Critics Campus 2025 participant Claire Ollivain speaks to The Golden Spurtle director Constantine Costi on how community, tradition and finding connection amid the capitalist grind informed the creation of his whimsical, heartwarming documentary.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Monique Nair speaks to Kalu Oji about diaspora, belonging, family and home, as well as the conflict between community and gentrification, as dramatised in his touching father–son tale Pasa Faho.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Sophie Terakes speaks to Simón Mesa Soto about A Poet’s candid, compassionate depiction of artistic crisis and creative-industry superficiality, revealing it as a film that encourages an open attitude to optimism and change.

In the fourth instalment of a series in which we shine a spotlight on Critics Campus’s illustrious alumni, we speak to Andréas Giannopoulos (2016 cohort), Jess Ellicott (2016 cohort) and Harry Windsor (2014 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.

Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson speak to MIFF about the themes and development of their film The Last Journey, and how its playful sensibility contrasts with the Swedish cinema of the past.

Director Rob Connolly talks to MIFF about his screen adaptation of Alison Lester’s classic picture book.

To accompany the 2024 VCA Film and Television Graduate Season, MIFF asked featured directors Xunyan Liu and Matthew Neumann about their experiences of bringing their ideas to fruition.

In this article published in collaboration with Sennheiser, Grace Tan discusses the importance of sound in her work and her adoption of Sennheiser's EW-DP Wireless Microphone System.