Of the crop of other Australian films having world premieres at Sydney Film Festival, one of the most keenly anticipated is Abe Forsythe's Down Under, a black comedy set against the backdrop of the infamous Cronulla riots a decade ago. 
It takes place the night after the first violent clash and centres on three cars of hotheads who are out for retaliation.
Also debuting are Stephen Sewell's erotic political thriller Embedded, Craig Boreham's gay drama Teenage Kicks and Craig Anderson's "spooky thriller" Red Christmas.
Sam and Tom McKeith's Australian-Filipino boxing drama Beast is also screening.
The documentary competition features six films having world premieres including two about refugees making new lives in this country - Ros Horin's The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe, about African women performing a stage show based on their own traumatic experiences, and Belinda Mason's Constance on the Edge, about a Sudanese woman in Wagga Wagga.
The International Documentaries program includes two more: Ian Darling's Suzy & the Simple Man, about the challenges facing a couple on the land, and Rohan Spong's Winter at Westbeth, about a New York building housing ageing artists.