Melbourne International Film Festival 2016

Gamers started it, and now filmmakers are exploring virtual reality as a way to make a story more powerful.

Lucky, starring David Lynch and Harry Dean Stanton, has been a hit at both the Melbourne and Locarno film festivals this year.

The heartwarming comedy has been judged the best Australian feature by our critics, the latest in a string of prizes.

The comic, writer and director has made a film about "Australia in a tent".

Some people might have called in the lawyers. This Australian filmmaker made a movie about it, with a pirate as his hero.

Whether it's a hit or not, this charming comedy set in Melbourne's Iraqi Muslim community marks a huge step in the right direction.

David Wenham reveals himself as a filmmaker whose heart belongs to small, telling moments of human connection.

Both under-appreciated and an Australian classic, Shame screens in a restored print at MIFF. And it has lost none of its immense power.

Former actor turned documentary maker Luke Walker backed the wrong horse in the US election, and his film was the winner.

You're unlikely to see a better Algerian movie this year than Karim Moussaoui's debut.

Direct from Cannes, Radiance continues Naomi Kawase's uneasy relationship with critics.

The legacy of artist Albert Namatjira is surveyed in a layered and compelling documentary.

You don't forget seeing a woman being pleasured by a giant octopus.

In the 19th century, Lutheran missionaries brought German hymns to the outback. In the 21st, the outback took them back to Germany.

It was never going to be a stroll in the woods, but Yossi Ghinsberg claims his Amazon adventure was worth every moment of pain.

Most Australian filmmakers can only dream of being as busy as Kriv Stenders, who has two films at MIFF and a full dancecard besides.

The success of Orlando had Hollywood calling, but the maverick British filmmaker had other ideas.

Filmmakers have long fed our fears about what might be.

This documentary gives voice to the talented African Americans behind the Venice Beach roller-dancing craze of the 1980s.

Jane Campion, David Wenham and more will attend this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.