
20,000 Species of Bees
Featuring a remarkable lead performance from nine-year-old Sofia Otero, 20,000 Species of Bees is an empathetic exploration of gender and generations.
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-22.7°C
An immersive experience inspired by the musician Molécule’s adventures in the polar circle.
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27
The winner of the 2023 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or is a colourful orgy of ennui and desire.
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48 Hours
This restrained and powerful short shows how imprisonment doesn’t only affect the inmate.
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Aaaah!
‘A’ is for ‘Aaaaah!’ in this wild and zany schoolyard romp.
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Abebe – Butterfly Song
Discover the musical legacy and enduring friendship between celebrated Papuan musician George Telek and Not Drowning, Waving’s David Bridie.
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About Dry Grasses
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (The Wild Pear Tree) presents an ambitious epic of maladjusted male ego.
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Absence
Lee Kang-sheng brings undeniable star power to this graceful, pensive story of a man trying to find his place in a world that has left him behind.
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Accelerator Shorts 1
Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.
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Accelerator Shorts 2
Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.
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The Adults
Siblings can drive us to the edge. This visceral car crash of love and fury revs this American indie vehicle led by Michael Cera.
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Afire
In Christian Petzold’s Silver Bear–winning drama, a summer getaway on Germany’s Baltic coast unravels against the backdrop of looming wildfires.
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After Work
A South London playground prompts an abstract meditation on work and play.
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AliEN0089
Virtual and real-world violence blur in this terrifying, Sundance award-winning short.
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Allensworth
James Benning invites us to contemplate Black history as he turns his structuralist lens on the first African American municipality in California.
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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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Ama Gloria
From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a heartbreaking and unforgettably tender portrait of a six-year-old French girl’s bond with her Cape Verdean nanny.
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Anatomy of a Fall
Bristling with emotional depth, this Palme d’Or–winning courtroom drama puts the complexities of a relationship on trial.
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Animalia
A mix of sci-fi genre-bending and apocalyptic tension, this debut uses an alien invasion to peer across the stakes of faith and family in Morocco.
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Animation Shorts
Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.
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Anselm
German auteur Wim Wenders’s majestic 3D portrait of compatriot, artworld luminary and friend Anselm Kiefer.
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Anu
A deeply moving story of ordinary grief experienced in extraordinary circumstances.
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Apostles of Cinema
Three devoted individuals in Tanzania reintroduce a classic piece of the country’s film history to an audience.
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Art College 1994
Auteurs Jia Zhang-ke and Bi Gan join the voice cast for this acerbic animated wonder about Chinese art students facing a rapidly changing world.
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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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As Filhas do Fogo
Portuguese director Pedro Costa merges cinema, music and theatre for this tale of three sisters separated by an erupting volcano.
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Australian Shorts
Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.
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Australia's Open
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.
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Auteurs Abridged: New Shorts by Masters
Established feature directors return to the short form to play with time and experiment with structure.
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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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Baba
A gripping, darkly funny portrait of a middle-aged Iranian man whose life is rapidly unravelling.
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Bad Behaviour
Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw star in this blackly comic debut about an ex–child star who attends a spiritual retreat in search of enlightenment.
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Banel & Adama
Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s first longform work is a haunting fable of star-cross’d lovers set in a rural village.
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Behind the Scenes - Acting: Hugo Weaving & Mark Leonard Winter
Accelerator Lab goes Behind the Scenes with Hugo Weaving and Mark Leonard Winter, who discuss acting and the MIFF Premiere Fund–supported film The Rooster.
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Behind the Scenes - Cinematography: Craig Barden
Accelerator Lab goes Behind the Scenes with Craig Barden, who discusses cinematography and the MIFF Premiere Fund–supported film The Rooster.
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Behind the Scenes - Editing: Cameron & Colin Cairnes
Accelerator Lab goes Behind the Scenes with Late Night With the Devil directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes, who discuss editing.
