27 UK productions and four coproductions were screened in the 2008 Sydney Film Festival, including Hunger, which won the Festival’s inaugural Sydney Film Prize, In Bruges (also in competition) and Happy-Go-Lucky (in competition and also selected for Opening Night).

Several UK films screened in a tribute to Deborah Kerr. In total the UK films attracted a total audience of over 29,000, proving Sydney audiences are interested in, and committed to, British films.

British filmmakers Steve McQueen, Robin Gutch, Laura Hastings-Smith, Alexis Zegerman, Robin Gutch, Aleksandra Boyarskaya and Chris Waitt were guests of the festival.

Image left: Image from Hunger, Directed by Steve McQueen © Steffan Hill 2007 (Christopher Hill Photographic).

The full list of films British films shown is as follows:

Links go to Britfilms.com

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (documentary)
A Very British Gangster (documentary)
All White in Barking (documentary)
And When Did You Last See Your Father? (feature)
Black Narcissus (retro feature)
Boy A (feature)
Cherries (short)
Derek (documentary)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (retro feature)
Donkey Punch (feature)
The English Surgeon (documentary)
Happy-Go-Lucky (feature)
Helen (feature)
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (documentary)
Hunger (feature)
In Bruges (feature)
The Innocents (retro feature)
Joy (short)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (retro feature)
Listen to Bradford (short)
Love on the Dole (retro feature)
Man On Wire (documentary)
The Not Dead (documentary)
Not Sacks (short)
Peter And Ben (short)
The Revue (documentary, coproduction)
Somers Town (feature)
Son of Rambow (feature, coproduction)
The Sundowners (retro feature, coproduction)
Under the Bombs (feature, coproduction)