2019
Al Cossar

In a world where so many multi-task their media with gnawing familiarity, where so many stories congeal into cliché, where films are everywhere but voices are few, it is a wonderful possibility to offer you the off-map and singular experiences of MIFF 2019. Welcome!
There are only-at-MIFF moments, spectacular sights and strange journeys all waiting to germinate through every corner of this year’s program – our 35mm screening of Quentin Tarantino’s hotly awaited Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; the Cine-Everest of the 14 hour+ La Flor; the all night brain-melt of the Goldblum Marathon; the magnetic half-3D noir of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, to name just a few.
We present a series of more-than-Special Events featuring incredible collaborations and cross-pollinations designed to see another side of film. In MIFFxMusic, we co-present with the MSO The Film Music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, welcoming both in attendance to present a path through their blissfully, brutally beautiful body of cinema work; Hear My Eyes sees neo-soul wunderkind Sampa the Great perform to Céline Sciamma’s paen to Parisian sisterhood, Girlhood; icons of cinema and music meet in Thurston Moore Plays Maya Deren. If that’s not enough to stir the senses, our culinary events with Supernormal will see multi-course banquets inspired by a duo of incredible films within this year’s program.
MIFF is a festival that celebrates the indelible mark of the director; in 2019, our retrospectives foreground the rigour, risk-taking and bravado of three formidable ones in our Directors In Focus series: Agnieszka Holland, whose films urge us presciently to recognise the recurrence of history; the pioneering work of the fearless Penelope Spheeris; and the fever-dream cinephile’s delight of Peter Strickland, in a collaborative strand also featuring his own personal selections and influences.
We are thrilled, also, to continue our work towards making MIFF a more accessible environment, offering a number of screenings for our audience members who are Deaf or hard of hearing, as well as screenings providing audio description tracks.
Headliners is the place to go to see the biggest of the big, the blockbusters of the festival. We present an incredible mix of homegrown talent and local stories within our Australian selections, including seven 2019 MIFF Premiere Fund films. Elsewhere, expect globe-trotting within International Features; an exceptional range of Shorts and Talks, and an exciting lineup of filmmaking guests; we discover utopia/dystopia/calamity in The World Online and Environmental Docs; and Documentary Visions presents directors seeing the real world differently. We look further forward to the boundaries of what’s next in VR; and look back in Restorations, celebrating the return of film treasures from cinema history, ours and elsewhere, to the screen;
Finally and importantly: MIFF is 18 days, together. An opportunity for our attentions to turn outward, to entertain, challenge, contort our brains once more into marathon viewing mode. I welcome you to consider someone else’s story, to invite surprise with your festival choices, to see another side of film this year at MIFF 2019!
Films

