Sydney Film Festival

Sydney Film Festival is an event that showcases contemporary Australian cinema and international cinema as well. The Sydney Film Festival is a major cultural event of Australia and is also one of the longest running film festivals of the world. It is a non-competitive film festival, which started in the year 1954. The festival is held for two weeks in the month of June and showcases various kind of Australian and international movies.

The first Sydney Film Festival was held on June 11, 1954 and was screened at four major halls in Sydney for over four days. The festival was held in Sydney till the year 1968 and then it was shifted to Winter garden.In the year 1974, the Sydney Film Festival came to its present venue at the State Theatre although some movies are also shown at Metro Theahtre, GU George Street and Dendy Opera Quays.
The patrons of Sydney Film Festival include Cate Blanchett, Baz Luhrrman, Phillip Noyce, Sam Neill, Gillian Armstrong and Nicole Kidman.

The Sydney Film Festival committee organizes two major programs - Traveling Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival. Both these events are meant for audiences from the City of Sydney and New South Wales region.

The audience is provided with an array of Latin and Eastern documentaries, Chinese flicks, thought-provoking Saudi Arabian films and Australian short documentaries have become an indispensable part of the Sydney Film Festival.