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2007 Melbourne International Film Festival
Get off the couch and get into the nation's largest film event with close to 400 film screenings... The Melbourne International Film Festival, celebrating its 55th year, presents the most diverse and immediate range of contemporary cinema in the country and engages the biggest cinema-going audience. With the majority of films screened being Australian premieres, you get to see it first at MIFF and be the one to give your friends the heads-up. MIFF is truly 'festival' at heart, coaxing like-minded individuals to take over the centre of Melbourne for lively debate, socialising and a sharing of mutual experience. Little more than a city block now gets you from one MIFF screening to the next, so throw on the overcoat and jump feet first into the most significant cinema-going event in the Asia Pacific.
Talking pictures / Coopers festival lounge
There's only one place where MIFF-goers and friends should be seen outside the cinema... and that's the Coopers Festival Lounge. Throughout the Festival, MIFF presents FREE Talking Pictures panel discussions with filmmakers, DJs, comedy and even Movieoke...Or just enjoy a Coopers under the twinkling stars of the Forum Theatre. Adding to the free Talking Pictures sessions already announced at the Coopers Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre, MIFF is delighted to welcome acclaimed DOP Christopher Doyle, Spike Jonze (Director, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), and MIFF Patron Geoffrey Rush to its program of free events.
Jafar Panahi: Filmmaker in focus
The career of Iranian filmmaker and special MIFF guest, Jafar Panahi, sits at the heart of the festival’s Homelands Now programme and presents a rare opportunity to view the work of one of the world’s most important living filmmakers. Born in Mianeh, Iran, in 1960, Jafar Panahi is one of the most influential and internationally renowned filmmakers of Iranian post-revolutionary cinema. His relationship with MIFF 2003 guest, Abbas Kiarostami, who wrote Panahi’s Crimson Gold (2003) and his debut feature, The White Balloon (1995), commenced when Panahi served as assistant director on Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees (1994). His politically and socially contentious works have earned him numerous awards (and difficulties in his native Iran and, even more recently, in the US), including a Silver Bear at Berlin this year for Offside (2006).
Get off the couch and get into the nation's largest film event with close to 400 film screenings... The Melbourne International Film Festival, celebrating its 55th year, presents the most diverse and immediate range of contemporary cinema in the country and engages the biggest cinema-going audience. With the majority of films screened being Australian premieres, you get to see it first at MIFF and be the one to give your friends the heads-up. MIFF is truly 'festival' at heart, coaxing like-minded individuals to take over the centre of Melbourne for lively debate, socialising and a sharing of mutual experience. Little more than a city block now gets you from one MIFF screening to the next, so throw on the overcoat and jump feet first into the most significant cinema-going event in the Asia Pacific.
Talking pictures / Coopers festival lounge
There's only one place where MIFF-goers and friends should be seen outside the cinema... and that's the Coopers Festival Lounge. Throughout the Festival, MIFF presents FREE Talking Pictures panel discussions with filmmakers, DJs, comedy and even Movieoke...Or just enjoy a Coopers under the twinkling stars of the Forum Theatre. Adding to the free Talking Pictures sessions already announced at the Coopers Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre, MIFF is delighted to welcome acclaimed DOP Christopher Doyle, Spike Jonze (Director, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), and MIFF Patron Geoffrey Rush to its program of free events.
Jafar Panahi: Filmmaker in focus
The career of Iranian filmmaker and special MIFF guest, Jafar Panahi, sits at the heart of the festival’s Homelands Now programme and presents a rare opportunity to view the work of one of the world’s most important living filmmakers. Born in Mianeh, Iran, in 1960, Jafar Panahi is one of the most influential and internationally renowned filmmakers of Iranian post-revolutionary cinema. His relationship with MIFF 2003 guest, Abbas Kiarostami, who wrote Panahi’s Crimson Gold (2003) and his debut feature, The White Balloon (1995), commenced when Panahi served as assistant director on Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees (1994). His politically and socially contentious works have earned him numerous awards (and difficulties in his native Iran and, even more recently, in the US), including a Silver Bear at Berlin this year for Offside (2006).
