The Sydney Film Festival is an annual competitive film festival that is usually celebrated in June every year. The festival screens the best films and among them, one gets the honorary of the Sydney Film Festival. The festival is always held in Sydney, Australia.
Bangladeshi filmmaker Mustafa Sarwar Farooki has been invited to join the Official Competition Jury of the 2022 Sydney Film Festival (SFF). Sydney Film Festival will screen 200 films from 64 countries this year. The festival will kick off on 8 June 2022, and run till June 19, 2022.
The management of the festival announced the names of the jury on Tuesday. The renowned filmmaker from Bangladesh Mustafa Sarwar Farooki will serve on the jury board. Sydney film prize will be given to one of the 12 films in the official lineup. The winning name of the prestigious Sydney film will be announced at the Closing Night ceremony at the State Theatre on 19 June 2022.
The jury members of this year’s SFF are actor/director David Wenham (Australia), who will also be Jury President, BAFTA-nominated writer and director Jennifer Peedom (Australia), Berlin Golden Bear-winning writer-director-producer Semih Kaplanoğlu (Turkey), and the Executive Director of the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute, Tokyo, Yuka Sakano (Japan).
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki from Bangladesh will be serving on the jury board who is a writer, director, and producer also. Farooki’s film ‘No Land’s Man’ will be screened over the course of the festival. ‘No Land’s Man’ is a story of a south Asian man whose life changes after meeting an Australian woman in New York. The lead role is played by Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui. The news that Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has joined the jury of the 69th Sydney Film Festival (SFF) is bringing a huge notable honor for Bangladesh.
