Back for its thirteenth year, Australia’s biggest non-fiction film fest is coming to the Harbour City this February – bringing a 50-strong program of incredible documentaries to big screens across Sydney for ten horizon-expanding days.
This year’s Antenna fest kicks off on Thursday, February 6, with a carefully selected program of films screening every night until Sunday, February 16. Opening night will welcome the Australian premiere of Reas, a documentary-musical hybrid following cis and trans women reenacting their incarceration experiences through music and performance. According to Festival Director Dudi Rokach, it’s these kinds of boundary-pushing, reality-expanding films that form the backbone of the program, with Rokach describing every feature as “imaginative, cinematic, and provocative.”
Other highlights of this year’s program include About A Hero, a scarily futuristic film based on an AI-generated script, Union, a Sundance-winning documentary following a group of Amazon workers as they take on their employer, and Look Into My Eyes, a film documenting a group of NYC-based psychics (directed by Lana Wilson, the filmmaker behind Taylor Swift: Miss Americana). Among the 50 films on the program, 12 are Australian-made shorts, and three are feature-length Aussie documentaries.
Films will be screened at Dendy Newtown and the Ritz in Randwick. Tickets start at $25 for a one-time adult pass – you can check out the program and book tickets over here.
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