What a smart and refreshing take on the horror/thriller genre!
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To Kill a Mongolian Horse (匹白馬的熱夢) (2024)
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Good Boy (2025)
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And the award for the best dog acting at the Melbourne International Film Festival goes to Indy who played Indy in Good Boy!
Continue readingAll I Had Was Nothingness (Je n’avais que le néant – Shoah par Lanzmann) (2025)
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A documentary about another documentary is an odd thing. This is not just any documentary though, it is about Shoah (1985), Claude Lanzmann’s 9 1/2 hour epic made over 12 years.
Continue readingMarlon Williams: Nga Ao E Rua – Two Worlds (2025)
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I keep forgetting one of the joys of MIFF is seeing an Antipodean documentary about a person, having them there at the screening and finding out they’re a really decent person. The MIFF trifecta.
Continue readingIron Winter (2025)
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Kasimir Burgess made a documentary Franklin a few years back, that I really enjoyed. With that film, he used a central story and narration to help us understand several threads about activism, nature, and acceptance of identity.
Continue readingI, Poppy (2025)
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I think I probably knew this was going to be a depressing film because it was about low caste farmers in Rajasthan fighting against corrupt officials.
Continue readingThe Golden Spurtle (2025)
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Can a documentary be too quirkily perfect? This might be a good example of one, where, after thoroughly enjoying every perfectly framed moment and oddball character, I began to wonder if the whole thing was constructed like a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
Continue readingTwinless (2025)
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I really enjoyed this film, although afterwards I felt guilty about it. How can someone so toxic be so adorable?
Continue readingRemaining Native (2025)
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Director Paige Bethmann gives us the gentle story of Ku Stephens, a young runner from the Pailute people in Nevada.
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