Counting from one to fifty-three

Sepideh—Reaching for the Stars


The Great Museum


Virunga


Hope


Aunt Hilda!


The Story of My Death


My Name is Salt


The Immigrant


National Gallery


Tomorrow We Disappear


Iranian


Amour Fou

As I slowly refine my list of top films and documentaries, here is a list of Gracia's MIFF 2014 posts to peruse, and a complete list of all the films I saw over the course of seventeen days. I'm sure it goes without saying, it was marvellous.

Read Gracia's MIFF related posts:
In the theatre where films are shown for public entertainment
Picture house etiquette
MIFF's homeward dash
Fifty-three films in seventeen days (with her top 10 films, and top 5 documentaries)

Films seen:
1. Love is Strange (Director: Ira Sachs)
2. Irma Vep (Director: Olivier Assayas)
3. The Salt of the Earth (Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)*
4. Locke (Director: Steven Knight)
5. Two Days, One Night (Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
6. Force Majeure (Director: Ruben Östlund)
7. Epic of Everest (Director: Captain John Noel)*
8. Blind Dates (Director: Levan Koguashvili)
9. The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet (Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
10. Antoine et Colette (Director: François Truffaut) and Father Christmas has Blue Eyes (Director: Jean Eustache)
11. Fantasia (Director: Wang Chao)
12. The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (Director: Jessica Oreck)*
13. Masculin féminin (Director: Jean-Luc Godard)
14. Catch Me Daddy (Director: Daniel Wolfe)
15. Han Gong-Ju (Director: Lee Su Jin)
16. I Hired a Contract Killer (Director: Aki Kaurismäki)
17. Iranian (Director: Mehran Tamadon)*
18. When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Director: Corneliu Porumboiu)
19. Goodbye to Language (in 3D) (Director: Jean-Luc Godard)
20. Clara and the Secret of the Bears (Direcor: Tobias Ineichen)
21. The Hope Factory (Director: Nataliya Meschaninova)
22. Honeymoon (Director: Jan Hřebejk)
23. Mankamana (Directors: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez)
24. Abuse of Weakness (Abus de Faiblesse) (Director: Catherine Breillat)
25. Sepideh—Reaching for the Stars (Director: Berit Madsen)*
26. The Great Museum (Das Große Museum) (Director: Johannes Holzhausen)*
27. German Concentration Camps Factual Survey*
28. The Story of My Death (Historia de la meva mort) (Director: Albert Serra)
29.  Joy of Man's Desiring (Que ta joie demeure) (Director: Denis Côté)
30. My Name is Salt (Director: Farida Pacha)*
31. National Gallery (Director: Frederick Wiseman)*
32. Rohmer in Paris (Director: Richard Misek)*
33. Amour Fou (Director: Jessica Hausner)
34. Casa Grande (Director: Fellipe Barbosa)
35. Remote Control (Alsiin Udirdlaga) (Director: Byamba Sakhya)
36. Hope (Director: Boris Lojkine) screening with the short film Stone Cars (Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green)
37. Fandry (Director: Nagraj Manjule)
38. Jauja (Director: Lisandro Alonso)
39. Trespassing Bergman (Director: Hynek Pallas, Jane Magnusson)*
40. Concrete Night (Betoniyö) (Director: Pirjo Honkasalo)
41. Our Sunhi (Uri Sunhi) (Director: Hong Sang-soo)
42. Titli (Director: Kanu Behl)
43. Tomorrow We Disappear (Directors: Jimmy Goldblum, Adam Weber)*
44. Aunt Hilda! (Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Benoît Chieux)
45. Queen & Country (Direcotr: John Boorman)
46. Ne Me Quitte Pas (Directors: Sabine Lubbe Bakker, Niels van Koevorden)*
47. Fish & Cat (Director: Shahram Mokri)
48. Mafioso (Director: Alberto Lattuada)
49. Blind (Direcotr: Eskil Vogt)*
50. Virunga (Director: Orlando von Einsiedel)
51. Black Coal, Thin Ice  (Bai Ri Yan Huo) (Director: Diao Yinan)
52. Hard to Be a God (Trudno Byt Bogom) (Director: Alexei German)
53. The Immigrant (Director: James Gray)

* documentary

It is odd to think that this time last year, after MIFF, G and I installed our work at Geelong Gallery as part of All breathing in heaven with Stephen Wickham.