MIFF 2025 Short Film Award Winners Announced
PRESS RELEASE The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has tonight unveiled the winners of its Academy Awards® accredited and BAFTA qualifying, MIFF Shorts Awards for 2025. Winners were annou…
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MIFF Interview: Shalom Almond on putting humanity at the core of Songs Inside
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. When documentarian Shalom Almond received access to document a group of women…
MIFF Review: Michel Gondry’s whimsical stop-motion adventure Maya, Give Me a Title is a labour of paternal love
Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, Donne-moi un Titre) is a sweet and imaginative film about the intersection of art and parenthood. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry combines a s…
MIFF Interview: Chain Reactions Director Alexandre O. Philippe: Cinema is for Everyone
“You look at film history and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre needs to be up there as one of the greatest films ever made.” - Alexandre O. Philippe. Alexandre O. Philippe makes documentaries that absorb…
MIFF Review: One More Shot is a great Aussie indie treat
New Year’s Eve 1999 and anaesthetist Minnie (Emily Browning) starts her day with a reminder that she’s not got her life together in the manner she thought she would have. Her patient in obstetrics tur…
MIFF Review: Exit 8 loops its protagonist—and its audience—in a psychologically draining descent
Exit 8 is an inventive and repetitive exercise in expanding what was once a simple video game into a character-driven psychological horror. Based on the 2023 adventure game The Exit 8 by developer Kot…
MIFF Review: First Light is an astonishing debut feature from James J. Robinson
First Light is an astonishing debut feature from acclaimed Australian photographer James J. Robinson, and a film perfectly placed in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Bright Horizons competi…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud shows that capitalism is the real horror and it's coming for you in a box
There’s a special kind of horror that doesn’t scream or slash—it creeps up on you in the form of unchecked ambition, of algorithms, of the unshakable feeling that someone’s always watching. Kiyoshi Ku…
MIFF Interview: William Jaka and Fraser Pemberton on dismantling the class system with their short film Faceless
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKyvEHfxFXi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Dogm…
Charlotte Wells: From Aftersun to Jury President at the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival
Typically, when the Melbourne International Film Festival announces its Bright Horizons competition selection, the most newsworthy feature is that annual reminder that the festival’s $140,000 prize is…
2025 MIFF Award Nominees Announced
PRESS RELEASE A celebration of bold storytelling and emerging talent, both local and global, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has revealed the nominees for this year’s MIFF Awards, pr…
Julia Holter: Translating the Sublime in The Passion of Joan of Arc for MIFF
Let me tell you about/ faces I see/ The stately, the rugged…/ some fierce lady eyes, some warm gentleman eyes/ but some eyes/ that can't look into mine Vasquez — Julia Holter I’m not usually bul…