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Behind the Scenes - Sound Design: Tristan Meredith
Accelerator Lab goes Behind the Scenes with Tristan Meredith, who discusses sound design and the MIFF Premiere Fund–supported Memory Film: A Filmmaker’s Diary.
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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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Beyond Utopia
This pulse-racing nonfiction thriller follows the individuals risking their lives to defect from North Korea and the pastor granting them passage.
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Big Bang
This sardonic film, which won Locarno’s Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film, recounts a small person’s larger-than-life rebellion.
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Biliminal
An immersive audiovisual experience through undulating and vaporous atmospheres, in the liminal space between the palpable and the elusive.
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Biosphere
Spoiler alert: humanity destroyed itself. How will the last two men standing ensure the survival of the species?
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Birdeater
A bachelor party takes a feral turn in this genre-defying debut from an exciting new Australian directing duo.
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The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
In Dario Argento’s assured and tense debut, an American expat in Rome is entangled in a serial killer’s web.
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birth/rebirth
In this modern reimagining of Frankenstein, the give-and-take of motherhood is tested through a collision of grief, creation and horror.
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BlackBerry
The genius and hubris of the tech industry collide in this wildly entertaining account of the dramatic rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone.
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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
A charming character study about love, liberty and the pursuit of forbidden fruit, set in the Georgian countryside.
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The Black Cat
Harvey Keitel stars in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of obsession and violence, now splendidly restored by Cinecittà.
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Blinded by Centuries
A hypnotic, futuristic reimagining of a Buddhist folk tale that speaks to our chaotic moment.
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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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Blond Night
A chance encounter after dark offers an autistic man a moment of transcendence.
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Blood
Now magnificently restored, Pedro Costa’s oneiric debut film declared the arrival of an essential new voice in world cinema.
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Blue Jean
This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.
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The Breaking Ice
The French New Wave lives on in this luminous, snow-covered Gen Z love triangle from Wet Season and Ilo Ilo director Anthony Chen.
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The Buriti Flower
This Cannes-winning blend of documentary and fiction is an intoxicating portrait of the Indigenous Krahô people and their unwavering resistance.
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Call Me Mommy
An intimate portrait of a single mother who turned to sex work during the pandemic.
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Camarera de Piso
Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel weaves economic struggle, thriller and diva melodrama into a stunning exercise in bodily language.
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The Carnival
Amid bushfires, the pandemic and punters’ changing tastes, the family behind the Bells Family Carnival fight to preserve its century-long legacy.
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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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Castlemaine: Meet the Filmmakers
For the first time, MIFF Talks heads out of Melbourne to highlight the local filmmaking talents based in Victoria’s Goldfields region.
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The Cat o' Nine Tails
Do murderous thoughts lurk in our very DNA? Dario Argento interrogates nature vs nurture in his suspenseful second film.
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Cave Painting
Cave paintings collide with cinema in this breathtakingly immersive trip through space, sound and film texture.
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Charcoal
A Brazilian family caring for their ailing patriarch make a diabolical deal to shelter a drug don in this tense, darkly comic thriller.
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Chomp It!
Two crocodile men go to a public pool to cool off. It turns out one of them is distinctly more human – and the other is unable to contain his desire.
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Closing Night Gala: Theater Camp
A ragtag cast and crew of theatre nerds bring extra drama to save their beloved summer camp in this uproarious mockumentary.
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Club Zero
In Jessica Hausner’s bold satire, a charismatic teacher convinces her teenage students that disordered eating can produce many kinds of enlightenment.
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Cobweb
Parasite’s Song Kang-ho stars as a 1970s filmmaker-in-crisis in this chaotic comedy from the director of I Saw the Devil.
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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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Come and Work
The first ever African film to screen at Cannes, this detailed investigation of village life is a profound meditation on time, memory and community.
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Conann
A deliriously defiant, all-female reimagining of Conan the Barbarian that’s feted to become a new cult classic.
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Consuming Culture
Movies. Television. Books. Art. The entire internet. An always-timely conversation about how and what we’re consuming, and why.
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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
Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.
