1997
Sandra Sdraulig
#46
This is my first year as the executive director of the festival and I see 1997 as one of consolidation, setting the foundations in place for the years to come. It will be the first step towards a bright and expanded future for the festival.
My sights are set on 2001. Not the Stanley Kubrick film of the same name, but the year in which the Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary.
I intend this festival to be a taste of things to come: bold, challenging and stimulating, celebrating cinema in all its rich diversity. You will have the opportunity to sample the latest and the best cinema from Australia and around the world.
This year's festival includes 180 films from nearly 40 countries, providing a cinematic window into different cultures, religions, social practices, methods of storytelling and visual expression. You will be introduced to some great new talents and trends, and will get an opportunity to revisit and reevaluate the work of established directors like Sergio Leone and Theo Angelopoulos.
The spotlights - Made In Spain, Young Asian Cinema, All That lazz and Mayhem. Magic & Maelstroms - will alert you to the productions of flourishing industries. I encourage you to also catch the short film and documentary programmes, formats that are rarely given cinema exposure.
Enjoy 17 days and nights of film discussion via forums, lectures and informal talks. Meet the filmmakers, the stars, the critics, the scholars and the buffs. This is your passport to globetrotting from the comfort of your cinema seat so sit back and enjoy.
Sandra Sdraulig
Executive Director
Introduction taken from the 1997 official guide
Films
Feature
BRASSED OFF
Director Mark Herman
UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
ROAD TO NHILL
Director Sue Brooks
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
ALBINO ALLIGATOR
Director Kevin Spacey
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
ANOTHER MOTHER
Director Paula van der Oest
Netherlands
MIFF 1997
Feature
BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA
Director Anjelica Huston
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE
Director Jan Svankmajer
Czech Republic/Switzerland/UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
COURTING COURTNEY
Director Paul Tarantino
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE DAYTRIPPERS
Director Greg Mottola
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
DEEP CRIMSON
Director Arturo Ripstein
Mexico/France/Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
DREAM WITH THE FISHES
Director Finn Taylor
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
FINE POWDER
Director Estaban Sapir
Argentina
MIFF 1997
Feature
FIRE
Director Deepa Mehta
Canada
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE FULL MONTY
Director Peter Cattaneo
UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE FUNERAL
Director Abel Ferrara
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE GODFATHER
Director Francis Ford Coppola
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
GRIDLOCK'D
Director Vondie Curtis Hall
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
HARD CORE LOGO
Director Bruce McDonald
Canada
MIFF 1997
Feature
IRMA VEP
Director Olivier Assayas
France
MIFF 1997
Feature
JOHNS
Director Scott Silver
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE KILLER CONDOM
Director Martin Walz
Germany
MIFF 1997
Feature
KISSED
Director Lynne Stopkewich
Canada
MIFF 1997
Feature
LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
Director José Araújo
Brazil
MIFF 1997
Feature
LAYIN' LOW
Director Danny Leiner
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
LEA
Director Ivan Fila
Germany/Slovakia
MIFF 1997
Feature
LEVEL 5
Director Chris Marker
France
MIFF 1997
Feature
LILIES
Director John Greyson
Canada
MIFF 1997
Feature
LITTLE ANGEL
Director Helke Misselwitz
Germany
MIFF 1997
Feature
LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
Director Joe Mantello
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iran/France
MIFF 1997
Feature
MUGSHOT
Director Matt Mahurin
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
NéNETTE AND BONI
Director Claire Denis
France
MIFF 1997
Feature
NEROLIO
Director Aurelio Grimaldi
Italy
MIFF 1997
Feature
NO NAMES ON THE DOORS
Director Nadav Levitan
Israel
MIFF 1997
Feature
PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME
Director Srdjan Dragojevic
Former Yugoslavia
MIFF 1997
Feature
EL SANTO LUZBEL
Director Miguel Sabido
Mexico
MIFF 1997
Feature
SMALL TIME
Director Shane Meadows
UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
SHERLOCK JR.
Director Buster Keaton
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE SQUARE CIRCLE
Director Amol Palekar
India
MIFF 1997
Feature
STATES OF CONTROL
Director Zack Winestine
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
STELLA DOES TRICKS
Director Coky Giedroyc
UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
TREES LOUNGE
Director Steve Buscemi
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
ULEE'S GOLD
Director Victor Nuñez
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN
Director Christopher Guest
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
WALKING AND TALKING
Director Nicole Holofcener
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
WESTERN
Director Manuel Poirier
France
MIFF 1997
Feature
WILL IT SNOW FOR CHRISTMAS?
