The Film Line-up for the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival has been announced. For me, the highlights for this year’s Melbourne International Film Festivalwould be The Disappearance of Alice Creed, The Killer Inside Me, Splice, Enter the Void, and The Messenger. I’ve seen both films. The Messenger‘s is excellent and Splice is full of surprises. Opening the festival this year will be The Wedding Party. Peruse the full film line-up showing at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival below.
(USA, 102 min)
“A divine comedy full of corrosive humor… and a film that anticipates the Judd Apatow comedy brand, full of immature adults who fulfill (and enjoy) themselves through all forms of regress… More >
(China, 116 min)
A first-hand account of the Great Sichuan Earthquake that shows the human face of a massive tragedy.… … The statistics are mind-boggling: 70,000 dead, 375,000 casualties. In 1428 filmma… More >
(Canada, 102 min)
What are a few lies between friends?… … The 80s were all about Rubik’s cubes, Michael Jackson, cassette Walkmans, calculator watches and seven-cent popsicles. But for 11-year-old R… More >
(Canada, 106 min)
A film student stumbles into the lair of a righteous serial killer in this chilling adaptation of a best-selling novel by Patrick Senécal.… … When film student Ian (played by Marc-… More >
(90 min)
A team of Irish filmmakers are setting out to make a cinema-quality feature film in just 72 hours.… … The Ballad of Des & Mo is a romantic comedy that will be made on the fly on loc… More >
(South Korea, 104 min)
There are three kinds of people in the world – men, women and actresses.… … Six ravishingly beautiful Korean movie stars make light of their professional personae in this witty, t… More >
(Vietnam, 105 min)
“A subtle, melancholy exploration of erotic angst and uncomfortable awakening.” – New York Times… … In steamy, rain-sodden Hanoi, a bride spends her wedding night wait… More >
(Japan, 116 min)
‘I found myself with a heart I was not supposed to have.’– Nozomi, the inflatable doll… The subject of a MIFF spotlight in 2007, filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda (Still Walking, MIFF 09; Nobody… More >
(Mexico, 70 min)
“Documentary? Fiction?… simply, and finally, a film – albeit one of uncommon and delicately achieved beauty.” – Cinema Scope… … Hoping to impart somet… More >
(New Zealand, 15 min)
Alone in a foreign country Amadi knows that a person’s face can never tell their full story – but his heartbreak and that of his neighbour may be more similar than he realises.… More >
(USA, 89 min)
“A story of art-making and mental illness and the sometimes thin line between both.” – Variety… … The haunting account of the life and times of performer and monologis… More >
(Norway/Sweden, 97 min)
A compassionate account of drug dependence, adapted from the true story of a young mother’s descent into heroin addiction.… … A young mother-to-be finds her world crumbling around… More >
(China, 95 min)
“Opens up deep historical wounds and generational traumas created by China’s civil war, but does not press on them, exploring instead more universal human dilemmas.” – Hollywoo… More >
(France/Italy, 84 min)
“In Rivette-land, there is no life without art and vice versa.” – Screen International… For Kate, a broken-down car and a broken-down life both get a jump start from a chance … More >
(France, 95 min)
The burden of humanity is placed on the shoulders and into the very being of one of God’s forgotten creatures in Bresson’s masterpiece, the ultimate animal film.… Baptised by three childr… More >
(Taiwan/USA, 85 min)
“A perky urban dramedy that makes one smile from ear to ear.” – Hollywood Reporter… … Filmmaker Arvin Chen combines a colourful visual aesthetic and a hilarious … More >
(Romania, 180 min)
“After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It is a mere question of aesthetic level, whether he turns out to be Baudelaire or Bolintineanu, Louis X… More >
(Australia, 14 min)
A little bit of gambling, a place to hide from the wife, good coffee and a lot of Greek. If you don’t speak it, you’re in trouble.… More >
(Sweden, 88 min)
“A front-row seat to a landmark Erin Brockovich-style trial.” – Variety… … Following a historic first court case in the Los Angeles Superior Court and ending with a ve… More >
(France, 15 min)
An elegant animation that shows that for the dogs of Constantinople, 1910 was a very bad year. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes.… More >
(USA, 100 min)
“[Filmmaker] Bujalski is both a neo-hipster Woody Allen and a Rohmer-like romantic.” – Cinema Scope… … Twin sisters in Austin, Texas, fumble their way through the vici… More >
(USA/Japan, 90 min)
“It’s as though Sofia Coppola had scrapped Lost in Translation midway through to focus instead on elephant beetles.” – Austin Chronicle… The ineffable mystery of Japan’s… More >
(Denmark, 16 min)
Blind and deformed from radiation poisoning, Berik spends his days alone at home – that is until 11-year-old Adil comes knocking.… More >
(Sri Lanka/France, 85 min)
“The forces of history, of the past, the forces of nature… the forces of cinema, all come to a clash and to explode.” – filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara… … Rajith … More >
(Hungary/Germany/UK, 111 min)
“Spins a dark fairytale, riffing on various storytelling traditions from circus puppet shows to great literature.” – Screen International… … An original and outlandish… More >
(USA, 84 min)
“We all get dressed for Bill.” – Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief… … Unassuming and unpretentious, cycling through the streets of Manhattan with his battered Nikon … More >
(Israel, 75 min)
To the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim, segregation is for your own safety.… … Over the last decade the number of prohibitions for the women followers of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (known as Haredi)… More >
(Croatia, 78 min)
Looking for the enemy, they found it where nobody expected – in themselves.… … From acclaimed Croatian filmmakers Goran Devic and Zvonimir Juric comes a film vilifying the crimes … More >
(Australia, 90 min)
To get away with murder you can’t make mistakes. … … Seeking justice and revenge, five friends violently attack a man in his remote country house. Their plan: the perfect mur… More >
(USA, 94 min)
“It felt like our lives were movies.” – singer Debbie Harry… … A meticulously observed document of New York underground film in the late 70s and early 80s, Blank City z… More >
(Armenia/Netherlands, 82 min)
This wordless wonder examines life in the wake of the Armenian–Azerbaijan conflict, as seen through the eyes of a stray buffalo.… … In this poetic drama, given framework by the pa… More >
