Melbourne International Film Festival Reveal Full 2015 Program
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Melbourne International Film Festival Reveal Full 2015 Program

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After previously announcing their opening night program and Cannes selection, MIFF have returned with a colossal program of diversity and quality.  

The MIFF Premiere Fund has continued to support independent filmmakers achieve world premieres, with this year’s highlights including Downriver, directed by Grant Scicluna and Lawrence Johnston’s Neon, a documentary exploring the beauty and romance of neon lighting.

More local films will be featured at the Australian Showcase, with a bumper program including Brodie Higgs’ culture-mashing debut Elixir and George Gittoes’s world premiere of Snow Monkey, documenting his first-hand journey through Afghanistan. Australian guests welcomed to the festival include award-winning writer Lally Katz and Kriv Stenders (Red Dog).

The International Panorama is bringing a curated selection of global cinema to Melbourne with a program including psychological drama, romantic comedy and absurdist satire. Complementing this is the Accent on Asia program, with a focus on regional cinema from Australia’s closest neighbours. Highlights include Partho Sen-Gupta’s thriller Sunrise and avant-garde director Khavn de la Cruz’s dialogue free Ruined Heart: Another Love Story between a Criminal and a Whore.

Alongside all this is a comprehensive documentary, short film, music, digital cinema, psychedelic and sports program. For the first time, programs devoted entirely to food on film and true crime will make their debuts. Culinary Cinema will welcome Pulitzer prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold to the festival while Witness to the Fact: True Crime on Film will delve into the underbelly of law and order. 

Rounding out the festival will be a series of special events including the Talking Pictures series featuring Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, Planetarium Fulldome Showcase, the MIFF 55th Shorts Awards, Critics Campus and Vertical Cinema – an Australian first consisting of ten large-scale works by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers projected in vertical cinemascope.