Sydney Film Festival 2008 - Film - Entertainment

Hunger wins festival's top prize

The British drama Hunger won the Sydney Film Festival's inaugural international competition last night.

Kickbacks and shady dealings

KICKBACKS on a building site. Shady dealings in the towtruck business. An illicit affair that leads to trouble.

Thinking outside the Square

No wonder the Sydney stuntman and filmmaker Nash Edgerton thinks of himself as "last-minute homework guy".

Drawn from the past

Marjane Satrapi turned her Iranian upbringing into a graphic novel that has become an Oscar-nominated movie.

Trauma drama: a soldier's view of Iraq

When the American director Kimberly Peirce introduced Stop-Loss at the Sydney Film Festival last night, you knew immediately whose side of the war in Iraq she was on.

Gentle comedy starts with a bang

Droll Mexican drama Lake Tahoe, follows a young man around his town desperately seeking part for his crashed car.

Flopping all over the world

Few documentary makers are asked if their film is real. But for Sacha Gervasi the question has become routine.

A working family that no longer works

If Kevin Rudd wants to know the concerns of all those working families in Japan, he should have a look at the drama that screened at the Sydney Film Festival last night.