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37°South applications now open
MIFF 37°South Market brings together local and international film financiers/buyers and screen producers from across Australia and New Zealand for four days of pitching opportunities, screenings, modules and panel discussions. Second round application pricing ends on 9 May.
Critics Campus 2025 applications now open
Australia’s premier screen-criticism incubator program is on the hunt for applicants. If you’re an emerging or early-career critic, keen for hands-on experience in a live festival context and available to attend MIFF on 7–24 August, we want you. Applications close 19 May.
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Latest Stories
26 Mar 2025
Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 4)
In the fourth instalment of a series in which we shine a spotlight on Critics Campus’s illustrious alumni, we speak to Andréas Giannopoulos (2016 cohort), Jess Ellicott (2016 cohort) and Harry Windsor (2014 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.
05 Mar 2025
Berlinale 2025 Report
MIFF Artistic Director Al Cossar reports from the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, finding a wealth of new works from big-name international auteurs alongside an impressive Australian contingent.
28 Feb 2025
“What Bergman Didn't Have Is Feelgood”: Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson on The Last Journey
Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson speak to MIFF about the themes and development of their film The Last Journey, and how its playful sensibility contrasts with the Swedish cinema of the past.
20 Jan 2025
Making Pictures Move: Rob Connolly on Magic Beach
Director Rob Connolly talks to MIFF about his screen adaptation of Alison Lester’s classic picture book.
Melbourne International Film Festival acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we live,
learn and work, and pays respect to their Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples. MIFF celebrates the history and contemporary creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.