{"id":3485,"date":"2019-07-30T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:35:19","slug":"miff-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/miff-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"MIFF 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"session-details-box\">\n<div>Here we are, our favourite time of the year is upon us. Euraw Stories normally takes a break in August so you can watch the best movies from around the world &#8211; but please keep an eye on our website and the facebook page for updates regarding our next screening.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>This year MIFF offers a great selection of Eastern European cinema with a special retrospective on an amazing female filmmaker, <a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/agnieszka-holland\">Agnieszka Holland<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/spoor-july-21\/\">Spoor<\/a>, screened in our 2018 program).\u00a0In honour of her newest film,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/mr-jones\"><em>Mr. Jones<\/em><\/a>, MIFF screens eight titles, including\u00a0the Golden Globe-winning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/a-woman-alone\"><em>Europa Europa<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and her Oscar-nominated works\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/in-darkness\"><em>In Darkness<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/angry-harvest\"><em>Angry Harvest<\/em><\/a>. We urge you to book at least one of the titles directed by Agnieszka, director of episodes in House Of Cards, The Wire, Treme.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"session-details-box\">\n<div class=\"session-details2\">Here are our picks of stories from the other Europe screening this year at MIFF.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"synopsis\"><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/meeting-gorbachev\">MEETING GORBACHEV<\/a><\/h2>\n<div><span class=\"director-list\">Directors:\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Singer, Werner Herzog\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0Germany USA UK\u00a0<\/span>(2018)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Meeting Gorbachev | Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjvHJGXKEGA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The inimitable Werner Herzog presents a disarmingly personal conversation with the man who drew back the Iron Curtain, Mikhail Gorbachev.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the most visionary politicians of our lifetime, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was the architect of the opening Russia to the world. Through three extensive conversations, Herzog and long-time collaborator Andr\u00e9 Singer discover an 87-year-old statesman and Nobel Prize winner, in waning health, reflective but resolute.<\/p>\n<p>These intimate exchanges are backed by interviews with the major players of the glasnost and perestroika era (including George P Shultz, James A Baker III and Lech Walesa), and illuminating archival footage. Packed with emotion \u2013 triumph, hope, regret \u2013\u00a0<em>Meeting Gorbachev<\/em>\u00a0is a unique take on the political documentary. With the life story at its centre, Herzog\u2019s film shares how a headstrong farm boy thawed the Cold War and reshaped the lives of millions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfessional and sincere,\u00a0<em>Meeting Gorbachev<\/em>\u00a0humanizes both its creator and its subject.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<em>Vulture<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"session-details-box\">\n<h2 class=\"session-details2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/beanpole\">BEANPOLE<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"session-details2\">D: Kantemir Balagov \/ Country:\u00a0<span class=\"muted\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #191e23;\">Russia 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Beanpole | Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Hz_I_Y1Hus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<div class=\"session-details-box\">\n<div class=\"session-details2\">\n<p><strong>From Cannes where Balagov was awarded the best director and won the Fipresci award in the Un Certain Regard section, comes an intense story about two women building new lives in the war-collapsed Leningrad of 1945.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Inspired by Svetlana Alexievich\u2019s book \u201cThe Unwomanly Face of War&#8221;, \u201cBeanpole\u201d tells a glacially paced but gorgeously plotted story about two best friends who grow so desperate for any kind of personal agency that they start using each other to answer the unsolvable arithmetic of life and death.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/the-orphanage\">THE ORPHANAGE<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"director-list\">Director:\u00a0Shahrbanoo Sadat\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0Germany Afghanistan Denmark 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"THE ORPHANAGE\/Parwareshgah Official Trailer (2019) Shahrbanoo Sadat - Afghanistan Release\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hgsjbrAurGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emerging Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat delights with an 80s-set mixture of realism and inspired Bollywood-style musical, set on the streets of Kabul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<p>Premiering at Cannes\u2019 prestigious Director\u2019s Fortnight, the second feature from rising Afghan writer\/director Shahrbanoo Sadat is a follow-up to her acclaimed 2016 debut,\u00a0<em>Wolf and Sheep<\/em>. Qodratollah Qadiri stars as orphan Qodrat, a daydreaming 15-year-old selling movie tickets on the streets of Kabul in the late 1980s. Taken to a Soviet orphanage by police, Qodrat and his fellow teenagers soon find themselves defending their home in the wake of the Islamist government takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Mixing gorgeously lensed realism with folklore and unlikely, affectionate bursts of Bollywood musical, Sadat sensitively evokes both the interior world of her protagonist and the turbulent political climate of the era, successfully crafting a humanist experience with a dash of fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBalances a clear-eyed re-creation of a teen\u2019s time in an orphanage with a certain nostalgia for childhood innocence.