The tenth edition of the cult festival will feature over 100 feature films and documentaries over four days in September.
The Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) is back, celebrating its tenth birthday with a new collection of the distorted, disturbed and experimental that is sure to court controversy.
Independent director-provocateur Todd Solondz, master of blackest comedies includingHappiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse, headlines with the Australian premiere of Wiener-Dog, with a showcase cast of Danny Devito, Ellen Burstyn, Kieran Culkin and Julie Delpy bringing flesh to Solondz’ existential and absurdist narrative. The festival program will also play host to Australian premieres of dystopian-dialogue AAAAAAAHH!, Trash Fire (starring Entourage’s Adrian Grenier),and Antibirth, with Emmy Award nominee Natasha Lyonne a vehicle for the mind-altering limits of our perception.
SUFF will also feature the most memorable shorts from its ten year history with its retrospectiveSUFF BLAST FROM THE PAST 2007-2015,reflecting on a decade of controversy.
With a nod totwo of cinema’s most subversive characters,David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch will show as part of its 25th anniversary, with a screening of John Waters’perverse 1970s classicMultiple Maniacsclosingout the festival.
The Sydney Underground Film festival will run from Thursday September 15 to Sunday September 18 at The Factory Theatre, Marrickville. Tickets are now on sale via www.suff.com.au
