Critics Campus participant Andrew Fraser unravels the ethical tightrope trod by Thomas M. Wright’s The Stranger and male-focused true-crime films of its ilk.

Critics Campus participant Ellen O’Brien speaks to Under Cover director Sue Thomson about her connection to older women and homelessness, navigating the public storytelling of private and intimate experiences, and working with Hollywood star Margot Robbie.

Critics Campus participant Isabelle Carney reflects on perspective, empathy and context, as depicted in Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.

Critics Campus participant Brooke Heinz explores two MIFF 70 sci-fi films’ distinctly executed yet converging warnings against resisting the course of nature.

Former London Film Festival and British Film Institute director Adrian Wootton OBE returns to celebrate the 10th Melbourne instalment of his illustrious Illustrated Film Talks series. In conversation with MIFF, he offers a teaser for his upcoming talks about Cher, Elvis, David Bowie and Baz Luhrmann.

Critics Campus 2021 participant Charlotte Daraio speaks to Amalia Ulman about poverty, preconceptions and the cultural pressure of “being proper”, as depicted in her film El Planeta.

Critics Campus 2021 alumnus Jared Richards dives head-first into the manic imagery and manifold references of Dasha Nekrasova’s provocative The Scary of Sixty-First.

From mountain high to river deep, director Jennifer Peedom follows her 2017 MIFF hit Mountain with a stunning new cine-sonic journey along the world’s waterways.