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<em>Variety<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/sunset\">SUNSET<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"director-list\">Director:\u00a0L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes \/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0FranceHungary\u00a0<\/span>(2018)<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sunset | Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Rb4FFCd2dE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<p><strong>Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, this allegorical mystery offers a decadent premonition of Europe in chaos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1913, 20-year-old Irisz Leiter returns home to Budapest, hoping to follow in the footsteps of the milliner parents she lost tragically at age two. But a sleek businessman now runs Leiter Hats; and while the city feverishly prepares to receive the Habsburg royals, Irisz senses dark undercurrents beneath the glamour.<\/p>\n<p>Just as a hat is steamed, blocked and trimmed to take on its final shape, Irisz methodically sets out to make sense of her family\u2019s secrets. She uncovers a suspicious fire, a notorious hidden brother, a shadowy German count\u2026 and social climbers who hate inconvenient questions.<\/p>\n<p>Director L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes follows his Oscar-winning\u00a0<em>Son of Saul<\/em>\u00a0with this disorienting, even hallucinatory quest. By applying his intensely subjective hand-held camera to a refined society on the brink of mayhem, Nemes reminds us how quickly certainties can unravel, and how easily tyranny can take root. He also slyly invites us to ponder Europe\u2019s uncertain political future \u2013 every day has a sunset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe direction is immaculate \u2026 a stimulating vision, an eye-opening process.\u201d \u2013 FIPRESCI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"synopsis\">\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/the-whistlers\">THE WHISTLERS<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"director-list\">Director:\u00a0Corneliu Porumboiu\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0Germany France Romania\u00a0<\/span>(2019)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qVf8QU0F2MQ<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Romanian New Wave ventures to the Canary Islands in Corneliu Porumboiu\u2019s noir-ish crime caper, which takes more than a few cues from Hitchcock, gleefully name-checks John Ford and plays up the writer\/director\u2019s own offbeat sensibilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ten years after the events of Porumboiu\u2019s\u00a0<em>Police, Adjective<\/em>, Bucharest detective Cristi is still on the job. As well as upholding the law, however, he\u2019s also taking orders from European mobsters. To skirt the ever-listening ears of state surveillance, and to help his mafia cronies bust one of their money-laundering heavies out of jail, the wearied cop is given a new task: learning an ancestral whistling language.<\/p>\n<p>Since his Camera d\u2019Or-winning debut\u00a0<em>12:08 East of Bucharest<\/em>\u00a0(MIFF 2008), Porumboiu has excelled at spinning over-sized exploits around unhappy everyman, a trend he continues in this blackly comic, thrillingly entertaining genre piece \u2013 a fast-paced blend of gangster, heist and espionage antics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpands the horizons of New Romanian Cinema, offering up a sequel to social realism just as it began to get stale.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<em>The Playlist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other titles worth seeing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/take-me-somewhere-nice\">Take Me Somewhere Nice<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"director-list\">Director:\u00a0Ena Sendijarevi\u0107\/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0Bosnia and Herzegovina\u00a0<\/span>(2019)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/god-exists-her-name-is-petrunya\">God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunia<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"director-list\">Director:\u00a0Teona Strugar Mitevska\/\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0North Macedonia, Slovenia\u00a0<\/span>(2019)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/once-in-trubchevsk\">Once In Trubcevsk <\/a>&#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"director-list\">Director:\u00a0Larissa Sadilova\/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0Russia\u00a0<\/span>(2019)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/the-trial\">The Trial<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"director-list\">Director:\u00a0Sergei Loznitsa\/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0<\/span>(2018)<\/p>\n<p class=\"synopsis\"><a href=\"http:\/\/miff.com.au\/program\/film\/and-then-we-danced\">And Then We Danced<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"director-list\">Director:\u00a0Levan Akin\/\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"country-list\">Country:\u00a0Georgia\u00a0<\/span>(2019)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, our favourite time of the year is upon us. 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