It goes without saying that the last couple of years have been far from ideal for film festivals, or for most things, really. Which is why the Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is champing at the bit for this year’s return to an in-person event, which kicks off next month in Melbourne and its surrounds.
‘The last two years have seen an extraordinary amount of disruption,’ Al Cossar says. ‘There’s been an absurd amount of complexity to work through for a festival like MIFF, to create something for our audiences that was essentially new.’
