Family Man
Family Man
Family Man

Family Man

Unclassified 18+
Dir. Kalani Gacon / 2024 / 17 mins / Australia, Nepal / Tamang / Drama / Australian Premiere

In the middle of a storm, a mysterious man materialises in a remote mountain village, silently moving into a family’s home. Is he connected to the father who vanished many years before?

Filmed in Gatlang in northern Nepal, and told in the Rasuwa dialect of the Tamang language, the latest work from Australian-born, Nepali-based filmmaker Kalani Gacon (The Sound of Dreaming, MIFF 2022) depicts the eerie absence left by the loss of a patriarch while interrogating his own childhood feelings of growing up in a home without a father. Family Man is a tender portrait of longing and human need set against an astounding Himalayan landscape.

Tickets

Metro sessions
Mon 11 Aug 6:30pm ACMI 1
Access: Assistive listening Wheelchair Accessible 100 percent subtitled Hearing Loop
Past Session
Howl (16 m)
Family Man (17 m)
Mango Seed (14 m)
The Eviction (14 m)
Past Session
Fri 22 Aug 3:30pm ACMI 1
Access: Assistive listening Wheelchair Accessible 100 percent subtitled Hearing Loop
Past Session
Howl (16 m)
Family Man (17 m)
Mango Seed (14 m)
The Eviction (14 m)
Past Session
Online sessions
15-31 Aug
Access: 100 percent subtitled
Past Session

For information about the accessible services being offered at MIFF, please visit miff.com.au/access. If you require any access service, such as wheelchair/step-free access, for any MIFF session, please call 03 8660 4888 or email boxoffice@miff.com.au to book your ticket.

You might also like ...

Feature

A magnetic Caleb Landry Jones stars in this moody medieval parable adapted from a Booker Prize–shortlisted novel.

Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari / 2024 / 133 mins / USA, UK, Germany, Greece, France / English
Short

After they discover their childhood house is about to be demolished, two sisters return home for one last visit – and a chance to say goodbye.

Dir. Maxine Zanoni / 2024 / 10 mins / Australia / English
Short

In a climate-ravaged future, a team of scientists analyse footage of farmers from the past, hoping to understand their emotional connection to the land.

Dir. Gregor Božič / 2025 / 15 mins / UK, Slovenia / English, French, Italian, Slovenian