(New Zealand, 87 min)
“Alternately zany, sentimental and remarkably insightful.” – indieWIRE… … It’s 1984, and one man rules the playgrounds on the east coast of New Zealand, a man ca… More >
(USA, 102 min)
‘So many people knew their songs, but not many people knew the boys.’ – Julie Andrews… Their award-winning work brought success to some of the most memorable films of all time, from Mary … More >
(Australia, 45 min)
Bring’Em Back is a political and emotional plea for the return of Melbourne’s beloved ‘connies’ – or conductors, for those of you of a younger vintage.… Director Phillip Donne… More >
(Denmark, 97 min)
More than just a gay neo-Nazi film.… Violent and affectionate, brutal and touching, Nicolo Donato’s feature debut is a tale that delves into the dichotomy of homosexuality within the rank… More >
(Australia/USA, 85 min)
“Rarely has an ecological menace appeared as entertaining.” – Hollywood Reporter… … Frog-marching their way across the nation for the last 75 years, these amphibian in… More >
(France, 98 min)
“Bravura narrative filmmaking on a hugely ambitious scale, Carlos is a spectacular achievement.” – Variety… … The career exploits of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ram… More >
(France, 106 min)
“Bravura narrative filmmaking on a hugely ambitious scale, Carlos is a spectacular achievement.” – Variety… … The career exploits of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ram… More >
(France, 115 min)
“Bravura narrative filmmaking on a hugely ambitious scale, Carlos is a spectacular achievement.” – Variety… … The career exploits of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ram… More >
(Japan, 85 min)
“This masterpiece has the blunt force of a tank rolling over naked flesh.” – Hollywood Reporter… … When Lieutenant Kyuzo Kurokawa returns home from WWII a hero –… More >
(USA, 94 min)
“Documenting in tantalizing detail the twist-filled true story of a young man fooled by Facebook.” – Variety… … When New York photographer Nev Schulman receives a pain… More >
(France/Italy, 106 min)
“Imagine a middle-aged Before Sunrise rolled up with Under the Tuscan Sun but spiked with elements of The Game.” – Screen International… … At the European launch of hi… More >
(France, 92 min)
Dogs in Space goes to Paris.… … A group of early-twenty-something Parisian girls party, pick up and hang out in this visceral and hilarious debut from Sophie Letourneur.… …… More >
(USA, 39 min)
For those grieving for the 70,000 who died in the Sichuan Province’s 2008 earthquake, justice is just one more thing they’ll have to live without.… More >
(USA/Canada/France, 96 min)
A steamy Hitchcockian thriller that delves into the realm of sexual jealousy.… … Eroticism as seen through the eyes of Atom Egoyan (Exotica) comes elegantly composed with caressing came… More >
(Denmark, 55 min)
Bogotá Change… … Ridden with crime and drugs, Bogotá was once considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Then Antanus Mockus – a man fired from his univers… More >
(Denmark, 51 min)
Cairo Garbage… … With 10,000 tonnes of new garbage produced every day, Cairo is drowning in its own waste. Even the ‘garbage people’ who for years have made a living from the… More >
(Denmark, 59 min)
Mumbai Disconnected… … With a population set to grow from 18 million to 28.5 million in the next 10 years – 80% of whom currently catch the train to and from work each day – … More >
(Denmark, 60 min)
Shanghai Space… … In a city that grows by half a million people per year, space is a precious commodity. Shanghai’s rapid expansion is forcing officials to look at subterranean acc… More >
(China, 135 min)
“Gut-wrenchingly up close and personal.” – Variety… … Filmmaker Lu Chuan (Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, MIFF 2004) shows the ‘Rape of Nanking’ to be an approp… More >
(Australia, 90 min)
How far would you go to get back what was taken from you?… A slow-burning psychological thriller based on true events, The Clinic is the debut feature from Australian writer-director James Rabb… More >
(USA, 82 min)
Crackpot. Conspiracy theorist. Genius.… … Investigative journalist and former policeman Michael Ruppert has been called many things – from ‘conspiracy theorist’ … More >
(Austria/Slovakia/Czech Republic, 88 min)
6 wars, 10 recipes, 60,361,024 dead.… … If the cooks went on strike would there still be war? Pondering this question and looking at six of the greatest, bloodiest wars of Europe’… More >
(Singapore, 83 min)
The unassuming film that inflamed an internet controversy and raised the ire of Indonesian authorities.… … After meeting a 12-year-old Indonesian boy who announced “When I grow up… More >
(Germany, 89 min)
The awkwardness of adolescence is put on show – literally – as a teen dance troupe prepares to stage a confrontingly physical production.… … Raging hormones add an elec… More >
(Germany/France, 103 min)
A dramatic psychological thriller about a secret 30 years in the making.… … When a family of four living on a rambling vineyard in Alsace-Lorraine open their doors to a young woman &nda… More >
(Canada, 25 min)
A short experimental documentary on electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, best known for her work on the Doctor Who theme.… More >
(Germany/Austria/France, 120 min)
The remarkable story of a Cinderella-like transformation from rags to riches – and it’s all true.… … Based on the best-selling autobiography of Waris Dirie, Desert Flow… More >
(USA, 92 min)
Just because he’s a bad guy doesn’t mean he’s a bad guy.… … Having to suffer the indignity of being the world’s number two supervillain is gruelling enough for G… More >
(UK, 100 min)
“Taut, superbly executed and consistently engrossing.” – Hollywood Reporter… … Kidnapped, thrown in a van and locked away in a purpose-built room, it seems the end is … More >
(98 min)
Casting a watchful lens over a series of very different subjects, this program of documentary shorts presents the world at its most raw.… More >
(Poland, 35 min)
Lata tends to put her dad up on a pedestal, but as Father’s Day approaches all the secrets he’s hiding threaten to bring him down.… More >
(UK, 89 min)
“If The Sopranos had been cooked up by Mike Leigh instead of David Chase, the result might resemble Down Terrace.” – Cinematical … … This black suburban comedy fr… More >
(Hong Kong, 96 min)
Spiralling property prices push a woman over the edge, in this blood-spattered black comedy.… … An aspiring yuppie wants to forget her impoverished childhood and secure the home of her … More >
(Indonesia, 122 min)
“I may not know where I’m going, but I’ll always know where to come home to.”… … The follow-up to one of Indonesia’s most celebrated box office hits, 2008&… More >
