An immersive experience inspired by the musician Molécule’s adventures in the polar circle.

Discover the musical legacy and enduring friendship between celebrated Papuan musician George Telek and Not Drowning, Waving’s David Bridie.

Siblings can drive us to the edge. This visceral car crash of love and fury revs this American indie vehicle led by Michael Cera.

A South London playground prompts an abstract meditation on work and play.

James Benning invites us to contemplate Black history as he turns his structuralist lens on the first African American municipality in California.

Bristling with emotional depth, this Palme d’Or–winning courtroom drama puts the complexities of a relationship on trial.

A deeply moving story of ordinary grief experienced in extraordinary circumstances.

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.

A gripping, darkly funny portrait of a middle-aged Iranian man whose life is rapidly unravelling.

Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw star in this blackly comic debut about an ex–child star who attends a spiritual retreat in search of enlightenment.

This pulse-racing nonfiction thriller follows the individuals risking their lives to defect from North Korea and the pastor granting them passage.

Spoiler alert: humanity destroyed itself. How will the last two men standing ensure the survival of the species?

A bachelor party takes a feral turn in this genre-defying debut from an exciting new Australian directing duo.

In this modern reimagining of Frankenstein, the give-and-take of motherhood is tested through a collision of grief, creation and horror.

The genius and hubris of the tech industry collide in this wildly entertaining account of the dramatic rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone.

Harvey Keitel stars in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of obsession and violence, now splendidly restored by Cinecittà.

A hypnotic, futuristic reimagining of a Buddhist folk tale that speaks to our chaotic moment.

An enchanting animated take on Haruki Murakami’s short stories starring a gregarious talking frog, an existential bank teller and an elusive cat.

This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.

An intimate portrait of a single mother who turned to sex work during the pandemic.

Amid bushfires, the pandemic and punters’ changing tastes, the family behind the Bells Family Carnival fight to preserve its century-long legacy.

Deep in the US’s Catskill Mountains of the 50s and 60s sat a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men to experience life without fear.

Two crocodile men go to a public pool to cool off. It turns out one of them is distinctly more human – and the other is unable to contain his desire.

A ragtag cast and crew of theatre nerds bring extra drama to save their beloved summer camp in this uproarious mockumentary.

In Jessica Hausner’s bold satire, a charismatic teacher convinces her teenage students that disordered eating can produce many kinds of enlightenment.

Australian New Wave stalwart Bruce Spence (Stork; Mad Max 2) stars as a senile man haunted by events he can’t recall.

A deliriously defiant, all-female reimagining of Conan the Barbarian that’s feted to become a new cult classic.

Restored by the National Film and Sound Archive, this film recounts how a haven of Indigenous dance and activism arose from segregated postwar Perth.

Oscar-winning Amy and Senna director Asif Kapadia fuses horror and expressionistic dance in this haunting ballet inspired by Woyzeck and Frankenstein.

A disgraced former football star finds himself at a dangerous crossroads after witnessing a murder.

Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.

Pioneering sexologist Shere Hite is rescued from history’s margins in this fascinating portrait from Oscar-nominated documentarian Nicole Newnham.

Franz Rogowski propels this mesmeric musing on wounded masculinity, which is ignited by French electro superstar Vitalic’s feverish soundtrack.

A bizarre, imaginative and unforgettable animation from the legendary Estonian studio Nukufilm.

Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat shine in the stirring new work from Anthony Chen, which explores how friendship can salve the traumas of the past.

Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.

This delicate, absorbing portrait of motherhood follows a young Black woman caught up in a spiral of institutional disadvantage.

The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades.

This account of an elderly woman’s nerve-racking journey across Manhattan is a heart-stoppingly sharp indictment of the US healthcare system.

Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton star in Joanna Hogg’s Gothic coda to her two Souvenir films, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.

Slow-cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.

A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.

This heartfelt Sofia Coppola–produced drama explores the intricacies of a father–daughter bond blossoming amid queer liberation and the AIDS crisis.

After being attacked outside a London nightclub, a drag queen decides to turn the tables in this Hitchcockian queer noir.

With a laconic Jarmuschian vibe, Fremont is a heartfelt comedic ode to the immigrant experience.

Radical lesbians, radioactive fish lips and toxic cat food collide in this sci-fi – a transgressive landmark of anarcho-satire and queer hacktivism.

A twisted tale of broken legs, painkillers and phone sex that explores the dark heart of transactional relationships – and the sick thrill of a scam.

‘Would you choose them as your mates?’ asks this dark and dreamlike snapshot of a teenage friendship group.

