The Melbourne International Film Festival begins at the end of the month and Artistic Director Michelle Carey picks through some of the highlights, including Hong Sang-soo's Right Now, Wrong Then and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Happy Hour.

The Measure of a Man is a French drama that explores the limits of solidarity in an atomised society.

Guest critic Shelly Kraicer on Johnnie To's thriller about a gangster who survives a bullet wound to the head to cause pandemonium in a city hospital...

An excerpt from a 2009 interview with the late Australian director Paul Cox, conducted by his friend and frequent collaborator Chris Haywood.

The director of the Sydney competition winner on why his film is a statement about anti-intellectualism.

Emmerich has a very European scepticism for someone working in Hollywood’s big tent, but his Faustian pact with the studios means he can never be an out and out rebel.

An evocative paean to youth at its most emotionally intense and psychically indestructible, where hangovers are fleeting but infatuations can become overwhelming obsessions.

This very accomplished debut feature from Turkish-French director Deniz Gamze Ergüven is about five orphaned sisters who fall foul of small town religious conservatism

This week, a round table critics discussion on the highlights of the Sydney Film Festival. Guests are UNSW film scholar Jane Mills, co-editor of 4:3 online film journal Conor Bateman and critic Luke Goodsell.

A shell-shocked black cop investigating a missing Chinese sex worker in a remote mining town sets up Ivan Sen’s outback noir Goldstone, which sees an excellent Aaron Pederson reprise the character of Indigenous detective Jay Swan from Sen’s last film Mystery Road.