The 73rd annual Sydney Film Festival took place from 3 to 14 June 2026. This edition of the Sydney Film Festival opened with the documentary film Silenced, and closed with the Australian premiere of James Gray's Cannes Competition crime thriller Paper Tiger. Exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev won the Sydney Film Prize for Minotaur.
Jury The jury members of the festival's Official Competition include: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazilian film director – Jury President Ildikó Enyedi, Hungarian film director and screenwriter Boo Junfeng, Singaporean filmmaker Ari Wegner, Australian cinematographer Sally Riley, Australian filmmaker
Official Selection In competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country Ben'Imana Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo Rwanda, Gabon, France, Norway, Ivory Coast Dao Alain Gomis France, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau The Dreamed Adventure Das geträumte Abenteuer Valeska Grisebach Germany, France, Bulgaria, Austria Fatherland Vaterland Paweł Pawlikowski Poland, Germany, Italy, France Fjord Cristian Mungiu Romania, Norway, Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden Gentle Monster Marie Kreutzer Austria, Germany, France The Invite Olivia Wilde United States Leviticus Adrian Chiarella Australia Minotaur Минотавр Andrey Zvyagintsev France, Latvia, Germany No Good Men Shahrbanoo Sadat Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Afghanistan Parallel Tales Histoires Parallèles Asghar Farhadi France, United States, Italy, Belgium Shame and Money Visar Morina Germany, Kosovo, Slovenia, Albania, North Macedonia, Belgium Sheep in the Box 箱の中の羊 Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan
Documentary Australia English title Original title Director(s) Production country Mockbuster Anthony Frith Australia Phenomena Josef Gatti The Piano Tuner Natalia Laska Replica Chouwa Liang Australia, France Rodeo Dreams Rhian Skirving, W.A.M. Bleakley Australia Silenced Selina Miles Australia, United Kingdom Sukundimi Walks Before Me Matasila Freshwater, Lachlan McLeod Australia, New Zealand Time and Tide Nicholson Ren, Vee Shi Australia Whistle Christopher Nelius Australia, United States, Spain, Japan Yumburra Grace McKenzie Australia
First Nations Award English title Original title Director(s) Production country Ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild Aanikoobijigan Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil United States, Denmark Árru Elle Sofe Sara Norway, Sweden, Finland At the Place of Ghosts Sk+te’kmujue’katik Bretten Hannam Canada Ceremony Banchi Hanuse Nika and Madison Eva Thomas Powwow People Sky Hopinka United States Wrong Husband Uiksaringitara Zacharias Kunuk Canada
Special Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country Árru Elle Sofe Sara Norway, Sweden, Finland The Birthday Party Histoires de la Nuit Léa Mysius France Colony 군체 Yeon Sang-ho South Korea Dead Man's Wire Gus Van Sant United States Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie Alex Gibney The Man I Love Ira Sachs United States, France Pressure Anthony Maras United Kingdom, France Rays and Shadows Les Rayons et Les Ombres Xavier Giannoli France Rose Markus Schleinzer Austria, Germany The Samurai and the Prisoner 黒牢城 Kiyoshi Kurosawa Japan Silent Friend Stiller Freund Ildikó Enyedi Germany, France, Hungary, China Sundays Los domingos Alauda Ruiz de Azúa Spain Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Jane Schoenbrun United States The Valley Ian Darling Australia Yellow Letters Gelbe Briefe İlker Çatak Germany, Turkey, France
Special Screenings English title Original title Director(s) Production country All of a Sudden 急に具合が悪くなる Ryusuke Hamaguchi France, Japan, Germany, Belgium La bola negra Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi Spain, France Congo Boy Rafiki Fariala Central African Republic, France, Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy Coward Lukas Dhont Belgium, France, Netherlands Jim Queen Jim Queen à la recherche de la Chloroqueer Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athané France The Match El Partido Juan Cabral, Santiago Franco Argentina Paper Tiger James Gray United States Red Rocks Les Roches Rouges Bruno Dumont France, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Qatar Tangles Leah Nelson Canada, United States
