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It doesn't end or begin. Just changes form. Water. Hands. Dirt. Fingers. Raindrops. An embrace. Tears. Letting go. Returning to that which made you are core aspects of All Dirt Roads Taste of Sal…
There is likely to be a lot of reportage coming from the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) with Nadine Whitney on the ground. Luckily, Nadine has had a chance to see some films in the…
PRESS RELEASE The highly anticipated new feature from Melbourne-born Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot will officially open the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) when the beloved cu…
“It’s a dangerous business,” says the permanently aggressive Cleve, a hairdresser competing in a regional competition. Thomas Hardiman’s high camp debut feature Medusa Deluxe starts with horrors insid…
Thomas Charles Hylands’s charming, delightful, and wholesome documentary This is Going to Be Big tells the story of the students of the Bullengarook campus of the Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Specialist…
PRESS RELEASE Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) tonight announced its full 2023 film program for the festival's 71st edition. With a blockbuster line-up of 267films, MIFF raises the cu…
Press Release Bounding back into theatres and online this August, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has shared a First Glance announcement for its 2023 program, featuring an expansive…
When the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), one of the oldest continuing film festivals in the world, announced a mammoth celebration of Melbourne on Film for their 70th anniversary, the jo…
Filmmaker Granaz Moussavi’s latest film When Pomegranates Howl is a powerful ode to the great child-focused films of the 1980s, paying homage to the aesthetic of filmmakers like Abbas Kiarostami and A…
Sara Kern’s masterful family drama Moja Vesna is wrapped around an engaging and powerful central performance from newcomer Loti Kovačič. Lev Predan Kowarski’s cinematography embraces all the perfomers…
In Heather Rose’s Bruny, the main protagonist, Astrid Coleman, asks herself amidst the aftermath of a destructive event: “Why are Tasmanians so good at protesting?” Within Kasimir Burgess’ monumentall…
Alena Lodkina’s second feature film Petrol had its domestic launch at the Melbourne International Film Festival alongside a wealth of other Australian films that presented the Melbournian landscape on…