MIFF Play

Extend your festival with MIFF Play, which showcases a curated selection of films from our 71st edition, available to stream Australia-wide on 18–27 August.

Save with a MIFF Play Flexi-pass, which gives you access to four streams at a discounted price, or check out our bundles for a discount plus some curatorial advice!


Feature Films

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Abebe – Butterfly Song

Abebe – Butterfly Song

Director Rosie Jones

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

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All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White

All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White

Love seeps through the cracks in this touching tale of same-sex desire in metropolitan Nigeria, which won the Berlinale’s Teddy Award.

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Art Talent Show

Art Talent Show

This dryly humorous, Wiseman-esque film about an esteemed Czech art school asks: who gets to decide what art is?

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Autobiography

Autobiography

In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

An enchanting animated take on Haruki Murakami’s short stories starring a gregarious talking frog, an existential bank teller and an elusive cat.

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Casa Susanna

Casa Susanna

Deep in the US’s Catskill Mountains of the 50s and 60s sat a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men to experience life without fear.

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The Coolbaroo Club

The Coolbaroo Club

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

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A Couple

A Couple

Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.

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The Face of the Jellyfish

The Face of the Jellyfish

In this Kafkaesque comedy for the selfie age, a woman must confront just what makes her identity her own after her face abruptly changes overnight.

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Fledglings

Fledglings

Director Lidia Duda

Three children spread their wings as they farewell their parents and enter a boarding school for students who are blind or have low vision.

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Gush

Gush

Director Fox Maxy

A maximalist, kaleidoscopic visual essay of hurt and healing, and a one-of-a-kind statement of bodily sovereignty from wunderkind Fox Maxy.

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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

This hypnotic, transcendental debut feature follows a young man’s mystical journey across a beguiling rural Vietnam.

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Kayo Kayo Colour?

Kayo Kayo Colour?

Naturalistic and brimming with empathy, this debut drama unfolds over 24 hours in a marginalised Muslim community in India.

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Keeping Hope

Keeping Hope

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.

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Little Richard: I Am Everything

Little Richard: I Am Everything

A rollicking deep dive into the life of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most exhilarating personalities, whose queerness was hidden in plain sight.

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Louder Than You Think

Louder Than You Think

A SXSW Audience Award winner, this doc traces the unlikely ascendancy of one of rock’s most influential yet under-sung figures: Pavement’s Gary Young.

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MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Bank 4K Restoration

MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Bank 4K Restoration

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

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Millennium Mambo

Millennium Mambo

A dazzling 4K restoration of Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien’s sensual 2001 tale of an adrift bar hostess at the turn of the millennium.

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One Last Evening

One Last Evening

Moving cities is the perfect excuse to throw a party … and unpack some awkward home truths.

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Paradise

Paradise

Abandoned by an indifferent government, a remote Siberian village stands united in the face of a massive forest fire that threatens its future.

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R21 aka Restoring Solidarity

R21 aka Restoring Solidarity

This time capsule of an extraordinary unseen history is a work of documentation and preservation – both of a moment in time and of the moving image.

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Rebel With a Cause - Part 1

Rebel With a Cause - Part 1

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

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Rebel With a Cause - Part 2

Rebel With a Cause - Part 2

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

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Return to Reason

Return to Reason

Director Man Ray

Man Ray’s classic shorts are reimagined for their 100th anniversary alongside an ecstatic soundtrack from SQÜRL members Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan.

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Sorcery

Sorcery

Witchcraft, revenge and Indigenous rancour swell in this atmospheric, anti-colonial bildungsroman set in 19th-century Chile.

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Stone Turtle

Stone Turtle

The supernatural encroaches on a woman’s simple existence in this FIPRESCI Prize–winning tale of folklore, deception and retribution.

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A Storm Foretold

A Storm Foretold

Cartoon villain, master manipulator, traitor or true patriot? You decide in this engrossing portrait of Donald Trump’s wily adviser Roger Stone.

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Tommy Guns

Tommy Guns

A deft exploration of the brutal scars of colonialism whose genre twists and turns give new meaning to ‘the horror of war’.

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Trenque Lauquen

Trenque Lauquen

This dazzling rabbit hole of a film, which evokes cinephile Everest La Flor (MIFF 2019), sketches the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of a woman’s disappearance.

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The Tuba Thieves

The Tuba Thieves

Described by its maker as a “meditation on access and loss”, this trailblazing film reframes cinema from a d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing perspective.

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Ukraine Guernica - Artist War

Ukraine Guernica - Artist War

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

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Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies

Director Béla Tarr

In this gorgeous new 4K restoration, Hungarian slow-cinema master Béla Tarr finds metaphysical horror in a nascent revolution.

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Shorts Packages

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Accelerator Shorts 1

Accelerator Shorts 1

Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.

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Accelerator Shorts 2

Accelerator Shorts 2

Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.

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Australian Shorts

Australian Shorts

Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.

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Best MIFF Shorts

Best MIFF Shorts

A collection of the best short films from the festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury and the MIFF Shorts programmers.

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Short Films

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Short
27

27

The winner of the 2023 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or is a colourful orgy of ennui and desire.

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Anu

Anu

A deeply moving story of ordinary grief experienced in extraordinary circumstances.

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Cold Water

Cold Water

Australian New Wave stalwart Bruce Spence (Stork; Mad Max 2) stars as a senile man haunted by events he can’t recall.

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Crushing Season

Crushing Season

Director James Ivor

A disgraced former football star finds himself at a dangerous crossroads after witnessing a murder.

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Development

Development

Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.

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Earthlings

Earthlings

Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.

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F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

Director Fox Maxy

A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.

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Fuck Me, Richard

Fuck Me, Richard

A twisted tale of broken legs, painkillers and phone sex that explores the dark heart of transactional relationships – and the sick thrill of a scam.

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Gate Crash

Gate Crash

‘Would you choose them as your mates?’ asks this dark and dreamlike snapshot of a teenage friendship group.

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Generations of Men

Generations of Men

A revisionist western inspired by author Judith Wright’s family history – the first narrative work to feature the Barada and Darumbal languages.

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Grain of Truth

Grain of Truth

Footage of orbs in the skies of the Blue Mountains raises questions over the unexplained disappearance of the filmmaker who recorded them.

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Hafekasi

Hafekasi

A 10-year-old girl becomes newly aware of her cultural identity in this impressive debut that received a Tribeca Narrative Short Special Jury Mention.

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I'm on Fire

I'm on Fire

Making mixtapes becomes a means of survival for a troubled 12-year-old Italian-American in this ferociously energetic, 80s-set coming-of-age story.

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I Promise You Paradise

I Promise You Paradise

From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a masterful portrait of an ostracised immigrant searching for salvation.

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Jia

Jia

In this award-winning film, two strangers are brought together by shared grief, experienced from vastly different perspectives.

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The Job

The Job

A multi-award-winning Melbourne director shows how trauma can radically reconfigure our worldview.

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Katele (Mudskipper)

Katele (Mudskipper)

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Elma Kris and Waangenga Blanco lead this film about a Torres Strait Islander woman whisked away from her thankless job.

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linda 4 eva

linda 4 eva

A wildly imaginative, hilarious and heartbreaking trip into a teenage girl’s mind, depicted as a phantasmagoria of self-loathing and angst.

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Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)

Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)

This Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) and Teddy Award for Best Short Film winner depicts a Yankunytjatjara man’s search for belonging.

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Walking

Walking

In this meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teen follows his mum through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

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We Used to Own Houses

We Used to Own Houses

Mud Crab director David Robinson-Smith returns with a stirring cine-poem about the rental crisis, starring Thom Green (Of an Age).

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