29 Hour Long Birthday
Mark Jenkin’s thorny postcard from New York and its surrounds presents a world of jackhammers, MAGA caps and celebrity spotting.
9 Temples to Heaven
An extended family go on a religious pilgrimage and navigate their interpersonal dramas along the way in this deeply personal reflection on modern Thailand.
Accelerator Lab Talks: Editing Mad Rush
Accelerator Lab Talks: Filming The Airport Chaplain
Accelerator Lab Talks: Modern Auteurs
The Fox director Dario Russo meets Sweet Milk Lake director Harvey Zielinski for a discussion about the pros and cons of cinematic DIYing.
Accelerator Shorts 1
Emerging voices and fresh perspectives from across Australia and New Zealand.
Accelerator Shorts 2
New visions. Bold stories. The thrilling future of local filmmaking.
Acetone Reality
Animation, found images and video recordings collide against a mind-bending dialogue between two computer-generated voices.
Adam’s Apple
In this candid and heartwarming portrait of transition – through gender and into adulthood – a filmmaker mother and trans son capture the power of acceptance and authenticity.
Ah Girl
Winner of Rotterdam’s Youth Jury Award, this beautifully affecting portrayal of young sisters navigating their parents’ divorce revolves around a pair of stunning child performances.
The Airport Chaplain
Hugo Weaving and Shabana Azeez lead the cast of this compelling new drama series about a chaplain with an unorthodox approach to solving an airport’s daily crises, consistently overstepping boundaries to help passengers and workers alike.
All of a Sudden
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto shared Best Actress Awards at Cannes for their sterling work in the latest long-form opus from master filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
All The Lovers In The Night
Based on Mieko Kawakami’s evocative novel, this tale of lost souls finding unexpected connection enchantingly explores loneliness and love.
American Doctor
An unapologetic cry for humanity that reveals the on-the-ground reality of the genocide in Gaza and the experiences of the frontline medical volunteers who put their principles into practice.
Aniki-Bóbó
The feature debut of Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira returns to the screen, beautifully restored, as a charming, proto-neorealist revelation.
Animation Shorts
A collection of films that explode the boundaries of cinematic imagination.
AnyMart
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale, this deadpan satire of late capitalism sees a convenience store become a stage for darkly funny horror.
Armani Beauty Cinema Club Opening Night: Wishful Thinking
This SXSW Grand Jury Award–winning high-concept rom-com playfully questions the notion that love is the most powerful force in existence … for better or worse.
Aro berria
With ecstatic sequences reminiscent of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, this complex portrait of new-age commune life is a striking feature debut.
Arrival
After arriving in Aotearoa as refugees, a mother and daughter find their roles upended in the face of a new and unfamiliar world.
As Told by a Corpse
In this ecstatic vision of the body in flux, a newborn encounters their digital mutation 25 years on.
Atonement
An Iraqi mother meets a US marine, years after his squad killed her loved ones. Both suffer from the knowledge that bullets can never be un-fired.
Au hasard
Do we see what other moviegoers see? A fascinating act of cinematic misdirection for our age of misinformation.
Australian Shorts
Exciting new work from some of the nation’s most electrifying filmmakers.
Auto Queens
In Tamil Nadu, two tuktuk drivers – close friends and staunch union comrades – dare to challenge their industry’s rampant sexism.
Awake Before Your Gaze
Two Afro-Taiwanese men with US military fathers muse on how no single perspective can contain the weight of ancestry, identity, belonging and language.
The Awake
Back Home
Let loose in Laos without a crew, master auteur Tsai Ming-liang delivers a quiet, contemplative meditation on place and belonging.
Balconada
An unexpected rainstorm on a summer day sparks moments of inspiration and connection among neighbours in an apartment building.
Barbara Forever
Avant-garde lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer’s life and pioneering work take centre stage in this archive-driven tribute to a queer cinema icon.
Bell, Book and Candle
In a stand-out performance, Kim Novak has a bewitching good time toying with Jimmy Stewart’s clueless mortal.
