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Masters & Restorations
How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini is both an ode to friendship and artistic ambition, and a tribute to one of world cinema's greatest figures. An essential experience for any Fellini enthusiast.
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International Panorama
Nathan Silver's partially improvised Soft in the Head is a striking character portrait loosely based on Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, and evoking the delirious energy of indie cinema masters Samuel Fuller and John Cassavetes.
Big Scene, Small Screen
Emily Mortimer and her real-life best friend Dolly Wells star as fictionalised versions of themselves in Doll & Em, a comedy of manners about friendship, fame and filmmaking.
Special Events: Giveaway
In association with Red Stitch Actors Theatre, MIFF presents the Australian premiere season of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick. Directed by Nadia Tass, The Flick follows three underpaid employees of one of the last remaining film projector cinemas. We have two double passes to give away. Click for details.
Talking Pictures
In Local and Notable: Marvellous Melbourne Movies, Melburnians Jack Charles, Clementine Ford, Adam Elliot, George Calombaris, Stephen Cummings and Adalita talk about their picks for the iconic Melbourne film.
Australian Showcase
Curtain Call is a warm-hearted portrait of Terry and Carole Ann Gill, two irrepressible oddballs who for years ran Australia's most beloved pantomime theatre. But now they might lose their life's work to a real estate mogul.
Animation
Legendary cult animator Bill Plympton is a perennial MIFF favourite, with his hand-drawn anarchic style instantly recognisable. The absurd and surreal Cheatin' is his latest, and it's one of his best.
Next Gen
Winner of the Crystal Bear for Best Film in the Generation Kplus section at the Berlin Film Festival, The Fort is a heart-warming and deeply moving coming-of-age tale.
I Dream of Genius: Science & Technology on Screen
Sepideh – Reaching for the Stars is "a beautiful, emotional and intelligent coming-of-age film" (Nonfics) about a teenage girl who wants to be an astronaut ... in one of the world's most culturally repressive nations.
Celluloid Dreams: Films Shot on Film
A contemporary riff on the great rebels of 1960s cinema, Free Range / Ballad on the Approving of World is the "radical and mesmerizing cinematic portrait that the beat generation always deserved, but never got".
Night Shift
Filmed on the beautiful stormy coast of Jutland, When Animals Dream is a stunning coming-of-age story, full of a restrained horror tonally reminiscent of Let The Right One In (MIFF 2008).
Commedia all'italiana
A deliciously black satire in the grandest tradition of Italy's commedia all'italiana, Divorce, Italian Style won Best Screenplay at the 1962 Academy Awards, and is a whip-smart tour through the absurdities of love and fidelity.
MIFF Shorts
Lots of us love bread. But not in this way. The unconventional love triangle of Sourdough was the joint third-place winner of the Cinéfondation Prize, at Cannes. It screens as part of WTF Shorts.
Backbeat
In Time is Illmatic, the Tribeca Film Festival Opening Night selection, Multimedia artist One9 delivers an electrifying account of the most pivotal album in the history of hip-hop: Nas' Illmatic.
A Perfect Midnight: Haunted Hong Kong
A slapstick mix of spooks, kung fu action and kooky comedy, Encounters of the Spooky Kind is one of the must-sees when indulging in jiang shi (the Chinese hopping vampire genre).
Documentaries
Examining the borderline between truth and trickery, An Honest Liar profiles noted sceptic James "The Amazing" Randi and his decades-long crusade to expose charlatans, phoney psychics and con-men faith healers.
India in Flux: Living Resistance
An inspiring and intimate picture of Muslim sisterhood and collective action, Invoking Justice shines a light on the courageous women building new models for self-empowerment within Southern India's Sharia legal system.
Accent on Asia
Enigmatic Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase is back at her intoxicating, divisive best with Still the Water, a mystically charged and unabashedly poetic meditation on the awesome power of nature and our own scarce and beautiful fragility.
MIFF Premiere Showcase
The Melbourne International Film Festival welcomes the return of a MIFF travelling film festival after an absence of six years. In August and September, the MIFF Premiere Showcase hits the road with a series of weekend screenings throughout Victoria, showcasing MIFF Premiere Fund-supported Australian films.
Illustrated Film Talks
Adrian Wootton returns to MIFF in 2014 for more of his acclaimed Illustrated Film Talks, this year focusing on mavericks, spies and tough guys.
Jean-Pierre Léaud
"Among the most beautiful things Truffaut ever committed to film" (Criterion Collection), Antoine and Colette is a tender, fittingly melancholy sequel to the film that launched the French New Wave.
MIFF Premiere Fund
Award-winning actor Harrison Gilbertson stars alongside acclaimed French actress Emmanuelle Béart in the MIFF Premiere Fund-supported My Mistress, an unconventional, provocative love story.
Wendall Thomas Talks Scripts
LA-based developer, writer and lecturer Wendall Thomas returns to MIFF to talk scripts. She will do four stand-alone, all-day seminars on various aspects of the filmwriting process.
Critics Campus
MIFF is proud to launch its inaugural Critics Campus, an intensive seven-day lab that enables emerging Australian film critics to develop their skills in a live festival setting. The first iteration of the Critics Campus will take place during the festival’s 63rd edition, 31 July–17 August 2014.