Stockholm International Film Festival announcement at Venice Film Festival: Australia to round up its 19th edition November 20-30

Baz Luhrmann´s epic romantic action adventure Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, will join this year’s line-up of 170 films from over 40 countries slated to screen at the Stockholm International Film Festival in November.

Luhrmann's film is set in northern Australia during World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a cattle station the size of Belgium. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

The epic tale will be the red carpet closing night film at the festival and will join an already impressive list of features that include: Madonna´s directorial debut Filth & Wisdom; the first part of Steven Soderberg´s two-part epic, The Argentine; oil-hater and eco-fighter Josh Tickell´s doc Fields of Fuel; Russian director Anna Melikyan´s second feature Mermaid; Swedish director Ruben Östlund´s Involuntary; and Kelly Reichardt´s Wendy and Lucy. The full festival line-up will be presented in its entirety on October 22nd.

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