The Beloved
Javier Bardem enthrals as a legendary director with ambiguous intentions who casts his estranged daughter in an upcoming film.
Ben’Imana
This year’s Cannes Caméra d’Or winner is an unflinching, deeply felt portrait of a community seeking justice, and closure, in the wake of genocide.
Best MIFF Shorts
A program of the award-winning short films, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury.
The Best Summer
Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Bikini Kill, Pavement and more, all at one fateful Aussie music festival. Get in line – we’re heading to 1995.
Better Go Mad in the Wild
Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is an enchanting portrait of solitude and free-spirited abandon following eccentric twin brothers living in the Czech wilderness.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Set in a coastal New Zealand town over the summer of 2006, this queer coming-of-age story – executive-produced by Jane Campion – is a bittersweet slice of pre-smartphone-era teendom.
Bitter Christmas
Pedro Almodóvar returns with this witty, award-winning metafiction that satirises the vampiric nature of creativity.
Black God, White Devil
A landmark film of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, this underseen 1964 Cannes Competition western returns to the screen in a stunning 4K restoration.
The Blood Countess
Screen icon Isabelle Huppert mesmerises as a glamorous vampire in iconoclastic queer filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s high-camp comedy.
Blue Heron
A filmmaker sifts through old videos and memories in this emotionally devastating coming-of-age marvel, a multiple award winner at Locarno and Toronto.
Body, remember…
A poetic evocation of the senses through the grain of film.
Body Blow
A disgraced, sex-addicted cop is thrust into Sydney’s crime-ridden gay district – and into a raunchy entanglement – in this neon-soaked queer erotic thriller.
Boss Cat
Desperate for independence, Sonja discovers the vibrant world of krump dancing, where she embraces expressiveness, challenges social judgement and finds her people.
Bouchra
In this striking animation set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, a queer coyote breaks the wall of silence with her mother nine years after her coming out.
Boundaries
An annoyingly selfish public-transport passenger provokes an imaginative, strikingly tactile reflection on the space we owe one another.
Broken English
From chart-topper to tabloid fodder and back again, the legendary British rock balladeer Marianne Faithfull reflects candidly on her storied past.
By the Faith of José Gerónimo
A transfixing, meditative journey into faith, history and cultural identity in the Dominican Republic.
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Recently restored to 4K, this underseen odd-couple romance is a sweet slice of 1980s New York life featuring cameos from Larry David and Orson Welles.
Carn the Chinese!
A tribute to the resilience, camaraderie and cultural significance of Chinese Australians in football.
29 Hour Long Birthday
9 Temples to Heaven — 9 วัด สู่สวรรค์
Accelerator Lab Talks: Editing Mad Rush
Accelerator Lab Talks: Filming The Airport Chaplain
Accelerator Lab Talks: Modern Auteurs
Accelerator Shorts 1
Accelerator Shorts 2
Acetone Reality
Adam’s Apple
Ah Girl — 泡泡糖女孩
The Airport Chaplain
All of a Sudden — Soudain
All The Lovers In The Night — すべて真夜中の恋人たち (Subete Mayonaka no Koibitotachi)
American Doctor
Aniki-Bóbó — Aniki-Bóbó
Animation Shorts
AnyMart — チルド
Armani Beauty Cinema Club Opening Night: Wishful Thinking
Aro berria — Aro berria
Arrival
As Told by a Corpse
Atonement
Au hasard
Australian Shorts
Auto Queens
Awake Before Your Gaze — 你夢見我時，我已醒來
The Awake
Back Home — Hui Jia
Balconada — Балконада
Barbara Forever
Bell, Book and Candle
The Beloved
Ben’Imana
Best MIFF Shorts
The Best Summer
Better Go Mad in the Wild — Radeji zešílet v divočině
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Bitter Christmas — Amarga Navidad
Black God, White Devil — Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol
The Blood Countess — Die Blutgräfin
Blue Heron
Body, remember…
Body Blow
Boss Cat
Bouchra
Boundaries — 경계
Broken English
By the Faith of José Gerónimo — A donde nos lleva la fe de José Gerónimo
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?