From contemporary takes on Peter Pan to five-star films about cows, this year’s socially distanced MIFF selection rivals even its in-person predecessors
The coronavirus has of course interrupted plans for this year’s Melbourne international film festival, resulting in the event’s first ever online-only program – dubbed MIFF 68½. No surprises there – the horrible grey cloud lingering above this foul year we call 2020 continues to absorb almost everything involving fun in real-world settings. Thank god the internet still functions (touch wood) and streaming is still a thing.
Usually the Melbourne and Sydney film festival run neck and neck in terms of the quality of their content, Sydney with the advantage of being positioned slightly earlier in the calendar, thus able to get first dibs on big titles from events such as the Cannes film festival.
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