Brendan Cowell’s directing debut Ruben Guthrie will have its world premiere as the opening night attraction of the Sydney Film Festival.
The Dark Horse beat 159 other films to win the Audience Award at the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Ariel Kleiman's Partisan, Kim Farrant's Strangerland and John Maclean's New Zealand-shot Slow West will compete in the world cinema dramatic section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
The US debut of John Curran's Tracks has been postponed- for four months.