Opening with the Australian premiere of the Spierig Brothers’ new feature Predestination, this year MIFF will include well over 300 films from around the globe, including 17 program strands, 28 world premieres, 168 Australian premieres, 19 talking pictures events, 24 international guests and more than 71 local guests.
The festival will close with the Australian premiere of Felony, directed by Melbourne filmmaker Matthew Saville, while crime thriller Cut Snake from director Tony Ayres will screen at the centrepiece gala.
Some of the many highlights include a look into the life of Australian cultural icon Nick Cave in 20,000 Days On Earth, British-Irish drama film about Jimi Hendrix All Is by My Side and a screening of the 1971 Jacques Rivette magnum opus Out 1: Noli me tangere, which in the past has been touted as “The cinephile’s holy grail,” by The New York Times, which stated that “In the annals of monumental cinema, there are few objects more sacred than Out 1.”
The program also features a global panorama of cutting-edge documentaries, shorts and animation alongside the inaugural Critics Campus, special event screenings at IMAX and the Planetarium and much, much more.
