
20,000 Species of Bees
Featuring a remarkable lead performance from nine-year-old Sofia Otero, 20,000 Species of Bees is an empathetic exploration of gender and generations.
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48 Hours
This restrained and powerful short shows how imprisonment doesn’t only affect the inmate.
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Accelerator Shorts 2
Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.
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All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
Love seeps through the cracks in this touching tale of same-sex desire in metropolitan Nigeria, which won the Berlinale’s Teddy Award.
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Ama Gloria
From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a heartbreaking and unforgettably tender portrait of a six-year-old French girl’s bond with her Cape Verdean nanny.
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Animalia
A mix of sci-fi genre-bending and apocalyptic tension, this debut uses an alien invasion to peer across the stakes of faith and family in Morocco.
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Anu
A deeply moving story of ordinary grief experienced in extraordinary circumstances.
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Autobiography
In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.
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Behind the Scenes - Acting: Hugo Weaving & Mark Leonard Winter
Accelerator Lab goes Behind the Scenes with Hugo Weaving and Mark Leonard Winter, who discuss acting and the MIFF Premiere Fund–supported film The Rooster.
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Big Bang
This sardonic film, which won Locarno’s Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film, recounts a small person’s larger-than-life rebellion.
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Blue Jean
This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.
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Casa Susanna
Deep in the US’s Catskill Mountains of the 50s and 60s sat a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men to experience life without fear.
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The Cat o' Nine Tails
Do murderous thoughts lurk in our very DNA? Dario Argento interrogates nature vs nurture in his suspenseful second film.
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Charcoal
A Brazilian family caring for their ailing patriarch make a diabolical deal to shelter a drug don in this tense, darkly comic thriller.
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A Couple
Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.
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Deep Sea
Heed the call of the waves and dive headfirst into this innovative and visually resplendent Chinese animation.
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Development
Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.
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Earthlings
Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.
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From the Main Square
This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.
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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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International Shorts 1
Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Venice, Locarno and more.
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I Promise You Paradise
From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a masterful portrait of an ostracised immigrant searching for salvation.
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I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs
A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.
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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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Junglefowl
Political unrest fractures the innocence of childhood in this haunting snapshot of Sri Lanka’s brutal conflict.
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Limbotopia in VR
First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.
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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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Lost in the Night
Amat Escalante’s follow-up to The Untamed is a stunningly visualised crime thriller that lays bare the class conflict and vice within modern Mexico.
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Lou
An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.
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The Man Who Couldn't Leave
The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.
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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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Music on Film Gala

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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Pictures of Ghosts
Brazil’s modern master returns with a haunting tribute to the filmgoing experience in this Cannes-touted documentary.
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R21 aka Restoring Solidarity
This time capsule of an extraordinary unseen history is a work of documentation and preservation – both of a moment in time and of the moving image.
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Scrapper
A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.
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Snow in September
The winner of Best Short Film at both Toronto and Venice is a subtly menacing, Mongolia-set tale of sexual awakening.
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Stay Alive, My Son (Chapters 1 & 2)
A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.
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Surfacing
An immersive fairytale whose everyday heroes are mothers and children in Italian prisons.
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
William Greaves’s once-forgotten countercultural masterpiece about a beleaguered New York movie crew turns the conventions of filmmaking inside out.
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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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