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Creature
Oscar-winning Amy and Senna director Asif Kapadia fuses horror and expressionistic dance in this haunting ballet inspired by Woyzeck and Frankenstein.
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Crushing Season
A disgraced former football star finds himself at a dangerous crossroads after witnessing a murder.
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Deep Red
Hailed as one of the greatest giallo works ever made, this oneiric fever dream about an amateur sleuth attracted praise from Alfred Hitchcock himself.
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Deep Sea
Heed the call of the waves and dive headfirst into this innovative and visually resplendent Chinese animation.
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The Delinquents
In this gently surreal, formally bold Argentinian take on the heist film, two bumbling bandits try to buy their liberty.
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Depersonalization
A dark trip through the psychic soup, where the observer becomes the observed.
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Deserts
In this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit, two debt collectors face the absurdity of their jobs while dwarfed by the majestic Moroccan desert.
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Development
Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.
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The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Pioneering sexologist Shere Hite is rescued from history’s margins in this fascinating portrait from Oscar-nominated documentarian Nicole Newnham.
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Disco Boy
Franz Rogowski propels this mesmeric musing on wounded masculinity, which is ignited by French electro superstar Vitalic’s feverish soundtrack.
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Documentary Shorts
Far-reaching, resonating subjects pulled from various corners of the world.
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Dog Apartment
A bizarre, imaginative and unforgettable animation from the legendary Estonian studio Nukufilm.
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Do You Like Hitchcock?
If you like Hitchcock, you’ll love Dario Argento’s exhilarating 2005 homage to the Master of Suspense.
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Drift
Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat shine in the stirring new work from Anthony Chen, which explores how friendship can salve the traumas of the past.
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Earthlings
Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.
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Earth Mama
This delicate, absorbing portrait of motherhood follows a young Black woman caught up in a spiral of institutional disadvantage.
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The Echo
A double Berlinale award winner capturing the joys, heartaches and rhythms of rural Mexican life as seen through the eyes of children and young women.
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Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades.
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Endless Sea
This account of an elderly woman’s nerve-racking journey across Manhattan is a heart-stoppingly sharp indictment of the US healthcare system.
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The Eternal Daughter
Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton star in Joanna Hogg’s Gothic coda to her two Souvenir films, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.
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The Eternal Memory
This stirring Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner chronicles the love story of a Chilean couple navigating Alzheimer’s disease.
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Eureka
Slow-cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.
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Experimental Shorts
Unconventional cinema that tests the boundaries of form and function.
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Eyes on America: From Documentary to Satire & In Between
A panel of directors and writers with films in this year’s festival bring a unique view of American culture and politics and what that means today.
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F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now
A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.
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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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Fairplay
A dark comedy about a teenager craving recognition, a worker who’ll do anything to win the jackpot and a senior executive at the end of his career.
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Fairyland
This heartfelt Sofia Coppola–produced drama explores the intricacies of a father–daughter bond blossoming amid queer liberation and the AIDS crisis.
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Femme
After being attacked outside a London nightclub, a drag queen decides to turn the tables in this Hitchcockian queer noir.
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The Five Days
A rarely screened outlier in Argento’s career, this deliciously dark historical comedy follows a thief and a baker caught up in a political uprising.
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Fledglings
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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Four Daughters
A mother and two of her daughters are joined by actors to work through their family history and grasp the other two daughters’ heartbreaking choices.
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet
A quirky and lesser-known piece of the Italian giallo maestro’s tapestry, and a lesson in cinematic innovation.
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Fremont
With a laconic Jarmuschian vibe, Fremont is a heartfelt comedic ode to the immigrant experience.
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Fresh Kill
Radical lesbians, radioactive fish lips and toxic cat food collide in this sci-fi – a transgressive landmark of anarcho-satire and queer hacktivism.
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FROM.BEYOND
An arresting mockumentary about first contact and alien sex, which won the Méliès d’Or prize at Sitges.
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From the Main Square
This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.
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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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Fulldome Showcase 1
MIFF’s popular annual program of fulldome screenings at the Melbourne Planetarium returns for the 2023 festival.
