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MIFF 1988

Tait Brady
#37

Festival Program
90 feature films and 110 short films were screened from 16 June to 26 June
Full Program

Program in Focus
The 37th Melbourne Film Festival, under the new direction of Tait Brady, originated feature documentaries as a major program stream, and turned attention to cinema of our region with the Asian Cinema Showcase. Retrospectives continued to feature, including a German shorts retrospective and a special screening of the recently restored The Adventures of Algy (Beaumont Smith, 1925).

Filmmakers in Focus
Alexander Askoldov, John Sayles & Maggie Renzi, Lezli-An Barrett, Mady Saks, Jiang Wen, Kay Armatage, Karola Gramann, David Leland, Jerzy Domaradzki, Atom Egoyan, Jahnu Barua, Pieter Verhoeff, Helmut Berger were guests of the festival.

Opening Night Film
A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Gyula Gazdag)
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Films

35 Summers

Director Mark Titmarsh
MIFF 1988

A HUNGRY FEELING - THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRENDAN BEHAN

Director Allan Miller
USA
MIFF 1988

AGAINST THE INNOCENT

Director Daryl Dellora
MIFF 1988

ALL THAT IS SOLID

Director John Hughes
MIFF 1988

BINGO, BRIDESMAIDS AND BRACES

Director Gillian Armstrong
MIFF 1988

CIRCLE OF GOLD

Director Uday Bhattacharya
MIFF 1988

City

Director Andrzej Baranski
MIFF 1988

Delirium

Director Kathy Smith
MIFF 1988

Dr. Plughole

Director John Armstrong
MIFF 1988

E’Ellermanin: The Story of Leo and Leva

Director Lorraine Mafi-Williams
MIFF 1988

Embrace

Director Bill Mousoulis
MIFF 1988

Flower Animation 2

Director Nick Ostrovskis
MIFF 1988

GHOSTS . . . OF THE CIVIL DEAD

Director John Hillcoat
MIFF 1988

Hey Paris!

Director Gregor Nicholas
MIFF 1988

HOMECOMINGS

Director Dirk de Bruyn
MIFF 1988

I Hate Mime

Director Chris Willems
MIFF 1988

Jack the Rabbit

Director Peter Sotirakis
MIFF 1988

Living Room

Director David Caesar
MIFF 1988

Make My Day

Director Lis Aroney
MIFF 1988

MAPANTSULA

Director Oliver Schmitz
MIFF 1988

Milk and a Cup of Tea

Director Ester Haskell
MIFF 1988

Mock Gravity

Director Franco Marinai
USA
MIFF 1988

Mr. Benevolent

Director Chris Windmill
MIFF 1988

NEW CHINESE CINEMA

Director Tony Rayns
UK
MIFF 1988

Passiona

Director Louise Hubbard
MIFF 1988

Rabbit on the Moon

Director Monica Pellizzari
MIFF 1988

Rebound

Director Naciba Sator
MIFF 1988

Return Trip Tango

Director Angelo Restivo
USA
MIFF 1988

RIDING THE GALE

Director Hugh Piper
MIFF 1988

ROUGE

Director Stanley Kwan
MIFF 1988

SALT, SALIVA, SPERM & SWEAT

Director Philip Brophy
MIFF 1988

THANKS GIRLS AND GOODBYE

Directors Sue Maslin , Sue Hardisty
MIFF 1988

The Big Lunch

Director The Marine Biologists
MIFF 1988

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF PIPPI LONGSTOCKING

Director Ken Annakin
USA
MIFF 1988

The Pond

Director Richard Saunders
UK
MIFF 1988

Trevor Island

Director John Taylor
MIFF 1988

Unusual Ground Floor Conversion

Director Mark Herman
UK
MIFF 1988

War Story

Director Randelli
MIFF 1988

White Woman

Director Anne-Marie Crawford
MIFF 1988

Wishful Thinking

Director Jill Scott
MIFF 1988

Work of Iron

Le Travail de Fer
Directors Celia Canning , Nery Catineau
MIFF 1988

From the Festival Files

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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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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