Melbourne Film Festival

The Melbourne International Film Festival has been running for 71 years and is the most significant screen event in Australia.

What is it?

The Festival includes the best current cinema from around the world as well as retrospectives, tributes and discussions. 

Complementing the screenings is a renowned industry programme that includes an investment fund (the Premiere Fund) and the director’s development programme (Accelerator). 

Who goes? 

The Festival also holds a finance market (37˚ South) which brings the national and international screen industry to Melbourne and celebrates it as a centre for screen business.

New Zealand films at Melbourne

New Zealand feature films that have screened at Melbourne include:

• Love Story
• Māori Boy Genius
• When a City Falls
• The Ground We Won
• Deathgasm
• Bad Behaviour
• We Are Still Here
• Millie Lies Low
• The Justice of Bunny King
• Coming Home in the Dark 
• James & Isey
• Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
• My Year With Helen
• Human Traces
• Mahana
• Free In Deed

Short films that have screened include:

• Hitch Hike
• Snow in Paradise
• Lambs
• Honk If You're Horny
• I Kill
• Sonny, My Older Brother
• Night Shift
• Feeder
• Ross and Beth
• The Tide Keeper 
• Perianayaki 
• Washday
• Rustling
• Hot Mother
• Daniel