Featuring a remarkable lead performance from nine-year-old Sofia Otero, 20,000 Species of Bees is an empathetic exploration of gender and generations.

This restrained and powerful short shows how imprisonment doesn’t only affect the inmate.

Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.

Love seeps through the cracks in this touching tale of same-sex desire in metropolitan Nigeria, which won the Berlinale’s Teddy Award.

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.

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.

A deeply moving story of ordinary grief experienced in extraordinary circumstances.

In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.

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.

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.

This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.

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.

Do murderous thoughts lurk in our very DNA? Dario Argento interrogates nature vs nurture in his suspenseful second film.

A Brazilian family caring for their ailing patriarch make a diabolical deal to shelter a drug don in this tense, darkly comic thriller.

Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.

Heed the call of the waves and dive headfirst into this innovative and visually resplendent Chinese animation.

Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.

Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.

This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.

A revisionist western inspired by author Judith Wright’s family history – the first narrative work to feature the Barada and Darumbal languages.

Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Venice, Locarno and more.

From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a masterful portrait of an ostracised immigrant searching for salvation.

A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.

In this award-winning film, two strangers are brought together by shared grief, experienced from vastly different perspectives.

Political unrest fractures the innocence of childhood in this haunting snapshot of Sri Lanka’s brutal conflict.

First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.

A wildly imaginative, hilarious and heartbreaking trip into a teenage girl’s mind, depicted as a phantasmagoria of self-loathing and angst.

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.

An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.

The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.

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

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

Brazil’s modern master returns with a haunting tribute to the filmgoing experience in this Cannes-touted documentary.

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.

A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.

The winner of Best Short Film at both Toronto and Venice is a subtly menacing, Mongolia-set tale of sexual awakening.

A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.

An immersive fairytale whose everyday heroes are mothers and children in Italian prisons.

William Greaves’s once-forgotten countercultural masterpiece about a beleaguered New York movie crew turns the conventions of filmmaking inside out.

From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.