Māori and gothic horror are major tick boxes for me, particularly when I see an image like the one above.
Continue readingMārama (2025)
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Facing the Numbers (2026)
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How do you go beyond shocking statistics that people seem to have become immune to?
Continue readingGuided by Horses (2026)
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I’m on day 15 of the Melbourne Film Festival and probably film number 50 and so it’s a rarity to watch one that feels rejuvenating.
Continue readingLost Land (Harà Watan) (2025)
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I am finding two themes at this year‘s Melbourne Film Festival – people dislocated from their land and people abusing the power they have been given.
Continue readingFilipiñana (2026)
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This had the pastel hued satire of Greener Grass (2019) but with the bleak and sobering reality (without the fever dream) of Sweet Dreams (2023).
Continue readingYurlu | Country (2025)
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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.
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