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An immersive experience inspired by the musician Molécule’s adventures in the polar circle.
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Absence
Lee Kang-sheng brings undeniable star power to this graceful, pensive story of a man trying to find his place in a world that has left him behind.
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The Adults
Siblings can drive us to the edge. This visceral car crash of love and fury revs this American indie vehicle led by Michael Cera.
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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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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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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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Anselm
German auteur Wim Wenders’s majestic 3D portrait of compatriot, artworld luminary and friend Anselm Kiefer.
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Art College 1994
Auteurs Jia Zhang-ke and Bi Gan join the voice cast for this acerbic animated wonder about Chinese art students facing a rapidly changing world.
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Australia's Open
Relive the most thrilling moments of Australia’s beloved tennis tournament in this chronicle of its ascent to top-seed status on the global stage.
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Behind the Scenes - Cinematography: Craig Barden
Accelerator Lab goes Behind the Scenes with Craig Barden, who discusses cinematography and the MIFF Premiere Fund–supported film The Rooster.
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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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Birdeater
A bachelor party takes a feral turn in this genre-defying debut from an exciting new Australian directing duo.
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
An enchanting animated take on Haruki Murakami’s short stories starring a gregarious talking frog, an existential bank teller and an elusive cat.
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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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Come and Work
The first ever African film to screen at Cannes, this detailed investigation of village life is a profound meditation on time, memory and community.
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Consuming Culture
Movies. Television. Books. Art. The entire internet. An always-timely conversation about how and what we’re consuming, and why.
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Do You Like Hitchcock?
If you like Hitchcock, you’ll love Dario Argento’s exhilarating 2005 homage to the Master of Suspense.
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Earth Mama
This delicate, absorbing portrait of motherhood follows a young Black woman caught up in a spiral of institutional disadvantage.
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Fledglings
Three children spread their wings as they farewell their parents and enter a boarding school for students who are blind or have low vision.
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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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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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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The stakes are high but the cost of sitting idle is higher for a group of environmental activists who band together to disrupt the oil industry.
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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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It's Only Life After All
On Her Shoulders director Alexandria Bombach recounts how two unassuming childhood friends became lesbian icons as folk-rock duo Indigo Girls.
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It's Raining in the House
Winner of the French Touch Prize of the Jury at Cannes Critics’ Week, this coming-of-age drama is a stirring social-realist fiction debut.
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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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Little Richard: I Am Everything
A rollicking deep dive into the life of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most exhilarating personalities, whose queerness was hidden in plain sight.
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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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Monolith
A disgraced journalist is confronted with an unexplained artefact that may not be of this world, but is about to become the centre of hers.
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The Mother of All Lies
Winner of Un Certain Regard’s Best Director and L’Œil d’Or at Cannes, this Moroccan documentary sets out to untangle personal and national secrets.
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The Munekata Sisters
In their quest to restore long-lost romance, two sisters learn that the course of true love never runs smoothly.
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Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party
The thrilling, debauched and frequently hilarious adventures of the legendary Melbourne post-punk band, in their own words.
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The Nature of Love
In this Cannes Un Certain Regard comedy, the ineffability of romance is put to the test by an unfaithful married philosopher.
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No Bears
In this gripping blend of fact and fiction, revered Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi (3 Faces, MIFF 2018) decides whether to cross a line for his beliefs.
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On the Adamant
Winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, this empathetic film invites viewers to spend time with the residents of a floating art-therapy centre in Paris.
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Perpetrator
Oozing blood, shapeshifting and a serial killer on the loose – this high school body horror is a feminist-charged frenzy, starring Alicia Silverstone.
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Rebel With a Cause - Part 2
Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.
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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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Riddle of Fire
Direct from Cannes comes a charming, lo-fi fantasy caper for adults and children alike that’s destined for cult status.
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Room 999
David Cronenberg, Baz Luhrmann, Claire Denis and a host of directors discuss cinema’s future in this riveting sequel to Wim Wenders’s 1982 classic.
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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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Sand
The hauntings of the Sri Lankan Civil War are explored with quiet, incisive force in this Rotterdam Special Jury Prize winner.
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Scarygirl
Jillian Nguyen, Sam Neill, Tim Minchin and Deborah Mailman lend their voices to this Australian animated adventure based on the popular novel and game.
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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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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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Sunflower
In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.
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Surfacing
An immersive fairytale whose everyday heroes are mothers and children in Italian prisons.
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This Is Going to Be Big
A cast of neurodivergent teens prepare to come of age and hit the stage in their school’s time-travelling, John Farnham–themed musical.
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Trial
An enveloping, awe-inspiring contemplation of the vast universe and humans’ place within it.
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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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Ukraine Guernica - Artist War
Activist and filmmaker George Gittoes follows the frontline artists daring to stand up to the Russian invasions of Ukraine and Afghanistan.
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With Love to the Person Next to Me
A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.
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You Can Call Me Bill
From Star Trek to actual space travel, 92-year-old William Shatner has done it all. Alexandre O. Philippe beams us up with this touching tribute.
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