Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Sydney Film Festival Competition

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 SaĆ¼l Williams) who wakes up one morning knowing that this day will be his last.

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