MELBOURNE, 17 June 2013 – The 62nd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will once again deliver the best of the Cannes Film Festival to local audiences. MIFF patrons will be among the first in the world to see these films after many of them premiered on the French Riviera last month.
Twenty-nine feature films and seven shorts from Cannes will be included in the MIFF program with highlights including Accelerator alumnus Anthony Chen’s Camera d’Or winner Ilo Ilo, the stirring tale of a Singaporean family who take in a Filipino woman as a live-in maid; Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Jury Prize winner Like Father Like Son, exploring themes of responsibility and what it means to be a father; and Jia Zhangke’s Best Screenplay winner A Touch of Sin, a confronting character-driven tale of modern China and the domestic conflict its newfound wealth has wrought.
