MIFF’s Premiere Fund once again has provided support for a terrific slate of Australian films, all of which make their world premieres at this year’s Festival. Here are the movies showcased
THE CUR [ ... ]

The second day of the festival witnessed the screening of some of the movies that flared in almost all the top film festivals this year. Melancholia by Lars Von Tier, Le Havre by Aki Kaurismäki, Senn [ ... ]

THE SALT OF LIFE Retired Gianni lives a quiet life in a comfortable Roman apartment, running errands for his wife and fielding incessant calls from his mother. All is calm until his friend Alphonso p [ ... ]

DAY 5 of the festival
THE UNJUST A massive critical and commercial success in South Korea, The Unjust is a complex crime thriller, set against the background of police and corporate corruption in cont [ ... ]

Day 6 and 7
CURLING
Winning the Best Director prize at Locarno, Curling is an offbeat and eccentric comedy with distinctly morbid leanings. Friendless Jean-François scrapes by doing odd jobs at a bowli [ ... ]

LIVING ON LOVE ALONE Julie (Anaïs Demoustier) is a young, disillusioned arts graduate. Living in a tiny Parisian apartment, she's not really coping with either the realities of the job market or the [ ... ]

THE FOURTH PORTRAIT When his father dies, with his mother long absent, ten year-old Xiang is alone. Caught stealing from other people's lunchboxes by the school janitor, social services track down Xi [ ... ]

Movies screened on the 2nd and 3rd of August
BEAUTY The first Afrikaans-language film to ever be screened at Cannes, Beauty tells the story of François, a middle-aged man whose well ordered existence [ ... ]

Movies screened on the 4th of August
FAMILIAR GROUND Filmmaker Stéphane Lafleur (Continental, a Film Without Guns) mixes gentle humour with absurd circumstance and traces of sci-fi in Familiar Ground [ ... ]

 Closing Night, Kicked off with the screening of Nicolas Winding Refn’s adrenaline-fuelled Drive, before heading on to the exuberance of MIFF’s Closing Night party in the ambience of Federation S [ ... ]