This year, 2021, the Sydney Film Festival will run from August 18 to August 29. The first Sydney Film Festival was organized in 1954. Since 1958, foreign guests have begun to take part in it. Until 1967, the festival was held at the University of Sydney, and since 1974 the venue has been the historic State Theater in the city center. Since 2008, the festival has begun presenting awards - for the best fiction and documentary film, as well as the best short film and other honorary prizes. Since 2012, the director of the festival is Nashen Moodley.
In the past five years, films from Portugal, Brazil, Hungary, Paraguay and Korea have become the winners among feature films. In 2020, the festival was canceled due to the COVID epidemic. The 2021 festival will showcase 22 new films: dramas, documentaries, thrillers, comedies and art house films from around the world. Along with Australian films, viewers will see films by directors from Sweden and New Zealand, France and Lebanon, Germany and the Cote d'Ivoire, the USA and Russia and other countries.
At this festival, viewers will be able to see the film "Dear Comrades!" by one of the most famous Russian directors Andrei Konchalovsky. Starring Yulia Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev. This film, which tells about the tragic events in Novocherkassk in 1962, when workers who went to a peaceful demonstration were shot, received a special jury prize at the Cannes festival. In 2015, the film by A. Konchalovsky "White Nights of the Postman Alexei Tryapitsyn" was shown at the Sydney Film Festival. For more information about the festival and the purchase of tickets, see the website www.sff.org.au
