Critics Campus 2024 participant Nicole Cadelina explores the textures and spaces of Trương Minh Quý’s poetic excavation of queer romance and memory.

Pedro Freire’s resonant portrait Malu gets the critical treatment from four of our 2024 Critics Campus participants: Daniel Tune, Isabella Gullifer-Laurie, Nicole Cadelina and Tara Kenny.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Alice Bellette unpacks a gory and Gothic new Australian horror comedy, finding a satirical representation of the present that fails to wholly reckon with the nation’s past.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Daniel Tune investigates Caught by the Tides, a collage-like work that travels through its director’s films and personal archival material to tell a story of separated lovers, lost worlds and out-of-control technological change.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Tara Kenny examines Santosh, which depicts a woman’s attempt to solve a brutal crime while navigating a hostile male-dominated police department – and which shows that good intentions are far from enough to reform a corrupt system.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Austin Lancaster looks at the intersecting layers of artifice in Miguel Gomes’s fantastical journey through East and South-East Asia, past and present.

Welcome messages from MIFF’s CEO, Damien Hodgkinson, and Artistic Director, Al Cossar; as well as from the Minister for Creative Industries and the Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

In the lead-up to Kindred's NITV/SBS premiere during National Reconciliation Week, we speak to directors Adrian Russell Wills and Gillian Moody about the risks and rewards of recounting life experiences on film as well as the ongoing importance of empowering First Nations storytellers.