*Drum roll please* – we’re thrilled to roll out the purple carpet for our Headliners, the biggest and hottest screenings of the week!
Hotly anticipated horrors Smile 2 and The Front Room, genre-bending features Nightbitch and Pavements, and the Saturday Night Live biopic from acclaimed director Jason Reitman will dazzle audiences this October.
These five films embrace the signature bold, genre-focused storytelling of the SXSW Sydney 2024 Screen Festival, presented by IHG Hotels & Resorts.
Not-to-be-missed, the Australian premieres will surprise and delight film lovers this year, with some of the world’s biggest stars and directorial talent bringing their most exciting new properties Down Under.
- TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER - THE FRONT ROOM | Max & Sam Eggers’ new A24 horror The Front Room starring pop star Brandy as a newly-pregnant woman facing hell as her diabolical mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in.
- WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER - SMILE 2 | Smile 2, the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2022 box office smash hit, stars Aladdin’s Naomi Scott as global pop sensation Skye Riley who begins to experience increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events as she embarks on a world tour. Director Parker Finn will attend SXSW Sydney to present the film.
- THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER - PAVEMENTS | Pavements, an experimental hybrid of narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, and metatextual elements from director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) about the indie rock outfit, Pavement. Co-written by Ross Perry and Stephen Malkmus from Pavement, this unique, not-to-be-missed piece of cinema comes direct to SXSW Sydney from Venice and New York film festivals.
- FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER - NIGHTBITCH | Amy Adams’ darkly comedic fairy tale Nightbitch about a stay-at-home mother who, frustrated after leaving behind a career as an artist for a life consumed by parental duties, transforms into a dog. Adapted from Rachel Yoder's cult book of the same title, Adams’ performance is receiving early Oscars buzz after the film’s premiere at TIFF.
- SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER - SATURDAY NIGHT | Hot from Telluride and TIFF comes Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Starring some of the world’s hottest young acting talent including Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans), Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Dylan O'Brien (The Maze Runner franchise), Nicholas Braun (Succession), Kaia Gerber (Bottoms) and Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) alongside industry legends Willem Dafoe and J.K Simmons, Saturday Night is full of humour, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn't.
Also screening throughout the week are a stellar assortment of Feature Films, Shorts and Episodic content that you won’t want to miss.
Feature Films
- A Grand Mockery
- Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara
- Andamooka
- Audrey
- Azrael
- Babes
- Bionico's Bachata
- Carnage for Christmas
- Cloud
- Dead Talents Society
- DiDi
- Frankie Freako
- Future Council
- Ghost Cat Anzu
- Good One
- Grand Theft Hamlet
- Inside
- Like My Brother
- Look Into My Eyes
- Love in the Big City
- Mahakaal
- Matt & Mara
- Me and My Victim
- My First Film
- National Anthem
- Never Look Away
- Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
- Pools
- Queens of Concrete
- Rap World
- S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary
- Salt Along the Tongue
- Saturday Night
- Serpent's Path
- Sing Sing
- Slice of Life: The American Dream
- Smile 2
- Sunlight
- Teaches of Peaches
- The Code
- The Colours Within
- The Front Room
- The Gesuidouz
- The Human Hibernation
- The Most Australian Band Ever!
- The People's Joker (35mm)
- The Thicket
- Visitors: Complete Edition
- Witches
- www.RachelOrmont.com
- Xoftex
- King Baby
- Dinner in America
Episodic Content
- Thou Shalt Not Steal
- Lantern Blade
- Shrinking
- Tales from the Void
- Plum
Every session in the SXSW Sydney 2024 Screen Festival is open to anyone with a Screen Badge or Wristband, granting unlimited access to screenings during the event. For those itching to get their tickets now to individual Headliner or Featured sessions in the blockbuster line-up of films, Rush Tickets are now on sale for just $25. Guarantee your seat at the biggest films playing across the week, showing at the ICC Darling Harbour Theatre, Ritz Randwick and Dendy Newtown. Get your Badge, Wristband or Rush Tickets at sxswsydney.com.
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