Features English title Original title Director(s) Production country 100 Sunset Kunsang Kyirong Canada 9 Temples to Heaven 9 วัด สู่สวรรค์ Sompot Chidgasornpongse Thailand, Singapore, France, Norway The American Dream Le Rêve Américain Anthony Marciano France Animol Ashley Walters United Kingdom The Arab Malek Bensmaïl Algeria, France Behind the Palm Trees Derrière les palmiers Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi Morocco, France Black Rabbit, White Rabbit Харгӯши сиёҳ, харгӯши сафед Shahram Mokri Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates The Blood Countess Die Blutgräfin Ulrike Ottinger Austria, Luxembourg, Germany Body Blow Dean Francis Australia Boss Cat Genevieve Clay-Smith The Death of Robin Hood Michael Sarnoski United States Don't Tell Mother Ammang Haelbeda Anoop Lokkur India, Autralia El Sett Marwan Hamed Egypt, Saudi Arabia Erupcja Pete Ohs United States, Poland Everytime Sandra Wollner Austria, Germany Filipiñana Rafael Manuel United Kingdom, Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands First Light James J. Robinson Philippines, Australia Flies Moscas Fernando Eimbcke Mexico The Fox Dario Russo Australia French Girls Hyun Lee Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass David Wain United States Good Boy Jan Komasa Poland, United Kingdom Heart of Light – Eleven Songs for Fiji Cynthia Beatt Germany, France Hen Kota György Pálfi Hungary, Germany, Greece I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning Clio Barnard United Kingdom, France, United States I Want Your Sex Gregg Araki United States Isabel Gabe Klinger Brazil, France Julian Cato Kusters Belgium, Netherlands Late Fame Kent Jones United States The Loneliest Man in Town Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel Austria Lost Land Harà Watan Akio Fujimoto Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany Mama Adi Bar Yossef Israel, Poland Master মাস্টার Rezwan Shahriar Sumit Bangladesh Memory of Princess Mumbi Damien Hauser Kenya, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia Mile End Kicks Chandler Levack Canada Morte Cucina ครัวสาว Pen-ek Ratanaruang Thailand Mouse Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson United States The Mutation 사랑의 탄생 Shin Su-won South Korea On the Road En el camino David Pablos Mexico Palestine 36 Annemarie Jacir Palestine, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan People and Meat 사람과 고기 Yang Jong-hyun South Korea Queen at Sea Lance Hammer United Kingdom, United States Ripples in the Mist 霧海微瀾 Clara Law Australia Rose of Nevada Mark Jenkin United Kingdom Rosebush Pruning Karim Aïnouz United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain Saccharine Natalie Erika James Australia A Sad and Beautiful World نجوم الأمل و الألم Cyril Aris Lebanon, United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars Soumsoum, la nuit des astres Mahamat-Saleh Haroun France, Chad Strange River Estrany riu Jaume Claret Muxart Spain, Germany Strawberries La más dulce Laïla Marrakchi France, Morocco, Spain, Belgium We Are All Strangers 我们不是陌生人 Anthony Chen Singapore The Wizard of the Kremlin Le Mage du Kremlin Olivier Assayas France The World of Love 세계의 주인 Yoon Ga-eun South Korea Yesterday Island Sam Voutas Australia
International Documentaries English title Original title Director(s) Production country 32 Meters Morteza Atabaki Türkiye, Iran, Qatar The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell United States American Doctor Poh Si Teng United States, Palestine, Malaysia, Qatar Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava Nông Nhật Quang Vietnam, South Korea Birds of War Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak United Kingdom, Syria, Lebanon A Child of my Own Un Hijo Propio Maite Alberdi Mexico Closure Michał Marczak Poland Crocodile Pietra Brettkelly, The Critics New Zealand, Nigeria The Cycle of Love Orlando von Einsiedel United Kingdom, United States, Sweden, India Daughters of the Forest Hijas Del Bosque Otilia Portillo Padua Mexico Everybody to Kenmure Street Felipe Bustos Sierra Scotland A Fox Under a Pink Moon Roobah Va Mah Soorati Mehrdad Oskouei, Soraya Iran, France, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark Give Me the Ball! Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff United States Hanging by a Wire Mohammed Ali Naqvi United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan The History of Concrete John Wilson United States If Pigeons Turned to Gold Kdyby se holubi proměnili ve zlato Pepa Lubojacki Czech Republic, Slovakia Just Look Up Emma Wall, Betsy Hershey United States, Denmark Lomu Gavin Fitzgerald, Vea Mafile'o New Zealand, United Kingdom My Father and Qaddafi Jihan United States, Libya Nuisance Bear Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman United States, Canada Once Upon a Time in Harlem William Greaves, David Greaves United States Our Land Nuestra Tierra Lucrecia Martel Argentina, United States, Mexico, France, Netherlands, Denmark Past Future Continuous Morteza Ahmadvand, Firouzeh Khosrovani Iran, Norway, Italy Remake Ross McElwee United States The Seoul Guardians 서울의 밤 Kim Jong-woo, Kim Shin-wan, Cho Chul-young South Korea Steal This Story, Please! Carl Deal, Tia Lessin United States Summer 2000: the X-cetra Story Ayden Mayeri The Tale of Silyan Приказната за Силјан Tamara Kotevska North Macedonia TheyDream William D. Caballero United States Time and Water Sara Dosa Iceland, United States To Hold a Mountain Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia Traces Сліди Alisa Kovalenko, Marysia Nikitiuk Ukraine, Poland Whispers in the Woods Le Chant des Forêts Vincent Munier France
Sounds on Screen English title Original title Director(s) Production country Amadou & Mariam: The Blind Couple from Mali Ryan Marley Canada The Best Summer Tamra Davis United States Broken English Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard United Kingdom Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC Emmett Malloy United States Newport & the Great Folk Dream Robert Gordon Tenor: My Name Is Pati Rebecca Tansley New Zealand
Flux: Art+Film English title Original title Director(s) Production country Chronovisor Jack Auen, Kevin Walker United States Dry Leaf ხმელი ფოთოლი Alexandre Koberidze Germany, Georgia Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karera Kampire, Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers Belgium, France, Democratic Republic of Congo Maddie's Secret John Early United States Tycoon Charlotte Zhang Canada, United States
Freak Me Out English title Original title Director(s) Production country Dawning Demring Patrik Syversen Norway Ghost in the Cell Joko Anwar Indonesia, South Korea Imposters Caleb Phillips United States Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant THUNDERLIPS New Zealand Never After Dark Dave Boyle Japan The Peril at Pincer Point Noah Stratton-Twine, Jake Kuhn United Kingdom
EUROPE! Voices of Women+ in Film English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Currents Las corrientes Milagros Mumenthaler Switzerland, Argentina Heysel 85 Teodora Ana Mihai Belgium, Netherlands, Germany Hold onto Me Κράτα Με Myrsini Aristidou Cyprus, Denmark, Greece The Kidnapping of Arabella Il rapimento di Arabella Carolina Cavalli Italy La Belle Année Angelica Ruffier Sweden, Norway Sorella di Clausura Ivana Mladenović Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain
Screenability English title Original title Director(s) Production country Joybubbles Rachael J. Morrison United States Retreat Ted Evans United Kingdom You Look Fine J. Snow United States
Family English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Desert Child L'Enfant du désert Gilles de Maistre France The Last Whale Singer Reza Memari Germany, Czech Republic, Canada
Classics Restored English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Arch (1968) 董夫人 Tang Shu Shuen Hong Kong Eureka (2000) Shinji Aoyama Japan He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001) Richard Lowenstein Australia Queen Kelly (1932) Erich von Stroheim United States Vive l'amour (1994) 爱情万岁 Tsai Ming-liang Taiwan Yam Daabo (1986) Le Choix Idrissa Ouédraogo Burkina Faso, France
Sartorial: Fashion on Film