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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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Australia's Open

Australia's Open

Director Ili Baré

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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Birdeater

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 Carnival

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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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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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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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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Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story

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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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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Generations of Men

Generations of Men

Director Joanna Joy

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

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

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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Grain of Truth

Grain of Truth

Director Marcus Gale

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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Hello Dankness

Hello Dankness

Director Soda Jerk

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

The Hidden Spring

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

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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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Japanese Story

Japanese Story

Director Sue Brooks

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

Jia

Director Vee Shi

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)

Director John Harvey

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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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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Kindred

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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Late Night With the Devil

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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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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Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary

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

Mercy Road

Director John Curran

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 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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Monolith

Monolith

Director Matt Vesely

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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Music on Film Gala

Music on Film Gala

The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades. Read More →
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Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party

Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party

Director Ian White

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

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Opening Night Gala - Shayda

Opening Night Gala - 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. Read More →
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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The Rooster

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

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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Scarygirl

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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Shayda

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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Sunflower

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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Sweet Juices

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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Take a Look at This Guy

Take a Look at This Guy

Director Tom Oxnam

A depressed young man must face his intrusive thoughts in lurid colour.

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This Is Going to Be Big

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

This Is Not Here

A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

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Turbulence: Jamais Vu

Turbulence: Jamais Vu

From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.

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Undercurrents: meditations on power

Undercurrents: meditations on power

Director Margot Nash

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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Voices in Deep

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

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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With Love to the Person Next to Me

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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You'll Never Find Me

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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