68th Sydney Film Festival
| Opening film | Here Out West by Fadia Abboud, Lucy Gaffy, Julie Kalceff, Ana Kokkinos, and Leah Purcell |
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| Closing film | The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson |
| Location | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Awards | Sydney Film Prize: There Is No Evil |
| No. of films | 233 from 69 countries |
| Festival date | 3–21 November 2021 |
| Website | sff |
The 68th annual Sydney Film Festival was held from 3 to 21 November 2021. The festival, which traditionally takes place in June, was postponed to August 2021 and eventually rescheduled to be held in November due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film screenings were staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital. It marked as the first major festival following the lifting of the lockdown in New South Wales.
Anthology film Here Out West opened the festival, while Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch was the closing film. Drama film There Is No Evil won the most prestigious award, Sydney Film Prize.