Retirement Plan
In the comical throes of middle age, a man voiced by Domhnall Gleeson fantasises about all the things he’ll do once he retires.
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Wim Wenders’s evocative diary film finds him working with Francis Ford Coppola in New York, capturing a filmmaker reflecting on the Hollywood process.
Revolving Rounds
Take a visionary 3D trip to the limits of perception as you float across an agricultural landscape, through an early three-dimensional device and into a pea plant that shatters into a million particles.
The Rivals of Amziah King
Matthew McConaughey is a banjo-playing beekeeper trying to cement his legacy in this boisterous ballad of the US South.
Romería
Rising auteur Carla Simón’s Cannes Competition stand-out is a poignant coming-of-age tale interrogating hidden family history.
Room 666
Restored in vivid 4K, this legendary document of an artform in transition is as relevant now as it was in 1982.
Rue Mallet-Stevens
Mystery, modernism and romance come alive after dark in the 16th arrondissement.
Salt Saliva Sperm & Sweat
A yuppie writer and his co-workers spend four days tasting and digesting, spitting profanities, gratifying sexual urges, and indulging appetites for violence.
Same Player Shoots Again
From 1967, Wim Wenders’s second film – and earliest surviving work – is an experimental crime thriller following a man with a machine gun across a tableau of repeated shots.
Samsara
In this rousing collision of cinema, music and dance, a besotted Balinese man sells his soul and pays an unconscionable price.
Sanatorium
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
The first feature in 20 years from stop-motion animation legends the Brothers Quay is an episodic, shapeshifting, disorienting, death-etched fairytale.
Sankofa
Vividly restored to 4K, this masterpiece of 90s African cinema follows a model who is transported back in time to a slave plantation.
Saute ma ville
Akerman’s comedic and incendiary first completed short film – whose title loosely translates as “blow up my town” – explodes feminine conventions.
The Screen Show: MIFF’s Bright Horizons Filmmakers
The Sealed Soil
The earliest surviving female-directed Iranian film presents a seething and sensual portrait of a teenager resisting the bonds of patriarchy.
The Secret Agent
Winner of three major awards at Cannes, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s bravura political thriller set during Brazil’s military dictatorship is a wild widescreen odyssey.
The Secret of Me
A stirring, revelatory documentary that threads one intersex person’s journey of self-discovery with an exposé of widespread medical mistreatment.
Seeds
A Sundance-winning portrait of Black generational farmers that captures the weight of history, the fragility of legacy and the flux of contemporary America.
Sex
In this first tale in an acclaimed Norwegian trilogy exploring unexamined desires, a pair of middle-aged men wrestle with their identities and sexualities.
Shadows
A 14-year-old runaway mother races through the crowded Baghdad airport, fleeing the dark past that stands between her and freedom.
Sham
It’s a case of perception vs reality in this twisty, slippery courtroom drama from prolific genre-loving cult hero Takashi Miike.
She Dolls With Dollies
Tongue-twisting poetry meets floral collage in this fragmented dream.
Shedding
A performance for the Bolex camera that captures the ethereal interplay between celluloid and the physical body.
The Shirt off Your Back
Two brothers in Budgewoi recount a strange encounter with a man on Christmas Day.
Signorinella: Little Miss
The unsung contributions of Italian migrant women take centre stage in this new documentary from the directors of Lygon Street – Si Parla Italiano.
Silvesterchlausen
Each New Year’s Eve in Appenzell, Switzerland, groups of oddly bedazzled men gather for an arcane ritual of polyphonic yodelling and rhythmic bell-clanging. No one knows how or why it began.
Sirât
Fresh from winning bountiful acclaim and the Jury Prize at Cannes, this rave-at-the-end-of-the-world opus is an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
Songs Inside
A unique rehabilitation program connecting female prisoners to music offers a path to healing and hope in this sensitively told, award-winning documentary.
Sorry, Baby
One of Sundance’s buzziest debuts, this A24-backed dramedy about a young woman’s recovery from trauma announces writer/director/star Eva Victor as a formidable new talent.
Sound of Falling
Four intergenerational stories anchored by one German farmhouse evoke impressions of girlhood across the 20th century in this Cannes Jury Prize winner.
Space Cadet
Veteran DJ Kid Koala takes to the screen with this animated tale of a robot and an astronaut – a shrine to longing, loss and the power of music.
Special Preview: Eddington
Splitsville
Take two best friends and two marriages, shake and serve on the rocks with a garnish of irreconcilable differences.
Spreadsheet Champions
Six young people from around the globe channel their dreams into a competition with a difference: a test of their elite mastery of Microsoft Excel.
The Square
In the depths of a North Korean winter, a Swedish diplomat’s secret lover disappears. Can he find out what happened to her before it’s too late?
A Story About Fire
In this evocative animation based on an ancient Chinese myth, a cowardly monkey musters the courage to discover the secret of all warmth.
Stranger, Brother.
Millennial manchild Adam leads a self-absorbed life of partying and casual hookups – until his little half-brother is dropped at his doorstep.
Stranger Eyes
Lee Kang-sheng propels a slow-burn thriller – the first ever Singaporean film to compete for Venice’s Golden Lion – that blurs the lines between vigilance, voyeurism and the hunger to be watched.
Sud
Surviving Malka Leifer
The inside story of a titanic struggle for justice – crossing years and international borders – within Melbourne’s Jewish community.
Sweetie
Revered filmmaker Jane Campion’s audacious theatrical debut feature, now restored in 4K, is a delightfully strange portrait of a dysfunctional family.
Têtes Brûlées
A young girl wrestles with her Tunisian heritage as she grieves the loss of her beloved adult brother.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Retro Screening Experience
Relive the mayhem as it was originally experienced by Australian horror and genre fans: on a scan of a degraded VHS tape.
Theory to Practice: Cinema and Cultural Exchange
Theory to Practice: Forging Paths to Audience
Join IMDb Founder and Executive Chair Col Needham in conversation with director, producer and Arenamedia Founder Robert Connolly as they explore how IMDb has reshaped film discovery, visibility and market reach.
The Things You Kill
In this cerebral thriller from Sundance Directing Award winner Alireza Khatami, a Turkish university professor sets out to avenge his deceased mother.
This Is Not Your Garden
Ecological data are transformed into a hypnotic and haunting trip through a spectral field of pointillist light.
Three by Wim Wenders
Screening on the German auteur’s 80th birthday, these shorts showcase his passion for cinema.
Tiger
Winner of the Sundance Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing, this is a deeply moving, gorgeously shot portrait of the Native American family behind the iconic Tiger T-shirt.