Audience Award Winners
During the festival, MIFF audiences vote for their favourite feature films and documentaries to win the MIFF Audience Awards, presented by Wander Victoria.
See all the winners below going back to 2009.
MIFF 2016 Top 10 Feature Films
1. My Life as a Courgette
2. The Handmaiden
3. EMO the Musical
4. Mahana
5. The Salesman
6. A War
7. Toni Erdmann
8. Train to Busan
9. Happy Hour
10. Captain Fantastic
MIFF 2016 Top 10 Documentaries
1. Zach's Ceremony
2. The Eagle Huntress
3. The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe
4. Servant or Slave
5. The Music of Strangers
6. Tickled
7. Sonita
8. Reset
9. Life, Animated
10. Destination Arnold
MIFF 2015 Top 10 Feature Films
1 Song of the Sea
2 Holding the Man BUY ON iTUNES
3 In the Crosswind
4 An
5 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
6 A Perfect Day
7 Mustang
8 Victoria
9 Pawno
10 Tehran Taxi
MIFF 2015 Top 10 Documentaries
1 Graceful Girls
2 The Look of Silence
3 Putuparri and the Rainmakers
4 Palio
5 Sherpa
6 My Love, Don't Cross That River
7 The Ground We Won
8 Racing Extinction
9 She's Beautiful When She's Angry
10 Toto and His Sisters
MIFF 2014 Top 10 Feature Films
1 Boyhood BUY ON iTUNES
2 Obvious Child
3 Housebound
4 Mommy
5 What We Do in the Shadows BUY ON iTUNES
6 Fantail BUY ON iTUNES
7 Starred Up BUY ON iTUNES
8 In Order of Disappearance
9 Sorcerer
10 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
MIFF 2014 Top 10 Documentaries
1 Jalanan
2 Keep on Keepin' On
3 Virunga
4 The Salt of the Earth
5 German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
6 The Case Against 8
7 Dior and I
8 Don't Throw Stones
9 My Name is Salt
10 I am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
MIFF 2013 Top 10 Feature Films
1 The Rocket BUY ON iTUNES
2 The Past BUY ON iTUNES
3 The Broken Circle Breakdown BUY ON iTUNES
4 Wadjda BUY ON iTUNES
5 Approved for Adoption
6 The Patience Stone
7 Blancanieves BUY ON iTUNES
8 A Hijacking BUY ON iTUNES
9 Touch of the Light
10 Omar BUY ON iTUNES
MIFF 2013 Top 10 Documentaries
1 The Crash Reel BUY ON iTUNES
2 Valentine Road
3 Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
4 In Bob We Trust BUY ON iTUNES
5 Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust BUY ON iTUNES
6 Lygon St – Si Parla Italiano
7 The Punk Singer
8 The Sunnyboy BUY ON iTUNES
9 Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer BUY ON iTUNES
10 Village at the End of the World BUY ON iTUNES
MIFF 2012 Top 10 Feature Films
1 The Intouchables BUY ON iTUNES
2 The Hunt BUY ON iTUNES
3 Monsieur Lazhar BUY ON iTUNES
4 Amour BUY ON iTUNES
5 Broken BUY ON iTUNES
6 The Sessions BUY ON iTUNES
7 Moonrise Kingdom BUY ON iTUNES
8 Facing Mirrors
9 Wild Bill BUY ON iTUNES
10 The Angels' Share BUY ON iTUNES
MIFF 2012 Top 10 Documentaries
1 Searching for Sugar Man BUY ON iTUNES
2 Undefeated BUY ON iTUNES
3 Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present BUY ON iTUNES
4 This Ain't California
5 Lasseter's Bones BUY ON iTUNES
6 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry BUY ON iTUNES
7 The Imposter BUY ON iTUNES
8 Call Me Kuchu
9 Chasing Ice BUY ON iTUNES
10 How to Survive a Plague BUY ON iTUNES
MIFF 2011 Top 10 Feature Films
1 A Separation BUY ON iTUNES
2 Face to Face
3 Our Idiot Brother BUY ON iTUNES
4 Red Dog BUY ON iTUNES
5 Troll Hunter BUY ON iTUNES
6 Beginners BUY ON iTUNES
7 Melancholia BUY ON iTUNES
8 Le Havre BUY ON iTUNES
9 The Slap BUY ON iTUNES
10 Submarine BUY ON iTUNES
MIFF 2011 Top 10 Documentaries
1 Senna BUY ON iTUNES
2 Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard BUY ON iTUNES
3 I Am Eleven BUY ON iTUNES
4 Life in Movement
5 Fire in Babylon BUY ON iTUNES
6 Page One: Inside the New York Times BUY ON iTUNES
7 Life in a Day
8 Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest BUY ON iTUNES
9 Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold BUY ON iTUNES
10 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 BUY ON iTUNES
MIFF 2010 Top 10 Feature Films
1 Boy BUY ON iTUNES
2 Desert Flower BUY ON iTUNES
3 Certified Copy BUY ON iTUNES
4 Four Lions BUY ON iTUNES
5 Summer Wars BUY ON iTUNES
6 The Wedding Party BUY ON iTUNES
7 I Love You Phillip Morris BUY ON iTUNES
8 Women Without Men
9 The Ballad of Des and Mo (MIFF 72-hour film)
10 Summer Coda BUY ON iTUNES
MIFF 2010 Top 10 Documentaries
1 Bill Cunningham New York BUY ON iTUNES
2 The Invention of Dr. Nakamats
3 Cities on Speed: Bogotá Change + Cairo Garbage
4 Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon BUY ON iTUNES
5 La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet BUY ON iTUNES
6 Cooking History BUY ON iTUNES
7 Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
8 Teenage Paparazzo BUY ON iTUNES
9 Woman with the 5 Elephants
10 Black Bus
MIFF 2009 Top 10 Feature Films
1 Bran Nue Dae BUY ON iTUNES
2 Balibo BUY ON iTUNES
3 Moon BUY ON iTUNES
4 Che Part 1 - The Argentine BUY ON iTUNES
5 No One Knows About Persian Cats
6 Blind Company BUY ON iTUNES
7 Mother BUY ON iTUNES
8 Dogs In Space BUY ON iTUNES
9 Unmade Beds BUY ON iTUNES
10 Anna
MIFF 2009 Top 10 Documentaries
1 The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
2 Intangible Asset Number 82
3 The Beaches of Agnes
4 We’re Livin’ On Dog Food BUY ON iTUNES
5 10 Conditions of Love BUY ON iTUNES
6 The Whispering of the Trees
7 Deathbowl to Downtown
8 The September Issue BUY ON iTUNES
9 I Need that Record
10 It Might Get Loud BUY ON iTUNES