Feature
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The Golden Spurtle

In a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands, kitchen amateurs and aficionados from across the globe gather to vie for the title of World Porridge Making Champion.

Dir. Constantine Costi / 2025 / 75 mins / Australia, UK / English
Feature
Past Event

Good Boy

Find out what your pet is always staring at in that empty corner of the room in this haunted-house horror told entirely from a dog’s perspective.

Dir. Ben Leonberg / 2025 / 73 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

The Great History of Western Philosophy

Chairman Mao, Socrates, the Monkey King and Mickey Mouse meet in this unhinged animated journey through Western and Eastern philosophy, mythology, art history, pop culture and stream-of-consciousness dream states.

Dir. Aria Covamonas / 2025 / 73 mins / Mexico / English
Feature
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Greetings From Mars

Is there life on Mars? One young autistic lad wants to find out … if he can only conquer four weeks at his grandparents’ place in the country first.

Dir. Sarah Winkenstette / 2024 / 84 mins / Germany / German
Feature
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Hallow Road

Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys face every parent’s worst nightmare in this taut, folk horror–infused two-hander.

Dir. Babak Anvari / 2025 / 80 mins / USA, UK, Ireland, Finland / English
Feature
Past Event

Hanami

Cape Verdean filmmaker Denise Fernandes’s striking debut feature is a poetic meditation on belonging and becoming.
Dir. Denise Fernandes / 2024 / 96 mins / Portugal, Switzerland, Cape Verde / English, Japanese, French, Cape Verdean Creole
Feature
Past Event

Happy Holidays

Ripples of social coercion flow outwards in this tense, cleverly structured Palestinian family drama.

Dir. Scandar Copti / 2024 / 123 mins / Germany, France, Italy, Qatar, Palestine / Arabic, Hebrew
Feature
Past Event

Happyend

In a dystopian urban landscape where technology is used to curb civil liberties and student rights, a diverse group of teenagers struggle to maintain their long-held friendships.

Dir. Neo Sora / 2024 / 113 mins / USA, Japan, Singapore / Japanese
Feature
Past Event

Harvest

A magnetic Caleb Landry Jones stars in this moody medieval parable adapted from a Booker Prize–shortlisted novel.

Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari / 2024 / 133 mins / USA, UK, Germany, Greece, France / English
Feature
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Heads or Tails?

Looking like he was born to play the role, John C. Reilly is Buffalo Bill in this spectacularly beautiful Italian western that exposes the lies behind – and lines between – myth and history.
Dir. Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis / 2025 / 113 mins / USA, Italy / English, Italian
Past Event

Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Horror

A panel of formidable final girls discuss how women have long been overlooked or sidelined in a genre that couldn’t exist without them.
60 mins
Feature
Past Event

High Art

Recently restored to exquisite 4K, this psychosexual lesbian love triangle drama unfolds in the heady heroin-chic days of the 90s New York art scene.

Dir. Lisa Cholodenko / 1998 / 101 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

Holding Liat

Humanity struggles under the weight of political machinations in this 2025 Berlinale multiple award winner.

Dir. Brandon Kramer / 2025 / 93 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

Homebound

Two Indian men, one Muslim and one Dalit, seek to rise above their stations in this drama about social division and friendship – award-winning director Neeraj Ghaywan’s first feature in 10 years.

Dir. Neeraj Ghaywan / 2025 / 119 mins / India / Hindi
Feature
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Hotel Monterey

Akerman’s debut feature silently captures a mesmeric night of down-at-heel accommodation in 70s Manhattan.
Dir. Chantal Akerman / 1972 / 63 mins / Belgium / No Dialogue
Shorts Package
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House Divided

Inspired by filmmaker siblings Danielle and Lachlan Baynes's own family story, House Divided explores the unique dynamic of intra-family footy rivalries.

Dir. Danielle Baynes / 15 mins / Australia
Short
Past Event

Howl

At a suburban house party, best friends Daisy and Lila navigate the intense experience of being a teenage girl in a patriarchal world.

