Taken from the Sydney Film Festival Website, these are the films that are in the official competition:
ALPS
The team behind Greek 'Weird Wave'
films Dogtooth and Attenberg return with the absurd tale of a
secret club whose members are paid to act as replacements for the recently
deceased.
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
A Sundance and Cannes prize
winner, this unforgettable feature-film debut is set in a defiant bayou
community cut off from the rest of the world, as icebergs melt and prehistoric
creatures descend.
CEASER MUST DIE
Winner of the Golden Bear at the
Berlinale, this powerful drama-within-a-drama blends fiction and documentary in
the staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in a prison in modern-day
Rome.
DEAD EUROPE
Australia's Tony
Krawitz directs the adaptation of The Slap author
Christos Tsiolkas' award-winning novel in this searing film starring Ewen
Leslie as a Sydney photographer whose father's death prompts a return to the
ancestral homeland in Greece.
GANGS OF WASSEYPUR PART 1
Anurag Kashyap's epic is a
thrilling, beautifully shot and extremely violent journey tracing the feud
between mining magnate and politician Ramadhir Singh and the Khan family from
colonial to contemporary times.
GANGS OF WASSEYPUR PART 2
Anurag Kashyap's epic is a
thrilling, beautifully shot and extremely violent journey tracing the feud
between mining magnate and politician Ramadhir Singh and the Khan family from
colonial to contemporary times.
THE KING OF PIGS
A daring, disturbing and violent
animated film about bullying, social status and class difference, marking a
brave new direction for Korean animation.
LORE
Australian director Cate Shortland
tells the story of five German children left to fend for themselves in the
aftermath of World War II, and the Jewish survivor who helps them.
MONSIEUR LAZHAR
This Oscar®-nominated drama is the
moving story of a group of schoolchildren coming to terms with the adult world,
and the inspirational substitute teacher from Algeria who transforms their
lives.
NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS
In this assured and astonishing
feature-film debut, life in a middle-class neighbourhood in present-day Recife,
Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent
private-security firm.
ON THE ROAD
Jack Kerouac's legendary work is
brought to the big screen with respect and verve by Walter Salles, featuring
fine performances from Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten
Dunst and Viggo Mortensen.
TABU
When an old lady dies in Lisbon,
her maid and neighbour learn of her past, in a beguiling tale of love and crime
in an Africa straight from adventure films.
TODAY
Magical-realist story about a Senegalese
man (played by poet Saül Williams) who wakes up one morning knowing that this
day will be his last.
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