Last chance to stream
Indulge in a selection of our Audience Award winners on MIFF Play
Close out the biggest MIFF yet with a bundle consisting of three of our Audience Award–winning titles, which you can binge on the final day of our 70th festival.
Alongside the MIFF Premiere Fund-supportedVolcano Man and When Pomegranates Howl, this bundle gives you access to We Were Once Kids, the fifth documentary feature from award-winning filmmaker Eddie Martin. Probing the fine line between celebration and exploitation, publicity and pressure, it revisits the cultural landscape of Larry Clark’s iconic 90s film Kids, which paved a bumpy path for its young stars’ future success.
Hurry – today is your last chance to view these films and more on our streaming platform. MIFF Play ends at 11.59pm tonight.
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Volcano Man
When a filmmaker son sets out to make a documentary about his filmmaker father, long-buried feelings and dormant memories bubble to the surface.
Supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, this raw and revealing film combines archival footage and photographs, lively narration and talking heads, and a buoyant rock ’n’ roll score to recount a relationship marred by grief and failed dreams.
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When Pomegranates Howl
On the streets of Kabul, a child dreams of making it big. Will a chance encounter with a foreigner bring his shot at stardom closer?
Based on a true story, the Kabul-shot When Pomegranates Howl is the poignant and compassionate new feature from the Iranian-Australian writer/director of My Tehran for Sale.
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Navalny
Winner of an Audience Award and the Festival Favorite Award at this year’s Sundance (where its very existence was kept secret until just before its own world premiere), Navalny is at once a taut conspiracy thriller and an account of the machinations and missteps that led to a failed domestic assassination.
“One of the most jaw-dropping things you’ll ever witness.” – The Guardian
Presented by The Saturday Paper
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The Reason I Jump
This Sundance Audience Award winner is a revelatory, immersive adaptation of Naoki Higashida’s memoir of a neurodiverse life.
Director Jerry Rothwell has crafted a remarkably empathetic, sensory-led audiovisual approximation of a world that neurotypical audiences often struggle to understand.
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Neptune Frost
A wildly ambitious, radically experimental Afrofuturist work from visionary poet and musician Saul Williams and actor and playwright Anisia Uzeyman.
Winner of our VicScreen Bright Horizons Award, this avant-garde cyber-musical confronts ever-changing technology, racial capitalism, human labour and the slippery strictures of gender.
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Eami
This Rotterdam Tiger Award winner melds magic realism, mythology, ecology and ethnography into an exquisite cine-poem.
Director Paz Encina immersed herself in Ayoreo-Totobiegosode culture and history to make this audiovisual collage that merges the imagery and soundscapes of the Gran Chaco with heartbreaking testimonies from the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode.
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The Natural World
A special collection of nonfiction films that observe and dissect the intersections of humankind and nature.
As part of our MINI-presented program strand The Natural World, leading Australian documentarian Eddie Martin puts viewers on the frontlines of the deadly 2019–2020 bushfires. Fire Front chronicles the catastrophe with a perspective and scale never before seen.
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Down the Rabbit Hole: An Interview with Alena Lodkina
Critics Campus participant Andrew Fraser speaks to Alena Lodkina, director of the MIFF Premiere Fund–supported Petrol, about creative synergies, cultural cringe and challenging audiences to watch films as co-creators.
MIFF Critics Campus is presented by VicScreen and supported by the University of Melbourne.
