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MIFF 1966

Erwin Rado
#15

Festival Program
43 feature films and 112 short films were screened from 3 June to 18 June
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Program in Focus
The 1966 program included a retrospective on the films of Damien Parer, a war cameraman. 8 short films were shown, on loan from the Australian National Library. Alain Resnais's remarkable short film Night and Fog was screened, as was Fires of a Plain (Kon Ichikawa), Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci), Raven's End (Bo Wilderberg), Walkover (Jerzy Skolimowski), and Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman).

Featured Film
Sandra (Luchino Visconti, 1965)
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Featured Film
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
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Films

CHOOSE LIFE

Wähle das Leben
Director Erwin Leiser
MIFF 1966

Femmes d'aujourd'hui

Director Claude A. Putzeys
MIFF 1966

It Helps to be Mad

Director John King
MIFF 1966

THE DEAD AND THE ALIVE

Juk un Ja San Ja
Director Kangchon Lee
MIFF 1966

ZERO IN THE UNIVERSE

Director George Moorse
USA
MIFF 1966

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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On Screen and in the Cinema

The magic of the festival is reached through its screens. These are places and spaces that captivate our attention, providing windows where films come to life before our eyes. As portals to the world, the festival’s screens allow us to travel the globe, move through time, and see through another’s eyes. … Yet these screens also remind us of home. They are fixed in place, in our memories and in o …
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