Camera d’Or winner Rowe comes home for MIFF
MIFF has announced its full program, as well as visits from Ballarat-born, Mexico-based Camera d’Or winner Michael Rowe and his Leap Year; US director Joe Dante, who will be the recipient of a special tribute; and Entourage star Adrian Grenier and his Teenage Paparazzo.
The Australian films Little Sparrows and The Tree will be screened during next month’s Melbourne International Film Festival; both had their Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival. Bill Bennett’s ghost story Uninhabited will be another local film screening at MIFF.
The program includes Cannes titles such as Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid, Sophie Fiennes’ Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme, Olivier Assayas’ 5 hour long Carlos, and Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy starring Juliette Binoche. It will be closed by a biopic on musician Ian Dury, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, starring Andy Serkis.
MIFF will feature a spotlight on India, Not Quite Bollywood, with films such as Peepli Live, LSD and Ishqiya.
Other programming strands include Flawed Geniuses (focusing on the eccentric and flawed within the human personality), First Encounters (dedicated to first time filmmakers ), Our Space (films that deal with our built environment) and Wild Things (featuring animals as protagonists).
MIFF-related events include:
- MIFF Drive In at Open Channel.
- Full Dome Screenings at the Planetarium.
- Salon Lumiere – The National Film and Sound Archive presents Patineur Grotesque, Australia’s earliest surviving film.
- MIFF Short Awards.
- 72 Hour Movie
MIFF will run across 18 days, July 22-August 8.
