So many films,so little time:our pick of the 10 best at MIFF this year

So many films,so little time:our pick of the 10 best at MIFF this year

Our pick of what’s screening at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.

  • byJake Wilson

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Who would you trust to tell your story? Real lives are in focus at MIFF

Who would you trust to tell your story? Real lives are in focus at MIFF

A father fighting to free his son,a woman scarred by her own husband and Indigenous students far from home:three new documentaries delve deep.

  • byJake Wilson
Director addresses controversy about Port Arthur massacre movie

Director addresses controversy about Port Arthur massacre movie

In his first Australian interview about his movie ahead of its premiere at Cannes,Justin Kurzel explains why he felt it had to be made.

  • byStephanie Bunbury
Saving Julian Assange:Meet the people closest to the Wikileaks founder

Saving Julian Assange:Meet the people closest to the Wikileaks founder

Ben Lawrence’s Ithaka follows Assange’s father John Shipton and fiancee Stella Moris-Smith as they work on the campaign to block his extradition to the US.

  • byKarl Quinn
MIFF goes to the drive-in as The Drover’s Wife set to open the festival

MIFF goes to the drive-in as The Drover’s Wife set to open the festival

The revisionist western,adapted from a Henry Lawson short story,will kick off the 69th edition of the festival,as it takes on a hybrid form.

  • byKarl Quinn
The Trouble With Being Born,again:controversial film gets second life

The Trouble With Being Born,again:controversial film gets second life

The Adelaide Film Festival and Sydney's Fantastic Film Festival have programmed Sandra Wollner's movie,three months after MIFF dropped it.

  • byKarl Quinn
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MIFF audience numbers way up as digital-only festival proves a huge hit

MIFF audience numbers way up as digital-only festival proves a huge hit

COVID-19 forced the Melbourne International Film Festival online and it has proven to be a winner with audiences near and far.

  • byKarl Quinn
Hope lurks in this grim,flat,post-apocalyptic world

Hope lurks in this grim,flat,post-apocalyptic world

It's hard to read Valentyn Vasyanovych’s film set in a devastated near-future Ukraine. It might have a tinge of black humour.

  • byJake Wilson
Riding the Weird Wave,the absurd meets the real

Riding the Weird Wave,the absurd meets the real

Melbourne International Film Festival feature Kala Azar shows its director's bent for absurdity,but is grounded in believable human behaviour.

  • byJake Wilson
DAU Natasha is brutal,intimate and the most real film you will see at MIFF

DAU Natasha is brutal,intimate and the most real film you will see at MIFF

Made with non-actors playing Soviet-era versions of themselves,the DAU project was fascinating,controversial and a challenge to cast and audience alike.

  • byKarl Quinn
Film critics slam festival for dumping controversial Austrian robosex movie
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Film critics slam festival for dumping controversial Austrian robosex movie

David Stratton is among those who have attacked MIFF's decision to withdraw a movie after claims it'normalises sexual interest in children'.

  • byKarl Quinn