MIFF

Media Releases

2025

31 March 2025 – Early Bird Applications Now Open: 37ºSouth Market Returns to MIFF for 18th Edition (758KB)

2024

24 August 2024 – 2024 MIFF Award Winners Revealed: Final Festival Weekend Draws to a Triumphant Close (5.1MB)

8 August 2024 – Melbourne International Film Festival Opens Today: International Guests, World Premiere Screenings and Special Events to Come (3.2MB)

11 July 2024 – Melbourne International Film Festival Returns: Full 2024 Program and Bright Horizons Competition Slate Revealed (6.5MB)

30 June 2024 – MIFF Awards: 2024 Nominees and International Jury Line-up Announced, Uncle Jack Charles Award Introduced (5.1MB)

6 June 2024 – MIFF First Glance: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail to Open 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (3.4MB)

17 January 2024 – Damien Hodgkinson Appointed CEO of Melbourne International Film Festival (276KB)

2023

19 August 2023 – MIFF’s Final Weekend in Cinemas: 2023 Award Winners Announced (1.2MB)

12 August 2023 – MIFF 71 Shorts Awards Winners Announced 2023 (6.1MB)

3 August 2023 – Opening Tonight: Melbourne International Film Festival Rolls Out the Red Carpet for 18 Days of Movie Magic (1.6MB)

27 July 2023 – MIFF Announces $300,000 Prize Pool and 2023 Film Awards, Nominees and Jury Line-up (1.2MB)

11 July 2023 – MIFF Reveals Plentiful 2023 Program Including Cannes Highlights, Music on Film Line-up and Closing Night Gala (2.7MB)

8 June 2023 – MIFF 2023 Shares Dazzling First Glance Announcement (2.9MB)

2022

20 August 2022 – Inaugural Melbourne International Film Festival Award Winners Announced (1MB)

4 August 2022 – Lights, Camera and 18 Days of In-Cinema Action, as the 70th Melbourne International Film Festival Gets Underway (8MB)

12 July 2022 – MIFF 70: Melbourne International Film Festival Returns with Expansive Program of World-Class Films and Special Events (5MB)

9 June 2022 – Back in Cinemas and Celebrating 70 Years, MIFF Unveils Opening and Closing Night Films and First Look at 2022 Program, Including Premiere Fund Line-Up (384KB)

16 June 2022 – Chopper Reimagined: Mick Harvey and the Supergroup 'Springtime' to Re-score Australian Classic Live at the Astor (3MB)

16 February 2022 – Melbourne International Film Festival Establishes the Southern Hemisphere's Richest Feature Film Competition (359KB)

2019

3 December 2019 – New Chair for Melbourne International Film Festival (192KB)

23 August 2019 – MIFF Announces 2019 Audience Awards Winners (462KB)

6 August 2019 – Bold New Partnership Hallmarks 2019 MIFF VR Program (571KB)

29 July 2019 – Handpicked at the Plenary (356KB)

9 July 2019 – MIFF Announces Record-Breaking Program (904KB)

18 June 2019 – MIFF Announces Record Slate of Premiere Fund Films for 2019 Festival (436KB)

29 May 2019 – Thurston Moore and Sampa the Great Set to Play Shows at MIFF (221KB)

29 May 2019 – MIFF Announces Premiere Galas and the Return of Capitol Theatre (623KB)