(Australia, 86 min)
‘It could be easier to ask what isn’t Dreamland about. But I think the answer would still be the same. Everything and nothing, all at the same time.’ – filmmaker Ivan Sen… Set somewhere o… More >
(Denmark, 72 min)
A voyeuristic ode to the buildings and landscapes of Denmark’s capital.… A tribute to the physical surroundings that shape the lives of Copenhagen locals, Max Kestner’s documentary … More >
(Australia, 55 min)
Drive is a film about lethal combinations. A documentary project conceived by community organisation Big hART, it goes behind the official advertising campaigns to produce a highly personal and cinem… More >
(Poland, 15 min)
The powerful echo of two schoolboys’ actions resonates as they reconstruct their crime and relive the pain of what they have done.… More >
(France, 80 min)
The fairy tales of the world are under threat – and only one unlikely hero can save them.… … An inheritance of books doesn’t mean much when you can’t read, and that&rs… More >
(Australia, 12 min)
Meredith suffers a serious affliction – Elephantiasis: being showered with elephant-themed gifts on any occasion. It’s a pity she hates elephants.… More >
(Germany/France/Russia, 150 min)
A long-awaited sequel and the most expensive Russian film ever made.… … Burnt by the Sun claimed both the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and the Cannes Grand Prix in 1994. It took … More >
(85 min)
From mind-bending animation to abstract cinema, these experimental offerings leap the boundaries of traditional film and keep on running.… More >
(USA, 81 min)
Three bands, a van and a harp – a rambling tour through the inception of ‘freak folk’.… … In the summer of 2004, folk-rockers Vetiver joined Devendra Banhart and Joann… More >
(Switzerland/France, 101 min)
“We’ve entered into an era with the digital wherein, for different reasons, humanity will be confronted by problems which will not have the luxury of being expressed.”… R… More >
(Israel, 89 min)
A glimpse inside the Nazi propaganda machine provides a revealing meditation on the construction of history.… … This is a story about the longest film made by the Nazi propaganda unit o… More >
(Russia/Japan/Canada, 70 min)
As the forces of the Third Reich clash with the Red Army on the Eastern Front, a hidden war is waged between Nazi occultists and a Russian psychic.… … In 1942, as Nazi Germany marches o… More >
(Sweden, 98 min)
“A haunting, poetic portrait of childhood solitude.” – Variety… … Relegated to the care of a flaky aunt when her parents go on holiday, a nine-year-old girl finds hers… More >
(Philippines, 93 min)
This 1981 Filipino heightsploitation classic is a satire of the James Bond series that – while featuring a hero short in stature – doesn’t fail to measure up in the cheesy action de… More >
(UK, 101 min)
“The most engaging and fuzzy-warm film about people who want to kill you that you’ll ever see.” – Empire… What’s so funny about jihad? Everything apparently in this sati… More >
(Australia, 14 min)
When his dad’s competitive streak gets out of hand Greg finds that remaining number one son requires a certain amount of ingenuity.… More >
(South Africa, 108 min)
“It’s a band that changed South African music, and that’s as big a legacy as you can get.” … … Putting together an Afrikaans punk band started out as a kind… More >
(Spain, 88 min)
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” – Winston Churchill… Truth comes stranger than fiction in this le Carré-like account o… More >
(Sweden, 84 min)
‘How could such a brilliant man be so deluded?’ – Independent… The youngest person ever to graduate from Harvard Medical School, D. Carleton Gajdusek was a brilliant mind who won the Nobe… More >
(Canada, 108 min)
A fascinating look at a legend in the classical music scene, which delves into the man behind the carefully cultivated public persona.… Renowned for his interpretations of Bach, pianist Glenn G… More >
(Belgium, 19 min)
With papers signed, the tax advantages agreed upon and procedures put in place, a young couple begin a confronting and disturbing ritual.… More >
(90 min)
Screening as part of the MIFF Premiere Fund this year, Mother of Rock tells the story of Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, matriarch of the revolutionary late 60s New York music scene. In 1970 Ger… More >
(France/Germany/UK, 95 min)
Roman Polanski returns with a sinuous political thriller, laden with intrigue and dread.… … Ghost writing the ex-British Prime Minister’s memoirs spirals into a game of intrigue a… More >
(Australia, 17 min)
So you don’t believe in the Supreme Being, the creator of the universe, the almighty God? Then you haven’t met Glenn Owen Dodds.… More >
(Iran/France, 71 min)
The bloody violence of the 2009 Iranian elections explodes onscreen in this audacious film by 21-year-old Iranian filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf.… … A new wave of hope has sent the Iranian p… More >
(USA, 106 min)
Never expose them to light. Never let them get wet. But, most of all, never, ever let them eat after midnight.… … E.T. goes Alien. Simple rules get easily broken in Dante’s most f… More >
(USA, 106 min)
“The movie is smarter, wilder and more unfettered than the original Gremlins.” – New Yorker… … The Gremlins go to Manhattan in this brilliantly hyperbolic follow up th… More >
(South Korea, 116 min)
“For Hong’s fans as well as art film-inclined audiences coming to his films new, this is as tangy and refreshing as sangria.” – Hollywood Reporter… Receiving the top prize in … More >
(Austria, 3 min)
A silent view of six women and their interaction with the camera, showing how the camera’s presence always creates an inauthentic moment.… More >
(USA, 92 min)
“You’ve got a gateway to hell under your house… and that is really cool.”… Moving to a new town is hard – and finding a bottomless pit in your basement isn’t going to help. F… More >
(New Zealand, 93 min)
“A classic New Zealand story, perfectly told.” – New Zealand Herald… … On his way home from rugby practice, Ed Preston joined the New Zealand army. He promised his pre… More >
(USA, 58 min)
“This is a horror story because most characters are Republicans.” – Joe Dante… … “If I had one wish, I would wish for your son to come back,” says an oily … More >
(Turkey, 103 min)
“A movie without spiritual values is like useless knowledge.” – filmmaker Semih Kaplano?lu… … Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival,… More >
(Netherlands/USA, 7 min)
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” – Kurt Vonnegut… More >
(UK/Singapore, 15 min)
For a lone security guard and a mysterious guest at the Hotel 66, curiosity and fascination gives way to something more.… More >
(South Korea, 106 min)
