Classic, low budget, late night film festival fare.
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1001 Frames (2025)
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I think this one is going to be polarising. Judging by the impassioned conversations I had with fellow MIFF goers after the film, I can see there are many different takes on its confronting structure and content.
Continue readingMistress Dispeller (2024)
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Not about a woman called Dispeller but about a legitimate practice in China where wives, who find out their husbands are cheating on them, employee someone to dispel the mistress – a mistress dispeller.
Continue readingLittle Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica)(2025)
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Slovenian director Urska Djukic gives us a convincing meditation on emerging teenage identity and sexuality in a repressive Catholic culture.
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 readingBy Design (2025)
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Really I shouldn’t be surprised that a film that is about a woman who wants to be a chair ends up being an absurd and surrealist set piece.
Continue readingPromised Sky (2025)
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High Art (1998)
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Oh the sweet nostalgia of the 90s! The toxic world of commercial photography, particularly if you’re a woman, and the chic of heroin-fuelled nights.
Continue readingThe Little Sister (2025)
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Fatima (Nadia Melliti) is an Algerian teen living in France. She loves football, hangs out with her bros at school, and spars with her older sisters as they tease her for not knowing how to cook or dress in a way that men like.
Continue readingThe Sealed Soil (Khake Sar Beh Mohr)(1977)
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One thing to try not to miss at film festivals is the rare films that don’t get any other platform for viewing. Narva Marbili’s The Sealed Soil is one of these, touted as the oldest surviving Iranian film directed by a woman.
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