by Abhi Parasher
Featuring an expansive selection of World Cinema, engrossing documentaries, hotly anticipated releases from the likes of Sundance, Berlinale and Toronto film festivals, and brand new Australian cinema, MIFF 2023 certainly looks promising.
With 18-days of jam-packed cinema ahead, the First Glance list acts as a strong indication of the quality of cinema to expect.
FIRST GLANCE TITLES: MIFF 2023
A Storm Foretold (dir. Christoffer Guldbrandsen)
Bad Behaviour (dir. Alice Englert)
BlackBerry (dir. Matt Johnson)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (dir. Daniel Goldhaber)
Louder Than You Think (dir. Jed I Rosenberg)
Medusa Deluxe (dir. Thomas Hardiman)
Memory Film: A Filmmaker’s Diary (Premiere Fund) (dir. Jeni Thornley)
No Bears (dir. Jafar Panahi)
Passages (dir. Ira Sachs)
Past Lives (dir. Celine Song)
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (dir. Anton Corbijn)
The Adults (dir. Dustin Guy Defa)
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (dir. Nicole Newnham)
The Echo (dir. Tatiana Huezo)
The Kingdom Exodus (dir. Lars von Trier)
The Rooster (Premiere Fund) (dir. Mark Leonard Winter) [pictured]
The Slam (Premiere Fund) (dir. Ili Baré)
This Is Going To be Big (Premiere Fund) (dir. Thomas Charles Hyland)
Trenque Lauquen (dir. Laura Citarella)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Restoration) (dir. Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
On sharing the First Glance preview, Al Cossar, MIFF Artistic Director, said: “In 2023, the Melbourne International Film Festival returns for our 71st edition, bringing you essential, incredible, unexpected cinema from the whole world before us, far beyond the streamers, far beyond the multiplex – hotly anticipated works by iconic filmmakers, alongside new and breakthrough voices waiting to be discovered.”
MIFF’s 18 day in-cinema program runs 3-20 August, regional showcase between 11-13 and 18-20 August and a selection of films available to stream nationally via MIFF Play from 18-27 August.
Tickets are on sale to the General Public from Friday 14 July.
