The 2023 films Australian directors are most looking forward to

We asked some of the brightest names in the Australian screen industry what films they cannot wait to see, and what they’re up to this year.

From Women Talking to Barbie, Wonka to Monster, these are the most-anticipated movies of the year ahead for Australian screen directors.

Parent-child stories tend to be a bullseye straight to my heart, and I’ve been following this film for a while. I am hoping it’ll break my soul completely open the way only cinema can. The other film I’m excited about is Noora Niasari’s Shayda. She’s a wonderful filmmaker and I’m thrilled to see that her feature is in Sundance.

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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.