The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
The true story of one of the world’s richest men and one of the 21st-century art world’s greatest frauds. Or is it?
On the Road
At once intense and intimate, Venice 2025’s Queer Lion winner follows a drifter who goes on the run – and finds a meaningful spark – with a middle-aged truck driver.
Once in a Body
Stunning, expressionist oil-painted visuals express how it feels to carry emotions so heavy they take on a life of their own.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Gather alongside Harlem Renaissance luminaries in this incredible time capsule, finally completed more than 50 years after the footage was shot.
One in a Million
A profound cinematic odyssey filmed over a decade, this portrait of the coming of age of a Syrian girl in exile won Sundance’s Documentary Competition Audience and Directing awards.
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
John Turturro stars as a pavement-pounding old-school thief who needs all his Big Apple savvy to save his wife – and his way of life – from a young crypto gangster.
Opening Night Gala: Wicker
MIFF 2026 commences with the Australian premiere of Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer’s cheeky, star-studded and irresistible fable Wicker.
Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling
Members of a central Australian choir celebrate community and creativity through their own voices and vibrant animation.
Our Effed Up World
To save Earth from an insatiable alien, this slacker will need her dad and her effing loyal mates, who make a crap planet worth fighting for.
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
Through a canny postcolonial lens, a filmmaker whose Western name is at odds with her Chinese heritage peels back conflicting layers of family history.
Paper Tiger
Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson lead James Gray’s crime drama about a pair of go-getters becoming embroiled with the Russian mafia.
Paper Trail
In this intensely moving montage, a life story is projected through a myriad of marks made on paper.
Paradise
Two lonely teenagers – one Ghanaian, the other Canadian – are unexpectedly drawn together in this compelling debut feature from a MIFF-awarded director.
Parallel Tales
In the latest Cannes-bowing psychological drama from Asghar Farhadi, Isabelle Huppert leads an all-star ensemble cast, playing a creatively blocked author whose voyeurism causes art and life to bleed into one another.
Past Future Continuous
This layered, IDFA-awarded portrait of an Iranian family long divided by geography but reunited by technology exudes a keen and haunting resonance.
Phenomena
A filmmaker’s chemistry experiments produce dazzlingly psychedelic results in this spectacular, scientifically illuminating Australian debut.
Phillip Philadelphia
Crude, lust-riddled and brilliantly cracked, this Gold Coast–set fever dream is the latest twisted caper from maverick auteur Adam C. Briggs.
¡PIKA!
Driven wild by an inexplicable itch, a desperate man seeks relief in a city’s seedy underbelly.
Please
Charming vignettes explore the full awkwardness, absurdity and disappointment of humankind’s yearning to be loved.
Portrait of Jason
In Shirley Clarke’s magnetic work of queer cinema, New York hustler, would-be cabaret star and raconteur supreme Jason Holliday delivers a monologue for the ages.
Praying Mantis
Splattered in copious animated sex and gore, this body-horror tale follows a vicious predator who’s part woman, part deadly insect … and all mum.
Premiere With Purpose: Silenced
MIFF’s Premiere With Purpose presents the Victorian premiere of Silenced – a film confronting one of the most pressing conversations of our time.
Pressure
Hours before D-Day, General Eisenhower’s chief meteorologist warns of brutal weather – but doesn’t predict the stormy debate he now faces to save Allied lives.
Protest on the Dancefloor
Protest on the Dancefloor explores how Blackfellas in Melbourne use music and dancefloors to create spaces of sovereignty, connection and liberation.
Queen at Sea
Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay star in this unflinchingly knotty drama about a woman and her stepfather at odds over her dementia-stricken mother.
Queens To The Front
A dialogue between filmmaker Tammy Lee Rock and Senator Lidia Thorpe reveals insights into the personal impact of Treaty and sovereignty.
Queer Singles Mixer - hosted by Lazy Susan
Raft Race
An unsettling encounter with older men has a life-changing effect on a young girl on a camping trip.
Rapid Eye Movement
How can we create a collective dream? This immersive performance stages a sensory journey through the various states of sleep and consciousness.
Reckless
Intoxicated by peer pressure and machismo, Danish bros roll the dice on ever-riskier dares in a gripping game that can only end tragically.
