Dendy Awards
Up for grabs are the Dendy Live Action Short Award; the Yoram Gross Animation Award; the Dendy Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Director; the AFTRS Craft Award; and the Event Cinemas Rising Talent Award for Screenwriting. All finalists screen together in two sessions with filmmakers in attendance.
Films showing at this event
Maŋutji (Catching Eyes)
Set in the Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land, this love story explores how two teens navigate their mutual feelings while maintaining cultural boundaries and kinship.
Date 3
Ella (Kate Box) psyches herself up for a third date with Harry (Daniel Henshall) but boundaries get crossed. Is it simply a case of miscommunication or something more sinister?
Sugar
Meet Oscar. A sex worker introduced to GHB by an older man. As the drug takes over, an overdose occurs, forcing him to make a choice which will transform him.
Ginkgo
A woman with dementia, under her daughter’s care, drifts between reality and memories of her mother when she was a child.
Raft Race
While camping with her family for the annual raft race, Frankie (11) is suddenly thrust into awareness of her developing body and how the world will perceive her.
Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling
This animated story charts the international legacy and intergenerational impact of the Ntaria Choir, formerly known as Hermannsburg Choir from the Northern Territory.
Flesh Fruit
A farmer manages to save his livelihood by selling a new fruit product whose origins are best kept a secret between him and his domineering mother.
Flywire
Late in the night, while the world sleeps, a subterranean swamp craft rushes beneath the reeds in this animated short.
Mr Adidos
Bronson (Nash Edgerton) is obsessed with finding a vintage sweater to complete his fantasy but a surreal encounter with twins (Elouise Eftos) turns the mission into something weirder.
Saint Valentine
A coming-of-age story where two sexually frustrated sisters, who are unsupervised and isolated, encounter two handsome Mormon American boys who come knocking on their door.
Tickets
Sydney Film Festival acknowledges Australia’s First Nations People as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land, and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, upon whose Country SFF is based.
We honour the storytelling and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.
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