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. 

Follow ALEXEI TOLIOPOULOS on Letterboxd for all the rental combo lists. Here’s the list of every film we talk about on this episode. 

 

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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