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Sydney Film Festival

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    Sustainable Future Award

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    • [object Object]

      Burning

      7.1 (644)
      Eva Orner
    • [object Object]

      A Fire Inside

      8.5 (62)
      Justin Krook
      Luke Mazzaferro
    • [object Object]

      From the Wild Sea

      6.6 (50)
      Robin Petré
    • [object Object]

      How to Kill a Cloud

      6.1 (92)
      Tuija Halttunen
    • [object Object]

      Taming the Garden

      6.9 (773)
      Salomé Jashi
    • [object Object]

      River

      7.0 (606)
      Jennifer Peedom
      Joseph Nizeti
    • [object Object]

      The Magnitude of All Things

      8.1 (105)
      Jennifer Abbott
    • [object Object]

      The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

      8.8 (55)
      Camilla Denton Becket
      James Becket

    Dendy Award

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    Best Live Action Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Peeps

      6.3 (21)
      Sophie Somerville

    Rouben Mamoulian Award

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    Best Direction in a Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tough

      7.3 (12)
      Taylor Ferguson
      Pink Moon Films

    Yoram Gross Animation Award

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    Best Animated Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Freedom Swimmer

      7.6 (61)
      Olivia Martin McGuire
      Brooke Tia Silcox
      No Thing Productions
      Sacrebleu Productions

    Sydney Film Prize

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    Best Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      There Is No Evil

      7.5 (7.4K)
      Mohammad Rasoulof
    • [object Object]

      Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

      6.5 (12K)
      Radu Jude
    • [object Object]

      Drive My Car

      7.5 (74K)
      Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
    • [object Object]

      The Legend of Molly Johnson

      6.4 (2.2K)
      Leah Purcell
    • [object Object]

      Flee

      7.9 (21K)
      Jonas Poher Rasmussen
    • [object Object]

      The Hand of God

      7.3 (53K)
      Paolo Sorrentino
    • [object Object]

      Limbo

      7.2 (5.7K)
      Ben Sharrock
    • [object Object]

      Memoria

      6.4 (12K)
      Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    • [object Object]

      Petite Maman

      7.4 (20K)
      Céline Sciamma
    • [object Object]

      Quo Vadis, Aida?

      8.0 (41K)
      Jasmila Zbanic
    • [object Object]

      The Story of My Wife

      6.2 (3.3K)
      Ildikó Enyedi
    • [object Object]

      Undine

      6.6 (10K)
      Christian Petzold

    Documentary Foundation Australia Award

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    Best Australian Documentary

    • [object Object]

      The Bowraville Murders

      7.9 (14)
      Allan Clarke
    • [object Object]

      The Department

      8.3 (22)
      Sascha Ettinger-Epstein
    • [object Object]

      A Fire Inside

      8.5 (62)
      Justin Krook
      Luke Mazzaferro
    • [object Object]

      I'm Wanita

      8.1 (62)
      Matthew Walker
    • [object Object]

      Incarceration Nation

      8.3 (32)
      Dean Gibson
    • [object Object]

      Ithaka

      7.3 (232)
      Ben Lawrence
    • [object Object]

      Strong Female Lead

      8.0 (28)
      Tosca Looby
    • [object Object]

      We Were Once Kids

      7.2 (617)
      Eddie Martin
    • [object Object]

      Unseen Skies

      6.7 (34)
      Yaara Bou Melhem
    • [object Object]

      Under the Volcano

      7.6 (670)
      Gracie Otto
    • [object Object]

      When the Camera Stopped Rolling

      7.7 (35)
      Jane Castle
    • [object Object]

      Television Event

      7.3 (136)
      Jeff Daniels
      Amanda Spain
      Ozzy Inguanzo
      Common Room Productions

    Jury Prize

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    Best Film

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      Limbo

      7.2 (5.7K)
      Ben Sharrock
      Special Mention

    Deutsche Bank Fellowship for First Nations Film Creatives

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    Fellowship Recipient

    • Darlene Johnson
      Winner
      • Darlene Johnson

    Audience Award

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    Best Documentary

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      Winner

      Blind Ambition

      7.1 (322)
      Warwick Ross
      Robert Coe
      Third Man Films

    Australian Documentary Prize

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    Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      I'm Wanita

      8.1 (62)
      Matthew Walker
      People Productions

    Dendy Award for Best Short Fiction

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    Dendy Award for Best Short Fiction

    • [object Object]

      Dwarf Planet

      6.9 (41)
      Adrian Chiarella
    • [object Object]

      Freedom Swimmer

      7.6 (61)
      Olivia Martin McGuire
    • [object Object]

      Lifeblood

      8.9 (11)
      Nicholas Tory
    • [object Object]

      The Stranger

      Jenny Hicks
    • [object Object]

      Peeps

      6.3 (21)
      Sophie Somerville
    • [object Object]

      The Moogai

      6.8 (111)
      Jon Bell
    • [object Object]

      Tough

      7.3 (12)
      Taylor Ferguson
    • [object Object]

      Tinashé

      6.0 (7)
      Tig Terera

    • Off the Rails

      Isabelle Coury
      Bel Holborow
    • [object Object]

      Five Tiger

      6.5 (36)
      Brett Michael Innes
      Nomawonga Khumalo
      Paulo Areal
      Schalk Willem Burger
      Nostalgia Productions
    • [object Object]

      American Eid

      7.0 (260)
      Aqsa Altaf
    • [object Object]

      Shark

      7.8 (469)
      Nash Edgerton(director)

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    Sydney, Australia

    Event links

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