“An operatic, sensuous social satire that dares to be different from the original classic.” – Hollywood Reporter … … Controversial Korean director Im Sang-soo (A … More >
(South Korea, 111 min)
“[Director Kim Ki-young is] capable of probing deep into the human mind, its desires and impulses, while paying sarcastic attention to the details.” – Cahiers du Cinéma… More >
(UK/Spain, 78 min)
‘The architect really has no power. That is the truth.’ – Lord Norman Foster… One of the world’s most prolific modern architects, Lord Norman Foster has designed renowned buildings … More >
(Canada, 45 min)
Strap on your 3D glasses for a voyage into the outer reaches of deep space on Melbourne’s biggest screen at IMAX.… … Join seven astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis as they emba… More >
(Canada, 135 min)
‘There isn’t a man alive who wouldn’t give his left nut to be Hugh Hefner.’ – Gene Simmons… At Hugh Hefner’s 80th birthday, Brigitte Bermen convinced him to divulge the ‘real … More >
(Iran/Germany, 92 min)
Corruption in modern Iran comes under fire in The Hunter, a neo-realist drama that veers into thriller territory. … … In the icy woods outside of Tehran, security guard Ali lets of… More >
(Canada, 100 min)
An audacious coming-of-age comedy about the relationship between a mother and son, from a talented auteur barely out of his teens.… … Sixteen-year-old Hubert is a volatile teenager at w… More >
(USA/Canada, 102 min)
Schemes can come true.… … When family man Steve Russell (Jim Carrey) has a near-death experience his American dream starts to feel a little less dreamy. Jumping out of the closet and st… More >
(France/UK, 80 min)
A nostalgic trip back to the golden days of vaudeville.… … Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville) brings his meticulous brand of hand-drawn animation to a hitherto unproduced Jacqu… More >
(Czech Republic, 76 min)
A low-tech toy story that even Pixar would envy.… Something’s stirring in the attic. Toys are springing to life and creating a fantastical world from everyday recycled objects. It’s… More >
(USA, 11 min)
Tower 37 stands alone in a desolate landscape, siphoning every last drop of water, with its lone security guard ignorant to the destruction it is causing.… More >
(Philippines/France/Germany/Netherlands, 77 min)
“Raya Martin’s weather-beaten melodrama is one hallucinatory emotional hothouse.” – Time Out New York… … With fake backdrops, overacting, deliberately rough effe… More >
(USA, 120 min)
“If The ‘Burbs is a one-finger exercise on the themes of Rear Window, Innerspace is a big-budget remake of North by Northwest, with a script that is in many ways even better: certainly fu… More >
(Denmark, 57 min)
“My brain is very important.” – Dr Yoshiro Nakamatsu… … “The brain reaches maximum activity 0.5 seconds before death, then I can suddenly create a breakthrough!&… More >
(India, 116 min)
“A delicious little film that teeters dangerously between saucy comedy and suspenseful noir.” – CNN-IBN… Crime, suspense, passion and deceit are the backdrops of romance in Is… More >
(USA, 26 min)
“Something like an off-Broadway cartoon designed by Chuck Jones.” – Joe Dante… … Beware of seemingly sweet kids who ask you to drive them home and then invite you in to… More >
(India, 100 min)
How far would you go for love?… … An improbable love triangle springs from the most unlikely of sources in The Japanese Wife, a critically-acclaimed, tale of blind love and eternal hope… More >
(USA, 90 min)
“He was one of the people I was truly envious of but… he was too fragile for this world.” – Madonna… … This is the first feature-length documentary about celebra… More >
(90 min)
Joe Dante, the subject of this year’s tribute Dante’s Inferno, will discuss film, life and Hollywood in conversation with Italian journalist, author and former director of Torino Film Fes… More >
(USA, 62 min)
“An outrageously funny study of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il’s theories on moviemaking.” – Variety… The irony in Kim Il-sung’s ideology of Juche (pronounced ‘… More >
(Japan, 109 min)
“Think remake of Mutiny on the Bounty using Dogville as an aesthetic blueprint.” – Hollywood Reporter… Japan’s recent economic recession has fuelled the revival of left-… More >
(Malaysia, 75 min)
“What is the reality of our environment and why are we unable to see past the illusion of this place we call home?” – filmmaker Chris Chong Chan Fui… … Against a backd… More >
(Czech Republic, 100 min)
A Czech look into the lives of others.… … Loyalty, history and regret take centre stage for university professor Pavel Josek, lauded for standing up to the communist regime when it coun… More >
(USA, 104 min)
“A generous, nearly note-perfect portrait of a modern family.” – New York Times… … For live-in lesbian couple Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening), life wit… More >
(USA, 108 min)
Prolific filmmaker Michael Winterbottom returns with a chilling portrait of a small town psychopath.… … In 1950s small-town USA, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is a well-bred a… More >
(Australia, 16 min)
Fuelled by cheap alcohol and teenage bravado, Steph and Aimee jump into an impossible situation and find that sometimes there’s no way out.… More >
(Turkey/Bulgaria, 121 min)
“Kosmos is nothing less than cosmic in scope… beautifully shot, and profoundly imaginative.” – Hollywood Reporter… … From the sweeping snow-driven plains on the … More >
(USA/Germany/France, 63 min)
The creator of Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (MIFF 08) extends his adventures in cinema’s most unmarketable sub-genre – gay zombie porn.… … Zombies don’t often come as… More >
(France/USA, 159 min)
“Yes, this is one of the finest dance films ever made, but there’s more to it than that.” – New York Times… … Setting his gaze on Paris’s Palais Garnier, p… More >
(Italy/Austria, 100 min)
“A bittersweet yet often joyful paean to the pleasures and perils of family life.” – Eye Weekly… … Even when you’re part of a circus troupe, there’s not a … More >
(UK, 71 min)
“Like a cross between This Is Spinal Tap and Steve Coogan’s sitcom Saxondale.” – Independent… A rollicking rock mockumentary from Shane Meadows (This is England, MIFF 07; Some… More >
(Mexico, 92 min)
Winner of the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes film festival.… … Holed up in her rundown Mexican apartment, freelance journalist Laura Lopez lives a life of quiet desperati… More >
(Germany/Israel/France/Lebanon, 94 min)
Winner of the Golden Lion for best film at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.… There are no heroes in this war drama. Based on writer/director Samuel Maoz’s experience as a soldier during the 1982 … More >
