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MIFF 1964

Erwin Rado
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Festival Program
37 feature films and 113 short films were screened from 29 May to 15 June
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Program in Focus
The 1964 program featured seminal films from auteurs that would enjoy a long affiliation with the festival. Major films included Fellini's 8 ½, Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux, based upon the novel of the same name, Ingmar Bergman's So Close to Life, Luis Buñuel's Exterminating Angel and Yasujiro Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon. 

Featured Film
Hands on the City (Francesco Rosi, 1963)
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Featured Film 
The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte, 1962)
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Films

Area of Action

Director Ezra Stone
USA
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Cancer Warning Signs

Director Alexander Stitt
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DEAD BIRDS

Director Robert Gardner
USA
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Discovery - Penicillin

Director Denis Rich
UK
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Encounters

Begegnungen
Director Hans Tromer
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I THE ABORIGINAL

Director Cecil Holmes
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Let the Roses Live

Memoria Fraudafirului
Director Sergiu Nicolaescu
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Nacktong River

Director Haing O Kim
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Pattern of Life

Director Geoffrey Collings
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Rank Xerox

Director H. Farkash
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Strange Excellency

Director Paul Bonner
UK
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The Aborigines of Australia

Director Ian Dunlop
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The Dancing Class

Director Tom Cowan
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THE FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE

Director Harry Kerwin
USA
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The Great Unfenced

Directors Harry W. Atwood , Edward Lincoln
USA
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The Hutterites

Director Colin Low
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THE INHERITANCE

LA HERENCIA
Director Ricardo Alventosa
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The Poet's Eye

Director Gordon Hales
UK
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THE TREASURE OF VADUL VECHI

COMOARA
Director Victor Iliu
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Transfiguration

Director Ludwik Dutkiewicz
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From the Festival Files

Making the Festival

The Melbourne Film Festival began as the idea of a few passionate individuals. A sub-committee, formed from delegates to the 1951 Australian Council of Film Societies film weekend, suggested that a small festival of films in the tourist town of Olinda should be held in 1952. The resulting festival was a testament to the do-it-yourself initiative of the Olinda festival committee. As some 800 festiv …
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On Screen and in the Cinema

The magic of the festival is reached through its screens. These are places and spaces that captivate our attention, providing windows where films come to life before our eyes. As portals to the world, the festival’s screens allow us to travel the globe, move through time, and see through another’s eyes. … Yet these screens also remind us of home. They are fixed in place, in our memories and in o …
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