POSSIBLE WORLDS

Possible Worlds - Sydney's 4th Canadian Film Festival - presents a selection of the best new features and documentaries made north of Hollywood, many of which will screen in Australia for the very first time. The Festival will screen 16 new films at Dendy Opera Quays and venues across Sydney from Aug. 20 to 26 2009.

Welcoming prestigious filmmakers to Sydney, the Festival provides a rare chance for Australians to watch the best new Canadian films and meet the artists. Running alongside the film premieres will be filmmaker Q&A’s, photo exhibitions, wine tastings and of course, parties.

"Possible Worlds, Sydney’s Canadian Film Festival has, unforeseeably, become amongst the best of the city’s burgeoning annual “international” film festivals (…).The Festivalists, comprised of Mathieu Ravier and Marianne Alla, have done something that most of Sydney’s other film festivals can’t or don’t do: they have made the festival accessible, interactive, engaging and relevant. While it is increasingly easy to get most foreign films on DVD, we rely on festivals like Possible Worlds to keep curating the emerging and obscure, the challenging and inspiring, the entertaining and the esoteric.” - Dee Jefferson, Senses of Cinema