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Abiding Nowhere

Tsai Ming-liang continues his meditative, monastic Walking series with another hypnotic shrine to seeking transcendence in a chaotic world.

Dir. Tsai Ming-liang / 2024 / 79 mins / USA, Taiwan / No Dialogue
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Like a visual poem, this ode to a Black woman’s joys and tragedies in the Deep South is rendered exquisitely tactile on the big screen.

Dir. Raven Jackson / 2023 / 92 mins / USA / English
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Architecton

Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.

Dir. Victor Kossakovsky / 2024 / 98 mins / USA, Germany, French Polynesia / Italian
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Babes

This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.

Dir. Pamela Adlon / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English
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Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts

A collaboration between Seth MacFarlane and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, this restoration unearths lost classics from animation’s Golden Age.

62 mins / USA / English
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Blackout

A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.

Dir. Larry Fessenden / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English
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Blue Sun Palace

The complexities of the migrant experience are tenderly depicted in this deeply felt debut feature, which arrives fresh from Cannes Critics’ Week.

Dir. Constance Tsang / 2024 / 116 mins / USA / Mandarin
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Bob Trevino Likes It

This SXSW award-winner will have you hitting ‘like’ with its tale of a pining daughter and the man who is not her father connecting online and IRL.

Dir. Tracie Laymon / 2024 / 102 mins / USA / English
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The Cats of Gokogu Shrine

A Wiseman-esque study of a Japanese village’s Shinto shrine whose feline residents bring the local humans joy, solace and sometimes consternation.

Dir. Kazuhiro Soda / 2024 / 119 mins / USA, Japan / Japanese
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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

Norman Rockwell meets John Cassavetes in this clear-eyed but deeply affectionate family holiday hangout.

Dir. Tyler Taormina / 2024 / 106 mins / USA / English
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Cuckoo

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.

Dir. Tilman Singer / 2024 / 102 mins / Germany, USA / English
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Dìdi

This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.

Dir. Sean Wang / 2024 / 93 mins / USA / English, Mandarin
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The Damned

With this twist on the jingoistic, action-packed war movie, Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Director winner Roberto Minervini asks: what’s it all for?

Dir. Roberto Minervini / 2024 / 88 mins / USA, Belgium, Italy / English
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Daughters

From EPs Kerry Washington and Joel Edgerton, this film joins four girls as they reunite with their incarcerated fathers for the Daddy Daughter Dance.

Dir. Natalie Rae, Angela Patton / 2024 / 107 mins / USA / English
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The Dead Don't Hurt

Viggo Mortensen’s second feature is an unconventional western buoyed by the powerful presence of its lead, Vicky Krieps.

Dir. Viggo Mortensen / 2023 / 129 mins / USA, Mexico, Canada, Denmark
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DEVO

This effusive documentary explodes onto the screen as it chronicles the remarkable rise and staying power of the 80s new-wave band behind ‘Whip It’.

Dir. Chris Smith / 2024 / 94 mins / USA, UK / English
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A Different Man

Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier) plays a wannabe actor who learns that confidence isn’t skin-deep in this deliciously twisted morality tale.

Dir. Aaron Schimberg / 2024 / 112 mins / USA / English
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Dig! XX

A classic tale of fame and destruction is revisited in this reconstructed rock doc about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Dir. Ondi Timoner / 2024 / 145 mins / USA / English
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Dory Previn: On My Way to Where

Her uniquely emotional songwriting fuelled the best revenge on her cheating husband: a brilliant second solo career.

Dir. Julia Greenberg, Dianna Dilworth / 2024 / 80 mins / USA / English
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Dream Team

If you think you’ve seen enough crime dramas that you can predict every twist, think again. This trippy investigation will keep you second-guessing.

Dir. Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn / 2024 / 91 mins / USA / English
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) profiles the man who exposed apartheid in South Africa in this winner of the Cannes L’Œil d’Or for Best Documentary.

Dir. Raoul Peck / 2024 / 106 mins / USA, France / English
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Film About a Woman Who...

