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Artistic co-curator Benjamin Zeccola unpacks the 2023 line-up that features a curated selection of dramas and box office hit comedies including the Opening Night Australian premiere of Two many chefs.

Festival Centrepiece Alcàrras has been a critical and audience success in Spain, taking home the Golden Bear at Berlinale in 2022.

From Spain is box office hit thriller Prison 77 and from Colombia, Laura Mora Ortega’s award-winning drama The kings of the worlds.

The festival Retrospective Lord of Dance focuses on Carlos Saura and showcases a selection of works from the Spanish filmmaker who passed away earlier this year.  Festival special events include Argentinian and Mexican Nights, while the Closing Night will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Carlos Saura’s multi-award winner Carmen.

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PODCAST| Federica Scarpa interviews Claire Dix, director of the film Sunlight.

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Interview with Claire Dix, director of Sunlight, presented at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival in the program strand “Europe! Voices of Women in Film”.

Sunlight: Claire Dix’s first fiction film, Sunlight, asks a difficult question: How can you separate yourself from the person who makes life worth living? The film follows former drug addict Leon, destabilized when he learns that his sponsor Iver has received a terminal diagnosis and plans to pursue euthanasia. Determined to prolong his mentor’s last days, Leon takes Iver on one last ride through Dublin. We talked to Claire about the birth of this film, the importance of Dublin and surrounding yourself with the right crew. As a director selected by the program Europe! Voices of Women in Film, we then talked about her experience as a female director, her approach to the set, the importance of funds, and the strange tendency of festivals, when they select films shot by women, to ask the age of the directors…

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PODCAST| Federica Scarpa interviews Carmen Jaquier, director of the film Thunder.

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Interview with Carmen Jaquier, director of Thunder, presented at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival in the program strand “Europe! Voices of Women in Film”.

Thunder: In the summer of 1900, the pious 17-year-old Elisabeth learns of the death of her sister Innocente. Snatched from the nunnery where she intended to spend her life, she returns home to the Valais Valley, where her sister’s name has become taboo. Then, an encounter with three boys from the village and Innocente’s hidden diary awakens something in Elisabeth. Thunder, Carmen Jacquier’s debut film, draws on the staggering beauty of mountains and rivers, even dark and wild, as Elizabeth’s desire can be, poised between discovery and devotion to God. With Carmen, we talk about how this film is born, so intense and “wild”, like the forests in which it is shot. But the director also reflects on the idea of sisterhood, understood as support between women, especially in the light of her selection for the program: Europe! Voices of Women in Film.

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PODCAST| Giulia Bianconi interviews Peter Sohn, director of the film Elemental.

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Elemental director Peter Sohn talks about the inspiration for the movie, how opposite elements can fall in love, the saving power of cinema,

Elemental:Set in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic elements of nature, the story follows fire element Ember Lumen and water element Wade Ripple, who meet and fall in love after Wade is summoned by a plumbing accident at a convenience store owned by Ember’s father Bernie.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Malene Choi, director of the film The Quiet Migration.

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Interview with Malene Choi, director of The Quiet Migratin, presented at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival in the program strand “Europe! Voices of Women in Film”.

The Quiet Migration: She presented her debut feature film, The Quiet Migration, in the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2023 and now Malene Choi is participating to the Program strand Europe! Voices of Women in Film, presented by the European Film Promotion at the 2023’s edition of Sydney Film festival. The film is inspired by Choi’s own experience as a South Korean born, adopted and raised in Denmark and it tells the story of Carl, a Korean adoptee, raised in the pastures of rural Denmark who struggles with identity and dislocation. The film has been defined by the Berlinale as a surreal meditation on transracial adoption. Malene Choi talks about the genesis of the film, its dramatic but also comedic tone and the reason why she chose a male protagonist.

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PODCAST| Giulia Bianconi interviews Charlotte Rampling, actress of the film Last Words.

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In Rome actress Charlotte Rampling talks to Fred Film Radio about her character and the power of cinema in apocalyptic Last Words of Jonathan Nossiter, that will be released on June 15 in italian theaters distributed by Cineteca di Bologna.

Last Words: Shot mostly in Italy, between the Archaeological Park of Paestum and the underground Bologna, Last Words with Kalipha Touray, Nick Nolte, Charlotte Rampling and Alba Rohrwacher, prophetically imagines the end of humanity when in 2086, in the aftermath of the great floods, the planet we know doesn’t exist anymore. The last man on earth will discover cinema, which is entrusted with the memory of humanity.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews  Álfrún Helga Örnólfsdóttir, Asimina Proedrou, Marta Savina and Anna Hints, directors and screenwriters of the films Band, Behind the Haystacks, The girl from tomorrow, Smoke sauna sisterhood.

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This group interview has been recorded after a panel discussion at the Sydney Film Festival Hub where Nafiss Nia, director and screenwriter of That Afternoon, Álfrún Helga Örnólfsdóttir, director and screenwriter of Band, Asimina Proedrou, director and screenwriter of Behind the Haystacks, Marta Savina director and screenwriter of The girl from tomorrow, Anna Hints, director and screenwriter of Smoke sauna sisterhood participated to the panel discussion Voices from Europe, in conversation with Screen International’s Sandy George, discussing their different approaches to filmmaking and how the landscape for women working in film varies across the continent. In the interview Álfrún, Asimina, Marta and Anna discuss their films, the stories they wanted to tell and their experience as female filmmakers in their own countries. Their features and documentaries span everything from personal stories to fiction and explore battling the patriarchy while trying to remain a truthful to themselves, tearing down sexist traditions, and fighting gender and age bias as well.

Welcome to Europe! Voices of Women in Film’s class of 2023: Milena Aboyan, Malene Choi, Claire Dix, Anna Hints, Carmen Jaquier, Tia Kouvo, Nafiss Nia, Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir, Asimina Proedrou and Marta Savina. In 2023, these 10 female filmmakers join the 70-plus before them who’ve stood in the celebratory spotlight that this essential Sydney Film Festival program strand has highlighted annually since 2016. The Sydney Film Festival runs in Sydney in several venues across the city from 7th to 18th June.

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