MIFF 2022 – Mildura

FRANKLIN – MIFF   View Trailer
Director: Kasimir Burgess.  Origin: Australia (2020)  Language: English.
Genre: Documentary , Social Justice.
Personal entwines with political as a young Tasmanian activist follows in the literal footsteps of his late father, who in the 1980s fought to save the pristine Franklin River wilderness.

AUSTRALIAN SHORTS – MIFF
Genre: Comedy , Coming of Age.
Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.

SISSY – MIFF  View Trailer
Directors: Hannah Barlow, Kane Senes. Origin: Australia (2022).
Language: English. Genre: Horror.
This Instagram influencer doesn’t just have a follower count – she’s got a body count.

MILLIE LIES LOW – MIFF  View Trailer
Director: Michelle Savill. Origin: New Zealand (2021)
Language: English. Genre: Drama.
An anxiety-inducing knockout from first-time feature director Michelle Savill, in which a young woman misses a flight and digs herself a very deep, very funny hole.

CALL JANE – MIFF
Director: Phyllis Nagy. Origin: USA (2022)
Language: English. Genre: Drama , Social Justice.
Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver star as activists providing abortions and a lifeline to desperate women prior to Roe v. Wade.

MASS – MIFF  View Trailer
Director: Fran Kranz. Origin: USA (2020).
Language: English. Genre: Crime , Drama , Social Justice.
Two couples come together for a painful emotional reckoning in the aftermath of a school shooting in this acclaimed debut feature.

OF AN AGE – MIFF  View Trailer
Director: Goran Stoleveski. Origin: Australia (2022).
Language: English, Serbian with English subtitles.
Genre: Comedy , Coming of Age.
Accelerator Lab alumnus Goran Stolevski delivers a heart-meltingly tender, quintessentially Melbourne queer coming-of-age tale that will make you swoon from beginning to end.

BECAUSE WE HAVE EACH OTHER – MIFF  View Trailer
Director: Sari Braithwaite. Origin: Australia (2022).
Language: English. Genre: Documentary.
The delightfully hyper-intimate new feature from [CENSORED] (MIFF 2018) director Sari Braithwaite invites us to share the mundane and the magnificent with a neurodivergent, working-class family.

PETROL – MIFF  View Trailer
Director: Alena Lodkina. Origin: Australia (2022).
Language: English, Russian with English subtitles. Genre: Drama.
An idealistic film student is drawn into an enigmatic performance artist’s shadowy world in Alena Lodkina’s follow-up to the much-acclaimed Strange Colours (MIFF 2018).

SWEET AS – MIFF
Director: Jub Clerc. Origin: Australia (2022).
Language: English. Genre: Comedy , Drama , First Nations.
The Breakfast Club meets the outback in this uplifting coming-of-age road movie by Nyul Nyul / Yawuru director Jub Clerc (The Turning, MIFF Premiere Fund 2013; The Heights).