68th Sydney Film Festival


The 68th annual Sydney Film Festival was held from 3 to 21 November 2021. The festival, which traditionally takes place in June, was postponed to August 2021 and eventually rescheduled to be held in November due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film screenings were staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital. It marked as the first major festival following the lifting of the lockdown in New South Wales.
Anthology film Here Out West opened the festival, while Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch was the closing film. Drama film There Is No Evil won the most prestigious award, Sydney Film Prize.

Juries

Sydney Film Prize

The following were named as the festival juries:

Official Selection

In competition

The following films were selected for the main international competition:

Awards

The following awards were presented at the festival:

Audience Awards

The following films won the Audience Awards, voted by the festival audience.

Best Narrative Feature Top Five

Best Documentary Top Five