The Rereaders MIFF 2017 Special

In this week’s podcast we head to the Melbourne International Film Festival, taking in three screenings across the festival’s three weeks and sharing all manner of festival gossip and banter. First, we watch swooning Festival Favourite, Americano-Italiano love story Call Me by Your Name, based on the novel by André Aciman. Then, we hit funky Venice beach of the 1970s and 80s in the Australian-directed documentary, Roller Dreams, which charts the history of the roller dance movement through the lives of some of its key protagonists. And finally, we remain in the landscape of American black civil rights with I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated documentary portrait of the radical queer and black activism of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin.