Run Rabbit Run and Late Night With the Devil: meet the directors

Daina Reid, and Colin and Cameron Cairnes, discuss their hotly-tipped films, showing at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival.

Just in case you’re not across Succession and the quietly devastating excellence of Sarah Snook, director Daina Reid, who previously worked with the fellow Australian on ABC show The Secret River, says she’s almost too good.

A lot appears to be pursuing Sarah, from the claw-like sunken trees thrusting up from the muddy depths of the Murray River as if to pull her in, to whatever’s rattling in the depths of an old wardrobe in an abandoned corrugated tin hut. Then there’s the seemingly sweet white rabbit that appears out of nowhere, biting Sarah and leaving her with a festering wound.

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.