Westpac OpenAir 2025

Thu 9th January, 2025 – Tue 18th February, 2025
Price: From $39
Another huge roster of new and upcoming films – from Babygirl, A Complete Unknown and more – is being screened right on the foreshore at Mrs Macquarie’s Point.

A big screen is once again popping up right beside Sydney Harbour, with Westpac OpenAir returning this summer.

As usual, expect a curated selection of recent and upcoming releases and certified classics, opening on January 9 with a premiere of Timothee Chalamet’s A Complete Unknown, covering the complicated life of Bob Dylan. There’ll also be Aussie premieres of Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller Babygirl; Queer, starring Daniel Craig as an American expatriate living in Mexico City who meets a young student; and Alexandre Dumas’s The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Special preview screenings include much-hyped film We Live in Time, starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield; Angelina Jolie’s striking performance as opera diva Maria Callas in Maria by director Pablo Larraín; September 5, recounting the events of a hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics; and the highly anticipated Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, the final chapter in the Bridget Jones’s adventures.

Two Aussie classics are also premiering on the Westpac Openair schedule. The first is a screening of Crocodile Dundee: The 4K Encore Cut, which will see an in-person appearance of star actor Paul Hogan on January 23. The second, on closing night, will be the Sydney premiere of Spit – the sequel to comedy-crime thriller Gettin’ Square.

Some of 2024’s biggest films are also included: Better Man, Anora, The Room Next Door, A Real Pain, *Wicked, Gladiator II, Lee, Kneecap and My Old Ass, whether you want to relive them or missed out the first time around. And on the classic front, get ready for rom-coms including Notting Hill, Crazy, Stupid, Love and Dirty Dancing.

Films screen from sundown, but Westpac OpenAir gets buzzing well before then, with DJs spinning tunes and pop-up restaurants and bars. There’s sit-down restaurant Summer House Dining headed by star chef and culinary director of the Opera House Danielle Alvarez, plus the Chandon Garden, serving pasta and snacks by Scott McComas-Williams (Fabbrica). Or take a seat at The Point for Vietnamese dishes by Botanic House’s Luke Nguyen.

westpacopenair.com.au

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