(USA, 124 min)
“More than any other rock musician, he is the baddest motherfucker in the world.” – Dave Grohl… … Lemmy Kilmister and God get in a fight, who wins? Trick question, Lem… More >
(USA/Suriname, 135 min)
A startling pilgrimage from the modern to the historical unfolds across the tropical landscape of Suriname.… This extraordinary feature debut from artist and experimental filmmaker Ben Russell … More >
(Thailand/Germany/UK, 18 min)
“Uncle… I have been here for a while. I would like to see a movie about your life. So I proposed a project about reincarnation.”… More >
(USA, 96 min)
“Profound in its funny hipness, it shows Solondz as the true heir to Woody Allen, albeit on a far kinkier and politically/socially engaged level.” – Hollywood Reporter… R… More >
(USA, 31 min)
“I always wanted to make a western – but when I got to do it, the western was over.” – Joe Dante… … Each episode of the Norman Jewison-produced Picture Windows se… More >
(China/Taiwan/Hong Kong, 118 min)
In his dreams, she appears as an otherworldly beauty. In reality, she ’s a brassy country girl. Which version of this woman does he love?… … A Chinese man (played by Hong Kong sup… More >
(Australia, 88 min)
A story about secrets, loss and the desire to love.… … Over one hot Australian Christmas, Susan discovers her breast cancer has spread, and one by one her daughters return to be by her … More >
(France/Philippines, 110 min)
“Though arthritic and weary, these two gray panthers offer a sharp, unsentimental portrait of cunning and determination.” – Village Voice… … In the permanently flooded… More >
(USA/Australia, 30 min)
A revealing and intimate glimpse into the creative process of indie rock pioneer Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh and Folk Implosion.… More >
(France, 96 min)
“Sly and suggestive, Lourdes is a cosmic black comedy that bumps up against the metaphysical.” – Time Out New York… … Skeptical multiple sclerosis sufferer Christine (… More >
(Hong Kong, 103 min)
“A eulogy to lung pollution, Love in a Puff makes sharing a pack of cigarettes look sexier than sharing a bed.” – Hollywood Reporter … … In post-cigarette ban Hon… More >
(India, 103 min)
You’re being watched.… … Technology, media and voyeurism interweave in stories covering love, sex and dhokha (treachery) in the modern age. From forbidden romance to hidden camera… More >
(Australia, 85 min)
Blood! Breasts! Beasts! A brutal orgy of ghastly terror!… … Busty babes, mutated monsters and midget secret agents, the Filipino genre films of the 70s and 80s had it all. Saturating dr… More >
(Japan, 110 min)
‘As beautifully illustrated as a Monet landscape painting.’– Hollywood Reporter… Adapted from Nobuko Takagi’s autobiographical novel about growing up in rural post-war Japan, Mai Ma… More >
(Australia, 60 min)
Think craft is for grannies? Think again.… … A seditious and subversive subculture is gaining momentum in Melbourne. But rather than wielding megaphones and placards, they’re cros… More >
(France, 90 min)
Gérard Depardieu heads up a consummate laugh-fest as a retiree on the road trip of his life.… … Offbeat French directing duo Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern genera… More >
(Canada, 70 min)
“The impossible happened, the thing that was never supposed to occur.” – filmmaker Mike Hoolboom… … Experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom dives into deeply persona… More >
(USA, 83 min)
“It just gets weirder and weirder.” – Mark Hogancamp… … After a vicious bashing left him brain damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp sought recovery in ‘Marwencol&rs… More >
(UK/Poland, 23 min)
Created limb by limb and programmed to kill, a deadly automaton questions her maker. New stop-motion animation from the award-winning Quay Brothers.… More >
(Australia, 103 min)
Sometimes it takes a trauma to change things for the better.… … An inner-urban Melbourne family is turned upside down when their young son Jack is diagnosed with leukemia, and his fathe… More >
(USA, 99 min)
“In this funny, philosophical salute to B-movies and the B-Moguls who made them, Dante looks back fondly on growing up with the apocalypse always in your mind.” – Washington Post… More >
(Romania, 106 min)
“A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.” – Winston Churchill… … Miserable curmudgeon Ion is anything but a hero. Both his son and wife haven’t spoken to h… More >
(Germany, 83 min)
“I’m living proof that things go wrong in America and I’m also living proof that things can go right.” – Merle Haggard.… … Country music legend and poet of… More >
(USA, 112 min)
“This is a fully felt, morally alert, marvellously acted piece of work.” – New Yorker… … Of all the war movies to come out of the USA in the last few years The Messeng… More >
(120 min)
MIFF’s shorts program not only presents the best short films from around the globe but it also houses one of the biggest short film awards in the southern hemisphere.… … The winne… More >
(Croatia/Switzerland, 8 min)
On the Mediterranean borders of Europe, tourists try to relax whilst ‘illegal’ immigrants struggle for a chance for a better life.… More >
(UK, 97 min)
“If John Cassavetes had ever made a sci-fi thriller, it probably would’ve looked and sounded a lot like this.” – Variety… … Six years ago a NASA space probe crashed to… More >
(Australia, 74 min)
A tribute to a pioneer of modern rock journalism.… … In New York City in 1968 a revolution was under way in a tiny club called Max’s Kansas City. When Andy Warhol’s Factory … More >
(Italy, 76 min)
Documentary and fiction is blurred to striking effect in this love story between a macho ex-con and a transsexual, former drug addict.… … Mary and Enzo’s unusual union commenced b… More >
(USA, 280 min)
“Everything in my subsequent work comes from The Movie Orgy.” – Joe Dante… … Inspired by Susan Sontag’s well known essay ‘Notes on Camp’, as well as … More >
(USA, 83 min)
“Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs.” – J.R. Ackerley… … For curmudgeonly writer J.R. Ackerley, a man unable to connect emotionally with oth… More >
(Germany/Ukraine/Netherlands, 127 min)
“There are echoes of Michael Haneke’s work in this rambling, nightmare journey through the dark soul of Russia.” – Screen International… … In the frozen, dark Ru… More >
(Australia/USA/Spain/Jordan, 14 min)
Murder, sex, drugs, art or politics? Sneakers hanging on telephone lines are a powerful urban symbol, but what do they mean?… More >
(USA, 97 min)
“They trick you into giving up your childhood with all these promises of adventure. Once you realize what you’ve lost, it’s too late. You can’t get it back.”… &#… More >
(France, 70 min)
