featured-image

Sunday, June 16, 2024 At the 71st Sydney Film Festival tonight, Italian filmmaker Paola Cortellesi won the prestigious Sydney Film Prize for her film “There’s Still Tomorrow,” a powerful melodrama about an industrious woman in post-WWII Rome. Cortellesi both directs and stars in the film, which has become a box office hit in Italy, surpassing movies like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” The $60,000 cash prize for ‘audacious, cutting-edge, and courageous’ film was awarded by an esteemed international jury led by Bosnian writer and director Danis Tanović.

The announcement took place at the State Theatre, prior to the Australian Premiere screening of Cannes favorite “The Substance.” The festival also awarded its largest prize pool in history including: Additionally, five short film prizes were awarded as part of The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films: THE SYDNEY FILM PRIZE On awarding the Sydney Film Prize to Italian filmmaker Paola Cortellesi’s There’s Still Tomorrow, the Jury said in a joint statement: “We had the honour and great pleasure to experience the 12 outstanding films that comprised this year’s Official Competition. At times loud and bombastic, while at others, fiercely intimate, this selection is a testament to theatrical cinema’s contemporary power.



We commend the entire team at Sydney Film Festival for this year’s wonderfully curated selection of films. We congratulate every filmmaker here, with gratitude to their tireless work..

Back to Tourism Page