Australian Premiere of HOLOFICTION at the 74th Melbourne International Film Festival
HOLOFICTION has been selected for the 74th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), where it will have its Australian Premiere as part of the festival's Tales of Cinema program. MIFF is one of the world's longest-running and most respected film festivals, presenting outstanding international cinema to audiences in Australia and beyond.
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The film will be screened twice during the festival:
Sunday, August 9, 2026 – 1:15 PM | Kino 1, Melbourne
Sunday, August 23, 2026 – 3:45 PM | ACMI 2, Melbourne
Following its world premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival and its successful festival run across Europe and North America, HOLOFICTION now continues its international journey with its Australian premiere at MIFF.
We are grateful to the Melbourne International Film Festival for including HOLOFICTION in this year's program and look forward to sharing the film with Australian audiences.
"Drawing on thousands of films and TV shows about the Holocaust, this gripping, rigorously crafted supercut queries the ethics of representing atrocity.
“Fiction is a transgression,” stated Claude Lanzmann, maker of the definitive Holocaust documentary, Shoah (MIFF 1987), in reference to Schindler’s List. “It is my belief that the depiction of certain things is prohibited.” And yet, World War II – and, at its core, the mass murder that was perpetrated by the Nazis – remains the most popular historical subject in cinema. Michal Kosakowski’s found-footage essay film takes Lanzmann’s famous statement as its provocative point of departure, assembling clips culled from a corpus of more than 3000 narrative works – from Rome, Open City to Inglourious Basterds – to reveal both the constants and the contradictions of this genre.
A Polish-German filmmaker and artist, Kosakowski previously used a similar but almost inverted approach to the representation of tragedy in his experimental 2006 short Just Like the Movies, which is composed of clips from films whose images, in retrospect, seem to anticipate the September 11 attacks. With Holofiction, Kosawkowski offers a compelling meditation on the not-always-harmonious relationship between history, memory and media – one that resonates far beyond the events depicted on screen."
- Melbourne International Film Festival