The Fly

Flesh Out

Flame

Five films By Diana Reichenbach

First Love

Fire Will Come


The Field

Fever

Featherweight

Feathers

The Farewell

A Family Tour

A Family

Falling Up

Eyes Wide Open: Childhood Shorts

Extra Ordinary

Experimental Shorts

Evelyn

Entropia

Europa Europa

End of the Century

Emu Runner

Elders

The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

The Egg

Earth Girls Are Easy

Each and Every Moment

Dying to Survive

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

The Duke of Burgundy

Dudes

Dramatic and Mild

Double Exposed

Documentary Shorts

Docking

Divine Love

Distant Voices, Still Lives

The Distance Between Us and the Sky

Dirty God

Deerskin

The Death of Dick Long

The Dead Don't Die

Days Of The Whale

The Day Shall Come

David Crosby: Remember My Name

Daughter

Dark Suns

Dark Place

Daniel

Dance of the Dead

Daffodils

Cuckoo Roller

The Cremator

The Cordillera of Dreams

Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore

Common Ground

Come to Daddy

A Colony

Collingwood: From the Inside Out

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

Cleo: If I Could Turn Back Time

Circus Movements

Chinese Portrait

Children of the Sea

Children Do Not Play War

Cerulean Blue

Cats

Carmine Street Guitars

Capital in the 21st Century

Call Confession

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles

Butterfly

Butterflies

Burning Bush

Buoyancy

A Brother's Love

Brotherhood

Bros: After the Screaming Stops

Brittany Runs a Marathon

Brick and Mirror

The Boys Next Door

Bonfire






Black Bus Stop

The Biggest Little Farm

Best MIFF Shorts

Berberian Sound Studio

Benjamin

Below

Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World

Bellbird

Beats

Beanpole

The Beach Bum

Bait

Bacurau

Baby

Ayahuasca

Australia: The Wild Top End

Australian Shorts

The Australian Dream

The Atomic Tree

Ashe '68

The Art of Self-Defense

Aquarela

Animation Shorts

Animals

Angry Harvest

Angel of Mine

Angelo

And Then We Danced

And Then The Bear

American Woman

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

Amazing Grace

Altiplano

All Inclusive

All IncIusive

Alice

aKasha

The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs

Afterimage For Tomorrow

Adam

Accused #2: Walter Max Sisulu






Accelerator 2

Accelerator 1

Abou Leila

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

11.11.18

5B

4 Feet: Blind Date

For My Father's Kingdom

For Sama

Fourteen

Frankie

Friedkin Uncut

Fulldome Showcase 1

Fulldome Showcase 2

Funan

Future Dreaming

The Gasoline Thieves

Ghost Town Anthology

Ghost Tropic

A Gift

The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash

Girl and Body

Give Me Liberty

God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya

Goldblum Marathon

Goldie

The Grand Bizarre

The Grave of St Oran

Greener Grass

Gymnasia

Halston

The Halt

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

Héctor

Hear My Eyes: Girlhood + Sampa The Great

Hearts and Bones

Henry Needs a New Home

The Hidden City

H is for Happiness

His Lost Name

Hoarders Without Borders

Honeyland

Horizon: Beyond the Edge of the Visible Universe

Hotel By The River

House of Glass

House of Hummingbird

The Hunt

I Lost My Body

In Darkness

Independence Day

In Fabric

In My Blood It Runs

Intermission Expedition

International Shorts 1

International Shorts 2

The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

It Must Be Heaven

It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story

It's Going to be Beautiful

I Was at Home, But

Jawline

jeny303

Jinpa

Journey to a Mother's Room

Judy & Punch

The Jump

The Juniper Tree

Kagaya’s Aurora

Kairos

Katalin Varga

Kids on Fire

The Kill Team

The Kiss of the Catfish

Koko-Di Koko-Da

Kursk

La Flor - Part 1

La Flor - Part 2

La Flor - Part 3

Landing

Land of Ashes

The Last Post Office

Leftover Women

Les Misérables

The Leunig Fragments

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Light

Liliu

Litigante

Little Grey Bubbles

Little Monsters

The Little Soul

Lives in Action

Living Room

The Lodge

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Distance

Long Time No Sea

Los Reyes

Lost Rambos

Lowland Kids

Lucía en el limbo

Machine

Mahogany Too

Maiden

Maja

Man in the Well

Man of Marble

Manta Ray

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Martha: A Picture Story

Matthias & Maxime

Measure For Measure

Meeting Gorbachev

Memories of My Body

Memory — The Origins of Alien

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Midnight Family

MIFF Centrepiece Gala - Little Monsters

MIFF Closing Night Gala - The Farewell

MIFF Family Gala - H is for Happiness

MIFF Opening Night Gala - The Australian Dream







MIFF Talks - Morgana



MIFF Talks - The World Online





Monos

Monrovia, Indiana

Morgana

The Mountain

Mr Jimmy

Mr. Jones

Mr. Mare

My Name is Mudju

NFSA Restores: Black Robe

The Nightingale

Nina Wu

Noah Land

Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy

No Time for Quiet

Official Secrets

Okko's Inn

Omarska

Once in Trubchevsk

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

One Child Nation

On the President's Orders

The Orphanage

Our Mothers

Our Time Machine

Out of Range

Over the Rainbow

Pain and Glory

Papicha

Particles

Passage

Passenger

Patision Avenue

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Pearl

Penelope Spheeris Shorts

Photograph

Picture Character

Piggy

Pixote

PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money

Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You

Port Authority

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Present.Perfect.

The Procedure 2

Provincial Actors

Pulsión

The Queen

Queen of Hearts

Rain

Ray & Liz

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

A Regular Woman

The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion

Reneepoptosis

The Rest

Retrospekt

A Return

Return Home

Ridge

Rosie

Rules of Play

Sakawa

Scheme Birds

Script Live: That Time of Year

Seahorse

Sea of Shadows

The Seer and the Unseen

Send Me Home

Sequin in a Blue Room

Seven Beauties

Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

Share

Shaw Brothers Double Feature

Shed a Light

She Runs

SHHHH

The Size of Things

Skin

Slam

Slug Life

Smoke Between Trees

Snare

Something Else

Song Without a Name

Son of the Sea

Sorry We Missed You

Southern Climes

The Souvenir

Sphere

Stars By The Pound

St. Augustine

Stitches

Sátántangó

Strangers

Strickland Selections

Suburbia

Suede: The Insatiable Ones

Sunset

Suzi Q

Swallow

The Swallows of Kabul

Sword of Trust

System Crasher

Take Me Somewhere Nice

Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis

Talking About Trees

The Tall Guy

Tattoo

Them That Follow

There's a Mobster Under My Bed!

Thor: Ragnarok

Three Stories Inside a Rental Van

Thurston Moore Plays Maya Deren

Tito

Tommaso

The Tomorrow Man

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Too Late to Die Young

Tracking

Trash

Traveling While Black

Travelling Film Showcase - A Family

Travelling Film Showcase - American Woman

Travelling Film Showcase - Below

Travelling Film Showcase - Buoyancy

Travelling Film Showcase - Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

Travelling Film Showcase - H is for Happiness

Travelling FilmShowcase - In My Blood It Runs

Travelling Film Showcase - Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

Travelling Film Showcase - Measure For Measure

Travelling Film Showcase - No Time for Quiet

The Trial

Triple Swear

The Unknown Saint

Untouchable

Vai

The Van

Vibes

Violence Voyager

Virgins4Lyfe

Vision Portraits

Vivarium

VR Package 1

VR Package 2

VR Package 3

VR Package 4

The Waiting Room

Walking On Water

Warburdar Bununu: Water Shield

Water and Clearing

Watergate

Watermelon Juice

Watson

We Are Little Zombies

We're Not Here

Wet. Warm. Dribble.

What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

The Whistlers

White Light

The Wild Goose Lake

The Wolf Hour

A Woman Alone





Words And Silk: The Imaginary and Real Worlds of Gerald Murnane

Working Woman

WTF Shorts

Wu-Tang Clan: of Mics and Men (Episodes 1 & 2)

Wu-Tang Clan: of Mics and Men (Episodes 3 & 4)

You Don't Nomi

Young Ahmed
