
-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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Aaaah!
‘A’ is for ‘Aaaaah!’ in this wild and zany schoolyard romp.
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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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Animation Shorts
Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.
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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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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
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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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
A dark trip through the psychic soup, where the observer becomes the observed.
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Dog Apartment
A bizarre, imaginative and unforgettable animation from the legendary Estonian studio Nukufilm.
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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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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
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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Fremont
With a laconic Jarmuschian vibe, Fremont is a heartfelt comedic ode to the immigrant experience.
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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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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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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
A touching and evocative portrait of postwar trauma in a country desperate to move on from its past.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
An ingenious and ethereal animation that combines puppetry and photography.
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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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Slow Light
From its Clermont-Ferrand premiere comes a mythic fable exploring memory and nostalgia.
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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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Take a Look at This Guy
A depressed young man must face his intrusive thoughts in lurid colour.
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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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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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WTF Shorts
Unfiltered and unapologetic. Not for the faint of heart.
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