Critics Campus 2025 participant Amelia Leonard speaks to Alex Ross Perry about the legacy of video stores and physical media, and the homage his documentary Videoheaven pays to this lost world.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Parth Rahatekar speaks to Cactus Pears writer/director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade about cultural specificity, silence in film and the importance of going beyond the ‘queer cinema’ label.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Armani Hollindale speaks to Alexandre O. Philippe about symbolic violence, subjectivity, gender and artistic responsibility as examined in his Texas Chainsaw Massacre omnibus documentary Chain Reactions.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Claire Ollivain speaks to The Golden Spurtle director Constantine Costi on how community, tradition and finding connection amid the capitalist grind informed the creation of his whimsical, heartwarming documentary.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Monique Nair speaks to Kalu Oji about diaspora, belonging, family and home, as well as the conflict between community and gentrification, as dramatised in his touching father–son tale Pasa Faho.

Critics Campus 2025 participant Sophie Terakes speaks to Simón Mesa Soto about A Poet’s candid, compassionate depiction of artistic crisis and creative-industry superficiality, revealing it as a film that encourages an open attitude to optimism and change.

Kasimir Burgess’s mesmerising documentary Iron Winter is approached from four different angles by MIFF 2025 Critics Campus participants Monique Nair, Claire Ollivain, Thomas Phillips and Armani Hollindale.

Paula Tomás Marques’s gloriously form-exploding film Two Times João Liberada is approached from four different angles by MIFF 2025 Critics Campus participants Amelia Leonard, Parth Rahatekar, Fred Pryce and Sophie Terakes.