The just-announced lineup is packed with star power, controversies, and a particularly strong Australian contingent. Here are our picks Landing at that time of the year when summer is still vivid in the memory but beautiful days are increasingly scarce, the Sydney film festival once again promises to further deplete the vitamin D intake of the city’s cinephiles. With 288 films in total, there are more things to do than you will ever be able to cram into your schedule – including a particularly strong line-up of homemade films. Many Australian titles in the program did not make this list, because there were simply so many to choose from. Omissions include David Wenham’s directorial debut Ellipsis, Ben C Lucas’s sci-fi film Other Life, Hollie Fifer’s delayed documentary The Opposition, the first two episodes of the second season of Cleverman, and Sherpa director Jennifer Peedom’s new film, Mountain.

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