A revisionist western inspired by author Judith Wright’s family history – the first narrative work to feature the Barada and Darumbal languages.

A mystical experience unfolds as the movements of celestial bodies envelop the landscape and its inhabitants.

This rare Aussie take on the popular exorcism subgenre builds to a brutal finale you won’t be able to excise from your mind.

A playfully inventive queer pop collage that turns its gaze on mainstream media representations of the male body.

Footage of orbs in the skies of the Blue Mountains raises questions over the unexplained disappearance of the filmmaker who recorded them.

A maximalist, kaleidoscopic visual essay of hurt and healing, and a one-of-a-kind statement of bodily sovereignty from wunderkind Fox Maxy.

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.

Venture behind the pink tutu with the legendary Sex and the City stylist to discover the creative process that made her a New York icon.

It’s the end of the world as we know it and no-one feels fine in Soda Jerk’s latest cinematic remix, which sassily swipes at deepfakes and Trumpism.

Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.

The stakes are high but the cost of sitting idle is higher for a group of environmental activists who band together to disrupt the oil industry.

A sun-drenched, hormone-laden trip of teenage kicks turns dark in this compellingly contemporary navigation of sexual politics.

From the Deep South to DC, civil rights pioneer and I Am Not Your Negro subject James Baldwin revisits key sites in the US fight for racial equality.

Making mixtapes becomes a means of survival for a troubled 12-year-old Italian-American in this ferociously energetic, 80s-set coming-of-age story.

Hit the town and seek out the next illegal rave in this euphoric, multisensory joyride about the 1980s Acid House movement.

An intimate self-portrait of Black model, booking agent and fashion changemaker Bethann Hardison and her challenge to the colourist status quo.

In this surreal and haunting documentary, a Ukrainian filmmaker obsessively sifts through the shrapnel of the MH17 plane crash.

An ancient Hindu demon stalks an Indian-American teen between two cultures in this terrifying and original monster movie.

A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.

On Her Shoulders director Alexandria Bombach recounts how two unassuming childhood friends became lesbian icons as folk-rock duo Indigo Girls.

In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.

In this award-winning film, two strangers are brought together by shared grief, experienced from vastly different perspectives.

Tracing her stratospheric rise, this portrait of the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist reveals a rich life not without its struggles.

A multi-award-winning Melbourne director shows how trauma can radically reconfigure our worldview.

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Elma Kris and Waangenga Blanco lead this film about a Torres Strait Islander woman whisked away from her thankless job.

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.

An autobiographical story about the complexities of being an Aboriginal child raised in a white world, and a celebration of friendship and resilience.

Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this film recounts how local musicians banded together with U2 to offer hope to Bosnians in war-torn Sarajevo.

An immersive 3D trip into the heart of Barcelona’s Laberint d’Horta, where a statue of Eros awaits.

A preternaturally skilled archaeologist goes on an Orphean quest for his lost love in Alice Rohrwacher’s latest and most romantically bewitching film.

The Aussie brothers behind 100 Bloody Acres mix frights and frivolity in recreating a 1970s talk show that goes straight to hell.

A wildly imaginative, hilarious and heartbreaking trip into a teenage girl’s mind, depicted as a phantasmagoria of self-loathing and angst.

In her first foray into cinema, Safi Faye acts in Jean Rouch’s comedy about two Nigeriens whose Paris trip becomes a lesson in ‘reverse ethnography’.

A rollicking deep dive into the life of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most exhilarating personalities, whose queerness was hidden in plain sight.

Christianity clashes with African spiritualism when a mother summons a tribal priest to avenge her daughter in this oddity of 70s Black cinema.

This essential music documentary asks: why is the 1970s’ most original and ethereal folk singer almost forgotten today?

An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.

In this exceptional debut feature, a supernatural discovery transfigures two teenagers’ world of graffiti, grief and suburban exploration.

This Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) and Teddy Award for Best Short Film winner depicts a Yankunytjatjara man’s search for belonging.

Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver deliver outstanding, nuanced performances in Paul Schrader’s latest explosive study of male guilt and redemption.

Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal.

Scissors out! Someone literally slays at a hairdressing competition in this exuberant one-take murder mystery.

Revered filmmaker Jeni Thornley (Maidens, MIFF 1979) composes an immersive cine-poem from her extensive super-8 archive spanning three decades.

The first virtually produced Australian feature, Mercy Road is an unrelentingly tense psychological thriller from Tracks director John Curran.

MIFF Ambassador Robert Connolly presents a radiant 4K restoration of his debut feature: an entertaining, anti-capitalist caper of greed and deception.

