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My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow

A gripping documentary portrait of Russian journalists living and working under the crosshairs of a hostile regime.

Dir. Julia Loktev / 2024 / 324 mins / USA / Russian
Feature
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

The winner of the 2025 Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize, this AIDS-era allegory follows a young girl and her found family as they confront a hostile, fearful society.

Dir. Diego Céspedes / 2025 / 104 mins / Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Chile / Spanish
Short
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Nervous Energy

Executive-produced by Spike Lee, Chinese-Australian filmmaker Eve Liu’s electrifying short catches the livewire chaos of two young filmmakers out to make it in the big city.

Dir. Eve Liu / 2025 / 15 mins / USA / English, Japanese, French, Mandarin
Feature
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Never Get Busted!

A Texan narc turns maverick decriminalisation activist in this outrageous, colourful, hugely compelling saga set amid America’s drug and culture wars.
2024 / 105 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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News From Home

A poetic time capsule, Akerman’s minimalist film juxtaposes intimate missives from her mother with scenes from late-70s Manhattan.
Dir. Chantal Akerman / 1976 / 90 mins / France, Belgium / English
Feature
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Night Stage

When an on-the-make actor hooks up with a hunky mayoral candidate, the stage is set for mutually assured disaster in this fetish-forward thriller.
Dir. Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher / 2025 / 119 mins / Brazil / Portuguese
Feature
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Nightshift

In this 4K-restored treasure of 1980s cinema, a remarkable feminist filmmaker checks you in for one dreamy night in London’s lost punk underground.

Dir. Robina Rose / 1981 / 75 mins / UK / English
Feature
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Nineteen

Luca Guadagnino produces this electric, true-to-life tale of a young man’s discovery of sex, self and cities as he tries to understand where it is that his journeys are taking him to.

Dir. Giovanni Tortorici / 2024 / 109 mins / Italy / English, Italian
Short
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No Dance

Philip Brophy collects pocket ‘portraits’ of record buyers and listeners, breakdancers and pogo-stick jumpers, a radio DJ and a drum-machine programmer.

Dir. Philip Brophy / 1985 / 25 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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No Home Movie

An almost impossibly intimate portrait of her dying mother, Akerman’s final, melancholic film acknowledges their deep connection.

Dir. Chantal Akerman / 2015 / 115 mins / France, Belgium / French
Shorts Package
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No Prior Opportunity

Rhys Gilday, a man on the autism spectrum, and his love of AFL umpires, shine a spotlight on the game’s most misunderstood figures.

Dir. Alexandra Walton / 15 mins / Australia
Feature
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Nouvelle Vague

Fresh from its premiere at Cannes, see Richard Linklater’s affectionate recreation of the moment Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave changed cinema forever.

Dir. Richard Linklater / 105 mins / USA, France / English, French
Feature
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Olivia & the Clouds

The Dominican Republic’s third ever animated feature film is a mesmerising, Rashomon-like exploration of love and loss.

Dir. Tomás Pichardo Espaillat / 2024 / 81 mins / Dominican Republic / Spanish
Feature
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Omaha

A single father’s cross-state trip with his two children carries a slowly unfolding secret in this superbly shot road movie.

Dir. Cole Webley / 2025 / 83 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Once Upon a Time in Gaza

A young Palestinian man learns that revenge isn’t just a vicious circle – it’s cinematic.

Dir. Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser / 2025 / 91 mins / Germany, France, Portugal, Qatar, Palestine / Arabic
Feature
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One More Shot

An end-of-millennium house party becomes an endless, tequila-fuelled time loop in this ingenious comedy starring Emily Browning.

Dir. Nick Clifford / 2025 / 92 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Opening Night Gala: 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
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Orwell: 2+2 = 5

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 1984 is 2025.

Dir. Raoul Peck / 2025 / 119 mins / USA, France / English
Short
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Our Lady Who Burns

In the Portuguese mountains, traditional folklore takes a paranormal turn in this atmospheric meditation on storytelling, superstition, UFOs and cats.

Dir. Alice dos Reis / 2024 / 8 mins / Portugal / English
Short
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Pack Rat

Baby Teeth is forever out to prove she’s one of the guys: talking shit, stealing beer, accepting dares. But will she take it too far?

Dir. Lucy Suess / 2024 / 18 mins / New Zealand / English
Short
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Panadrilo

Camila is employed as a vet at a Panamanian zoo. She doesn’t have a work permit, her daughter is in New York, and her husband has turned into a crocodile.

Dir. Marcela Heilbron / 2024 / 15 mins / Panama / Spanish
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Parasite Live in Concert

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the South Korean maestro Jung Jae-il conduct and perform his own composition for Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece Parasite with Melbourne’s own Orchestra Victoria – while the film plays on the big screen.
Dir. Bong Joon-ho / 152 mins / South Korea / Korean
Feature
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Pasa Faho

A shoe salesman struggles to save his small business and pass on his values to his son in this quintessentially Melbourne tale of life in a migrant community.

Dir. Kalu Oji / 2025 / 86 mins / Australia / English, Igbo
Short
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Passionless Moments

Jane Campion’s playful, poignant 1983 collaboration with Sweetie co-writer Gerard Lee finds the magic in life’s everyday details.

Dir. Jane Campion / 1983 / 13 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Pavements

Irreverent indie rock pioneers Pavement go through the looking glass in Alex Ross Perry’s multilayered documentary experiment.

