Known for its ability to highlight some of the best independent and premiere-fund supported films to the Melbourne audience, the Melbourne International Film Festival is hitting the road and sharing those films with fans in regional towns.
Heading to Ballarat, Geelong and Bendigo amongst many other towns, the touring festival brings with it four films; The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, Ella, The Family and Long Way North. The Death and Life of Otto Bloom had its world premiere at the opening night of MIFF. The film is also the feature debut from director Cris Jones and follows Otto Bloom, a man experiencing his life in reverse, passing through time backwards while remembering the future. Featuring Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds), her daughter Matilda Brown and Xavier Samuel (the Twilight series), the film is a magnificently brain-twisting, deeply moving and wildly inventive tale of love in the time of retrochronology.
As for the other films, Ella tells the tale of The Australian Ballet’s first Indigenous dancer, The Family is an incendiary, heartbreaking investigation into one of Australia’s most notorious cults from the 60s-70s and Long Way North an animation that follows Russian aristocrat Sasha as she travels to the Arctic to find her missing grandfather.
The travelling festival comes to regional towns at the places and dates listed below:
Ballarat: 2-4 September. Venue: Regent Cinemas Ballarat
Geelong: 9-10 September. Venue: GPAC
Bendigo: 16-18 September. Venue: Star Cinema Eaglehawk
For more information visit the website.