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MIFF announces its 70th anniversary program!

14 July 2022

On the Count of Three (2021)

THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (MIFF) HAS ANNOUNCED ITS MUCH ANTICIPATED 70th ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM. FEATURING A SPOTLIGHT OF UMBRELLAS UPCOMING AND MUCH LOVED CATALOGUE RELEASES.

MIFF is celebrating their 70th milestone this year with an impressive program that celebrates the festivals return to cinema events and Melbourne’s rich film history. Umbrella Entertainment are delighted to contribute to MIFFs ever growing legacy across the program this year in both the new release slate and Melbourne On Film retrospective.

This is a monumental year for MIFF with 257 films, 102 shorts and 18 world premiers screening both in cinemas and online across 4–21 August in Melbourne.

Get familiar with Umbrella’s titles on offer in this years program below –


MIFF 2022 Program

FIRE FRONT
Director: Eddie Martin
Origin: Australia (2022)

Leading Australian documentarian Eddie Martin puts viewers on the frontlines of the deadly 2019–2020 bushfires, capturing the catastrophe with a perspective and scale never before seen.

FINAL CUT
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Origin: France (2022)

Romain Duris and Bérénice Bejo star in this year’s Cannes Opening Night film: a gory, goofy remake of Shin’ichirō Ueda’s cult Japanese zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead.

SOMETHING IN THE DIRT
Director: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson
Origin: USA (2021)

Hot on the heels of their Marvel debut directing episodes of Moon Knight and Loki, filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead return to their kitchen-sink roots with a DIY sci-fi mind-bender.

CALL JANE
Director: Phyllis Nagy
Origin: USA (2022)

Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver star as activists providing abortions and a lifeline to desperate women prior to Roe v. Wade.

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

Director: Jerrod Carmichael
Origin: Canada (2021)

In this boldly bleak tragicomedy from rising star Jerrod Carmichael, two best friends decide today will be the day to end their lives.

INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Origin: France (2022)

French fabulist Quentin Dupieux returns with a goofball comedy involving time travel, the pandemic and one man’s robotic penis.

WE WERE ONCE KIDS
Director: Eddie Martin
Origin: Australia (2021)

Award-winning filmmaker Eddie Martin (Have You Seen the Listers?, MIFF 2018) revisits the cultural landscape of Larry Clark’s iconic 90s film Kids, which paved a bumpy path for its young stars’ future success.


Melbourne On Film Retrospectives

MONKEY GRIP
Director: Ken Cameron
Origin: Australia (1982)

Noni Hazlehurst and Colin Friels star in this gritty Melbourne classic of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, based on the novel by Helen Garner and featuring blistering tunes from the Divinyls.

HEAD ON
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Origin: Australia (1998)

Alex Dimitriades is magnetic in Ana Kokkinos’s bold and brutal feature about a queer Greek-Australian man’s ecstatic journey to find himself.

DEATH IN BRUNSWICK
Director: John Ruane
Origin: Australia (1990)

Featuring a hapless Sam Neill and one of the most memorable scenes in local screen history, Death in Brunswick – screening from a brand-new restoration DCP at MIFF 70 – is a jet-black highlight of Australian comedy filmmaking.

THE CLUB
Director: Bruce Beresford
Origin: Australia (1980)

In the hall of local sports movies, Bruce Beresford’s 1980 Aussie Rules adaptation The Club is a reigning champ.

BODY MELT
Director: Philip Brophy
Origin: Australia (1993)

Philip Brophy’s hilariously bonkers debut feature makes an oozing, suppurating, bloody mess of Melbourne suburbia.

MALCOLM
Director: Nadia Tass
Origin: Australia (1986)

Winner of eight AFI Awards including Best Film, the surprise Australian smash-hit of 1986 is a delightfully lo-fi heist film, caper comedy and love letter to inner-city Melbourne.

For more information on the program head to https://miff.com.au/

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