The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the esteemed winners of its 2025 MIFF Awards, at the Ceremony presented by Penfolds, and awarded more than $300,000 in prize money across various categories. The flagship $140,000 Bright Horizons Award, supported by VicScreen, was awarded to a film with an outstanding filmmaker on the rise. This year’s…
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MIFF ANNOUNCES 2025 SHORTS AWARD WINNERS
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Recognised as one of the most highly regarded short-film competitions in the Asia Pacific and the Southern Hemisphere, tonight’s MIFF Shorts Awards celebrated the standout works from the festival’s much-loved shorts program. This year’s program showcased over 60 short films from 36 countries, presented across 9 curated packages, including a dedicated screening of the award…
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Opening Night Film For MIFF 2025
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The Rose Byrne-led dramedy, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, has been announced as the official Opening Night film of the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), with tickets now on sale. The blistering second feature from US writer-director Mary Bronstein will make its Australian Premiere this August, hot off a rapturous reception at…
MIFF 2025 First Glance
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From 7–24 August,Melbourne International Film Festival(MIFF) proudly returns to Naarm and surrounds with some of the most talked about films arriving hot from Cannes,Berlin, Sundance and across the globe. Across 18 days of bold programming,this year’s festival slate is brimming with original storytelling that will ask audiences to Look Closer as the much-loved festival lights…