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Fulldome Showcase 2
MIFF’s popular annual program of fulldome screenings at the Melbourne Planetarium returns for the 2023 festival.
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fur
From Sundance comes a visceral and discombobulating depiction of a classroom crush.
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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
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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Geometry of Faith
A mystical experience unfolds as the movements of celestial bodies envelop the landscape and its inhabitants.
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Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
This rare Aussie take on the popular exorcism subgenre builds to a brutal finale you won’t be able to excise from your mind.
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Gods of the Supermarket
A playfully inventive queer pop collage that turns its gaze on mainstream media representations of the male body.
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Golden Eighties
Chantal Akerman puts love and capitalism in the crosshairs in this acidly funny, vibrantly coloured musical set entirely within a shopping mall.
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Goodbye Julia
An engrossing moral thriller set against a nation torn in two, which won the inaugural Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize.
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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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Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy
A jovial, dreamy rumination on love, time, what we collect and how we connect.
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Gush
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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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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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Venture behind the pink tutu with the legendary Sex and the City stylist to discover the creative process that made her a New York icon.
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Heat Spell
Tensions rise along with the temperature gauge in this blistering snapshot of sibling rivalry.
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Hello Dankness
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.
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The Hidden Spring
Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.
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Hounds
Bringing echoes of the Coen brothers and Tarantino to the mean streets of Morocco, this Cannes prize winner is not the Casablanca you think you know.
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The House of Loss
A touching and evocative portrait of postwar trauma in a country desperate to move on from its past.
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The stakes are high but the cost of sitting idle is higher for a group of environmental activists who band together to disrupt the oil industry.
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How to Have Sex
A sun-drenched, hormone-laden trip of teenage kicks turns dark in this compellingly contemporary navigation of sexual politics.
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Human Nature
The winner of the Rotterdam Ammodo Tiger Short Competition’s top prize is a touching portrait of shared uncertainty.
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
From the Deep South to DC, civil rights pioneer and I Am Not Your Negro subject James Baldwin revisits key sites in the US fight for racial equality.
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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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In Conversation: Celine Song's Past Lives
Spend an hour with visiting writer and director Celine Song, whose debut feature Past Lives is one of the most celebrated and talked-about of the year.
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In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
Hit the town and seek out the next illegal rave in this euphoric, multisensory joyride about the 1980s Acid House movement.
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Inshallah a Boy
The first Jordanian film to screen at Cannes takes ferocious aim at the country’s ingrained misogyny.
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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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International Shorts 1
Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Venice, Locarno and more.
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International Shorts 2
An awarded and acclaimed cornucopia from directors known and new.
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Invincible
This deeply moving Clermont-Ferrand International Special Jury Prize winner follows a troubled teen’s last-ditch attempt at freedom.
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Invisible Beauty
An intimate self-portrait of Black model, booking agent and fashion changemaker Bethann Hardison and her challenge to the colourist status quo.
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I Promise You Paradise
From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a masterful portrait of an ostracised immigrant searching for salvation.
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Iron Butterflies
In this surreal and haunting documentary, a Ukrainian filmmaker obsessively sifts through the shrapnel of the MH17 plane crash.
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It Lives Inside
An ancient Hindu demon stalks an Indian-American teen between two cultures in this terrifying and original monster movie.
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I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs
A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.
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It's Only Life After All
On Her Shoulders director Alexandria Bombach recounts how two unassuming childhood friends became lesbian icons as folk-rock duo Indigo Girls.
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It's Raining in the House
Winner of the French Touch Prize of the Jury at Cannes Critics’ Week, this coming-of-age drama is a stirring social-realist fiction debut.
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I Used to Be Funny
Rachel Sennott (Bodies Bodies Bodies; Shiva Baby) shines in this formally ambitious – and, yes, funny – portrait of a stand-up comedian battling PTSD.
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I, Your Mother
“When will you return?” This haunting question – familiar to many an expat – is asked of a Senegalese student in West Berlin.
