Cirrus@Austlit

'On the eve of the release of his first full-length feature film in 15 years, Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot muses on a life spent working with wood, glue and clay. By Stephen A. Russell.' 

'If you think Australia’s looking pretty cooked, wait until you get a load of the retro-fascist future Jordan Prosser has fever dreamt for the “lucky” country in Big Time, which reads as if he’s chopped up a bunch of Bret Easton Ellis novels and snorted the lot, followed by a bump of J. G. Ballard.' (Introduction)   

'Documentarian Molly Reynolds woke up in the middle of the night with something of an epiphany. She suddenly grasped that the best way to honour the memory of her late friend Craig Ruddy — the Archibald Prize-winning artist who died from COVID-related complications aged just 53 — was to craft a lasting tribute through film.' (Introduction) 

'When Ladies in Black director Gracie Otto first stepped up to direct her famous half-sister Miranda in 2023's The Clearing, she was more than a little bit nervous.'

'When it comes to queer history, it’s easy to assume that gaps in the story equate to absence. But it isn’t so. While patriarchal societies have tried their darnedest to erase the presence of the disparate but overlapping LGBTQIA+ communities, we have always sought out one another in the secret pockets that offer safe harbour.'(Introduction)   

/Since his first short film won the Palme d’Or in 2003, Glendyn Ivin has established himself as one of Australia’s most exciting film and television directors. The forthcoming Penguin Bloom, starring Naomi Watts, brings some light to his dark meditations. By Stephen A. Russell.' (Introduction)

Melbourne Queer Film Festival's 30th-anniversary program was suspended from Monday 16 March 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The festival later screened some of its content as a reduced, online-only festival package.