The Chronology of Water
Cloud
Iconic director Kiyoshi Kurosawa satirically skewers our complacent belief in the anonymity of the internet in this unnerving, vicious psychological thriller.
Come See Me in the Good Light
From darkness into light, this poetic documentary brings us to the brink of what it means to love.
Common Pear
In a climate-ravaged future, a team of scientists analyse footage of farmers from the past, hoping to understand their emotional connection to the land.
Consuming Culture
Contact Lens
In this radically sensory homage to Jeanne Dielman, Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece becomes a canvas for reimagining women’s emancipation from both the constraints of daily life and the limits of the cinematic frame.
Cutting Through Rocks
This Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner profiles a brazenly feminist, motorbike-riding Iranian trailblazer – the first woman elected to public office in her remote community.
D'est
Daily Worker
An international student in Manhattan digitises copies of the communist newspaper the Daily Worker, reflecting on both her mother’s history and her own precarious future.
Dani: The Portrait of a Beauty
Based on genre paintings by Shin Yun-bok, this interactive experience recreates the rituals, performances and daily life of the Joseon Dynasty in the 1700s.
Dead Lover
A lonely gravedigger goes to the morbid extreme to resurrect her lover in this warped, malodorous rom-com.
Deaf
With the arrival of their first child, a deeply-in-love couple – one deaf, one hearing – encounter unexpected roadblocks in their relationship.
Death Does Not Exist
An existential modern fable told in surreal imagery, this transfixing hand-drawn animation is a vivid treatise on the personal cost of revolution.
Deeper
A lauded Australian documentarian and one of the heroes of the Thai cave rescue come together for a gripping adventure into deep water.
Demain on déménage
Dis-moi
In an attempt to understand her own lineage, Akerman visits the homes of three women who survived the Holocaust.
DJ Ahmet
A charming coming-of-age story about finding your place in a world where tradition and modernity collide.
Dreams
Jessica Chastain reunites with Michel Franco for this scathing yet enthralling drama about immigration, manipulation and a romance built on inequality.
Dreams (Sex Love)
A teenage girl gives voice to her desires in this charming, thought-provoking Norwegian coming-of-age drama.
Drunken Noodles
The Dysphoria
A trans woman inadvertently summons a demon while performing a ritual in the hope of getting a vagina.
Eagles of the Republic
When he takes on one leading role too many, an Egyptian celebrity becomes a pawn for an oppressive regime he believes can’t touch him.
The Eating of an Orange
A surreal animated fable of repression, sexual awakening and copulating slugs.
The End
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon sing and dance their way through the end of the world in acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical.
Enzo
Robin Campillo directs a sensual queer coming-of-age tale of a bourgeois French teen and the Ukrainian labourer who shakes up his world.
The Eviction
After a troubling incident, a group of university students face an ethical dilemma: whether or not to evict one of their own.
Exit 8
The Extraordinary Miss Flower
Eye of the Game: The Deaf Ruckman
An inspiring documentary that follows the journey of Ryan Emerson, a deaf ruckman who defies expectations in a sport where communication is key.
Faceless
An Indigenous man lives three parallel realities in white Australia: sleeping rough by the Birrarung, navigating Naarm’s art scene and dining with mining powerbrokers.
Familiar Touch
The winner of a trio of awards at Venice, this profoundly empathetic drama creatively portrays a woman’s experience of dementia from her own vantage point.
Family Business
The act of filmmaking is gently interrogated in this screwball caper set in Los Angeles.
Family Gala: The Bad Guys 2
The felonious critters are back for one last caper – and this time, they’re doing it for the girls.
Family Man
A mysterious man appears in a mountain village, silently moving into a family’s home. Is he connected to the father who vanished many years before?
First Light
A nun encounters a lethal criminal conspiracy and begins to question her beliefs in this poetic, sensory meditation on faith, power and corruption.
Fiume o morte!
The Fix-It-Man And The Fix-It-Wooman
On a big-city dance floor, two soft sculptures try to impress each other with their moves. But it takes a comical mishap to bring them together.
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
In this Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner, A Palestinian filmmaker unearths – and decides to reclaim – rare footage of his homeland filmed by Scottish missionaries in the 1930s and 40s.
Folktales
A heartwarming documentary following three teens on a journey of self-discovery at a remote folk school in Norway’s far north.
Footy Shorts
MIFF and the AFL, supported by VicScreen, present five short works that combine two of Melbourne’s greatest loves: film and footy.
From Darkness to Light
The truth behind Jerry Lewis’s ill-fated and never-seen Holocaust comedy The Day the Clown Cried is finally revealed.
Fwends
Estranged mates get lost in Melbourne and fall back in love with one another in this lilting indie ode to the city and slacker cinema.
GEN_
The humanity and diversity of both trans people and those undergoing IVF are foregrounded in this intimate documentary centred on a passionate doctor.
Ghost Boy
A SXSW award-winning documentary about one man whose body became a prison, and how he found a way out.
The Girls
The extraordinary debut of trailblazing Sri Lankan filmmaker Sumitra Peries is a poignant, pointed study of two sisters battling class and gender restrictions.
Glasses
During an eye examination, a woman is confronted with a surreal world of her shadow selves.
God is shy
Are you scared of swimming when you can’t see what’s below you? Of Jungian shadow figures? Of The Shining? What about the chance to talk to God?
The Golden Spurtle
In a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands, kitchen amateurs and aficionados from across the globe gather to vie for the title of World Porridge Making Champion.