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Japanese Story
In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.
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Jia
In this award-winning film, two strangers are brought together by shared grief, experienced from vastly different perspectives.
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Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Tracing her stratospheric rise, this portrait of the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist reveals a rich life not without its struggles.
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The Job
A multi-award-winning Melbourne director shows how trauma can radically reconfigure our worldview.
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Junglefowl
Political unrest fractures the innocence of childhood in this haunting snapshot of Sri Lanka’s brutal conflict.
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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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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
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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Kidnapped
A pope’s audacious act tears the Catholic Church and all of Italy apart in this gripping true story.
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Kindred
An autobiographical story about the complexities of being an Aboriginal child raised in a white world, and a celebration of friendship and resilience.
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The Kingdom Exodus
Lars von Trier (Melancholia, MIFF 2011) revisits the wacky, disturbing world of Kingdom Hospital in his cult series’ long-awaited final chapter.
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Kiss the Future
Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this film recounts how local musicians banded together with U2 to offer hope to Bosnians in war-torn Sarajevo.
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Laberint Sequences
An immersive 3D trip into the heart of Barcelona’s Laberint d’Horta, where a statue of Eros awaits.
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La Chimera
A preternaturally skilled archaeologist goes on an Orphean quest for his lost love in Alice Rohrwacher’s latest and most romantically bewitching film.
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La Perra
This lushly animated tale of sexual awakening, which screened in competition at Cannes, follows a humanoid bird as she matures from child to woman.
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Last Summer
Catherine Breillat (Abuse of Weakness) returns with a daring portrait of a woman’s intimate relationship with her teen stepson, starring Léa Drucker.
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Late Night With the Devil
The Aussie brothers behind 100 Bloody Acres mix frights and frivolity in recreating a 1970s talk show that goes straight to hell.
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Le Spectre de Boko Haram
Winner of Rotterdam’s top prize, this moving documentary explores the lives of Cameroonian children at the edge of a war zone.
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Letter From My Village
This trailblazing work – the first feature made by a woman from Sub-Saharan Africa – sets a story of love and land against a postcolonial backdrop.
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Limbotopia in VR
First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.
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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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Little by Little
In her first foray into cinema, Safi Faye acts in Jean Rouch’s comedy about two Nigeriens whose Paris trip becomes a lesson in ‘reverse ethnography’.
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Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be
In this Annecy Best Feature–winning adaptation of the Le petit Nicolas comic books, a mischievous character meets the men who brought him to life.
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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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Lord Shango
Christianity clashes with African spiritualism when a mother summons a tribal priest to avenge her daughter in this oddity of 70s Black cinema.
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Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
This essential music documentary asks: why is the 1970s’ most original and ethereal folk singer almost forgotten today?
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Lost Country
In this tense coming-of-age drama direct from Cannes Critics’ Week, a teenage boy confronts the political injustice upheld by his mother.
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Lost in the Night
Amat Escalante’s follow-up to The Untamed is a stunningly visualised crime thriller that lays bare the class conflict and vice within modern Mexico.
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Lotus-Eyed Girl
A pulsating, eerily ambient collage film exploring the impact of colonialism on human desire.
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Lou
An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.
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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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The Maiden
In this exceptional debut feature, a supernatural discovery transfigures two teenagers’ world of graffiti, grief and suburban exploration.
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The Man Who Couldn't Leave
The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.
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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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Mast-del
Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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Master Gardener
Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver deliver outstanding, nuanced performances in Paul Schrader’s latest explosive study of male guilt and redemption.
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May December
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal.
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Meantime
A young man goes on a holiday to the countryside, where his would-be-peaceful wellness routine is assailed by the terrifying sounds of silence.
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Medusa Deluxe
Scissors out! Someone literally slays at a hairdressing competition in this exuberant one-take murder mystery.
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Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
Revered filmmaker Jeni Thornley (Maidens, MIFF 1979) composes an immersive cine-poem from her extensive super-8 archive spanning three decades.
