MIFF 1967

Erwin Rado

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Festival Program
39 feature films and 94 short films were screened from 2 June to 17 June
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Program in Focus
1967 marked the commencement of international guests and visitors of note attending the festival. Josef von Sternberg was in attendence and introduced his last film The Saga of Anatahan for the first time to an Australian audience. Major works programmed were Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson), Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski), The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó), Love 65 (Bo Wilderberg), The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (André Delvaux).

Filmmaker in Focus
Jörn Donner and Josef von Sternberg. Donner and Sternberg were guests of the festival and retrospectives of both filmmakers' work was screened.
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Featured Film
A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch, 1966)
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Films

Cowboy

Directors M. Ahnemann , G. Schlosser

USA

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Film Exercise

Director Rodney Charters

New Zealand

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Ireland

Director George Sluizer

Ireland

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Rain and Shine

Director C. V. Gopal

India

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Sonny

Director Hank Nadler

USA

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SONS AND DAUGHTERS

Director Jerry Stoll

USA

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The Shadow in the Glass

L'ombre dans la glace

Director André Farwagi

France

MIFF 1967

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