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Sydney Film Festival 2025

Films premiering at the 72nd annual Sydney Film Festival, 4-15 June 2025

BRAZIL, 2025

The best-reviewed film of the 2025 Berlinale, Gabriel Mascaro’s breathtaking fable follows a remarkable Brazilian woman who – as her working life draws to an end – secretly sets out on a trip down the Amazon to fulfil a long-held dream.

ICELAND, 2025

The new film from writer/director Hlynur Pálmason (Godland, A White, White Day) – one of cinema’s most singular contemporary artists – tenderly captures a year in the life of a family of five, as the parents navigate their separation.

SPAIN, 2025

The eagerly anticipated new drama from acclaimed writer/director Carla Simón (Summer 1993, Alcarràs) follows an orphaned teenage girl as she meets her paternal family and reckons with her late parents’ complex and secret history.

FRANCE, 2025

The luminous new drama from Robin Campillo (BPM, The Returned, Eastern Boys) intertwines sunlit romance and tender emotions with a sharp, incisive exploration of social class and the quest for self-discovery.

SINGAPORE, 2024

The first Singaporean feature to premiere in Official Competition at the Venice International Film Festival, Yeo Siew Hua’s gripping new surveillance thriller centres on a couple whose secrets are exposed after their young daughter goes missing.

ITALY, 2024

From debut writer/director Giovanni Tortorici and producer Luca Guadagnino, NINETEEN evocatively captures the once-in-a-lifetime freedom, confusion, and marvel of a defining year for a curious young Sicilian student as his adult life begins.