Opening Night Gala: We Are Still Here
Join us for the Opening Night Gala Film + Party
A strictly limited number of tickets for the Opening Night Gala and after party at the stunning Centennial Hall are available. Here’s your chance to rub shoulders with SFF’s international and Australian guests and film industry personalities, drink cocktails and sample canapés in the heart of the city at Sydney’s premier film event. Ticketholders will gather under the imposing 25-metre wide grand organ of this amazing venue that’s over 115 years old and can indulge in a glass of wine from Chateau Tanunda, sip on the finest spirits from Brix Distillery, or kick back with a beer from Mountain Goat.

Special Guests
- Program Strand
- First Nations
- Year
- 2022
- Classification
- All Ages
- Country
- Australia, New Zealand
- Language
- In Arrernte, Maori, English, Samoan, Turkish with English subtitles
- Director
- Beck Cole, Danielle MacLean, Dena Curtis, Tim Worrall, Richard Curtis, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Chantelle Burgoyne, Tracey Rigney, Renae Maihi
- Producer
- Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers, Mia Henry-Teirney
- Cast
- Clarence Ryan, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Leonie Whyman
- Screenwriter
- Danielle MacLean, Dena Curtis, Tim Worrall, Richard Curtis, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Tiraroa Reweti, Chantelle Burgoyne, Tracey Rigney, Renae Maihi, Samuel Nuggin-Paynter
- Cinematographer
- Eric Murray Lui, Ray Edwards
- Editor
- Roland Gallois
- Premiere
- World Premiere
- Genre
- First Nations, Women Directors, Comedies, Australian Films, World Premieres, Animation, Crime
- Company Credits
- Australian Distributor: Dark Matter