Hailed as her masterpiece, Yvonne Rainer’s second feature explores the nature of artifice via a coolly simmering woman in a subpar relationship.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1974 / 105 mins / USA / English
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Good One

A simple camping trip evolves into a life-changing experience in this sensitively told coming-of-age debut.

Dir. India Donaldson / 2024 / 90 mins / USA / English
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I Saw the TV Glow

Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.

Dir. Jane Schoenbrun / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English
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In the Garden of Tulips

A poignant glimpse of the bond between a father and his teenage daughter at the height of the Iran–Iraq war.

Dir. Julia Elihu / 2023 / 13 mins / USA, Iran / Farsi
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Janet Planet

Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-ager that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary.

Dir. Annie Baker / 2023 / 113 mins / USA / English
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La Cocina

Rooney Mara stars in this gorgeously shot, righteously angry portrait of kitchen workers stewing in the pressure-cooker conditions of an NYC bistro.

Dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios / 2024 / 139 mins / USA, Mexico / English, Spanish
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Lasting Impressions

Plunge between the brushstrokes of impressionist artworks in this 3D spectacle that honours their daringly modern beauty.

Dir. Dylan Andrew Pearce / 2023 / 45 mins / USA / English
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Lives of Performers

The genre-defying debut feature of legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer, which heralded an experimental new cinematic voice.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1972 / 90 mins / USA / English
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Look Into My Eyes

Supporter and sceptic alike will be touched as seven psychics connect clients with the supernatural – or simply with what’s buried in their psyches.

Dir. Lana Wilson / 2023 / 108 mins / USA / English
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The Man Who Envied Women

An acerbic, whip-smart account of a womanising professor at the breaking point of his marriage to a fed-up artist.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1985 / 125 mins / USA / English
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Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola’s star-studded, largely self-funded, 40-years-in-the-making passion project arrives at MIFF in all its loopy, maximalist glory.

Dir. Francis Ford Coppola / 2024 / 138 mins / USA / English
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Memory

Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are exceptional in this dark and difficult love story – director Michel Franco’s most optimistic film to date.

Dir. Michel Franco / 2023 / 103 mins / USA, Mexico / English
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Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Frederick Wiseman’s 44th feature documentary turns the lens on the kitchens of a Michelin three-star French restaurant and the family that runs it.

Dir. Frederick Wiseman / 2023 / 240 mins / USA / English, French
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MURDER and murder

Winner of the Berlinale’s 1997 Teddy Award for Best Documentary/Essay, Yvonne Rainer’s final feature is also her most personal and playful.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1996 / 113 mins / USA / English
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My First Film

Instead of writing off her abandoned first feature as a failure, filmmaker Zia Anger devised this imaginative, self-reflexive piece of autofiction.

Dir. Zia Anger / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English
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My Old Ass

If you were a queer Canadian teenager and Aubrey Plaza appeared to you as your future self, would you heed her ominous warning?

Dir. Megan Park / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English
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Nothing but Shadows

A superstitious widow confronts her mortality after human remains are discovered at her neighbour’s house.

Dir. Kathy Mitrani / 2023 / 18 mins / USA, Colombia / Spanish
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Occupied City

This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.

Dir. Steve McQueen / 2023 / 266 mins / USA, Netherlands, UK / English
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Privilege

In her idiosyncratically anarchic style, Yvonne Rainer tackles menopause, race and class with memoir, humour and the voices of many women.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1990 / 103 mins / USA / English
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Problemista

Tilda Swinton plays the boss from hell in this absurdist satire of US immigration policy and the New York art scene from multi-hyphenate Julio Torres.

Dir. Julio Torres / 2023 / 104 mins / USA / English, Spanish
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The Ride Ahead

Samuel Habib expands on his Emmy-nominated short My Disability Roadmap with this filmed road trip seeking guidance on how to live a “bad-ass” life.

Dir. Samuel Habib, Dan Habib / 2024 / 97 mins / USA / English
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Sasquatch Sunset

Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg star in undoubtedly the greatest wordless, scatological, horny and tragicomic Bigfoot movie in the history of cinema.

