Gangs of London).
RomerÍa
Berlinale Golden Bear-winner Carla Simón (Alcarràs, SFF 2022), returns with a Cannes Competition contender - a mesmerising drama that melds family history with breathtaking fantasy.
The Secret Agent
Sydney Film Prize winner for Aquarius (SFF 2015), Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with his Cannes Competition entry – a rousing and tense political thriller starring Wagner Moura (Narcos; Praia do Futuro, SFF 2014).
Sorry, Baby
This breakout Sundance hit and screenplay award winner is a witty and fearlessly vulnerable dramedy about an English professor trying to overcome the unspeakable. Direct from Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
Together
Codependency takes on a twisted new meaning in the most anticipated Australian film of the year. Michael Shanks’s off-the-wall debut features “transformative” performances from Dave Franco and Alison Brie.
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