Director Sandrine Veysset
France
MIFF 1997
Feature
12 STOREYS
Director Eric Khoo
Singapore
MIFF 1997
Feature
BUDDHA BLESS AMERICA
Director Wu Nien-jen
Taiwan
MIFF 1997
Feature
HAPPY TOGETHER
Director Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong
MIFF 1997
Feature
KIDS RETURN
Director Takeshi Kitano
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
LABYRINTH OF DREAMS
Director Ishii Sogo
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
PRIVATE WARS
Director Nick Deocampo
Philippines
MIFF 1997
Feature
SUZAKU
Director Naomi Kawase
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
TOPLESS WOMEN TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES
Director Harry Sinclair
New Zealand
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL
Director Hong Sang-Soo
South Korea
MIFF 1997
Feature
THREE FRIENDS
Director Yim Soon-Rye
South Korea
MIFF 1997
Feature
MY SECRET CACHE
Director Shinobu Yaguchi
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
TOKYO SKIN
Director Yukinari Hanawa
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE BUTLER
Director Anna Kannava
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
CRACKS IN THE MASK
Director Frances Calvert
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
DOING TIME FOR PATSY CLINE
Director Chris Kennedy
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
EXILE IN SARAJEVO
Director Tahir Cambis, Alma Sahbaz
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
FOLLOWING THE FENCE LINE
Director Pat Fiske
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
HEAVEN'S BURNING
Director Craig Lahiff
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
KISS OR KILL
Director Bill Bennett
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
MABO - LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN
Director Trevor Graham
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
MAO'S NEW SUIT
Director Sally Ingleton
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
MY BLESSINGS
Director Bill Mousoulis
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
THANK GOD HE MET LIZZIE
Director Cherie Nowlan
Australia
MIFF 1997
Feature
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND
Director Hayayo Miyazaki
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE
Director Hayayo Miyazaki
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
TOMBSTONE FOR FIREFLIES
Director Isao Takahata
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
LAPUTA: SKY CASTLE
Director Hayayo Miyazaki
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
POM POKO
Director Ai Gakawa, Toshi Eguchi
Japan
MIFF 1997
Feature
EARTH
Director Julio Medem
Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
LIBERTARIAS
Director Vicente Aranda
Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
MOUTH TO MOUTH
Director Manuel Gómez Pereira
Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
NOBODY WILL SPEAK OF US WHEN WE ARE DEAD
Director Augustin Díaz Yanes
Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
SECRETS OF THE HEART
Director Montxo Armendáriz Barrios
Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
RECONSTRUCTION
Director Theo Angelopoulos
Greece
MIFF 1997
Feature
VOYAGE TO CYTHERA
Director Theo Angelopoulos
Greece
MIFF 1997
Feature
LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST
Director Theo Angelopoulos
Greece
MIFF 1997
Feature
ULYSSES' GAZE
Director Theo Angelopoulos
Greece
MIFF 1997
Feature
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS
Director Sergio Leone
Italy/Germany/Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE
Director Sergio Leone
Italy/Germany/Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Director Sergio Leone
Italy/Spain
MIFF 1997
Feature
A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE
Director Sergio Leone
Italy
MIFF 1997
Feature
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
Director Sergio Leone
USA
MIFF 1997
Short
Viva Leone!
Director Nick Freand Jones
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Ennio Morricone
Director David Thompson
UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY
Director Bert Stern
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
STORMY WEATHER
Director Andrew L. Stone
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
‘ROUND MIDNIGHT
Director Bertrand Tavernier
USA/France
MIFF 1997
Feature
BIRD
Director Clint Eastwood
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
DEXTER GORDON: MORE THAN YOU KNOW
Director Donald McGlynn
Denmark
MIFF 1997
Feature
A BIT OF SCARLET
Director Andrea Weiss
UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
ANYTHING BOYS CAN DO
Director Ethan Minsker
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
BREASTS
Director Meema Spadola
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
EAST SIDE STORY
Director Dana Ranga
Germany
MIFF 1997
Feature
FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK
Director Isaac Julien
UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
A HEALTHY BABY GIRL
Director Judith Helfand
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
HIDE AND SEEK
Director Su Friedrich
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
HOWARD HAWKS: AMERICAN ARTIST
Director Kevin MacDonald
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
LINES FROM THE HEART
Director Christina Olofson
Sweden
MIFF 1997
Feature
LOVE'S DEBRIS
Director Werner Schroeter
Germany/France/UK
MIFF 1997
Feature
MIRROR, MIRROR
Director Baillie Walsh
France
MIFF 1997
Feature
OF MEN AND BEARS
Director Eldora Traykova
