Critics Campus 2025 participant Parth Rahatekar speaks to Vivek Chaudhary about activism, government corruption and caste as experienced by the disadvantaged Indian farming community documented in his film I, Poppy.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Amelia Leonard discusses Happyend’s masterfully tightrope-treading portrayals of youth, rebellion and coming of age amid an increasingly oppressive near-future Japan.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Thomas Phillips examines the ambivalent documentation of aesthetics and artifice, glamour and illusion, and the industry’s manufacturing of desire in Model, Frederick Wiseman’s revelatory film about fashion.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Claire Ollivain delves into the metatextual sensorial epic that is Bi Gan’s Resurrection, finding that the film champions cinephilia and the experiential in a world of simplistic and subjugating screens.

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.

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.

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.

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.