Critics Campus 2024 participant Daniel Tune speaks to director Matías Piñeiro about the aesthetic and thematic departures in his latest work, and how cinema can communicate the pleasure of encountering time-honoured texts.

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 Dylan Rowen discusses the reflections on trans and queer experience in I Saw the TV Glow’s existential horror–infused tale of hope and letting go.

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.