Six hundred thousand people have filed past her cage each year. Seven days a week, winter and summer. For 37 years.… … Humans are heard but never seen in this wry documentary that turns… More >
(90 min)
A must for everyone – audiences and filmmakers alike – this lecture demonstrates that stories are the way we make sense of our world. Narrative is the evolutionary advantage that has empo… More >
(Portugal/France, 99 min)
“The film is a sensorial exaltation… feast on the liquescent black and white cinematography, while Jeanne Balibar purrs her way through the recording and performing of an ensemble of musi… More >
(Denmark/USA, 21 min)
Chronicles perhaps the worst moving day ever. Funny, frightening and unexpectedly romantic. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short in 2009.… More >
(Poland, 20 min)
17-year-old Ania is trying to fit in with a group of risk-taking friends, but getting them to think about what they’re doing may require her to up the ante.… More >
(France/Germany/Chile, 90 min)
An extraordinary viewing experience that has to be seen on the big screen.… With this film, set in one of the driest place in the world – Chile’s Atacam desert – filmmaker Patricio … More >
(USA, 97 min)
“A gripping psychological study of a conflicted former Al-Qaeda member.” – Screen International… … Two brothers-in-law, Abu Jandal and Salim Hamdan – one Os… More >
(UK, 104 min)
“Julien Temple’s new rock doc is the dog’s bollocks. 5/5” – Mojo … … The final film in his trilogy on British music of the 70s sees Julien Temple rewi… More >
(Serbia, 122 min)
Provocative filmmaker Želimir Žilnik returns with a wry look at the social turmoil plaguing Serbia.… … Žilnik (Kenedi is Getting Married, MIFF 08) weaves an intricate pic… More >
(Czech Republic/Slovakia, 65 min)
Even the cows are leaving. … … The only thing that really sets the tiny hamlet of Osadné in Slovakia apart is a fading statue of Andy Warhol (his parents were born there). The… More >
(Canada, 16 min)
Too much work, not enough sleep, a kid that hates you and a wife that’s on your back – the malcontented life of a middle-age real estate agent.… More >
(Denmark, 29 min)
The children of Kosovo survive in the aftermath of war, each with their own gripping, surreal and sad stories of memory, loss and fear.… More >
(France/UK/Netherlands, 94 min)
A compelling exposition of master sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s manufactured landscapes.… … Directed by Sophie Fiennes (The Perverts Guide to Cinema, MIFF 06) and produced by Kees Kasa… More >
(South Korea, 110 min)
A polished mystery story set in a South Korean border town about a man seeking to escape the demons of his past, and the enigmatic women entangled in it.… … They say the mist that wraps… More >
(Austria, 9 min)
Photos taken at Cannes are transformed into a collection of blurred silhouettes, grey streaks and iconoclasm where perfection usually reigns.… More >
(Austria/Norway, 5 min)
Filmmaker Inger Lise Hansen turns architecture and space on its head, showing how much our perspective is ruled by habit.… More >
(Austria, 3 min)
A brief silent encounter between a man and a woman on the Passage Briare in Paris becomes a respite from the fear of getting old.… More >
(USA, 9 min)
Patti Smith and her poetry wind their way through the streets of New York City, as she voices her thoughts on her neighbourhood and her life.… More >
(India, 106 min)
Director Anusha Rizvi, producer Aamir Khan and the film’s stars will be in attendance for a special gala screening of Peepli Live, a biting social-satire on poverty, the media and Indian societ… More >
(France/China, 124 min)
“Even Franz Kafka would find it hard to credit the systemic injustice denounced in Petition.” – Screen International… … In his quest to give voice to the unheard masse… More >
(Canada, 43 min)
‘It’s mesmerising and, to that extent, forcefully confronts us with the ugliness of industrialisation.’ – Times… Under 4.3 million hectares of boreal forest in Canada lies a mixture… More >
(Germany, 93 min)
It’s said that you save 50% energy when you’re satisfied with 90% of perfection – this film is about the last ten percent.… … Eighty-eight keys, 230 strings on a cast … More >
(USA, 82 min)
“One of the best films about the world of modelling and an honest portrayal of an industry built on artifice.” – Guardian… … After tagging along with his partner,… More >
(Poland/Germany, 94 min)
A disquieting tale of teenage prostitution on the Polish–German border.… … In the early 90s, with the border controls removed between Poland and Western Europe, adolescents in a st… More >
(Australia, 12 min)
Suffering from a mysterious affliction, a young boy is left in the care of a secluded hospital where nothing is as it seems.… More >
(USA, 94 min)
“What about the goddamn piranhas?”… … “They are eating the guests, sir.”… … A secret government plan involving flesh-eating fish causes havoc when, … More >
(USA, 91 min)
Three generations of New York women confront the complexities of everyday life in this existential film from Nicole Holofcener (Lovely & Amazing, Friends with Money).… … Kate (Cathe… More >
(South Korea, 139 min)
Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.… … Filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine, MIFF 08; Oasis, MIFF 03) continues his tradition of razor-sh… More >
(New Zeleand, 11 min)
The true story, told through vibrant animation, of a New Zealand soldier who finds redemption in the hell of the WWI battlefields.… More >
(Portugal, 127 min)
Fate and the metaphysical intervene in the life of a lost actress.… … A film-within-a-film is the catalyst for life-changing events in this homage to prolific filmmaker Manoel de Olivei… More >
(Poland, 14 min)
In the orchestra of the post office some letters are held until the recipient calls for it – even when addressed to a higher power.… More >
(USA, 105 min)
“It is essentially about one set of primates who have power, using it against another who haven’t.” – Guardian… … Prolific documentary filmmaker Frederick Wisema… More >
(Austria, 3 min)
Three minutes and 3664 subliminal frames of other films cut out and stuck together by the filmmaker during his days as a projectionist.… More >
(Denmark, 87 min)
A subversive comedy tour through North Korea takes a turn for the absurd in this Yes Men-style gonzo doco from Mads Brügger.… … Fighting propaganda with propaganda, filmmaker Mads … More >
(Australia, 99 min)
An escaped criminal wages a war of retribution against a sleepy town in Victoria’s high country in this modern outlaw thriller.… … When police officer Shane Cooper (Ryan Kwanten, … More >
(USA, 115 min)
“Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.” – Mahalia Jackson… … Take a foot-stompin’ journey into the heart and soul of gospel mus… More >
