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Submissions for MIFF’s 73rd edition, running from 7–24 August 2025, are currently open! We’re looking for feature-length films, short films and XR works from filmmakers across the globe. Round 1 closes Thursday 31 October.
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Interview
MIFF speaks to Australian director Jaydon Martin about his experience of screening Flathead at the festival, and the effect it’s had on his journey as an artist.
Latest Stories
18 Sep 2024
Riding the Next Wave: An Interview With Jaydon Martin
In the aftermath of director Jaydon Martin taking home the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award at MIFF, we speak to him about his experience of screening Flathead at the festival, and the effect it’s had on his journey as an artist.
28 Aug 2024
An Enduring Flame: Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu on We Were Dangerous
Critics Campus 2024 participant Alice Bellette speaks to director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu about her fictionalised representation of the harrowing, defiant and even joyful experiences of girls in New Zealand state care institutions in the mid 20th century.
25 Aug 2024
Inner Worlds: Constance Tsang on Blue Sun Palace
Critics Campus 2024 participant Nicole Cadelina speaks to Constance Tsang about her feature debut, an intimate tale of sisterhood set in a Chinese massage parlour in New York.
24 Aug 2024
Complex Cosmologies: Jodi Wille on Welcome Space Brothers
Critics Campus 2024 participant Tara Kenny speaks to director Jodi Wille about Welcome Space Brothers, a remarkable chronicle of an alternative spiritual community that takes a very different tack from most documentaries of its kind.
Melbourne International Film Festival acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we live,
learn and work, and pays respect to their Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples. MIFF celebrates the history and contemporary creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.