MIFF Talks & In-Conversations

Celebrate the launch of MIFF’s new publication commemorating stories of our city on screen with some of its most iconic directors and creators.

Take a masterclass with visionary director Brett Morgen, exploring his sublime new David Bowie film.

Movies. Television. Books. Art. The entire internet. An always-timely conversation about how and what we’re consuming, and why.

Join a stirring discussion about empathetically exploring end of life on screen as well as the wider assisted-dying movement.

A conversation with the powerhouses behind Delikado and Franklin, documentaries that spotlight the natural world and the need to protect it.

Delve into current and emerging screen-based movements with academics and screen practitioners as they consider what’s next.

Unearth archival insights from filmmakers who have dug deep to explore the legacies of artists who sat squarely outside the mainstream.

Spend an hour with the celebrated “one-man third wave of Mexican cinema”.

Be inspired by the visionary designer of the Greenhouse, Joost Bakker, and one of its collaborative residents, chef Jo Stafford.

Three of the Australia’s most insightful filmmakers – Alena Lodkina, Goran Stolevski and Thomas M. Wright – discuss their Gala and Competition Films.