Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
MDFF: Eternal Spring
Opening Date: Wednesday, 20 Jul 2022
Facing denunciations of their banned faith in the Chinese state media, an engineer named Liang and a hulking grain worker ... more
MDFF: Patou: In Black and White
Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Jul 2022
With a career that spans over four decades and across the globe, Jamaican singer Pat Powell (PATOU) is one of Australia’s ... more
MDFF: Australia My Home: An Albanian Migration
Opening Date: Friday, 22 Jul 2022
*Australian Premiere* The instability and horrors that accompanied the 20th Century were a major cause of human exodus, and Australia became ... more
MDFF: Shorts Session 2
Opening Date: Saturday, 23 Jul 2022
PHOSPHERENES: The colours we see when you close your eyes tightly or press them with your fingers. Inviting you to ... more
MDFF: Shorts Session 1
Opening Date: Saturday, 23 Jul 2022
STITCHED TOGETHER: In a small town outside Melbourne, a community of unlikely activists fight climate change with their sewing machines ... more
MDFF: Garden of Evil, The
Opening Date: Saturday, 23 Jul 2022
This is a story of two environmentalists Sir Peter Blake and eco-warrior Pete Bethune, who were brutally attacked in the ... more
MDFF: Where the Water Starts
Opening Date: Saturday, 23 Jul 2022
Listed as a national heritage area in 2008 the Australian Alps is the birthplace of some of our iconic rivers. ... more
MDFF: Shorts Session 3
Opening Date: Sunday, 24 Jul 2022
WALLACE – Directed by Ali Jahani: WALLACE explores a hypothetical final day of his life as he comes into terms ... more
MDFF: Shorts Session 4
Opening Date: Sunday, 24 Jul 2022
A TOUGH GIG – Directed by Cath Murphy: A short documentary about Megan- a Mental Health nurse who describes the ... more
MDFF: Television Event
Opening Date: Sunday, 24 Jul 2022
‘The Kid Stays in the Picture’ meets ‘The Atomic Cafe’ in this archive-based feature documentary that views the dramatic climax ... more
MDFF: Living in the Time of Dying
Opening Date: Sunday, 24 Jul 2022
Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst ... more
MDFF: Waterman
Opening Date: Sunday, 24 Jul 2022
Surfing legend. Olympic superstar. Hawaiian Icon. American hero. Five-time Olympic medallist and Native Hawaiian Duke Paoa Kahanamoku shattered records and brought ... more
MDFF: Other Fellow, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2022
Bond, James Bonds. Can anyone ever live up to that name? An energetic exploration of male identity via the lives, personalities, ... more
MDFF: In the Court of the Crimson King
Opening Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2022
What began as a straightforward documentary about the cult rock band King Crimson as it turned 50, mutated into an ... more
MDFF: Green is the New Black
Opening Date: Wednesday, 27 Jul 2022
GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK is a story of passion and purpose behind an ambitious environmental feat of one of ... more
MDFF: Dosed 2: The Trip of a Lifetime
Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Jul 2022
Laurie, a terminally ill cancer patient and loving mother of four, is granted the right to legally use magic mushrooms ... more
MDFF: Art Lovers Unite
Opening Date: Friday, 29 Jul 2022
*World Premiere* Follow activist/fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and artist Dacob as they embark on a journey through art and its history. Vivienne ... more
MDFF: Aha: The Movie
Opening Date: Friday, 29 Jul 2022
Follows the band on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming ... more
MDFF: Leigh
Opening Date: Saturday, 30 Jul 2022
Tracking the life of Australian chainsaw artist Leigh Conkie, ‘LEIGH’ is a portrait of a man who has used his ... more
MDFF: Ten Count
Opening Date: Saturday, 30 Jul 2022
With a star-studded cast, including Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, TEN COUNT is a blistering ninety-minute documentary that explores the incredible ... more
MDFF: Ticketyboo
Opening Date: Saturday, 30 Jul 2022
After losing her artist-father to Alzheimer's, journalist Renée Brack confronts her own fears by undergoing medical experiments as a human ... more
MDFF: Certain Mother, A
Opening Date: Saturday, 30 Jul 2022
A CERTAIN MOTHER interweaves the stories of four women from across Australia as they navigate the challenges of parenthood - ... more
MDFF: You Are the Days to Come
Opening Date: Saturday, 30 Jul 2022
The film is set in Beijing in the 1980s during the extraordinary time that led up to Tiananmen Square protests ... more
MDFF: Memories That Make Us / My Fight
Opening Date: Sunday, 31 Jul 2022
MEMORIES THAT MAKE US is a poetic, ethnographic documentary that draws on the individual and collective memories of ordinary Italian ... more
MDFF: Kimmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Opening Date: Sunday, 31 Jul 2022
Witness the work of community members with substance-use disorder, first responders, and health professionals in the Kainai First Nation as ... more
MDFF: Learning to Live Together: The Return of Mad
Opening Date: Sunday, 31 Jul 2022
In the spring of 1970, Joe Cocker undertook what became the legendary Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, immortalized in a ... more
MDFF: The Healing / Cuba My Soul
Opening Date: Sunday, 31 Jul 2022
Some twenty years after The Buena Vista Social Club, traditional Cuban music lives on, but it's facing a threat from ... more
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