From Wicker to Bright Horizons, this is MIFF 74
Tonight, the 74th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) unveiled its full 2026 program – more than 300 screen works spanning features, shorts and XR experiences, special events – including the…
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MIFF 2026 Comes Into View: First 25 Films Announced
Today, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) offers its first look at the 2026 program, announcing 25 films and special events, among them six MIFF Premiere Fund titles, a selection of 17 inter…
From Joan of Arc to an Accident, these are the first films for MIFF 2025
PRESS RELEASE From 7–24 August, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) proudly returns to Naarm and surrounds to bring some of the most talked about films arriving hot from Cannes, Berlin, Sund…
MIFF: I Saw the TV Glow is Pure Original Art in its Deepest Form
They can’t hurt you if you don’t think about them. Jane Schoenbrun is interested in the power of screens. Their debut featureWe’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a coming-of-age narrative where iso…
MIFF24: Bookworm is a Charming and Magical Family-Friendly Adventure
Ant Timpson’s blooming lovely Bookworm converts the most cynical of hearts and makes them believe in magic. A rare film that speaks to kids and adults with sincerity and without condescension. Idiosy…
MIFF24: Gaucho Gaucho is Visually Splendid and Not Much Else
Directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Truffle Hunters), Gaucho Gaucho concerns a specific type of “cowboy” from South America; skilled, brave, and unruly horsemen. Legends of local folklo…
MIFF24 - Dory Previn: On My Way to Where is a Gentle Triumph
Dory Previn: On My Way to Where, directed by Julia Greenberg and Dianna Dilworth, is exactly the kind of well-balanced documentary mixed of archival and modern interviews that successfully inducts you…
MIFF24: Twilight Time Doesn't Do Justice to Desmond Ball
Twilight Time is directed by John Hughes (After Mabo, Senses of Cinema) and examines the role that Desmond Ball, Australian writer and activist, had in protesting direct American influence over Austra…
MIFF24: Teaches of Peaches is a Conventional Documentary for an Unconventional Queer Icon
Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer’s documentary Teaches of Peaches is conventional to the point of being near antithetical to the artist at its centre. Merrill Nisker, known around the world as…
2024 Melbourne International Film Festival Comes to an End
The 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival has finished this weekend, screening hundreds of films from all over the world, as well as local Australian productions. The 2024 MIFF Award winners wer…
MIFF24: Who By Fire (Comme le feu) is an Excessive Yet Powerful Commentary on the Psyche of Men
The wounded male ego spins out of control over a too long weekend in Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire, a claustrophobic and searing portrait of middle-aged male anomie brushing against the generation who…
MIFF24: Tuesday's Emotional Reach Exceeds Its Thematic Grasp
The earth echoes screams of fear taken in by a large parrot – Death (Arinzé Kene) embodied as an unfathomable feathered creature. Ineluctable and unswayed – the purpose is for the bird to silence the…