The 2018 Sydney Film Festival is less than a week away and today they've announced another eight films will be added to the stacked line-up.
Among them is Shoplifters, a "new masterpiece is about a poor Japanese family committing petty crimes to survive", which took out this year's prestigious Cannes Film Festival's Palme d’Or award, and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which stars Girls and Star Wars' Adam Driver.
"We have secured eight films direct from Cannes - essential viewing for film buffs, from both contemporary cinematic masters and exciting new voices," said festival director Nashen Moodley. "Sydney Film Festival audiences will be the first in the country to see the Palme d’Or winner, family drama Shoplifters from award-winning filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu; Lee Chang-dong’s FIPRESCI Prize — Competition winner Burning, the highest-scoring film in the history of Screen’s jury grid; and prominent French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book, which won the Special Palme d’Or.”
"Also screening will be the winner of Cannes’ Best Director prize, visually-stunning love story Cold War from Oscar-winning filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski; the winner of the Directors’ Fortnight Climax, from notorious French provocateur Gaspar Noé; and Lukas Dhont’s multiple award-winning debut Girl, which won the Camera d’Or and Queer Palm, and both Best Performance and FIPRESCI prize, Un Certain Regard."
"We also have Cannes Closing Night film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and 12 Monkeys director Terry Gilliam, starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver, who audiences can also see in BlacKkKlansman; and winner of the Society of Dramatic Author and Composers Prize at Critics’ Week, Woman At War by Of Horses & Men director Benedikt Erlingsson," he said.
The Sydney Film Festival kicks off Wednesday 6 June, head here for more info.
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