The Loved Ones to screen at Syd Film Fest
Sydney Film Festival has announced a selection of films from this year’s edition, and Sean Byrne’s The Loved Ones is the only Australian title announced so far.
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer and Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop are two of the international premieres scheduled for the SFF.
The Sydney Film Festival will run from 2-14 June, 2010, and this year’s edition will continue last year’s thematic pathways, as follows:
- FIRE ME UP
The Ghost Writer
Dir Roman Polanski | with Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams | France-Germany-UK
Roman Polanski’s sleek political thriller, based on the best-selling novel by Robert Harris, revolves around a
writer (Ewan McGregor) hired to pen the memoirs of an ex-British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan).
Kawasaki’s Rose | Kawasakiho ruze
Dir Jan Hrebejk | with Daniela Kolárová, Martin Huba, Lenka Vlasáková | Czech Republic
Festival favourite Jan Hrebejk (Divided We Fall, Cosy Dens) focuses on a family torn apart when their
eminent patriarch is accused of hiding the truth about his actions during Czechoslovakia’s totalitarian era; an
award-winning, critical hit at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Dir-Prod Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith | USA
Nominated for an Academy Award© this riveting documentary tells the story of Ellsberg’s transformation from
trusted Pentagon bureaucrat to anti-war campaigner; and the impact of his decision to leak the 7000-page
secret history of the Vietnam War to The New York Times.
