Melbourne International Film Festival is nearing, and as I’ve done in several previous years, I’ve scoured the guide to select which films are either ‘Can’t Miss’, ‘Want to See’, and ‘Might be worthwhile’. I will not make it to most, but hope to see as many as possible. This year, the films are:

Can’t Miss:

• Blue Heron
• Fatherland
• Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
• Hard as Puck
• Joybubbles
• Kings of Venice
• Mile End Kicks
• The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
• Wicker (Opening Night Gala)

Want to See:

• All of a Sudden
• Chili Finger
• Coyote vs. Acme
• Extra Geography
• Flies
• Gabin
• Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
• Hen
• Hold Onto Me
• I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
• La Gradiva
• Marc by Sofia
• Nadja
• Nino
• Phenomena
• Rose
• Rose of Nevada
• Silenced
• Tangles
• The Cycle of Love
• The Fox
• The History of Concrete
• The Incomer
• The Tale of Silyan
• The Way We Move
• Wishful Thinking (Armani Beauty Cinema Club Opening Night)

Might be worthwhile:

• 9 Temples to Heaven
• All The Lovers In The Night
• American Doctor
• Big Girls Don’t Cry
• Boss Cat
• Clarissa
• Closure
• Congo Boy
• Dead Man’s Wire
• Digby & Camille
• Everybody Digs Bill Evans
• Everybody to Kenmure Street
• Filipiñana
• Flesh and Fuel
• Gone to Earth
• Goodbye, Cruel World
• How to Divorce During the War
• I Shot Andy Warhol
• I Want Your Sex
• Jauja
• Kim Novak’s Vertigo
• La Bola Negra (The Black Ball)
• Liverpool
• Look Both Ways
• Lost Land
• Mad Rush
• Maddie’s Secret
• Middle of the Night
• Minotaur
• Mouse
• Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
• Nagi Notes
• Newport & the Great Folk Dream
• Nuisance Bear
• Once Upon a Time in Harlem
• One in a Million
• Paradise
• Pressure
• Queen at Sea
• Rehearsals for a Revolution
• Replica
• Sad Girlz
• School for Defectors
• Shape of Momo
• Sheep in the Box
• Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building
• Sour Minnows
• Sparks
• Strawberries
• Summer Tour
• The Blood Countess
• The Diary of a Chambermaid
• The Education of Jane Cumming
• The Friend’s House Is Here
• The Loneliest Man in Town
• The Match
• The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
• The River Train
• The Samurai and the Prisoner
• The Siege of Paradise
• The Sun Never Sets
• The Unfaithful Wife
• Time and Water
• To Hold a Mountain
• Two Seasons, Two Strangers
• We Are All Strangers
• We Are The Shaggs
• Whispers in May
• Whispers in the Woods
• Whistle
• Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
• Yellow Letters
• Yesterday Island