Sydney Film Festival

Australian film festival
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Sydney Film Festival, film festival held annually in Sydney in June. It features a diverse range of movies from around the world. The University of Sydney hosted the first Sydney Film Festival in June 1954. It was a small three-day event with 1,200 tickets available. The first festival showed only nine feature films—including American filmmaker Buster Keaton’s classic comedy The General (1927) and films by Italian Neorealist director Roberto Rossellini and French comic director Jacques Tati—but it also included shorts and documentaries. The first festival sold out, and the following festivals quickly outgrew the university’s capabilities. In order to accommodate ...(100 of 267 words)