Sydney film festival 2026: nine of the best movies and one free event (opens in new tab)

With 248 films to choose from, highlights include The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus and a ‘psychosexual horror’ starring Hacks’ Hannah Einbinder and Gillian AndersonThe Sydney film festival is almost upon us! It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to meet the – no, wait, wrong event. No music, no lights and, please, no talking: this is the hallowed space of the cinema. And an awful lot of it this year, with a program that features 248 films from 81 countries.He...