Dir. Alex Ross Perry / 2024 / 128 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Pennies From Heaven

A glorious spectacle largely misunderstood in its day, MGM’s daring musical takes an unsentimental approach to Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Dir. Herbert Ross / 1981 / 108 mins / USA / English
Feature
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The Perfect Neighbor

Winner of a Sundance Directing Award, this timely true-crime documentary exposes the racial violence at the heart of US society.
Dir. Geeta Gandbhir / 2025 / 97 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Peter Hujar’s Day

Ben Whishaw reunites with Ira Sachs for another revealing account of the queer experience, this time turning the lens on a brilliant photographer.

Dir. Ira Sachs / 2025 / 76 mins / USA, Germany / English
Feature
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Philip Brophy Restorations

Purge your body of the foul present day and immerse yourself afresh in 1980s Melbourne with two seminal films from a legendary experimentalist.

Dir. Philip Brophy / Australia / English
Feature
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A Poet

In this sardonic Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner, a washed-up poet decides to mentor a promising young writer in a bid to vicariously relive his glory days.

Dir. Simón Mesa Soto / 2025 / 120 mins / Germany, Colombia, Sweden / Spanish
Feature
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Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles

Akerman paints a French New Wave portrait of teen anxiety and flirtation in this affectionate, quasi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama.

Dir. Chantal Akerman / 1993 / 60 mins / France / French
Short
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Portrait d’une paresseuse

In the Seven Women, Seven Sins chapter alternatively titled La Paresse (Sloth), Akerman directs and stars in an ironic meditation on idleness from the perspective of a filmmaker who’d seemingly rather stay in bed.

Dir. Chantal Akerman / 1986 / 8 mins / Germany / French
Feature
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Premiere With Purpose: Prime Minister

Enter Jacinda Ardern’s private world as she leads New Zealand through tumultuous times in this Sundance award-winning documentary.

Dir. Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz / 2025 / 103 mins / USA, New Zealand / English
Feature
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The President's Cake

A young girl is tasked with baking a cake to celebrate Saddam Hussein’s birthday in this playful fable that won two awards at Cannes including the Caméra d’Or.

Dir. Hasan Hadi / 2025 / 103 mins / USA, Iraq, Qatar / Arabic
Feature
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Prime Minister

Enter Jacinda Ardern’s private world as she leads New Zealand through tumultuous times in this Sundance award-winning documentary.

Dir. Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz / 2025 / 103 mins / USA, New Zealand / English
Feature
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A Private Life

Jodie Foster delivers a delightful bilingual performance as a neurotic therapist turned amateur sleuth in this slippery thriller that charmed Cannes.

Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski / 2025 / 100 mins / France / French
Feature
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Promised Sky

Opening Un Certain Regard at Cannes, rising French-Tunisian auteur Erige Sehiri’s drama is a lively, poignant story of women creating community.

Dir. Erige Sehiri / 2025 / 95 mins / France, Qatar, Tunisia / French, Arabic
Short
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Pulp

In a haunting near-future that feels like the end of the world, an estranged mother and daughter reunite under dark circumstances.

Dir. Sarah Hegge-Taylor / 2025 / 13 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Punku

Two teenagers in Amazonian Peru are mysteriously bound to one another – and to the spectres of a dark supernatural world that follow them – in this Berlinale Forum stand-out.

Dir. J.D. Fernández Molero / 2025 / 132 mins / Peru / Spanish, Quechua, Matsigenka
Feature
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

An inspiring portrait of Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, whose defiant images of life in Gaza bring both hope and tragic consequences.

Dir. Sepideh Farsi / 2025 / 110 mins / France, Iran, Palestine / English, French, Arabic
Feature
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The Python Hunt

A group of eclectic Floridians embark on an annual python hunt in this madcap SXSW Special Jury Award winner.

Dir. Xander Robin / 2025 / 91 mins / USA / English
Short
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Rain Falls Still

A monk wearing a white rose prepares food as an offering in a Buddhist temple while black-and-white dreams of a rainy day wash over him.

Dir. Bạch Đăng Tùng / 2024 / 12 mins / Australia, Vietnam / Vietnamese
Short
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Razeh-del

The 1998 founding of Iran’s first women-run newspaper inspires two schoolgirls to dream of a film that can never be made: a lesbian love story that ends with the Ministry of Culture being set ablaze.

Dir. Maryam Tafakory / 2024 / 28 mins / UK, Italy, Iran / English, Persian
Feature
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Rebuilding

In this heart-wrenching rural drama, Josh O’Connor plays a rancher rising from the ashes of a wildfire that destroys his home.

Dir. Max Walker-Silverman / 2025 / 95 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Redux Redux

Two broken women join forces for a bloody journey through the multiverse, seeking revenge and redemption.

Dir. Matthew McManus, Kevin McManus / 2025 / 107 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond

The filmmakers behind Let the Corpses Tan (MIFF 2018) bring a touch of Dario Argento’s brutally surreal aesthetic to their homage to 60s-Bond-style sexy spy thrillers.

Dir. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani / 2025 / 87 mins / France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg / English, French, Italian
Feature
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Remaining Native

In this SXSW Special Jury Award–winning documentary, a Native American teen’s desire to run embodies both career aspiration and ancestral connection.
Dir. Paige Bethmann / 2025 / 87 mins / USA / English
Short
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Remote Views

A televisual stream of consciousness assembled from archival footage set in the Black media explosion of the 1980s.

Dir. Alexis McCrimmon / 2025 / 15 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Renoir

This Cannes Competition highlight is a tender, memoir-etched coming-of-age portrait of formative loneliness and loss.

Dir. Chie Hayakawa / 2025 / 116 mins / Japan, Philippines, France, Singapore, Indonesia / English, Japanese
Feature
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Resurrection

Winner of the Cannes Prix Spécial, the third feature from Bi Gan is a sweeping sensorial odyssey and a meditation on human and film history.

Dir. Bi Gan / 2025 / 160 mins / USA, France, China / Mandarin