Critics Campus 2026 participant Jamie Tak speaks to director Lisandro Alonso about audience expectations, the importance of objects and landscapes in his filmmaking, and the influence of Iranian cinema on his work.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Andrew Cordon speaks to director Corrin Evans about Jungian archetypes, intimacy coordination and representations of sexuality in the context of erotic thriller Corpus.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Guy Webster speaks to directorial duo THUNDERLIPS about medical misogyny, genre tropes, and finding the right balance between comedy and body horror in their outrageous feature directorial debut.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Alexander Holiday speaks to Paloma Schneideman about liminality, visibility and interpersonal longing, as depicted in her stirringly bittersweet portrait of queer adolescence.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Wen-Juenn Lee speaks to Vee Shi about family, the blurring of character and candour, and the curious ways that fiction can coax out emotional truths, as seen in his poignant hybrid documentary.

MIFF Publications Manager David Heslin speaks to Lisandro Alonso about the ideas that motivate his work, the challenges of finding backers in an age of transnational funding and the importance of taking time to connect with what we see onscreen.

In the fifth instalment of a series in which we shine a spotlight on Critics Campus’s illustrious alumni, we speak to Michelle Wang (2020 cohort), Charles Carrall (2023 cohort) and Indigo Bailey (2023 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.

Lorin Clarke speaks about the challenges of documentary storytelling, the changing cultural footprint of television and her own journey in making the film.