I have been waiting patiently for this news today.  I’m so ecstatic that we will finally see Robert Pattinson in The Childhood of a Leader and the best part is that it’s in official competition.  As you know RPAU has a soft spot for this film festival. Details for the screening can be found here as well as tickets for 6pm screening on 14 June 2016 and 11.45 am 15 June 2016.  The State Theatre and Sydney Film Festival – my happiest memories ever.

I have been twirling since this tweet this morning.

THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER by Brady Corbet (UK, Hungary, France) w/ Bérénice Bejo and Robert Pattinson #SydFilmFest 🏆 pic.twitter.com/fgVuB0cHnM

— Sydney Film Festival (@sydfilmfest) May 10, 2016

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Media Release

“The 63rd Sydney Film Festival program was officially launched today by the NSW Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts Troy Grant.
“The NSW Government is proud to continue its support for this amazing festival; a key event that has cemented itself in Sydney’s winter entertainment calendar,” Mr Grant said. “I’m extremely pleased that these films will be seen by more and more people in regional NSW, as the Festival goes on its regional tour later this year.”

“Sydney Film Festival has gone from strength to strength in recent years, with attendances increasing by over 59% to 176,000, since 2011,” said Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley. “In 2016 the Festival will present 244 films from 60 countries including 25 World Premieres, representing hundreds of fresh perspectives and new stories from across Australia and around the world.”

“The Festival allows audiences to explore new worlds, new perspectives and new ways of being. An exposure to unfamiliar places and ways of life is enlightening, and not only does it spark a change in our view but our whole world. This year we celebrate film’s ability to inspire new ideas and encourage new experiences,” he said.

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OFFICIAL COMPETITION
Ivan Sen’s Goldstone features among the 12 films selected to compete for the prestigious Sydney Film Prize and $60,000 cash awarded by the Festival for courageous, audacious and cutting-edge filmmaking.  The remaining titles screening in Competition are new works from acclaimed directors: Boo Junfeng (Apprentice), Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader), Oliver Hermanus (The Endless River), Xavier Dolan (It’s Only the End of the World), Martin Zandvliet (Land of Mine), Ivo M. Ferreira (Letters From War), Peter Middleton and James Spinney (Notes on Blindness), Anurag Kashyap (Psycho Raman), and Paddy Breathnach (Viva). The winner of the Sydney Film Prize is announced at the Festival’s Closing Night Gala on Sunday 19 June. Previous winners include: Arabian Nights (2015); Two Days, One Night (2014); Only God Forgives (2013); Alps (2012); A Separation (2011); Heartbeats (2010); Bronson(2009); and Hunger (2008).

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