This poetic, visually striking meditation on growing up under apartheid in South Africa is unlike any documentary memoir you’ve seen before.

A disgraced journalist is confronted with an unexplained artefact that may not be of this world, but is about to become the centre of hers.

The thrilling, debauched and frequently hilarious adventures of the legendary Melbourne post-punk band, in their own words.

In this award-winning feature debut, one chaotic day sees a young trans man’s past chase him as he chooses his future.

A snapshot of a Vietnamese-Canadian family’s routines during its matriarch’s final days.

Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.

Love Is Strange (MIFF 2014) director Ira Sachs embraces the art of French cinema in this queer, Paris-set musing on a complicated relationship.

What if the lover who never was is ‘the one’? This swooning romance follows a Korean woman whose heart is torn by the road not taken.

A diminutive middle-aged man hooks up with Batman in this playful, beautifully animated short.

Oozing blood, shapeshifting and a serial killer on the loose – this high school body horror is a feminist-charged frenzy, starring Alicia Silverstone.

Brazil’s modern master returns with a haunting tribute to the filmgoing experience in this Cannes-touted documentary.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s iconic final film is a ravishing adaptation of Jean Genet’s homoerotic classic about a deadly sailor on shore leave.

This time capsule of an extraordinary unseen history is a work of documentation and preservation – both of a moment in time and of the moving image.

Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.

Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.

Direct from Cannes comes a charming, lo-fi fantasy caper for adults and children alike that’s destined for cult status.

David Cronenberg, Baz Luhrmann, Claire Denis and a host of directors discuss cinema’s future in this riveting sequel to Wim Wenders’s 1982 classic.

Hugo Weaving and Phoenix Raei play a hermit and cop who form an unlikely connection amid crisis in this wonderfully weird sucker-punch of tenderness.

Sit courtside as the Boomers win their history-making Olympic medal and affirm Australia as a force to be reckoned with in global basketball.

Jillian Nguyen, Sam Neill, Tim Minchin and Deborah Mailman lend their voices to this Australian animated adventure based on the popular novel and game.

A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir-Ebrahimi anchors this Sundance award-winning portrait of a mother seeking a new life for herself and her daughter.

First-time director Randall Park (Fresh off the Boat; Always Be My Maybe) takes on social mores with this fresh and fun misanthropic comedy.

As much an ode to the daily creative grind as it is to the creative partnership between director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams.

A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.

From its Clermont-Ferrand premiere comes a mythic fable exploring memory and nostalgia.

Music video auteur, photographer and Control director Anton Corbijn takes history for a spin, demystifing the vinyl record artwork of the masters.

A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.

This Sundance US Documentary Directing Award winner is a revelatory portrait of a hospital chaplain and the people under her care.

Cartoon villain, master manipulator, traitor or true patriot? You decide in this engrossing portrait of Donald Trump’s wily adviser Roger Stone.

Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play reunited lovers in Pedro Almodóvar’s sensual queer western, direct from Cannes.

In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.

Sean Price Williams makes his feature directorial debut with this freewheeling picaresque trip through the cliques and communes of today’s USA.

An unhinged dumpling chef and her lover race against time in this unforgettably gross and hilariously over-the-top satire of Sydney foodie culture.

William Greaves’s once-forgotten countercultural masterpiece about a beleaguered New York movie crew turns the conventions of filmmaking inside out.

A depressed young man must face his intrusive thoughts in lurid colour.

A ragtag cast and crew of theatre nerds bring extra drama to save their beloved summer camp in this uproarious mockumentary.

The infectiously inspirational story of a self-taught Nigerian ballet dancer.

A cast of neurodivergent teens prepare to come of age and hit the stage in their school’s time-travelling, John Farnham–themed musical.

A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

This archival explosion relives the wild and unhinged madness of the turn of the millennium.

Claire Denis’s divisive, seductively erotic horror film rises again, with Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo in all their grisly, sensuous glory.

Described by its maker as a “meditation on access and loss”, this trailblazing film reframes cinema from a d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing perspective.

From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.

Australian filmmaker Margot Nash (We Aim to Please) reimagines her own archival footage for this poetic essay on resistance amid instability.

The search for a mythical island triggers a fascinating contemplation on historical expeditions and the worlds of virtual reality and AI.

Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this humanistic drama.

In this meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teen follows his mum through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

Mud Crab director David Robinson-Smith returns with a stirring cine-poem about the rental crisis, starring Thom Green (Of an Age).

A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.

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.

An elderly caravan-park resident tangles with a mysterious woman in this deliciously unpredictable horror debut from an Australian filmmaking duo.