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Time Travel Films To Get You In The Mood

If you can't wait for the time-travelling mind-bender The Death and Life of Otto Bloom screening as the MIFF 2016 Opening Night Gala, then now is the perfect time to re-visit classic time travel titles to get you in the mood. Filmmakers have been obsessed with time travel since light started being pointed through a lens and we have a cracking list to get you primed. … Posted by Alexandra Lagerwe …
Meditations on Mortality: Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man

Meditations on Mortality: Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man

Critics Campus 2021 participant Ying-Di Yin examines the portrayals of death, diaspora and family in I Was a Simple Man.
Post-screening Q&A: Born to Be

Post-screening Q&A: Born to Be

Programmer Kate Jinx speaks to the team from MIFF 68½'s Born to Be, including director Tania Cypriano and two of the film’s subjects, Dr Jess Ting and Mahogany Phillips.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man - A Queer Marxist Reading

A video essay by 2017 Critics Campus participant Amanda Barbour explores the queer Marxist possibilities opened up by Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Cinematic-Nonfiction: Blurring Fact and Fiction To Shed New Light with Kate Plays Christine’s Robert Greene

Critics Campus 2016 participant Isabella McNeill interviews Robert Greene on truth, fiction and the freedom to fail in his latest film Kate Plays Christine.

Rhymes of Goodbye: Posthumous Films at MIFF

Inspired by Cosmos and No Home Movie, Critics Campus 2016 participant Andréas Giannopoulos sets off on a journey to uncover the meaning of the final film.
A Soft Film About Tough Punk Men: An Interview with Sami Saif

A Soft Film About Tough Punk Men: An Interview with Sami Saif

MIFF 2017 Critics Campus participant Keva York interviews The Allins’ director Sam Saif about the family GG Allin left behind.

MIFF Premiere Fund

… MIFF 2022 … BECAUSE WE HAVE EACH OTHER – Sari Braithwaite … THE ENDANGERED GENERATION? – Celeste Geer … FRANKLIN – Kasimir Burgess … GREENHOUSE BY JOOST – Bruce Permezel & Rhian Skirving … MOJA VESNA – Sara Kern … OF AN AGE – Goran Stolevski … PETROL – Alena Lodkina … SENSES OF CINEMA – John Hughes & Tom Zubrycki … SWEET AS – Jub Clerc … UNDER COVER – Sue Thomson …

MIFF 2016 – It's Our 65th MIFF!

… The 2016 Melbourne International Film Festival will be our 65th one (although it's only been 64 years – it's like the whole millennium vs the year 2000 thing all over again, and thinking too hard about it will hurt your brain!). Sixty-five years of film in Melbourne is a big deal: MIFF is one of the top ten oldest film festivals in the world, and is the oldest in Australia. … While the 65th …
Realising Desire: Choices and Sexuality in Ira Sachs’s Passages

Realising Desire: Choices and Sexuality in Ira Sachs’s Passages

Critics Campus participant Charles Carrall analyses the messy ménage à trois at the heart of Ira Sachs’s film, in which sex provides plenty of questions and few answers.
MIFF Talks: Queer Activism: From Life to Screen

MIFF Talks: Queer Activism: From Life to Screen

A panel of filmmakers, academics and activists explore one of the prevalent documentary themes at MIFF 69: queer activism.

OUI OUI: Spotlight on French films

Posted by Kate Masters, Bachelor of Media & Communication (Public Relations) at Deakin University, Master of International Business graduate student at University of Melbourne, and MIFF 2016 Intern. Bonjour, Francophiles! While you’re tucking into crepes, croissants and champagne for Bastille Day, we invite you to come storm #MIFF2016 later this month as we showcase new French films, as well as Au …

Audience Award

MIFF 2011 Top 10 Feature Films1 A Separation2 Face to Face3 Our Idiot Brother4 Red Dog5 Troll Hunter6 Beginners7 Melancholia8 Le Havre9 The Slap10 Submarine … MIFF 2011 Top 10 Documentaries1 Senna2 Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard3 I Am Eleven4 Life in Movement 5 Fire in Babylon6 Page One: Inside the New York Times7 Life in a Day 8 Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest9 P …

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 …
Meet MIFF Ambassador Uncle Jack Charles

Meet MIFF Ambassador Uncle Jack Charles

Uncle Jack Charles shares his top picks for MIFF 68½.
Q&A with The Eulogy director Janine Hosking

Q&A with The Eulogy director Janine Hosking

The director of the MIFF Premiere Fund supported documentary The Eulogy spoke to us about how she became interested in the work of Geoffrey Tozer, and what it was like to work with the big personalities of Paul Keating and Richard Gill.
An interview with Sofía Quirós Ubeda

An interview with Sofía Quirós Ubeda

Director of Land of Ashes, Sofía Quirós Ubeda talks about her debut feature, filming with a predominantly female crew, working with child actors and dancing on set.
Between Metamorphoses: Phạm Thiên Ân on Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Between Metamorphoses: Phạm Thiên Ân on Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Critics Campus participant Đăng Tùng Bạch speaks to Phạm Thiên Ân about the making of his Caméra d’Or–winning film and the roles played by location, sound and time in his work.

Movements in the Desert: an Interview with Celia Rowlson-Hall

Critics Campus 2016 participant Jessica Ellicott discusses virtuous women, the language of dance, and wanting to be Jesus with Ma director Celia Rowlson-Hall.

Kate Plays Christine, Four Ways

Critics Campus 2016 participants Jessica Ellicott, Doosie Morris, Andréas Giannopoulos and Dominic Barlow review Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine.