MIFF 1969

Erwin Rado
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Festival Program
40 feature films and 93 short films were screened from 6 June to 21 June
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Program in Focus
Notable films included Capricious Summer (Mezel), Fando and Lis (Jodorowsky), If (Anderson), Silence and Cry (Jancsó), Diary of a Switchboard Operator (Makavejev), Report of the Party and the Guests (Nemec), Hugo and Josephine (Grede). 

Filmmaker in Focus

Stig Björkman. Björkman was a guest of the Festival, were a collection of his films were screened.
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Featured Film
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger (David Loeb Weiss, 1968)
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Films

PETER AND PAUL

Pierre et Paul
MIFF 1969

From the Festival Files

On Screen and in the Cinema

The magic of the festival is reached through its screens. These are places and spaces that captivate our attention, providing windows where films come to life before our eyes. As portals to the world, the festival’s screens allow us to travel the globe, move through time, and see through another’s eyes. … Yet these screens also remind us of home. They are fixed in place, in our memories and in o …

The Living Festival

What would a festival be without its audience? There wouldn’t be a festival at all! … People are the beating heart of MIFF. It was the coming together of some 800 people in Olinda in 1952 that gave birth to the Melbourne Film Festival. Since that unanticipated outpouring of community love for film, MIFF has become an annual gathering space for film enthusiasts and the cine-curious from Melbourne …