Exceptional festival-only experiences
From MIFF’s glamorous galas, red-carpet world premieres and food-and-film experiences to exclusive cinema concerts, overnight marathons and a special screening of Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, this year’s Special Events are exceptional festival-only experiences.
Come on a visually stunning journey through one of the most remote areas on the planet: far Northern Australia. Narrated by Indigenous elder Balang T E Lewis, this inspiring documentary will take you on an adventure to explore the culture and wildlife of Australia’s remote wild north.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra this August to perform a selection of suites from their highly distinctive film scores as part of the 68th MIFF.
Always immensely popular, MIFF’s annual program of fulldome screenings at the Melbourne Planetarium returns once again in 2019!
Always immensely popular, MIFF’s annual program of fulldome screenings at the Melbourne Planetarium returns once again in 2019!
MIFF’s overnight marathon, uh, finds a way again – and this year we’re going full, err, Goldblum!
MIFF’s third, exclusive Hear My Eyes event will see Sampa The Great performing live alongside Céline Sciamma’s defiantly electrifying portrait of young women of colour growing up in the Paris projects.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o shines bright as a ukulele-playing, zombie-slaying kindergarten teacher in Abe Forsythe’s sweetly hilarious zom-com Little Monsters.
Awkwafina proves her dramatic chops are as nuanced as her comedic ones in this Sundance hit about a Chinese-American woman reuniting with family to farewell her dying grandmother – who doesn’t know of her deadly diagnosis.
Miriam Margolyes, Emma Booth, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman and Joel Jackson star in this delightful adaptation of the award-winning YA novel My Life as an Alphabet.
For years, Adam Goodes was a beloved hero of the game of AFL. Then the two-time Brownlow Medallist and former Australian of the Year began to call out racism, and his Australian dream turned into a nightmare.
One of the most innovative electric guitarists living today, Thurston Moore joins us at MIFF, performing new scores to four short films by Maya Deren, and will also join us in conversation to discuss his career in music and writing, and cinema.
“Freely interweaving his own inventions with the myths and legends of Hollywood’s late golden years, Quentin Tarantino delivers one of the most exuberantly sharp-witted meta-movies we’ve seen.” – Sight & Sound
To celebrate the world premiere season of Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, join us for this special late-night double featuring two of the most iconic works from the famed Shaw Bros studio.
Iconic musician and former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore joins us in Melbourne at The Astor Theatre for a special live performance, playing the original music he wrote to accompany four seminal works from pioneering experimental filmmaker Maya Deren.