From a five-hour Filipino epic to a three-course Japanese meal and Blacktown’s retro drive-in, our critic picks top screenings and experiences to savourEvery year as June approaches, Sydney’s cinephiles lunge for the Sydney film festival guide, book up a storm, then take to the streets a couple of weeks later like vampires, hissing at the sun and waiting for the lights to go down. The restoration of the festival’s beloved mecca, the State Theatre, is now finally complete, meaning traditional day and night screenings will be held there for the first time since 2011. That won’t mean much to your average Joe or Jane but it means plenty to the festival’s rusted-on subscriber base: the addicts who return for a cinematic shot in the arm each year, some booking and sitting in the same seat, year after year for decades. As always, the 11-day schedule is full of things to see and do. Here are 10 of them.

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