Kirrip Goes to MIFF
05 Aug 2022 - 20 Aug 2022
FREE
Melbourne City
Join Kirrip at the Melbourne International Film Festival this August!
MIFF returns with an expansive program of acclaimed international and Australian cinema, esteemed guests, premieres, galas, talks and special events.
Students are invited to join RMIT Kirrip at any of the following movies.
Date: Friday 5 August
Time: 6pm – 9pm
About the movie:
From the ancient past to a dystopian future, this ambitious, genre-hopping anthology film brings together First Nations filmmakers from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific to challenge colonial myths and mark the power of resistance.
Date: Saturday 6 August
Time: 12pm – 3pm
About the movie:
Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Sundance and Berlin.
Date: Sunday 7 August
Time: 12pm – 3.30pm
About the movie:
An award-packed cornucopia from directors known and new.
Date: Monday 8 August
Time: 5.40pm – 8.30pm
About the movie:
A wildly ambitious, radically experimental Afrofuturist musical that transcends space, time and gender from visionary poet and musician Saul Williams.
Date: Tuesday 9 August
Time: 5.30pm – 8.30pm
About the movie:
The attempted ‘modernisation’ of Melbourne in the 1950s destroyed much of the city, including its elegant cinemas and picture palaces. Now, a new Melbourne-made documentary brings them back to life.
Date: Saturday 13 August
Time: 6pm – 9pm
About the movie:
The Breakfast Club meets the outback in this uplifting coming-of-age road movie by Nyul Nyul / Yawuru director Jub Clerc (The Turning, MIFF Premiere Fund 2013; The Heights).
Date: Saturday 20 August
Time: 11am – 4pm
About the movie:
Viewer Advice: First Nations viewers are warned that the following film collection may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
Melbourne stories from a First Nations perspective.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.