
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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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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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
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
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
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
A disgraced former football star finds himself at a dangerous crossroads after witnessing a murder.
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Development
Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.
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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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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
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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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
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
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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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
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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The Job
A multi-award-winning Melbourne director shows how trauma can radically reconfigure our worldview.
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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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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
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
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
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)
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
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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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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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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Opening Night Gala - Shayda

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