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Sydney & Canberra this weekend! Special Guest Announcement! NETPAC Winner!
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Farewell Adelaide, Welcome Sydney & Canberra!
 
After a successful weekend in Adelaide, we are only a few days away from Sydney IFFA! This issue includes a Sydney schedule with notes on the opening night at Dendy Opera Quays, unveiling the festival guest and festivities for the evening. Also included is a Canberra schedule and we reveal the winner of the NETPAC award for the festival!
 
Keep watching over the next week for more updates on cinematic treasures and our exclusive film events!
 
Sydney Festival Guest 

Sydney friends! We are delighted to announce that Rouhollah Hejazi (director of Death of The Fish) will be our special guest at the opening night of the festival.  The thrillingly dramatic Death of The Fish will be screened on the 17th of October, marking the second time one of his films has appeared as part of IFFA. In 2013, he won IFFAs NETPAC award for BEST FILM with The Wedlock. Hejazi is also participating in a seminar on Iranian cinema after the closing night film screening. This seminar is organised in conjunction with Sydney University on Sunday the 18th of October. 
Iran in Sydney!
It's not too late to book your tickets to Sydney this weekend!
 

Thursday 15 October

Friday 16 October

Saturday 17 October

Sunday 18 October
   

2:00pm

Risk of Acid Rain

  
   

4:15pm

Death of The Fish

2:00pm

The Man who Became a Horse
 

6:30pm

The Long Farewell

6:40pm

Melbourne

4:20pm
Avalanche

7:00pm

What’s the Time in Your World?
(Dendy Opera Quays)

8:30pm

Time to Love

9:00pm

Confessions of my Dangerous Mind

6:30pm

I am Diego Maradona
 
The opening film of the festival will be screening at Dendy Opera Quays for the first time ever! All other films will be screening at Dendy Newtown cinemas. 
 
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Sydney Opening Night Festivities

We are excited to note that for opening night festivities, we will have a live musical performance by Nasim Ghosni. 


Catering for the opening night of the festival will also be done by Farsi Restaurant, the top Persian restaurant in Sydney. 
Canberra Schedule
Tickets are also available for Canberra on the 17th and the 18th!
 

Saturday 17 October

Sunday 18 October

2:30pm

What’s the Time in Your World?

2:30pm

Avalanche

6:30pm

The Long Farewell

6:30pm

I am Diego Maradona

 
Click here to get your tickets!
NETPAC Award Winner!
This years NETPAC award was deliberated on by Richard Sowada, Head of the Films Program for the Australian Centre of the Moving Image, Iranian artist Hossein Valamanesh and scriptwriter and academic Herman Van Eyken. The winner - 

"Risk of Acid Rain is a poetic story told with great simplicity and beautiful humour. We really loved the good and strong lead performances. It felt very natural and honest.The subject of loneliness and coming into oneself and ones solitude in Iran was incredibly well handled.
 
All the films considered were of an extraordinarily high calibre which made the process difficult - and enjoyable. Technically, creatively and cinematically all had finely honed craftsmanship however those in the final running showed great skill and ambition. Unusual stories unusually told. All quite surprising and unexpected."
 
 Risk of Acid Rain is screening in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
We'll be announcing even more hidden treasures and events shortly!

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