DocNomads films presented in Melbourne
STATUES ALSO DIE? directed by Thaís Fernandes will have its Australian Premiere in the Documentary Competition of the 74th MIFF - Melbourne International Film Festival held between 6 and 23 August.
The film premiered in Rotterdam (January), was selected to In the Palace (June), and will be presented in DOKUFEST (August).
By Thaís Fernandes (Brazil) • 12' • 2026
Budapest’s Memento Park is an ideological graveyard where uprooted communist-era monuments are reinstalled in conversation. What might they say now? Children lead this imaginative inquiry, interviewing passing tourists and older Hungarian visitors who lived through communism. Riffing on the title of a 1953 Chris Marker and Alain Resnais short, this playful elegy to fallen political aspirations probes crumbling stone for lingering sparks of life.
In MIFF catalogue