2024 Sydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival is back in 2024!

With over 250 films, at 12 venues, over 12 Days, it’s your Festival to do your way. Celebrate your stories, your community, your local industry, your new favourite films. See it your way at Sydney Film Festival June 5-16.  

See the vibrant atmosphere of Dendy Newtown as it becomes the heart of the Sydney Film Festival this June. Experience captivating tales from around the world, fresh from the prestigious Cannes, Sundance, and Venice Film Festivals. Dive into your cinematic journey where global narratives meet local audiences, igniting conversations and sparking your imagination. 

Don't miss the excitement as Dendy proudly showcases exceptional Australian talent through the renowned Dendy Awards, celebrating creativity and innovation in filmmaking. Join us for an unforgettable celebration of cinema, where every screening promises discovery and inspiration.

Daddio

Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn go head-to-head in in this tense yet tender two-hander shot almost entirely in a New York City taxi where confessions run up with the meter.

Cuckoo

Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) stars in a fantastically unrestrained tale of very strange goings-on at a holiday resort in the Bavarian Alps. Berlinale, SXSW 2024.

I Saw The TV Glow

Two misfit teens bond over their obsession with a mysterious TV show but have an identity crisis when it’s suddenly cancelled, in this Sundance and Berlinale sensation from A24 Films starring Justice Smith (Jurrassic World, The Get Down, Generation) and Brigette Lundy-Paine (Atypical, Bombshell).

The Moogai

A malicious spirit enters the home of a young Indigenous couple with a newborn baby. Based on his SFF-winning short of the same name, writer-director Jon Bell’s striking feature debut arrives direct from SXSW and Sundance.  

Toll

A Brazilian single mother and tollbooth attendant team with local criminals to fund gay conversion therapy for her teenage son, in this tensely unpredictable and slyly satirical crime drama.

All We Imagine As Light

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.

COPA ‘71

The rip-roaring story, shamefully untold for decades, of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Cup, revealed by the awe-inspiring players who competed in the trailblazing tournament.

In Vitro

Ashley Zukerman (Succession) stars in a gripping Australian sci-fi mystery thriller set on a remote cattle farm in the near future.

Sex

When a modern-day chimneysweep has sex with a man whose chimney he’s, ahem, cleaning, then tells his wife and his colleague, each is forced to question the quirks of sexuality.

Dahomey

Trailblazing filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics) won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2024 for her ingenious documentary on the repatriation of royal treasures to present-day Benin in West Africa.

See what else is playing at Dendy Newtown here.