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Mercy Road
The first virtually produced Australian feature, Mercy Road is an unrelentingly tense psychological thriller from Tracks director John Curran.
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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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Milisuthando
This poetic, visually striking meditation on growing up under apartheid in South Africa is unlike any documentary memoir you’ve seen before.
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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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Misaligned
The cyclical rhythms of a couple’s routines reach claustrophobic heights.
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Monolith
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.
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Monster
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tender answer to the question ‘Who’s the monster?’, awarded Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes, will melt your heart.
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Mossane
In a rare work of pure fiction for Safi Faye, drawing from a Wolof legend, a teen brings disaster to her village after defying an arranged marriage.
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The Mother of All Lies
Winner of Un Certain Regard’s Best Director and L’Œil d’Or at Cannes, this Moroccan documentary sets out to untangle personal and national secrets.
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The Munekata Sisters
In their quest to restore long-lost romance, two sisters learn that the course of true love never runs smoothly.
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Music on Film Gala

Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party
The thrilling, debauched and frequently hilarious adventures of the legendary Melbourne post-punk band, in their own words.
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Mutt
In this award-winning feature debut, one chaotic day sees a young trans man’s past chase him as he chooses his future.
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Nanitic
A snapshot of a Vietnamese-Canadian family’s routines during its matriarch’s final days.
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The Nature of Love
In this Cannes Un Certain Regard comedy, the ineffability of romance is put to the test by an unfaithful married philosopher.
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Neneh Superstar
Put on your ballet shoes for this triumphant, feel-good tale of a 12-year-old Parisian dancer who overcomes the odds of institutional prejudice.
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No Bears
In this gripping blend of fact and fiction, revered Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi (3 Faces, MIFF 2018) decides whether to cross a line for his beliefs.
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Experience F.W. Murnau’s iconic 1922 vampire film brought to life by a live orchestra, coming exclusively to Ulumbarra Theatre for one night only.
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O Canada! Shorts From The Maple-Leafed North
An intimate kaleidoscope of stories from the best emerging filmmakers working in Canada today.
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Omen
Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.
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One Last Evening
Moving cities is the perfect excuse to throw a party … and unpack some awkward home truths.
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On the Adamant
Winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, this empathetic film invites viewers to spend time with the residents of a floating art-therapy centre in Paris.
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Opening Night Gala - Shayda

Opera
After bringing bloodshed to a ballet school in Suspiria, the giallo maestro wreaks operatic havoc on a soprano tackling a Shakespeare adaptation.
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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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Passages
Love Is Strange (MIFF 2014) director Ira Sachs embraces the art of French cinema in this queer, Paris-set musing on a complicated relationship.
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Past Lives
What if the lover who never was is ‘the one’? This swooning romance follows a Korean woman whose heart is torn by the road not taken.
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Paula
In this sensitively told drama, a teenager’s battle with body image is a microcosm for the crushing weight of beauty standards on all young women.
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Pentola
A diminutive middle-aged man hooks up with Batman in this playful, beautifully animated short.
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Perfect Days
In this triumphant return to narrative film, Wim Wenders tackles life’s little details – mess and all – with his trademark meditative movement.
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Perpetrator
Oozing blood, shapeshifting and a serial killer on the loose – this high school body horror is a feminist-charged frenzy, starring Alicia Silverstone.
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The Phantom of the Opera
There’s no-one better to deliver an outré rendition of the Music of the Night than an underground maestro who loves mayhem and organ music.
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Phenomena
This oeuvre of outré, starring a then-14-year-old Jennifer Connelly, is widely regarded as one of Dario Argento’s most eccentric and bizarre films.
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Pictures of Ghosts
Brazil’s modern master returns with a haunting tribute to the filmgoing experience in this Cannes-touted documentary.
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Power Shift: The Future of Seeing
A panel of academics, filmmakers and screen practitioners delve into some of the major recent changes in the industry, and what’s to come next.
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Querelle
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s iconic final film is a ravishing adaptation of Jean Genet’s homoerotic classic about a deadly sailor on shore leave.
