MIFF 1969

Erwin Rado
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Festival Program
40 feature films and 93 short films were screened from 6 June to 21 June
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Program in Focus
Notable films included Capricious Summer (Mezel), Fando and Lis (Jodorowsky), If (Anderson), Silence and Cry (Jancsó), Diary of a Switchboard Operator (Makavejev), Report of the Party and the Guests (Nemec), Hugo and Josephine (Grede). 

Filmmaker in Focus

Stig Björkman. Björkman was a guest of the Festival, were a collection of his films were screened.
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Featured Film
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger (David Loeb Weiss, 1968)
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PETER AND PAUL

Pierre et Paul
MIFF 1969

From the Festival Files

Making the Festival

The Melbourne Film Festival began as the idea of a few passionate individuals. A sub-committee, formed from delegates to the 1951 Australian Council of Film Societies film weekend, suggested that a small festival of films in the tourist town of Olinda should be held in 1952. The resulting festival was a testament to the do-it-yourself initiative of the Olinda festival committee. As some 800 festiv …

On Screen and in the Cinema

The magic of the festival is reached through its screens. These are places and spaces that captivate our attention, providing windows where films come to life before our eyes. As portals to the world, the festival’s screens allow us to travel the globe, move through time, and see through another’s eyes. … Yet these screens also remind us of home. They are fixed in place, in our memories and in o …