Every year MIFF welcomes a wide variety of guests – local and international – to participate in the festival. From introducing their films and taking part in post-screening Q&As with you, the audience, to sitting on MIFF Talks panels or taking over our social media, our guests are a vital part of what makes the MIFF experience unique.

In 2017, MIFF is hosting guests at the following screenings and VR events, and their associated Talks:

Across | director Christopher W Bailey

Ali's Wedding | director Jeffrey Walker, screenwriter and actor Osamah Sami, co-screenwritier Andrew Knight and actor Helana Sawires

Australia Day | director Kriv Stenders and actor Elias Anton

Blessed | director Ana Kokkinos

By the Time it Gets Dark | director Anocha Suwichakornpong

Call Me by Your Name | director Luca Guadagino

Celia | director/screenwriter Ann Turner and actor Rebecca Smart

Daphne | director Peter Mackie Burns

Ellipsis | director David Wenham

Fun Fair Jalalabad | director George Gittoes

Glitch: Series 2 | director Emma Freeman, screenwriter Louise Fox and executive producer Tony Ayres

God's Own Country | director Francis Lee

Guardians of the Strait | director/producer Claire Jager, cinematographer/producer Samantha Dinning

Have You Seen the Listers? | director Eddie Martin, subject Anthony Lister

High Tide | director Gillian Armstrong, actor Claudia Karvan

Hope Road | director Tom Zubrycki

Human Traces | director Nic Gorman and actors Sophie Henderson and Mark Mitchinson

Inside Manus | director Lucas Taylor

Jungle | director Greg McLean, actors Joel Jackson and Lily Sullivan, and real-life inspiration Yossi Ghinsberg

Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web | director Annie Goldson

King of Peking | director Sam Voutas

Loving Pia | director Daniel Borgman

Loving Vincent | artist Andrew Grimmer

Michel Chion: The Audio Spectator | composer/filmmaker/historian Michel Chion

Mountain | director Jennifer Peedom

Namatjira Project | Albert Namatjira's grandduaghter Leni Namatjira and actor Trevor Jamieson

Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs | directors Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek

On Guard | director Susan Lambert

Only the Brave | director Ana Kokkinos

PACMen | director Luke Walker

Pecking Order | director Slavko Martinov

Porto | director Gabe Klinger

Rabbit | director Luke Shanahan and actor Adelaide Clemens

Remember | directors George Kacevski and Frederic Simard

Rone | director Lester Francois and subject Rone

Shame | actor Deborra-lee Furness

Something Quite Peculiar: The Life and Time of Steve Kilbey | subject Steve Kilbey

Spookers | director Florian Habicht

Starstruck | director Gillian Armstrong

That's Not Me | director/screenwriter Gregory Erdstein and actor/screenwriter/producer Alice Foulcher

The Allins | director Sami Saif and cinematographer Anders Löfstedt

The Big Steal | director Nadia Tass, actor Claudia Karvan

The Butterfly Tree | director Priscilla Cameron and actors Melissa George, Ewen Leslie and Ed Oxenbould

The Extraction | directors Khoa Do and Piers Mussared

The Go-Betweens: Right Here | director Kriv Stenders, subject Robert Forster

There Will be Blood | conductor Hugh Brunt

The Silent Eye | director Amiel Courtin-Wilson

The Song Keepers | director Naina Sen and subjects the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir

Three Summers | director/screenwriter Ben Elton and actors Robert Sheehan, Rebecca Breeds, Michael Caton, Magda Szubanski and Kelton Pell

Top of the Lake: China Girl | directors Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman, screenwriter Gerard Lee and actors Alice Englert and Ewen Leslie

Unrest and Unrest VR | director Jennifer Brea

Westwind: Djalu's Legacy | director Ben Strunin, subject Djalu Gurruwiwi (with band)