Australian Film Fwands to Show at the Sydney Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival

“So instead of working with a script that was very, very premeditated, planned and calculated, I wanted to create our working method in which we could leave a lot to be decided at the moment.”

Somerville also wanted to intrude it with hope. “I just think there are too many depressing films,” he says.

Mattana caught on the occasion to work Fwends After reading a 17 -page treatment that Somerville had written.

“Something I really love Sophie as a director and that I would like to have more in myself, it is this crazy sense of artistic trust,” he says. “I have never met anyone that it is so comfortable sitting with the uncertainty of one thing.

“So this treatment was not what the film would be. It was” we meet these characters, that’s where they are in their life, that’s what I’m curious, that’s what they could talk about “.

Mattana says they often forgot that the camera was there.

“Most of my background is at the theater, so it was this strange gift in which, rather than a camera in my face, you are like” I have all this world to play with “. There was something really beautiful in this.”

The actors built the relationship between friends during the tests.

Gan says: “We went from there:” How did they become friends? “,” What did they do after graduating? “,” How did they grow differently? “So” what could become now when they meet again? “”

When the time has come to shoot FwendsIt wasn’t so much a movie on the road but a movie on the path.

“I had my phone in the rear pocket and I was monitoring the number of steps we were doing every day,” says Gan. “We were taking many steps, perhaps 20,000 a day.

“We were so hungry, just a snack.”

Describes the director Sff Nashen Moodley Fwends As “something so original” of a director whose promise was evident when he won the prizes for short films at the Festival in 2021 and 2023.

“It is a very intelligent film about friendship and how friendships and people change,” he says. “It is a film made with limited resources but has a lot of heart. We want to treasure these young filmmakers and follow their career.”

Also selected for the Festival are Richard Linklater Blue moonAbout Broadway’s lyricist Lorenz Hart who faces his fading on the opening evening of Oklahola! Horror Film of the satirical body InclinedOn a Chinese-American teenager who undergoes a racial transformation to become white and a Canadian comedy Racewalkeron competitive walk.

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The Australian films set on the screen include Emma Hough Hobbs and the Australian comic animation of Leela Varghese Space Princess lesbian, Samuel van grince’s horror photo I got on the hillwho plays Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps and Justin Kurzel’s documentary Ellis Park, on the musician Warren Ellis.

The complete program for the Sydney Film Festival, which takes place from 4 to 15 June, is announced on May 7.

The “first glance” of the Melbourne International Film Festival, ranging from 7 to 24 August, is June 5th.