This is a beautifully made film about an important story.
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Marlon 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 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.
Continue readingKneecap (2024)
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Music is a powerful tool for resistance and Rich Peppiatt’s delightfully frenetic retelling of the birth of northern Irish hip-hop band Kneecap shows the power and the vulnerability of sticking it to the Man.
Continue readingLike My Brother (2024)
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Dahomey (2024)
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The Moogai (2024)
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Director Jon Bell has expanded his award-winning short film of the same name into a feature horror that enjoyably blends horror tropes with Indigenous history.
Continue readingTop End Wedding (2019)
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This is a heartwarming romcom about falling in love with Country, culture and family.
Continue readingSorcery (Brujería) (2023)
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I love a bit of folk horror and Chilean director Christopher Murray takes us on a slow and compelling journey through colonisation.
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