
Abebe – Butterfly Song
Discover the musical legacy and enduring friendship between celebrated Papuan musician George Telek and Not Drowning, Waving’s David Bridie.
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About Dry Grasses
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (The Wild Pear Tree) presents an ambitious epic of maladjusted male ego.
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After Work
A South London playground prompts an abstract meditation on work and play.
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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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Banel & Adama
Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s first longform work is a haunting fable of star-cross’d lovers set in a rural village.
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Behind the Scenes - Sound Design: Tristan Meredith
Accelerator Lab goes Behind the Scenes with Tristan Meredith, who discusses sound design and the MIFF Premiere Fund–supported Memory Film: A Filmmaker’s Diary.
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The Black Cat
Harvey Keitel stars in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of obsession and violence, now splendidly restored by Cinecittà.
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Blinded by Centuries
A hypnotic, futuristic reimagining of a Buddhist folk tale that speaks to our chaotic moment.
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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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The Breaking Ice
The French New Wave lives on in this luminous, snow-covered Gen Z love triangle from Wet Season and Ilo Ilo director Anthony Chen.
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Cave Painting
Cave paintings collide with cinema in this breathtakingly immersive trip through space, sound and film texture.
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Deserts
In this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit, two debt collectors face the absurdity of their jobs while dwarfed by the majestic Moroccan desert.
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Disco Boy
Franz Rogowski propels this mesmeric musing on wounded masculinity, which is ignited by French electro superstar Vitalic’s feverish soundtrack.
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Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades.
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The Eternal Memory
This stirring Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner chronicles the love story of a Chilean couple navigating Alzheimer’s disease.
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Experimental Shorts
Unconventional cinema that tests the boundaries of form and function.
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Four Daughters
A mother and two of her daughters are joined by actors to work through their family history and grasp the other two daughters’ heartbreaking choices.
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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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Geometry of Faith
A mystical experience unfolds as the movements of celestial bodies envelop the landscape and its inhabitants.
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Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy
A jovial, dreamy rumination on love, time, what we collect and how we connect.
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Hounds
Bringing echoes of the Coen brothers and Tarantino to the mean streets of Morocco, this Cannes prize winner is not the Casablanca you think you know.
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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 Heard It Through the Grapevine
From the Deep South to DC, civil rights pioneer and I Am Not Your Negro subject James Baldwin revisits key sites in the US fight for racial equality.
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Inshallah a Boy
The first Jordanian film to screen at Cannes takes ferocious aim at the country’s ingrained misogyny.
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
This hypnotic, transcendental debut feature follows a young man’s mystical journey across a beguiling rural Vietnam.
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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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Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Tracing her stratospheric rise, this portrait of the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist reveals a rich life not without its struggles.
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Kayo Kayo Colour?
Naturalistic and brimming with empathy, this debut drama unfolds over 24 hours in a marginalised Muslim community in India.
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Kiss the Future
Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this film recounts how local musicians banded together with U2 to offer hope to Bosnians in war-torn Sarajevo.
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Laberint Sequences
An immersive 3D trip into the heart of Barcelona’s Laberint d’Horta, where a statue of Eros awaits.
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La Chimera
A preternaturally skilled archaeologist goes on an Orphean quest for his lost love in Alice Rohrwacher’s latest and most romantically bewitching film.
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Last Summer
Catherine Breillat (Abuse of Weakness) returns with a daring portrait of a woman’s intimate relationship with her teen stepson, starring Léa Drucker.
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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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Lotus-Eyed Girl
A pulsating, eerily ambient collage film exploring the impact of colonialism on human desire.
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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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Mast-del
Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
Revered filmmaker Jeni Thornley (Maidens, MIFF 1979) composes an immersive cine-poem from her extensive super-8 archive spanning three decades.
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Monster
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tender answer to the question ‘Who’s the monster?’, awarded Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes, will melt your heart.
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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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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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Rose Gold
Sit courtside as the Boomers win their history-making Olympic medal and affirm Australia as a force to be reckoned with in global basketball.
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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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Shut Eye
A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.
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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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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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This Is Not Here
A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
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The Tuba Thieves
Described by its maker as a “meditation on access and loss”, this trailblazing film reframes cinema from a d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing perspective.
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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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