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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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Radical
CODA scene-stealer Eugenio Derbez leads this luminous Sundance Festival Favorite Award winner about an inspiring teacher.
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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
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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Recombination
Visionary fractal artist Julius Horsthuis collaborates with seven of his favorite musicians to create an abstract journey through music, space-time and mathematics.
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Remembering Every Night
Get lost with three women as they wander a town on the outskirts of Tokyo, whose discombobulating architecture mirrors the vastness of life.
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Return to Reason
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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Riddle of Fire
Direct from Cannes comes a charming, lo-fi fantasy caper for adults and children alike that’s destined for cult status.
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Robot Dreams
In this beautifully bittersweet hand-drawn ode to friendship, a dog must find new meaning when misfortune separates him from his robot buddy.
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Room 999
David Cronenberg, Baz Luhrmann, Claire Denis and a host of directors discuss cinema’s future in this riveting sequel to Wim Wenders’s 1982 classic.
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The Rooster
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.
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Rose Gold
Sit courtside as the Boomers win their history-making Olympic medal and affirm Australia as a force to be reckoned with in global basketball.
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Sand
The hauntings of the Sri Lankan Civil War are explored with quiet, incisive force in this Rotterdam Special Jury Prize winner.
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Scarygirl
Jillian Nguyen, Sam Neill, Tim Minchin and Deborah Mailman lend their voices to this Australian animated adventure based on the popular novel and game.
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Scrapper
A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.
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Selbé: One Among Many
Safi Faye’s groundbreaking 1983 ethnographic documentary uses one Senegalese woman’s experience to comment widely on gender and society.
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Shackle
An ingenious and ethereal animation that combines puppetry and photography.
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The Shadowless Tower
This beguiling tale of a middle-aged man who’s lost his bearings doubles as a charming meditation on the frayed bonds of family.
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Shayda
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.
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Shortcomings
First-time director Randall Park (Fresh off the Boat; Always Be My Maybe) takes on social mores with this fresh and fun misanthropic comedy.
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Showing Up
As much an ode to the daily creative grind as it is to the creative partnership between director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams.
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Shut Eye
A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.
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The Silent Ones
Obstinacy and recklessness lead a team of fishermen out into dangerous waters.
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Simo
The rivalry between teenage brothers reaches dangerous heights in Toronto’s 2022 Best Canadian Short winner.
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Sleep
Bong Joon-ho protégé Jason Yu’s clever horror debut stars South Korean favourites Lee Sun-kyun (Parasite) and Jung Yu-mi (Train to Busan).
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Slow Light
From its Clermont-Ferrand premiere comes a mythic fable exploring memory and nostalgia.
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
In the southern Estonian woods, a group of women talk and embrace the soul-cleansing power of steam in this Sundance award-winning documentary.
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Snow in September
The winner of Best Short Film at both Toronto and Venice is a subtly menacing, Mongolia-set tale of sexual awakening.
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Something in the Water: New Australian Horror
Join a panel of Australian filmmakers as they discuss the thrills and chills that are in high supply at this year’s festival.
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Sorcery
Witchcraft, revenge and Indigenous rancour swell in this atmospheric, anti-colonial bildungsroman set in 19th-century Chile.
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Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Music video auteur, photographer and Control director Anton Corbijn takes history for a spin, demystifing the vinyl record artwork of the masters.
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Stay Alive, My Son (Chapters 1 & 2)
A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.
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A Still Small Voice
This Sundance US Documentary Directing Award winner is a revelatory portrait of a hospital chaplain and the people under her care.
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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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Stonewalling
A Gen Z woman contends with shifting cultural values and the one-child policy’s lasting impacts to understand her place in the world.
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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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Strange Way of Life
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play reunited lovers in Pedro Almodóvar’s sensual queer western, direct from Cannes.
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Subtraction
A husband and wife get mixed up with their doppelgangers in this Hitchcockian thriller from Iranian auteur Mani Haghighi (Pig; A Dragon Arrives!).
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Sunflower
In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.