Bulgaria/France
MIFF 1997
Feature
OFF SEASON
Director Miriam Quinte, Pepe Danquart
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
PUNCH ME IN THE STOMACH
Director Francine Zuckerman
Canada/New Zealand
MIFF 1997
Feature
SALSA
Director Rigoberto López Pego
Cuba
MIFF 1997
Feature
SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPERMASOCHIST
Director Kirby Dick
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
TIMOTHY LEARY'S DEAD
Director Paul Davids
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
WEDNESDAY
Director Victor Kossakovsky
Russia/Germany/UK/Finland
MIFF 1997
Short
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Director Paul Seydor
USA
MIFF 1997
Feature
YANG & YIN: GENDER IN CHINESE CINEMA
Director Stanley Kwan
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Agurra
Director Iñaki Elizalde
Spain
MIFF 1997
Short
At Sea
Director Penny Fowler-Smith
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Big Fish
Director Zadoc Nava
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Bomgay
Director Riyad Wadia
India
MIFF 1997
Short
The Book of Midnight
Director Thierry Binisti
France
MIFF 1997
Short
The Changing Room
Director Alyson Bell
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Construct
Director Michelle Burns
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Dual Balls
Director Dan Zeffe
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
81
Director Stephen Burke
Ireland
MIFF 1997
Short
Faces
Director Sue Ford
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
The Film of Her
Director Bill Morrison
USA
MIFF 1997
Short
Final Cut
Director Justin Case
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Five Hundred Acres
Director Lucy Lehmann
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
A Fly Went By
Director Rod Edge
Poland/UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Franz and Kafka
Director Matthew Saville
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Genre
Director Don Hertzfeldt
USA
MIFF 1997
Short
Habit
Director Miranda Pennell
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Hero Sandwich
Director Andrew Collen, Amy Collen
USA
MIFF 1997
Short
His Mother's Voice
Director Dennis Tupicoff
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Hold
Director Dryden Goodwin
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Hope 95
Director Bynke Maiboll
Denmark
MIFF 1997
Short
How I Play Cricket
Director James Hurll
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Human Behavioural Case Studies
Director Adam Benjamin Elliot
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
In Harm's Way
Director Jan Krawitz
USA
MIFF 1997
Short
In the Path of the Sun
Director Daniel Whistler
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Insight
Director Georg Misch
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Is it the Design on the Wrapper?
Director Tessa Sheridan
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Little Man
Director Amyn Kaderali
USA
MIFF 1997
Short
Low Job
Director Jan Bruck
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Luck
Director Waldir Xavier
Spain
MIFF 1997
Short
Many Happy Returns
Director Marjut Rimminen
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Mécanomagie
Director Bady Minck
Luxembourg
MIFF 1997
Short
Mirrored Measure
Director Sarah Pucill
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
A Moment Passing
Director Charlie De Salis
New Zealand
MIFF 1997
Short
My Bride
Director Rodrigo Plá
Mexico
MIFF 1997
Short
Night Ride
Director Martin Murphy
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
On a Full Moon
Director Lee Whitmore
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
One Sunday Morning
Director Manu Kurewa
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
The Other Side of the Volcano
Director Ellen Ramos
Philippines
MIFF 1997
Short
Paranoia
Director Robert Edwards
USA
MIFF 1997
Short
Partition
Director Jean-François Marteudi
France
MIFF 1997
Short
Perception
Director Randall Myers
Norway
MIFF 1997
Short
Possum
Director Brad McGann
New Zealand
MIFF 1997
Short
Power To Win
Director Charles Chauvel
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Prick
Director Christopher Stollery
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Queens for a Day
Director Pascal Magnin
Switzerland
MIFF 1997
Short
Revolt Into Style
Director Simon Burton, Mark Worth
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Shock
Director Zlativ Radev
Bulgaria
MIFF 1997
Short
Skin Deep
Director Ran Tal, Etgar Keret
Israel
MIFF 1997
Short
Song of the Solitary Drinker
Director Michael Zamjatnins
Germany
MIFF 1997
Short
Splinter
Director Alison Brown
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Staggerings
Director Peter Collis
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Sunlight Seeping In
Director John C. Taylor
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Sunset Strip
Director Kayla Parker
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
A Tadpole Tale
Director Mark Arnott
Australia
MIFF 1997
Short
Tiny Bubbles
Director Bo Myers
Canada
MIFF 1997
Short
Trainspotter
Director Jeff Newitt, Neville Astley
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Voices
Director Trine Vester
Denmark
MIFF 1997
Short
Wheel of Life
Director Vera Neubauer
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
The Wind of Changes
Director Phil Mulloy
UK
MIFF 1997
Short
Women Without Implants
Director Anne DeDalvo
USA
MIFF 1997
Short
Zig Zag
Director Georges Schwizgebel
Switzerland
MIFF 1997
