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.
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.
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.
Never Get Busted!
News From Home
Night Stage
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.
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.
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.
No Home Movie
An almost impossibly intimate portrait of her dying mother, Akerman’s final, melancholic film acknowledges their deep connection.
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.
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.
Olivia & the Clouds
The Dominican Republic’s third ever animated feature film is a mesmerising, Rashomon-like exploration of love and loss.
Omaha
A single father’s cross-state trip with his two children carries a slowly unfolding secret in this superbly shot road movie.
Once Upon a Time in Gaza
A young Palestinian man learns that revenge isn’t just a vicious circle – it’s cinematic.
One More Shot
An end-of-millennium house party becomes an endless, tequila-fuelled time loop in this ingenious comedy starring Emily Browning.
Opening Night Gala: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Orwell: 2+2 = 5
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 1984 is 2025.
Our Lady Who Burns
In the Portuguese mountains, traditional folklore takes a paranormal turn in this atmospheric meditation on storytelling, superstition, UFOs and cats.
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?
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.
Parasite Live in Concert
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.
Passionless Moments
Jane Campion’s playful, poignant 1983 collaboration with Sweetie co-writer Gerard Lee finds the magic in life’s everyday details.
Pavements
Irreverent indie rock pioneers Pavement go through the looking glass in Alex Ross Perry’s multilayered documentary experiment.
Pennies From Heaven
A glorious spectacle largely misunderstood in its day, MGM’s daring musical takes an unsentimental approach to Hollywood’s Golden Age.
The Perfect Neighbor
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prime Minister
Enter Jacinda Ardern’s private world as she leads New Zealand through tumultuous times in this Sundance award-winning documentary.
A Private Life
Jodie Foster delivers a delightful bilingual performance as a neurotic therapist turned amateur sleuth in this slippery thriller that charmed Cannes.
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.
Pulp
In a haunting near-future that feels like the end of the world, an estranged mother and daughter reunite under dark circumstances.
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.
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.
The Python Hunt
A group of eclectic Floridians embark on an annual python hunt in this madcap SXSW Special Jury Award winner.
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.
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.
Rebuilding
In this heart-wrenching rural drama, Josh O’Connor plays a rancher rising from the ashes of a wildfire that destroys his home.
Redux Redux
Two broken women join forces for a bloody journey through the multiverse, seeking revenge and redemption.
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.
Remaining Native
Remote Views
A televisual stream of consciousness assembled from archival footage set in the Black media explosion of the 1980s.
Renoir
This Cannes Competition highlight is a tender, memoir-etched coming-of-age portrait of formative loneliness and loss.
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.