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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…
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Last Summer screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 13, and 19. Director, author, and provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to the screen after a near ten-year hiatus with…
Passages screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 5 and 18. Ira Sachs’ Paris set queer melodrama evokes the work of Xavier Dolan, queer people can be imperfect and self-obsessed…
Documentarian and musician Anna Hints’s Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is a journey into the psyche of women as they experience a unique cleansing and renewal in an Estonian Sauna. Nadine Whitney was given th…
Monolith opens in Australian cinemas on October 26. At the centre of director Matt Vesely and writer Lucy Campbell’s feature film debut Monolith is a mesmerising and impressive performance from Lily…
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is back for another jam-packed year of stellar films, immersive theatrical, XR, and VR experiences, as well as the tenth anniversary of the Critics Cam…
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 Despite a renewed industry focus to support Australian films the industry is still facing significant challenges, with 5 in 6 (84%)[1] saying local filmmakers do not get adequate fundin…
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…
Filmmaker David Easteal has talked about films ‘unique ability to capture passing time,’ and it’s with his three-hour docu-drama The Plains that the viewer is gifted the feeling of watching a city cha…
Like everyone except the Indigenous people who lived in Naarm, I am an import to Melbourne. I first moved to the city in 1992 and found my spiritual home. There was something so uniquely cosmopolitan…