Australian Films

Discover the musical legacy and enduring friendship between celebrated Papuan musician George Telek and Not Drowning, Waving’s David Bridie.

Relive the most thrilling moments of Australia’s beloved tennis tournament in this chronicle of its ascent to top-seed status on the global stage.

A bachelor party takes a feral turn in this genre-defying debut from an exciting new Australian directing duo.

Amid bushfires, the pandemic and punters’ changing tastes, the family behind the Bells Family Carnival fight to preserve its century-long legacy.

Restored by the National Film and Sound Archive, this film recounts how a haven of Indigenous dance and activism arose from segregated postwar Perth.

The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades.

It’s the end of the world as we know it and no-one feels fine in Soda Jerk’s latest cinematic remix, which sassily swipes at deepfakes and Trumpism.

Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.

In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.

Mark Coles Smith (Sweet As) faces down a traumatic event from his past in the hope of helping young First Nations men in the Kimberley.

An autobiographical story about the complexities of being an Aboriginal child raised in a white world, and a celebration of friendship and resilience.

Revered filmmaker Jeni Thornley (Maidens, MIFF 1979) composes an immersive cine-poem from her extensive super-8 archive spanning three decades.

The first virtually produced Australian feature, Mercy Road is an unrelentingly tense psychological thriller from Tracks director John Curran.

MIFF Ambassador Robert Connolly presents a radiant 4K restoration of his debut feature: an entertaining, anti-capitalist caper of greed and deception.

A disgraced journalist is confronted with an unexplained artefact that may not be of this world, but is about to become the centre of hers.

The thrilling, debauched and frequently hilarious adventures of the legendary Melbourne post-punk band, in their own words.

Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.

Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.

Hugo Weaving and Phoenix Raei play a hermit and cop who form an unlikely connection amid crisis in this wonderfully weird sucker-punch of tenderness.

Sit courtside as the Boomers win their history-making Olympic medal and affirm Australia as a force to be reckoned with in global basketball.

Jillian Nguyen, Sam Neill, Tim Minchin and Deborah Mailman lend their voices to this Australian animated adventure based on the popular novel and game.

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir-Ebrahimi anchors this Sundance award-winning portrait of a mother seeking a new life for herself and her daughter.

In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.

A cast of neurodivergent teens prepare to come of age and hit the stage in their school’s time-travelling, John Farnham–themed musical.

Activist and filmmaker George Gittoes follows the frontline artists daring to stand up to the Russian invasions of Ukraine and Afghanistan.

Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this humanistic drama.

A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.