(UK, 105 min)
A cross-cultural comedy from UK funny man David Baddiel.… … For Mahmud Nasir (Omar Djalli) being a Muslim living in the UK hasn’t been too easy these past few years, but just as h… More >
(Austria/Germany, 97 min)
The real-life tale of a man driven to extremes in pursuit of the ultimate adrenaline high.… Based on real events and adapted from Martin Prinz’s novel, this film tells the story of a man commit… More >
(France, 84 min)
The story of Robert, a murderous tyre with psychic powers. … … It’s not often something comes along that is completely original in concept, but Rubber is definitely the one-a… More >
(Russia/Norway, 111 min)
“Dignifies the struggles of powerless people and holds a sobering mirror up to a superpower.” – Sundance Film Festival… … A startling work of investigative journalism,… More >
(60 min)
The National Film and Sound Archive presents Patineur Grotesque, Australia’s earliest surviving film – screened for the first time in 2010.… … Shot in 1896 in an unknown Melbourne… More >
(USA, 111 min)
An epic of epic epicness.… Scott Pilgrim, bass-guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, has just met the girl of his dreams. But as it turns out, dating her means dealing with her excess baggage … More >
(China, 112 min)
The first Chinese production to be shot entirely in the Tibetan language.… Moving from one stunning mountainscape to another, a film crew undertakes a series of auditions across Tibet –… More >
(USA, 97 min)
“In the years since we made this movie, virtually every element has emerged in the headlines. It never seems to date.” – Joe Dante… … Over 10 years after its release, … More >
(UK, 115 min)
“The moral of this story is don’t go looking for morals to stories, and if you want a message, fuck off down the post office.”… An elder statesman of the punk movement gets a rollicking biopic,… More >
(UK/France/Germany, 98 min)
“With its quirky humour, its tragi-comic storyline and its repeated defiance of expectations, She, a Chinese is a profoundly human story with a bold scope.” – Eye For Film… … More >
(Uruguay, 76 min)
An exercise in tension, The Silent House is a horror movie in real time – filmed in a single take on a digital camera. … Laura and her father visit a friend in the middle of now… More >
(USA, 109 min)
“There will be no mercy.” – major Chip Hazard… … It’s the ruthless, armed to the teeth, grotesquely macho Commando Elite versus the noble, cowardly, freakish Gor… More >
(Norway, 107 min)
Filmmaker Hans Petter Moland teams up with actor Stellan Skarsgard for the third time (Zero Kelvin and Aberdeen) with this minimalist crime-comedy. … … The large and lumbering Ulri… More >
(Iraq / UK / France / Netherlands / Palestine / United Arab Emirates / Egypt, 90 min)
“Chases a poetic answer for the crimes of Saddam Hussein.” – Variety… … A son’s search for his father and a mother’s search for her son are the centrepiece… More >
(Switzerland, 88 min)
The passionate career of a man obsessed with music.… … German music producer and founder of ECM, Manfred Eicher, has been responsible for introducing the world to over three hundred alb… More >
(Switzerland, 98 min)
How do you put a price on a dream?… … Once the stuff of mere fantasy, then a symbol of the struggle between superpowers, space travel is now a possibility for anyone with a large enough … More >
(USA/Canada, 95 min)
Never underestimate the politics of friendship.… Michael Sheen reprises his role as ex-British PM Tony Blair in the third film in writer Peter Morgan’s trilogy (after The Deal and The Que… More >
(USA, 82 min)
A loving tribute to the poor man’s Alfred Hitchcock.… … Remember when a movie producer could ride on a smile and a shoeshine and ballyhoo was as American as apple pie? This was wh… More >
(Canada/France, 100 min)
Science’s newest miracle is a big, big mistake.… … Almost a century after Frankenstein’s monster first lumbered across cinema screens, Splice proves the ‘humans as God… More >
(Australia, 75 min)
The story of a people confronting tyranny with the joyful power of art, music and self-expression.… Intensely political and emotional, this documentary is a celebration of West Papua, told thro… More >
(Portugal/Spain/France/Brazil, 95 min)
Pure, vintage Oliveira in this tale of a seductive revenant.… Centenarian filmmaker and MIFF mainstay Manoel de Oliveira (Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl, MIFF 09 and Christopher Columbus &… More >
(USA, 85 min)
“The more time I spent with the music, the more I got to thinking this is really one of America’s great songwriters at work.” – Peter Gabriel … … Best known… More >
(Georgia, 86 min)
There’s no such thing as the free world.… … Morality is as grey as the run-down streets of contemporary Georgia in filmmaker Levan Koguashvili’s gritty and satirical debut f… More >
(Australia/USA, 114 min)
Closure is just the beginning.… … The action of this brand new Australian drama centres around the return of Heidi (Rachel Taylor) to Australia in search of family and friends. With only… More >
(Japan, 110 min)
Virtual neo-Tokyo is about to explode in this technological love story.… … With his 2006 feature The Girl Who Leapt Through Time anime director Mamoru Hosoda demonstrated his flair for … More >
(90 min)
A re-screening of one of the popular films from this year’s festival, or something new altogether! Check back in the final days of the festival to find out…… More >
(90 min)
A re-screening of one of the popular films from this year’s festival, or something new altogether! Check back in the final days of the festival to find out…… More >
(90 min)
A re-screening of one of the popular films from this year’s festival, or something new altogether! Check back in the final days of the festival to find out…… More >
(90 min)
A re-screening of one of the popular films from this year’s festival, or something new altogether! Check back in the final days of the festival to find out…… More >
(90 min)
A re-screening of one of the popular films from this year’s festival, or something new altogether! Check back in the final days of the festival to find out…… More >
(90 min)
A re-screening of one of the popular films from this year’s festival, or something new altogether! Check back in the final days of the festival to find out…… More >
(USA, 90 min)
The sixth film in the Dead series from zombie king George A. Romero (a MIFF guest in 2008).… … Offering up the flesh-chomping effects enthusiasts have come to know and love, Romero&rsqu… More >
(USA/UK/France, 101 min)
“Monumental. An anthropological work of art.” – Cinema Scope… … A giant bleating flock of three thousand sheep take to the big mountains – and the big screen &nd… More >
(Japan, 93 min)
