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-22.7°C

-22.7°C

An immersive experience inspired by the musician Molécule’s adventures in the polar circle.

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27

27

The winner of the 2023 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or is a colourful orgy of ennui and desire.

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Aaaah!

Aaaah!

‘A’ is for ‘Aaaaah!’ in this wild and zany schoolyard romp.

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Anatomy of a Fall

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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Animation Shorts

Animation Shorts

Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.

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Beyond Utopia

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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Biliminal

Biliminal

An immersive audiovisual experience through undulating and vaporous atmospheres, in the liminal space between the palpable and the elusive.

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The Bird With the Crystal Plumage

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

birth/rebirth

Director Laura Moss

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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Chomp It!

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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Depersonalization

Depersonalization

A dark trip through the psychic soup, where the observer becomes the observed.

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Dog Apartment

Dog Apartment

A bizarre, imaginative and unforgettable animation from the legendary Estonian studio Nukufilm.

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Eureka

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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Eyes on America: From Documentary to Satire & In Between

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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Fairplay

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

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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Fremont

Fremont

With a laconic Jarmuschian vibe, Fremont is a heartfelt comedic ode to the immigrant experience.

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FROM.BEYOND

FROM.BEYOND

An arresting mockumentary about first contact and alien sex, which won the Méliès d’Or prize at Sitges.

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Fulldome Showcase 1

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

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

fur

Director Zhen Li

From Sundance comes a visceral and discombobulating depiction of a classroom crush.

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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

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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The House of Loss

The House of Loss

Director Jinkyu Jeon

A touching and evocative portrait of postwar trauma in a country desperate to move on from its past.

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La Perra

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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Little by Little

Little by Little

Director Jean Rouch

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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Lord Shango

Lord Shango

Director Ray Marsh

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

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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May December

May December

Director Todd Haynes

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

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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Millennium Mambo

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

Misaligned

The cyclical rhythms of a couple’s routines reach claustrophobic heights.

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Omen

Omen

Director Baloji

Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.

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Passages

Passages

Director Ira Sachs

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

Past Lives

Director Celine Song

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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Pentola

Pentola

Director Leo Černic

A diminutive middle-aged man hooks up with Batman in this playful, beautifully animated short.

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Perfect Days

Perfect Days

Director Wim Wenders

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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Recombination

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

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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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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Shackle

Shackle

An ingenious and ethereal animation that combines puppetry and photography.

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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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Shortcomings

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

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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Slow Light

Slow Light

From its Clermont-Ferrand premiere comes a mythic fable exploring memory and nostalgia.

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The Sweet East

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

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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Time Bomb Y2K

Time Bomb Y2K

This archival explosion relives the wild and unhinged madness of the turn of the millennium.

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Tomato Kitchen

Tomato Kitchen

Director Junyi Xiao

What dark secrets are hidden out back, in this stylish and metaphorical mystery?

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Trenque Lauquen

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

Trial

An enveloping, awe-inspiring contemplation of the vast universe and humans’ place within it.

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WTF Shorts

WTF Shorts

Unfiltered and unapologetic. Not for the faint of heart.

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