By Derek Schlennstedt
From 13-15 September, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) presents the Travelling Showcase, with a series of weekend programs taking place across regional Victoria.
The 68th Melbourne International Film Festival is hitting the road, taking some of this year’s most anticipated and critically acclaimed titles on the MIFF Travelling Film Showcase tour of regional Victoria.
Featuring a curated selection of films from the 2019 program, the Travelling Showcase will highlight 11 Australian and international feature films and documentaries, which will feature at the Belgrave Cameo from 13-15 September.
The Belgrave program includes 10 of this year’s festivals most talked about screenings.
Those films include, A Family, Below, H is for Happiness, American Woman, Buoyancy, Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, In My Blood it Runs, No Time for Quiet, Measure for Measure and Vai
A Family –a MIFF supported film- is an offbeat comedy that ventures into the home of a lonely man who hires actors to play his parents, brother and sister.
Norwegian-born Iranian-Australian and MIFF Accelerator Lab alumnus director Maziar Lahooti makes his feature debut with this devilishly dark comedy –Below. Below is a pitch-black comedy with a unique, and uniquely provocative, take on Australia’s controversial asylum-seeker detention system.
Among the other movies is In My Blood it Runs.
The movie is a personal documentary told with a perceptive eye, poetic imagery and made in collaboration with Dujuan and his family; it’s also an account of the Northern Territory’s harsh treatment of Indigenous youths, a situation that’s never far from the boy’s mind.
Four years after Gayby Baby (MIFF 2015), Maya Newell crafts another powerful, essential portrait of Australian youth, putting the plight of the Northern Territory’s Indigenous children in the spotlight.
The series of weekend movies will feature at Belgrave Cameo Cinemas from 13 to 15 September.
For more information about the movies and to buy tickets go to : miff.com.au/travelling.
