To celebrate 60 Years of MIFF, we present to you the MIFF Online Archive. 59 editions of the Festival are now available to you to browse or search through. We hope the archive will be a resource used by festival goers, film lovers, students, historians and whoever else would like to learn more about the types of films the Festival has screened over the years, or indeed to track the trajectory of the Festival’s curatorship, its Directors and its scope.
A big thank you to our MIFF volunteers and partners who have helped make this archive possible.
Search options currently include: ‘Festival Year’, ‘Director’, ‘Title’, ‘Production Year’, and ‘Country’. Please note: there may appear a few typos here and there as our database comes to terms with special characters (my, there was a huge amount of Eastern European cinema screened at the festival back in the 60s!) and other items that need manual tweaking. We have over 12,000 film titles and over 9000 directors’ names to check over, which we are doing. Similarly, occasionally there just isn’t the credit information (director, year etc) to include so these fields may be left blank, we will aim to fill them in with further research.
Stage 2 development will involve further contextualisation of film content through added articles, links and images. The Archive will be an ongoing body of work post the 60th anniversary.
Enjoy The Archive: 60 Years of MIFF!
Festival Director
Erwin Rado
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Festival Program
43 feature films and 112 short films were screened from June 3rd to 18th
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Program in Focus
The 1966 program included a retrospective on the films of Damien Parer, a war cameraman. 8 short films were shown, on loan from the Australian National Library. Alain Resnais's remarkable short film Night and Fog was screened, as was Fires of a Plain (Kon Ichikawa), Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci), Raven's End (Bo Wilderberg), Walkover (Jerzy Skolimowski), and Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman).
Featured Film
Sandra (Luchino Visconti, 1965)
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Featured Film
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
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