Sydney Underground Film Festival

Sydney’s leading Festival for cult and underground films, the Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) returns with a huge program for its 10^th festival of daring cinema, taking place at the Factory Theatre Marrickville from 15^th - 18^th September.

Over four big days, the Festival will screen more than 100 films sourced from the very best in subversive, experimental, and controversial films internationally, including a lineup of Australian premieres alongside retrospectives and special masterclasses.

Opening the 2016 Festival is WIENER-DOG, the latest film from auteur and agitator extraordinaire Todd Solondz. A cutthroat comedy brimming with brilliantly caustic and truthful observations about the human condition, WIENER-DOG hits SUFF for its Australian premiere.

Featuring an ensemble cast lead by Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn, Kieran Culkin, Julie Delpy, Tracy Letts and Zosia Mamet, WIENER-DOG is a blisteringly funny, wondrously warped look at the absurdity of life and death from one of contemporary cinema’s most fearless and distinctive voices.

Other highlights of the feature film program include the Australian premieres of AAAAAAAAH!, which imagines a Britain populated by depraved beasts that look like humans but think, act and communicate like monkeys, TRASH FIRE, a comedy-horror from director Richard Bates Jr. (Suburban Gothic) and starring Adrian Grenier (Entourage), and ANTIBIRTH, starring Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is The New Black) as a hard-partying girl who wakes up with a bizarre illness and reality altering visions.

SUFF will also present a number of documentaries that are bound to get guests talking, with films such as A ROOM FULL OF SPOONS for fans of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (widely recognized as the best-worst film ever made), HOOLIGAN SPARROW, in which human rights activist Ye Haiyan seeks justice for six abused elementary school girls, and hybrid drama-documentary 57 LAWSON from Australian director Ben Ferris (Penelope) about the increasingly marginalised tenants of a controversial housing estate in Redfern.

In celebration of their 10^th birthday, SUFF will also take a wild trip down memory lane with a session of shorts called SUFF BLAST FROM THE PAST 2007-2015, a look back at a collection of the most outrageous and memorable shorts screened at the Festival over the past 10 years.

Special events this year will include the brand-new SATURDAY MORNING ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT-CEREAL CARTOON PARTY (which is exactly what it sounds like), a 25^th anniversary screening of NAKED LUNCH from director David Cronenberg (The Fly), and a 40^th anniversary remastered screening of CARRIE (to compliment the incredible DE PALMA documentary, also screening at the festival this year.)

Closing the festival in true SUFF style, will be an Australian premiere screening of the 1970s classic MULTIPLE MANIACS from the High Priest of Trash Cinema himself, John Waters. Step right up to witness the tale of Lady Divine’s travelling sideshow, an exhibit of extreme perversions that includes the puke eater, the armpit slurper, the heroin addict going cold turkey and so much more!