SINCE: 1952
WHERE: Melbourne, Australia
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Established in 1952, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is one of the oldest film festivals in the world and the most significant screen event in Australia. An iconic Melbourne event, the festival takes place annually in the heart of the city, presenting an acclaimed screening program alongside industry and celebratory events.
Melbourne International Film Festival
Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language walked away with the top prize, the flagship Bright Horizons Award and $140,000AUD prize at the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). In the offbeat film set in a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways.
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) shared an impressive 2024 program of over 250 features, shorts and XR experiences running 8-25 August across Melbourne, around Victoria and online Australia-wide this August.
Memoir of a Snail, the new feature film from locally-born Oscar-winning filmmaker, Adam Elliot, will officially open the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival, MIFF, when the festival returns this August
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the winners of the 2023 MIFF Shorts Awards.
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) unveiled its full 2023 film line-up of 267 films including the hilarious musical mockumentary Theater Camp as Closing Night Gala presentation for the festival’s 71st edition set for in-cinemas from August 3-20, 2023.
The 71st edition of Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will open with the Australian Premiere of Noora Niasari’s Shayda, winner of the Audience Award earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival. Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story, a rollicking documentary portrait of the late, great Australian music icon will make its World Premiere in a very special Music on Film event.
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the inaugural MIFF Awards recipients with Neptune Frost by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams winning the $140,000 Bright Horizons Award winner and the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award went to Jub Clerc for direction in Sweet As. The MIFF Audience Award Winner was Greenhouse by Joost directed by Bruce Permezel and Rhian Skirving.
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the winners of the 2022 MIFF Shorts Awards, which reward filmmakers with more than $63,500 in prizes. A jury consisting of filmmaker Tiriki Onus (Ablaze), director James Vaughan (Friends and Strangers), and film writer Jourdain Searles selected seven out of the 78 films in the program
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) returns August 5-22, opening with the Australian premiere of Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife The Legend Of Molly Johnson. A vivid reckoning with Australia’s colonial history, the revisionist outback western speaks emphatically to the realities, both past and present, of racial injustice – told through the lens of an Indigenous woman. The film completes a multi-format trilogy based on Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story, which began with Purcell’s award-winning play and subsequent novel The Drover’s Wife.
Earlier this month, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced MIFF 68 1⁄2 – a reimagined celebration of film online, following the cancellation of MIFF 2020. The fully-curated program will showcase over 100 films including 12 world premieres, Australian premieres, shorts, Q&As, special events, and more. MIFF 68 1⁄2 will be available to stream in Australia August 6-23.
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) today unveiled its 2019 program – the largest in its 68 year, history, featuring 259 feature films, 123 shorts and 16 virtual reality experiences
