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

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

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

Bristling with emotional depth, this Palme d’Or–winning courtroom drama puts the complexities of a relationship on trial.

Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.

This pulse-racing nonfiction thriller follows the individuals risking their lives to defect from North Korea and the pastor granting them passage.

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

In Dario Argento’s assured and tense debut, an American expat in Rome is entangled in a serial killer’s web.

In this modern reimagining of Frankenstein, the give-and-take of motherhood is tested through a collision of grief, creation and horror.

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.

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

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

Slow-cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.

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.

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.

This heartfelt Sofia Coppola–produced drama explores the intricacies of a father–daughter bond blossoming amid queer liberation and the AIDS crisis.

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

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

MIFF’s popular annual program of fulldome screenings at the Melbourne Planetarium returns for the 2023 festival.

MIFF’s popular annual program of fulldome screenings at the Melbourne Planetarium returns for the 2023 festival.

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

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.

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

This lushly animated tale of sexual awakening, which screened in competition at Cannes, follows a humanoid bird as she matures from child to woman.

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’.

Christianity clashes with African spiritualism when a mother summons a tribal priest to avenge her daughter in this oddity of 70s Black cinema.

This essential music documentary asks: why is the 1970s’ most original and ethereal folk singer almost forgotten today?

Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal.

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.

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.

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

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

Love Is Strange (MIFF 2014) director Ira Sachs embraces the art of French cinema in this queer, Paris-set musing on a complicated relationship.

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.

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

In this triumphant return to narrative film, Wim Wenders tackles life’s little details – mess and all – with his trademark meditative movement.

Visionary fractal artist Julius Horsthuis collaborates with seven of his favorite musicians to create an abstract journey through music, space-time and mathematics.

Get lost with three women as they wander a town on the outskirts of Tokyo, whose discombobulating architecture mirrors the vastness of life.

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.

An ingenious and ethereal animation that combines puppetry and photography.

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.

First-time director Randall Park (Fresh off the Boat; Always Be My Maybe) takes on social mores with this fresh and fun misanthropic comedy.

As much an ode to the daily creative grind as it is to the creative partnership between director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams.

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

Sean Price Williams makes his feature directorial debut with this freewheeling picaresque trip through the cliques and communes of today’s USA.

An unhinged dumpling chef and her lover race against time in this unforgettably gross and hilariously over-the-top satire of Sydney foodie culture.

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

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

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

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.

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

Unfiltered and unapologetic. Not for the faint of heart.