Rehearsals for a Revolution
Receiving the highest documentary prize at Cannes, this inspired essay movie channels the tumult of Iranian history into a personal account of loss.
Remake
In his most devastatingly personal work to date – awarded at Venice and True/False – veteran auto-documentarian Ross McElwee probes his home movies for insights into his son’s death.
Replica
Like a gender-flipped Her, this empathetic documentary follows three Chinese women whose yearning for intimacy is met by their AI partners.
Revolving Rounds
A camera floats across farmland and into an ancient stereoscopic device, plunging the viewer into the splintered heart of the image itself.
The River Train
In this spellbinding urban fantasy, a young malambo dancer breaks free of his rigid rural life by catching a train to the Argentinian capital.
The Road to Zennor
A poetic valentine to Mark Jenkin’s beloved Kodak Ektachrome, this hypnotic short glimpses Cornwall in bittersweet late autumn.
Rodeo Dreams
In rural Queensland, four determined young bull riders try to make it in one of the most dangerous sports on Earth.
Rojo Žalia Blau
Stunning European landscapes converge in this hypnotic homage to three-strip Technicolor.
Rose
Sandra Hüller’s knockout, Silver Bear–winning performance anchors this tragic folktale about a woman who poses as a male soldier in 17th-century Germany.
Rose of Nevada
A Cornish seaside town mysteriously returns to life in analog auteur Mark Jenkin’s lo-fi sci-fi meditation on memory starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.
Rosebush Pruning
Karim Aïnouz returns with another carnal thriller – this time, with a star-studded cast playing an uber-rich family with questionable moral and sexual limits.
Roya
The Iranian state has imprisoned her body; now it wants her innermost self. Under torture, can a rebel teacher defend her values, emotions and memories?
Sad Girlz
This delicate, sunlit, Berlinale award-winning drama follows two teenage girls forced to navigate the fallout from a traumatic experience.
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Fresh from Cannes, this knockout historical thriller from genre master Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds mysteries afoot in a castle’s locked rooms.
School for Defectors
Spending a year in a school for children of North Korean refugees, Jeremy Workman’s documentary is as humanistic as it is intimate.
Score Kissa: Mārama
In the Listening Room of ACMI’s exhibition Reverb, Score Kissa presents the haunting soundtrack to Mārama in a special event introduced by the composers.
The Screen Show: MIFF’s Bright Horizons Filmmakers
Three of the most exciting emerging directors from Canada, Palestine and New Zealand discuss their journeys with The Screen Show’s Jason Di Rosso in this special event presented with ABC Radio National.
Sense of Nowhere
Where do we go when we zone out, and how do we return to reality? Zone in – your own way – through a mindful flow of sonic textures and visual motifs.
Sentient
In his directorial debut, veteran Australian journalist Tony Jones explores the moral, emotional and clinical questions – as well as answers – around why we still test on animals, and what it will take us to stop.
Shades of Silk
Long out of circulation, this evocatively elliptical tale of Sapphic yearning in 1930s Shanghai – newly restored – has been hailed as a major rediscovery.
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
On the Road — En El Camino
Once in a Body — Una vez en un cuerpo
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
One in a Million
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Opening Night Gala: Wicker
Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling
Our Effed Up World
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
Paper Tiger
Paper Trail
Paradise
Parallel Tales
Past Future Continuous
Phenomena
Phillip Philadelphia
¡PIKA!
Please
Portrait of Jason
Praying Mantis — 螳螂
Premiere With Purpose: Silenced
Pressure
Protest on the Dancefloor
Queen at Sea
Queens To The Front
Queer Singles Mixer - hosted by Lazy Susan
Raft Race
Rapid Eye Movement
Reckless — Vildere
Rehearsals for a Revolution — تمرینهایی برای یک انقلاب
Remake
Replica
Revolving Rounds
The River Train — El Tren Fluvial
The Road to Zennor
Rodeo Dreams
Rojo Žalia Blau
Rose
Rose of Nevada
Rosebush Pruning
Roya
Sad Girlz — Chicas Tristes
The Samurai and the Prisoner
School for Defectors
Score Kissa: Mārama
The Screen Show: MIFF’s Bright Horizons Filmmakers
Sense of Nowhere
Sentient