Melbourne International Film Festival announce line-up
From the shores of the Cote d’Azur to Melbourne’s back alleys, the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival (21 July – 7 August) announce 25 films from the Cannes Film Festival.
With opening night still a secret and Kriv Stenders’ Aussie tale Red Dog announced for closing night there’s a collection of great Australian films in between including; Matthew Bate’s indie-doco Shut Up Little Man!, the world premiere of Khoa Do’s Falling For Saraha, Alistair Lockhart and Patrick Sarell’s animated short Nullarbor and Ivan Sen’s Toomelah about a ten year-old boy turned drug runner in a remote Aboriginal town, which got an excellent response at Cannes.
In fact, MIFF has 25 films screening from Cannes’ Competition.
Catch; Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, a mesmerising family drama in the face of the apocaplypse that saw Kirsten Dunst win Best Actress; Maiwenn Le Besco’s Polisse, revolving around officers in a Parisian Child Protection Unit; Joseph Cedar’s Footnote, which took out Best Screenplay at Cannes, depicting an intense rivalry of father and son professors; Markus Schleinzer’s Michael, the controversial Austrian drama about a man who keeps a 10 year-old boy locked in his basement; Le Havre is Aki Kaurismaki’s return to form with the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child; Japanese director Naomi Kawase’s Hanezu is an evocative romantic drama based on the novel by Masako Bando; and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks, following a Hollywood stunt driver by day moonlighting as a getaway driver in the criminal underworld.
Visit www.miff.com.au for the currently released program. The full program will be announced on Tuesday 5 July, tickets on sale Friday 8 July.
