The Best Documentaries, Australian Films, Directorial Debuts and Honourable Mentions of 2024

With Kate Jinx (Melbourne International Film Festival programmer, film critic and co-host of SEE ALSO podcast), Alexei talk through their favourite films in 2024 in the categories of Australian cinema, factual/documentary films, directorial debuts, honourable mentions and films that kinda came out in 2023 that felt too old for us to put on our lists this year. 

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AUSTRALIAN FILMS:
Memoir of a Snail, Late Night with the Devil, A Grand Mockery, Flathead

Documentaries: 

No Other Land, Dahomey, Balomania, Witches, Porcelain War

Directorial Debuts:
Hoard, Good One, Julie Keeps Quiet, The First Omen, There’s Still Tomorrow, Kneecap, Monkey Man

Honourable Mentions and Movies That Might Be from 2023:
The Taste of Things, La Chimera, Hundreds of Beavers, The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, May December, The Substance, I Saw the TV Glow, Universal Language, My Favourite Cake, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, His Three Daughters

Repertory Screenings:

After Hours, Dead End, Crystal Voyager, The Last Days of Chez Nous

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