Adolfo Aranjuez recommends a selection of titles from the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival: the eulogistic documentary Journey Home, David Gulpilil; Bi Gan’s cinema-history-spanning odyssey Resurrection; Thai horror-comedy A Useful Ghost; Filipino–Australian co-production First Light; and Put Your Soul on Your Hands and Walk, a documentary tribute to Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.
Read MoreAdolfo Aranjuez recommends a selection of titles from the 2023 Melbourne International Film Festival: the Cannes Caméra d’Or–winning Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell; the Malaysian coming-of-age body horror Tiger Stripes; Jafar Panahi’s No Bears; the Sri Lankan film Sand; the South Korean meta comedy Cobweb; and actor Randall Park’s directorial debut, Shortcomings.
Read MoreAdolfo Aranjuez recommends the dreamy neo-noir Long Day’s Journey into Night, Hirokazu Koreeda’s Palme d’Or–winning Shoplifters and Bollywood revenge-horror Bulbbul.
Read MoreAdolfo Aranjuez recommends the queer comedy Sisterakas and the (not-)romance Sid & Aya, both from the Philippines, along with Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle.
Read MoreAdolfo Aranjuez recommends Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s masterpiece Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Joshua Oppenheimer’s harrowing The Act of Killing and the Taiwanese tear-jerker Dear Ex.
Read MoreAdolfo Aranjuez recommends the German–Iranian queer film No Hard Feelings, the Hong Kong drama Suk Suk, Anthony Chen’s Wet Season and a few other MIFF 68½ titles.
Read MoreAdolfo Aranjuez recommends the Indian queer film Loev, Haifaa Al Mansour’s historic Saudi film Wadjda and the Guo Pei documentary Yellow Is Forbidden.
Read MoreAdolfo Aranjuez recommends the anime series Beastars, Bong Joon-ho’s multi-award-winning film Parasite and the Imelda Marcos documentary The Kingmaker.
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