MIFF Circle Patron Pinky Watson reflects on her lifelong love of cinema and the profound impact of MIFF.

After being selected for Accelerator Lab at MIFF 2025, Riley Blakeway speaks to MIFF about his experience of the festival, the importance of shooting on film and the important role Dropbox plays in his artistic process.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Thomas Phillips speaks to director Charlie Shackleton about revitalising shelved ideas and critiquing the excesses of true crime in Zodiac Killer Project, an essayistic meta-documentary about a film he was forced to abandon.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Armani Hollindale speaks to Alexandre O. Philippe about symbolic violence, subjectivity, gender and artistic responsibility as examined in his Texas Chainsaw Massacre omnibus documentary Chain Reactions.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Fred Pryce dissects the stylistic and storytelling choices behind Sophie Somerville’s decidedly DIY film Fwends, about two slacker pals who hang out and horse around upon reuniting in Melbourne.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Fred Pryce speaks to Happyend director Neo Sora about the ills of capitalism, colonialism and surveillance, as well as the resistive power of more communitarian forms of living.

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.