Critics Campus 2026 participant Andrew Cordon speaks to director Corrin Evans about Jungian archetypes, intimacy coordination and representations of sexuality in the context of erotic thriller Corpus.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Guy Webster speaks to directorial duo THUNDERLIPS about medical misogyny, genre tropes, and finding the right balance between comedy and body horror in their outrageous feature directorial debut.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Guuleed Ismail speaks to Sophy Romvari about travel, technology, and the large and small elements of her own life that have found their way into her emotionally devastating debut feature.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Alexander Holiday speaks to Paloma Schneideman about liminality, visibility and interpersonal longing, as depicted in her stirringly bittersweet portrait of queer adolescence.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Wen-Juenn Lee speaks to Vee Shi about family, the blurring of character and candour, and the curious ways that fiction can coax out emotional truths, as seen in his poignant hybrid documentary.

Gus Van Sant’s blackly comedic 1970s-set thriller is approached from four different angles by MIFF 2026 Critics Campus participants Guy Webster, Heather Fraser, Wen-Juenn Lee and Alia Ardon.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Andrew Cordon explores the imagery and political commentary at the heart of Filipiñana, a film that takes a swing at the ongoing impacts of colonisation and economic inequality in the Philippines.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Alia Ardon evaluates the intentions and imperfections of Abdallah Alkhatib’s searing portrait of life under siege, making reference to the canon of absurdist and restorative Palestinian films and to key revolutionary thinkers.