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.

We speak to MIFF’s film-analysis and education expert Dr Josh Nelson about his lifelong love of cinema and the importance of nurturing visual literacy skills in schools and classrooms.

MIFF is thrilled to announce a major philanthropic partnership with DECJUBA Foundation.

In the third instalment of a series in which we shine a spotlight on Critics Campus’s illustrious alumni, we speak to Kristen S. Hé (2015 cohort), Keva York (2017 cohort) and Merryana Salem (2020 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.

Programmer Kate Jinx reminisces about the movies, meetings and merriment of Berlinale 2024, including several films to keep an eye out for this year.

We speak to writer/director John Harvey, whose film Katele (Mudskipper) won the VicScreen Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film, about submitting to MIFF, being part of a community and how festivals can foster creativity.