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MIFF 1965

Erwin Rado
#14

Festival Program
38 feature films and 104 short films were screened from 4 June to 19 June
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Program in Focus
Notable films include The Engagement (Ermanno Olmi), Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard), Mahanagar (Satyajit Ray), Peter and Pavla (Milos Forman), Lola (Jacques Demy), Le feu follet (Louis Malle), Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigawara).

Featured Film
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
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Featured Film
Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
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Films

Birth

Director Jim White
MIFF 1965

Faces in the Sun

Director Cecil Holmes
MIFF 1965

Our Youth

Nuorisomme
Director Kaarlo Nuorvala
MIFF 1965

The Matress

Director Robert Feldman
USA
MIFF 1965

The Shape of Quality

Director Fred Schepisi
MIFF 1965

Toehold in History

Director Dahl Collings
MIFF 1965

From the Festival Files

The Living Festival

What would a festival be without its audience? There wouldn’t be a festival at all! … People are the beating heart of MIFF. It was the coming together of some 800 people in Olinda in 1952 that gave birth to the Melbourne Film Festival. Since that unanticipated outpouring of community love for film, MIFF has become an annual gathering space for film enthusiasts and the cine-curious from Melbourne …
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Making the Festival

The Melbourne Film Festival began as the idea of a few passionate individuals. A sub-committee, formed from delegates to the 1951 Australian Council of Film Societies film weekend, suggested that a small festival of films in the tourist town of Olinda should be held in 1952. The resulting festival was a testament to the do-it-yourself initiative of the Olinda festival committee. As some 800 festiv …
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