Dir. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English
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Secret Mall Apartment

Exec-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living in a shopping mall.

Dir. Jeremy Workman / 2024 / 92 mins / USA / English
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Shadowtime

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Dir. Sister Sylvester, Deniz Tortum / 2023 / 20 mins / USA, Netherlands, Türkiye / English
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Shambhala

The first Nepalese film to screen in competition at Berlin follows the physical and spiritual Himalayan journey of a woman on a truth-seeking mission.

Dir. Min Bahadur Bham / 2024 / 150 mins / USA, France, Norway, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Qatar, Türkiye, Nepal / Tibetan, Nepalese
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Sing Sing

In this SXSW award-winner, a theatre group finds hope and meaning through self-expression within the confines of a maximum-security prison.

Dir. Greg Kwedar / 2023 / 106 mins / USA / English
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Single File

Time collides and collapses in this kaleidoscopic reflection on change in Hong Kong.

Dir. Simon Liu / 2023 / 10 mins / USA, UK, Hong Kong, Italy / English, Cantonese
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Slow Shift

Monkeys overrun the remains of an ancient civilisation in this rich reflection on myth and reality.

Dir. Shambhavi Kaul / 2023 / 9 mins / USA, India / No Dialogue
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Some Rain Must Fall

This Berlinale award-winning domestic noir is the arresting first feature from Melbourne-trained Short Film Palme d’Or winner Qiu Yang.

Dir. Qiu Yang / 2024 / 98 mins / USA, France, Singapore, China / Mandarin, Wu Chinese
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Stress Positions

Bougie Brooklynites behave badly in this queer COVID-set comedy straight from Sundance.

Dir. Theda Hammel / 2023 / 96 mins / USA / English
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The Substance

Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Dir. Coralie Fargeat / 2024 / 141 mins / USA, UK, France / English
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Sujo

A young boy orphaned by the cartel is up against inheriting a life of crime in this coming-of-age story from an award-winning Mexican filmmaking duo.

Dir. Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez / 2024 / 126 mins / USA, Mexico, France / Spanish
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

A nuanced and inspirational account of the life-changing legacy of leading man turned disability activist Christopher Reeve.

Dir. Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui / 2024 / 106 mins / USA / English
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Thelma

A 93-year-old grandma’s mission – and, yes, she chooses to accept it – is to reclaim her money from scammers by any means necessary.

Dir. Josh Margolin / 2023 / 97 mins / USA / English
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This Is a Film About The Black Keys

Ohio-born bluesy rockers The Black Keys get candid and introspective in this warts-and-all documentary direct from SXSW.

Dir. Jeff Dupre / 2024 / 89 mins / USA / English
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Tuesday

Death comes as a giant macaw in this A24 fairytale about letting go, featuring a career-best turn from Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Dir. Daina Oniunas-Pusić / 2023 / 111 mins / USA, UK / English
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Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

The complex relationship between two married artists is laid bare in this searing and joyful portrait of love and creativity in autumn.

Dir. Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet / 2023 / 100 mins / USA, UK, Denmark / English, French, Italian
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Very Gentle Work

Direct from Cannes, this eerie tour visits sites of ‘violent righteousness’.

Dir. Nate Lavey / 2024 / 24 mins / USA / English
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Vulcanizadora

Underground auteur Joel Potrykus returns with a mind-bending and hilariously shocking trip into the existential terror of middle age.

Dir. Joel Potrykus / 2024 / 85 mins / USA / English
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Welcome Space Brothers

Hop aboard as this engrossing film takes you to the world of the Unarians: cosmic visionaries who believe in higher planes, therapy and movie-making.

Dir. Jodi Wille / 2023 / 100 mins / USA / English
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The World According to Allee Willis

A kaleidoscopic ride through the 50-year career of the mega-hit songwriter behind the Friends theme song, Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ and more.

Dir. Alexis Manya Spraic / 2024 / 97 mins / USA / English