Dir. Domini Marshall / 2024 / 16 mins / English
Feature
Past Event

I, Poppy

A mother and son clash over how best to confront an unjust system in this compelling Hot Docs Best International Feature Documentary winner.
Dir. Vivek Chaudhary / 2025 / 82 mins / India / Hindi
Short
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I’m Glad You’re Dead Now

The winner of this year’s Short Film Palme d’Or at Cannes is a tale of two brothers returning to the island of their childhood – and to the buried secrets that await.

Dir. Tawfeek Barhom / 2025 / 13 mins / Greece, France, Palestine / Arabic
Short
Past Event

I'm The Most Racist Person I Know

When Lali goes on a date with Ana, they bond over their shared experiences as queer women of colour – but Lali also confronts her own prejudices.

Dir. Leela Varghese / 2024 / 13 mins / Australia / English
Feature
Past Event

I Only Rest in the Storm

Garnering an acting award at Cannes for Cleo Diára, this sprawling, low-key odyssey puts First World assumptions about international aid in the crosshairs.

Dir. Pedro Pinho / 2025 / 211 mins / France, Portugal, Romania, Brazil / Portuguese, Creole
Feature
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I Saw a King

When an exiled Ethiopian prince is imprisoned at his grand family home, a young daydreamer awakens to the reality of fascist Italy.

Dir. Giorgia Farina / 2024 / 95 mins / Italy / Italian
Feature
Past Event

The Ice Tower

Winning a Silver Bear at the 2025 Berlinale, visionary cinematic dreamer Lucile Hadžihalilović’s latest luminous cinematic fairytale is not to be missed.

Dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović / 2025 / 117 mins / Germany, France / French
Feature
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Judged the best performance at this year’s Berlinale, Rose Byrne’s phenomenal star turn propels writer/director Mary Bronstein’s devastatingly honest, darkly comic vision of motherhood.

Dir. Mary Bronstein / 2025 / 113 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

Imagine

A phone-obsessed teen is pulled into a vortex in this genre-bending fable that asks: what might we discover if we finally look up?

Dir. Tyson Yunkaporta, Jack Manning Bancroft / 2025 / 80 mins / Australia / English
Past Event

In Conversation: Alex Ross Perry

Spend an hour with American independent cinema’s most prolific director, Alex Ross Perry, to discuss Pavements (MIFF 2025) and Videoheaven (MIFF 2025), along with his pop culture–laced body of work. Hosted by Brodie Lancaster.
60 mins
Past Event

In Conversation: Charlotte Wells & Sophie Hyde

An unmissable hour with Charlotte Wells (Aftersun, MIFF 2022) and Sophie Hyde (Jimpa), as they discuss their celebrated work, influences and approaches to filmmaking.
60 mins
Past Event

In Conversation: Maestro Jung Jae-il

A rare opportunity to hear from one of the most celebrated film composers before an exclusive performance of his Parasite score with Orchestra Victoria. Hosted by Caitlin Yeo.
60 mins
Short
Past Event

In the Depths of Her Memory

An ageing Mexican woman recalls ever-darker memories from her childhood over images that slowly detach from reality.

Dir. Chloe de Brito / 2025 / 8 mins / Australia, Mexico / Spanish
Short
Past Event

INFINIT3

Talk to Me and Babygirl actor Sophie Wilde stars as a young woman who dances through life, death and the beyond in search of self.

Dir. Riley Blakeway / 2025 / 11 mins / Australia / English
Short
Past Event

Inflatable Bear, Hourly

Lena, a Russian expat in Berlin, is struggling to find acting work. Luckily, she still has her gig inside a giant bear costume.

Dir. Elisabeth Werchosin / 2024 / 12 mins / Germany / English, Russian, German
Shorts Package
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International Shorts 1

Ambitious ideas. New sensations. The world’s finest short-form cinema.

110 mins
Shorts Package
Past Event

International Shorts 2

Award-winners, eye-openers and tender tales from Cannes and beyond.

108 mins
Short
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Interview With A Hero

A Cambodian-Australian father finds his memories flooding back when he’s given a chance to perform shadow puppetry on national TV.

