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