The 68th annual Sydney Film Festival was held from 3 to 21 November 2021.
[1] 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.
[2] The film screenings were staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital.
[3] It marked as the first major festival following the lifting of the lockdown in New South Wales.
[6] The following were named as the festival juries:[7] The following films were selected for the main international competition: The following awards were presented at the festival:[9] The following films won the Audience Awards, voted by the festival audience.