Cube meets Being John Malkovich.… … Japan’s hugely popular comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto (Dainipponjin, MIFF 08) demonstrates his maturation as a filmmaker with this piece of candy-c… More >
(Canada, 87 min)
‘I am an Islamist! I am the Antichrist!’… It’s not often that a book can start its own musical movement, but Michael Muhammad Knight’s 2003 novel The Taqwacores, about a group of Is… More >
(USA, 95 min)
“Exquisitely layered, Teenage Paparazzo moves beyond personal documentary, charting a cultural revolution of celebrity obsession.” – Sundance Film Festival… … At … More >
(Iran/France, 95 min)
The dark underbelly of Tehran (known to locals as Tehroun) is laid bare in Nader Takmil Homayoun’s feature debut.… … Ibrahim’s racket is begging for money from passers-by fo… More >
(USA, 127 min)
Francis Ford Coppola returns to his roots with a psychological family drama about two brothers living in the shadow of their father.… When Bennie tracks down his estranged brother Angelo (Vince… More >
(Argentina, 75 min)
“Charged by a whip-smart, deadpan approach, overflowing with talk that seems to be delivered at the speed of sound, if not light.” – Variety… … For a group of twenty-s… More >
(Iran, 90 min)
The biggest hurdle Babak faces isn’t his disability, but gaining acceptance in his own family.… Babak is bright and creative, but his physical disability leads his own father to see him a… More >
(Portugal/France, 134 min)
João Pedro Rodrigues extends on the theme of marginalised homosexuality explored in his previous features (O Fantasma and Odete) with this stunning formalist drama.… Whipping up a stylis… More >
(France/Germany, 97 min)
A documentary, a road movie and an explicit feature.… … Activists, artists, writers, musicians, sex workers and porn stars of various sexual (dis)orientations and gender expressions &nd… More >
(Australia/France, 101 min)
A lyrical film about dealing with loss, set in stunning rural Queensland.… … The fruit of a partnership between French filmmaker Julie Bertucelli (Since Otar Left) and Australian produc… More >
(Canada, 114 min)
Join the revolution.… … Fighting the apathy of his peers,17-year old student Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) is the reincarnation of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky – or so he be… More >
(Germany, 91 min)
An initiation into the little-heard music of Mongolia that is as captivating to the eyes as it is to the ears.… This highly stylised documentary from filmmaker Byambasuren Davaa (The Cave of th… More >
(Australia, 87 min)
Their dream holiday became their worst nightmare.… … For Beth and Harry, the perfect romantic escape means doing something different, and going somewhere that’s remote, secluded a… More >
(UK, 106 min)
“Poignant, perceptive and unrelenting, this may be bleak, [but] like all great drama, it is ultimately uplifting.” – Empire… … Like Alice down the rabbit hole, Lucy &n… More >
(Australia, 13 min)
As Russian planes begin to bomb Georgia, a Russian woman and her daughter board a bus to escape – but will they be discovered?… More >
(Sweden, 80 min)
An exile’s view of the decline of Italy’s national culture and the man who put the ‘boob’ on the tube. … … This riveting illustration of 21st century media … More >
(Netherlands, 69 min)
A painter who captured the mundane as magical.… … Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer created works of art based on capturing the everyday, showing the lives of the 17th century middle class… More >
(Germany, 105 min)
“The goal is to use all frequencies, the whole range… It’s the only thing we can do. It’s our expression.” – Ricardo Villalobos… … A legend on dance floors from … More >
(USA, 86 min)
“One of the best comeback stories in show business history.” – LA Times… … From 1984 to 1994, a group of ambitious young animators – including the likes of Tim B… More >
(Poland/Slovakia/France/Germany, 113 min)
“History will judge me.” – Ryszard Kukli?ski… After years of persuasion, filmmaker Dariusz Jablo?ski had finally convinced Colonel Ryszard Kukli?ski to allow himself to be … More >
(UK/Brazil, 90 min)
“The moment when one thing turns into another thing is the most beautiful.” – artist Vik Muniz… … From the squalor and poverty of the world’s largest rubbish dum… More >
(Australia, 115 min)
Family, Vodka and Tears.… … First time feature director Amanda Jane takes her camera into the heart of Melbourne and creates a fun-filled farce about family, love and the choices we mak… More >
(USA, 110 min)
Jake Scott – son of Ridley Scott (Alien), nephew of Tony (True Romance) – propagates the family filmmaking gene with this new take on the chivalry-for-the-destitute theme. … … More >
(India, 117 min)
“It’s about understanding death and loss and achieving oneness with nature.” – filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni… … After years apart, cousins Sameer and Nachiket meet at… More >
(Australia, 18 min)
When Lake Denial dries up and bogan mates Jack, Kevin and Blandy are caught up in a supernatural incident, just getting by becomes a struggle.… More >
(USA, 90 min)
“This movie is the story of the band, but it is also an insight into a moment in time that will never be repeated.” – producer Dick Wolf… … Blessed with unseen footage… More >
(UK, 98 min)
A black comedy that proves surviving your friends can sometimes be as hard as surviving your enemies.… … When professional hit-man Victor (Bill Nighy) has a change of heart, he ends up … More >
(Colombia, 117 min)
“For centuries we’ve asked ourselves: What keeps us apart? Now is time to ask what brings us together.” – filmmaker Ciro Guerra… … Carrying a cursed piano-… More >
(USA, 100 min)
When her meth-cooking father goes missing, violating his bail conditions and putting the family home at risk of repossession, 17-year-old Ree Dolly (the revelatory Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to find… More >
(Switzerland/Germany, 94 min)
“Compelling, moving and thought-provoking… an intellectually-stimulating crowd-pleaser.” – Hollywood Reporter… … Swetlana Geier has spent sixty years of her life… More >
(Germany/Austria/France, 95 min)
Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival.… It’s not surprising that Shirin Neshat’s debut feature is so visually transfixing – considering she&r… More >
(Germany, 204 min)
“There are movies that make news and movies that are news. World on a Wire is one of the latter.” – Village Voice… … R.W. Fassbinder’s epic, made-for-TV, science… More >
(USA, 99 min)
“A crazy, foul-mouthed black comedy that blows up every rule of taste and common sense and somehow gets away with it.” – Entertainment Weekly… With pitch-black humour and the … More >
Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