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Surfacing
An immersive fairytale whose everyday heroes are mothers and children in Italian prisons.
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Suspiria
With a title derived from the Latin phrase ‘sighs from the depths’, Dario Argento’s most famous film is a masterwork of skin-crawling terror.
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The Sweet East
Sean Price Williams makes his feature directorial debut with this freewheeling picaresque trip through the cliques and communes of today’s USA.
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Sweet Juices
An unhinged dumpling chef and her lover race against time in this unforgettably gross and hilariously over-the-top satire of Sydney foodie culture.
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
William Greaves’s once-forgotten countercultural masterpiece about a beleaguered New York movie crew turns the conventions of filmmaking inside out.
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Take a Look at This Guy
A depressed young man must face his intrusive thoughts in lurid colour.
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Tenebrae
Inspired by the director’s own brush with an obsessive fan, this stylish slasher offers meta-commentary on sexism and screen violence.
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Terrestrial Verses
A series of formally daring vignettes about the absurdity and menace of state control in Iran, laced with both scathing irony and glimmers of hope.
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Theater Camp
A ragtag cast and crew of theatre nerds bring extra drama to save their beloved summer camp in this uproarious mockumentary.
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Then Comes the Body
The infectiously inspirational story of a self-taught Nigerian ballet dancer.
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This Is Going to Be Big
A cast of neurodivergent teens prepare to come of age and hit the stage in their school’s time-travelling, John Farnham–themed musical.
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This Is Not Here
A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
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Tiger Stripes
The beast is unleashed in this Cannes award-winning debut – and she’s a 12-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl whose body is changing in more ways than one.
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Time Bomb Y2K
This archival explosion relives the wild and unhinged madness of the turn of the millennium.
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Tomato Kitchen
What dark secrets are hidden out back, in this stylish and metaphorical mystery?
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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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Tótem
A spellbinding family portrait that presents a child’s-eye view of love, loss and life in all their messy, glorious, heartbreaking colour.
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Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: 'Phony Wars'
From Cannes comes the final work by the late, legendary genius Jean-Luc Godard – a dazzling glimpse into a feature film that never came to be.
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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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Trial
An enveloping, awe-inspiring contemplation of the vast universe and humans’ place within it.
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Trouble Every Day
Claire Denis’s divisive, seductively erotic horror film rises again, with Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo in all their grisly, sensuous glory.
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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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The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
When the laws of time and space are turned topsy-turvy, what would you give up for one last moment with a lost love?
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Turbulence: Jamais Vu
From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.
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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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Undercurrents: meditations on power
Australian filmmaker Margot Nash (We Aim to Please) reimagines her own archival footage for this poetic essay on resistance amid instability.
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Vision of Paradise
The search for a mythical island triggers a fascinating contemplation on historical expeditions and the worlds of virtual reality and AI.
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Voices in Deep
Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this humanistic drama.
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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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Walk Up
Telling four stories (or maybe just one) over four storeys, Hong Sang-soo’s latest MIFF entry is a shrewd chamber play set within a single building.
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Werckmeister Harmonies
In this gorgeous new 4K restoration, Hungarian slow-cinema master Béla Tarr finds metaphysical horror in a nascent revolution.
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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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Where do you stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang quietly contemplates life in the mountains, reflecting on chairs, cats and portraits of his muse, Lee Kang-sheng.
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White Plastic Sky
Becoming one with nature takes a dystopian turn in this visionary rotoscoped romance.
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With Love to the Person Next to Me
A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.
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WTF Shorts
Unfiltered and unapologetic. Not for the faint of heart.
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You Can Call Me Bill
From Star Trek to actual space travel, 92-year-old William Shatner has done it all. Alexandre O. Philippe beams us up with this touching tribute.
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You'll Never Find Me
An elderly caravan-park resident tangles with a mysterious woman in this deliciously unpredictable horror debut from an Australian filmmaking duo.
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Youth (Spring)
Revered auteur Wang Bing (Ta’ang; Alone) documents the breakneck pace of China’s garment factories.
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