MIFF 2009 - more info

These films have Q&A sessions:

• $9.99
  
• 35 Shots of Rum
  
• Alphaville
  
• Anna
  
• Balibo
  
• Bastards, The
  
• Blessed
  
• Blind Company
  
• Bronson
  
• Cove, The
  
• Defamation
  
• Dogs in Space
  
• Education, An
  
• Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia
  
• Loved Ones, The
  
• Mum & Dad
  
• Murch – Walter Murch on Editing
  
• My Asian Heart
  
• Perfect Life
  
• Prime Mover
  
• Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
  
• Stolen
  
• Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, The
  
• Unmade Beds
  
• Van Diemen's Land
  
• Victoria
  
• Waiting for Sancho
  
• We Live in Public
  
• We're Livin' on Dog Food
  
• Zift
  

These films have director/etc intros:

• Accelerator 1
  
• Going Down
  
• Inglourious Basterds
  
• Intangible Asset #82
  
• My Magic
  
• Pierrot le fou
  
• Post-Punk Mixtape #1
  
• Post-Punk Mixtape #2
  
• Post-Punk Mixtape #3
  
• Post-Punk Mixtape #4
  
• Post-Punk Mixtape #5

Special events include:

• In Conversation with Anna Karina
  
• In Conversation with Claire Denis
  
• In Conversation with Nicolas Winding Refn
  
• In Conversation with Michael Nyman

New MIFF Streams:

• Anna Karina retrospective
  
• The End of Europe: New Balkan Cinema (Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria)
  
• Young Blood (adult films that see the world from a child's or adolescent's perspective)
  
• Eros + Massacre (Japanese New Wave)
  
• Vengeance is Mine (retribution)
  
• States of Dissent (brave docos, many screened secretly, that reveal human rights issues)
  
• Arts and Minds (films about other arts: fashion, architecture, visual arts, photography, literature or music)
  
• The Primal Screen (docos about film-making)
  
• Animation
  
• Punk Becomes Pop: The Australian Post-Punk Underground
  

The usual:

• Homegrown
  
• International Panorama
  
• Night Shift
  
• Neighbourhood Watch
  
• NextGen
  
• Docos
  
• Backbeat
  
• MIFF Shorts

See also

• Inside Film's post of MIFF press release
• The Age article