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Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.

The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.

Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.

Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.

As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...

Paan Singh Tomar, a film which was ready in 2010 but released two years later gained critical and commercial success. But not all films are fortunate enough to see the light of the day. Partho Sen-Gupta’s Hava Aney Dey, a film set in Mumbai, is one of the most authentic portrayals of the city on celluloid. The 2004 film had a screening at Berlinale, won the Best Film at Durban Film Festival and a Special Mention at Hong Kong International Film Festival but failed to get a release in India.

Hava Aney Dey was recently screened in Mumbai in a curatorial project film

Still from Hava Aney Dey

festival by Katha Centre for Film Studies. It was a part of the curation by filmmaker Manjeet Singh, on the theme ‘Emerging Voices of Indian Cinema’: Unreleased Independent Films.

The honesty of the film combined with the intransigence of the filmmaker meant...

Utv's films A Wednesday, Dev.D and Mumbai Meri Jaan have earned the merit of being three of the five Indian films to be nominated at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, among other films across 16 nations, in all.India has received three nominations at the coveted awards this year with Anurag Kashyap being nominated for the Achievement in Direction category for Dev.D, Yogesh Vinayak Joshi and Upendra Sidhaye for the Best Screenplay (Mumbai Meri Jaan) and Naseeruddin Shah for Best Performance By Actor (A Wednesday!).Utv ...

After garnering accolades for their movies at Award Functions and Film festivals across the world, Utv’s films A Wednesday!, Dev.D and Mumbai Meri Jaan have earned the merit of being three of the five Indian films to be nominated at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, among other films across 16 nations, in all.

India has received three nominations at the coveted awards this year with Anurag Kashyap being nominated for the ‘Achievement In Direction’ category for Dev.D, Yogesh Vinayak Joshi and Upendra Sidhaye for the ‘Best Screenplay’ (Mumbai Meri.