The Sydney Film Festival has today announced its first films for the 2013 event, including the Steve Coogan-starring/Michael Winterbottom-directed The Look Of Love and the restored 1980s local production Wrong Side Of The Road.
Taking place Wednesday 6 June – Sunday 16 June, the festival has today announced 27 films prior to its full announcement Wednesday 8 May. In the 16 features and 11 documentaries, 24 are Australian premieres while one – William Yang's William Yang: My Generation – is a world premiere.
Other festival highlights include: Blancanieves - a Spanish take on the Snow White story that was a Perth Festival hit; Exposed - a new film from New York underground artist Beth B; Prince Avalanche - the director of Pineapple Express and Eastbound And Down David Gordon Green's new film with Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch; a retrospective screening of Hitchcock classic Rear Window and Jeff Desom's timelapse video installation Rear Window Loop, playing at the festival hub; Stories We Tell from actor-turned-director Sarah Polley (Take This Waltz); What Maisie Knew - a rock star story with Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård and Steve Coogan; What Richard Did - an Irish film featuring Moloko's Roisin Murphy making a move to the big screen.
The full list of films:
The Act Of Killing (Denmark, Norway. Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and Anonymous)
Blackfish (USA. Dir: Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
Blancanieves (Spain, France. Dir: Pablo Berger)
Comrade Kim Goes Flying (UK, North Korea. Dir: Kim Gwang-hun, Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans)
Exposed (USA. Dir: Beth B.)
Fallen City (China. Dir: Zhao Qi)
A Few Hours Of Spring (France. Dir: Stephane Brize)
Frances Ha (USA. Dir: Noah Baumbach)
Frankenstein's Army (Netherlands, USA. Dir: Richard Raaphorst)
The Human Scale (Denmark. Dir: Andreas Møl Dalsgaard)
The Look Of Love (UK, USA. Dir: Michael Winterbottom)
La Maison de la Radio (France, Japan. Dir: Nicolas Philibert)
Mignight's Children (Canada. Director: Deepa Mehta)
Miss Nikki & The Tiget Girls (Australia. Director: Juliet Lamont)
Oh Boy (Germany. Dir: Jan Ole Gerster)
Outrage Beyond (Japan. Dir: Takeshi Kitano)
Prince Avalanche (USA. Dir: David Gordon Green)
Rear Window (USA. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
Red Obsession (Australia. Dir: David Roach, Warwick Ross)
Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (USA. Dir: Matthew Miele)
Stoker (UK, USA. Dir: Park Chan-wook)
Stories We Tell (Canada. Dir: Sarah Polley)
Wadjda (Saudi Arabia. Dir: Haifaa Al Mansour)
What Maisie Knew (USA. Dir: Scott McGehee, David Siegel)
What Richard Did (Ireland. Dir: Lenny Abrahamson)
William Yang: My Generation (Australia. Dir: Martin Fox)
Wrong Side Of The Road (Australia. Dir: Ned Lander)