Dir. Andy ‘Celeste’ Diep / 2025 / 15 mins / Australia / English, Khmer
Feature
Past Event

Iron Winter

Seeking to keep a centuries-old tradition alive, two friends battle extreme conditions as they herd 2000 horses through the icy Mongolian steppes.

Dir. Kasimir Burgess / 2025 / 90 mins / Australia, Mongolia / Mongolian
Feature
Past Event

Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958–1989

A prime-time epic charting three decades of politics, survival and power struggle, as watched from the living rooms of millions of Swedish homes.

Dir. Göran Hugo Olsson / 2024 / 206 mins / Denmark, Sweden, Finland / English, Arabic, Hebrew
Feature
Past Event

It Ends

Four friends on a late-night drive find themselves trapped on an endless road to nowhere.

Dir. Alex Ullom / 2025 / 87 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley

In this Sundance-premiering portrait, a flame of faithful love salvages the genius singer-songwriter’s humanity from the shadow of his premature death.
Dir. Amy Berg / 2025 / 108 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

It Was Just an Accident

Winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller is both a broadside and real-world triumph against authoritarian oppression.

Dir. Jafar Panahi / 2025 / 101 mins / France, Luxembourg, Iran / Farsi
XR
Past Event

Ito Meikyū

Literally meaning “the thread labyrinth”, Ito Meikyu uses 360-degree VR technology to weave together an interconnected compilation of spaces.
Dir. Boris Labbé / 2024 / 15 mins / France / No Dialogue
Short
Past Event

J’ai faim, j’ai froid

In this newly 4K-restored gem, two adventurous teenage girls ditch Brussels for the bright lights of Paris with moving results.

Dir. Chantal Akerman / 1984 / 12 mins / France / French
Feature
Past Event

Je tu il elle

Akerman plays the central role in her first narrative feature, a frank exploration of both disconnection and intimacy.
Dir. Chantal Akerman / 1974 / 86 mins / France, Belgium / French
Feature
Past Event

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Voted the greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 global poll of film critics, Chantal Akerman’s breakthrough masterpiece is a radically meticulous portrait of domestic disquiet – now restored in 4K.
Dir. Chantal Akerman / 1979 / 201 mins / France, Belgium / French
Feature
Past Event

Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Man

One of Australia’s true rock’n’roll legends continues his transformation into a candid storyteller in this moving, fascinating tell-all doc.

Dir. Andrew Farrell / 2025 / 107 mins / Australia
Feature
Past Event

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

What do isolation tanks, dolphin intelligence and psychedelic therapy have in common? You’re about to find out.

Dir. Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens / 2025 / 89 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

Journey Home, David Gulpilil

After his passing, legendary Yolngu actor David Gulpilil is brought back to his home country in a continent-traversing commemoration worthy of his transcendent talent.

Dir. Maggie Miles, Trisha Morton-Thomas / 2025 / 88 mins / Australia / English, Yolŋu Matha
Feature
Past Event

Julia Holter: The Passion of Joan of Arc

Acclaimed LA singer, songwriter and composer Julia Holter comes exclusively to MIFF to present a special live score to one of cinema’s all-time visionary works.
Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer / 1928 / France
Feature
Past Event

Kamay

The death of a young woman leads a Hazara family to look for answers and pursue justice on the eve of the Taliban’s takeover.

Dir. Shahrokh Bikaran, Ilyas Yourish / 2024 / 106 mins / France, Belgium, Afghanistan / Dari
Feature
Past Event

Kontinental '25

Do not expect too much from a system that continually fails those at the margins in this Silver Bear–winning firestorm from Romania’s most provocative filmmaker.
Dir. Radu Jude / 2025 / 109 mins / Romania / Romanian, German, Hungarian
Feature
Past Event

Kyuka Before Summer’s End

A languid summer sailing expedition is upended by family secrets in this visually stunning and inventive feature debut

Dir. Kostis Charamountanis / 2024 / 105 mins / Greece, North Macedonia / Greek