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The winner of the 2023 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or is a colourful orgy of ennui and desire.
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Afire
In Christian Petzold’s Silver Bear–winning drama, a summer getaway on Germany’s Baltic coast unravels against the backdrop of looming wildfires.
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AliEN0089
Virtual and real-world violence blur in this terrifying, Sundance award-winning short.
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As Filhas do Fogo
Portuguese director Pedro Costa merges cinema, music and theatre for this tale of three sisters separated by an erupting volcano.
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Australia's Open
Relive the most thrilling moments of Australia’s beloved tennis tournament in this chronicle of its ascent to top-seed status on the global stage.
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Auteurs Abridged: New Shorts by Masters
Established feature directors return to the short form to play with time and experiment with structure.
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Autobiography
In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.
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Best MIFF Shorts
A collection of the best short films from the festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury and the MIFF Shorts programmers.
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Camarera de Piso
Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel weaves economic struggle, thriller and diva melodrama into a stunning exercise in bodily language.
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Castlemaine: Meet the Filmmakers
For the first time, MIFF Talks heads out of Melbourne to highlight the local filmmaking talents based in Victoria’s Goldfields region.
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A Couple
Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.
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Creature
Oscar-winning Amy and Senna director Asif Kapadia fuses horror and expressionistic dance in this haunting ballet inspired by Woyzeck and Frankenstein.
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The Delinquents
In this gently surreal, formally bold Argentinian take on the heist film, two bumbling bandits try to buy their liberty.
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The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Pioneering sexologist Shere Hite is rescued from history’s margins in this fascinating portrait from Oscar-nominated documentarian Nicole Newnham.
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Endless Sea
This account of an elderly woman’s nerve-racking journey across Manhattan is a heart-stoppingly sharp indictment of the US healthcare system.
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F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now
A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.
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Goodbye Julia
An engrossing moral thriller set against a nation torn in two, which won the inaugural Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize.
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Hafekasi
A 10-year-old girl becomes newly aware of her cultural identity in this impressive debut that received a Tribeca Narrative Short Special Jury Mention.
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Heat Spell
Tensions rise along with the temperature gauge in this blistering snapshot of sibling rivalry.
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Human Nature
The winner of the Rotterdam Ammodo Tiger Short Competition’s top prize is a touching portrait of shared uncertainty.
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In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
Hit the town and seek out the next illegal rave in this euphoric, multisensory joyride about the 1980s Acid House movement.
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International Shorts 2
An awarded and acclaimed cornucopia from directors known and new.
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I Promise You Paradise
From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a masterful portrait of an ostracised immigrant searching for salvation.
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Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Tracing her stratospheric rise, this portrait of the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist reveals a rich life not without its struggles.
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Katele (Mudskipper)
Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Elma Kris and Waangenga Blanco lead this film about a Torres Strait Islander woman whisked away from her thankless job.
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Keeping Hope
Mark Coles Smith (Sweet As) faces down a traumatic event from his past in the hope of helping young First Nations men in the Kimberley.
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La Chimera
A preternaturally skilled archaeologist goes on an Orphean quest for his lost love in Alice Rohrwacher’s latest and most romantically bewitching film.
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Lost in the Night
Amat Escalante’s follow-up to The Untamed is a stunningly visualised crime thriller that lays bare the class conflict and vice within modern Mexico.
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Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)
This Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) and Teddy Award for Best Short Film winner depicts a Yankunytjatjara man’s search for belonging.
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Mast-del
Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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Medusa Deluxe
Scissors out! Someone literally slays at a hairdressing competition in this exuberant one-take murder mystery.
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Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
Revered filmmaker Jeni Thornley (Maidens, MIFF 1979) composes an immersive cine-poem from her extensive super-8 archive spanning three decades.
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Milisuthando
This poetic, visually striking meditation on growing up under apartheid in South Africa is unlike any documentary memoir you’ve seen before.
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Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party
The thrilling, debauched and frequently hilarious adventures of the legendary Melbourne post-punk band, in their own words.
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No Bears
In this gripping blend of fact and fiction, revered Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi (3 Faces, MIFF 2018) decides whether to cross a line for his beliefs.
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Perfect Days
In this triumphant return to narrative film, Wim Wenders tackles life’s little details – mess and all – with his trademark meditative movement.
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Perpetrator
Oozing blood, shapeshifting and a serial killer on the loose – this high school body horror is a feminist-charged frenzy, starring Alicia Silverstone.
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Robot Dreams
In this beautifully bittersweet hand-drawn ode to friendship, a dog must find new meaning when misfortune separates him from his robot buddy.
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Scrapper
A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.
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Showing Up
As much an ode to the daily creative grind as it is to the creative partnership between director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams.
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The Silent Ones
Obstinacy and recklessness lead a team of fishermen out into dangerous waters.
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Sleep
Bong Joon-ho protégé Jason Yu’s clever horror debut stars South Korean favourites Lee Sun-kyun (Parasite) and Jung Yu-mi (Train to Busan).
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
In the southern Estonian woods, a group of women talk and embrace the soul-cleansing power of steam in this Sundance award-winning documentary.
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Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Music video auteur, photographer and Control director Anton Corbijn takes history for a spin, demystifing the vinyl record artwork of the masters.
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Stone Turtle
The supernatural encroaches on a woman’s simple existence in this FIPRESCI Prize–winning tale of folklore, deception and retribution.
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Stonewalling
A Gen Z woman contends with shifting cultural values and the one-child policy’s lasting impacts to understand her place in the world.
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Strange Way of Life
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play reunited lovers in Pedro Almodóvar’s sensual queer western, direct from Cannes.
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Theater Camp
A ragtag cast and crew of theatre nerds bring extra drama to save their beloved summer camp in this uproarious mockumentary.
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This Is Going to Be Big
A cast of neurodivergent teens prepare to come of age and hit the stage in their school’s time-travelling, John Farnham–themed musical.
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Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: 'Phony Wars'
From Cannes comes the final work by the late, legendary genius Jean-Luc Godard – a dazzling glimpse into a feature film that never came to be.
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Walk Up
Telling four stories (or maybe just one) over four storeys, Hong Sang-soo’s latest MIFF entry is a shrewd chamber play set within a single building.
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Werckmeister Harmonies
In this gorgeous new 4K restoration, Hungarian slow-cinema master Béla Tarr finds metaphysical horror in a nascent revolution.
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Where do you stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang quietly contemplates life in the mountains, reflecting on chairs, cats and portraits of his muse, Lee Kang-sheng.
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You Can Call Me Bill
From Star Trek to actual space travel, 92-year-old William Shatner has done it all. Alexandre O. Philippe beams us up with this touching tribute.
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