
-22.7°C
An immersive experience inspired by the musician Molécule’s adventures in the polar circle.
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Abebe – Butterfly Song
Discover the musical legacy and enduring friendship between celebrated Papuan musician George Telek and Not Drowning, Waving’s David Bridie.
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The Adults
Siblings can drive us to the edge. This visceral car crash of love and fury revs this American indie vehicle led by Michael Cera.
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After Work
A South London playground prompts an abstract meditation on work and play.
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Allensworth
James Benning invites us to contemplate Black history as he turns his structuralist lens on the first African American municipality in California.
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Anatomy of a Fall
Bristling with emotional depth, this Palme d’Or–winning courtroom drama puts the complexities of a relationship on trial.
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Anu
A deeply moving story of ordinary grief experienced in extraordinary circumstances.
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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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Baba
A gripping, darkly funny portrait of a middle-aged Iranian man whose life is rapidly unravelling.
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Bad Behaviour
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.
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Beyond Utopia
This pulse-racing nonfiction thriller follows the individuals risking their lives to defect from North Korea and the pastor granting them passage.
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Biosphere
Spoiler alert: humanity destroyed itself. How will the last two men standing ensure the survival of the species?
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Birdeater
A bachelor party takes a feral turn in this genre-defying debut from an exciting new Australian directing duo.
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birth/rebirth
In this modern reimagining of Frankenstein, the give-and-take of motherhood is tested through a collision of grief, creation and horror.
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BlackBerry
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.
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The Black Cat
Harvey Keitel stars in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of obsession and violence, now splendidly restored by Cinecittà.
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Blinded by Centuries
A hypnotic, futuristic reimagining of a Buddhist folk tale that speaks to our chaotic moment.
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
An enchanting animated take on Haruki Murakami’s short stories starring a gregarious talking frog, an existential bank teller and an elusive cat.
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Blue Jean
This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.
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Call Me Mommy
An intimate portrait of a single mother who turned to sex work during the pandemic.
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The Carnival
Amid bushfires, the pandemic and punters’ changing tastes, the family behind the Bells Family Carnival fight to preserve its century-long legacy.
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Casa Susanna
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.
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Chomp It!
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.
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Closing Night Gala: 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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Club Zero
In Jessica Hausner’s bold satire, a charismatic teacher convinces her teenage students that disordered eating can produce many kinds of enlightenment.
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Cold Water
Australian New Wave stalwart Bruce Spence (Stork; Mad Max 2) stars as a senile man haunted by events he can’t recall.
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Conann
A deliriously defiant, all-female reimagining of Conan the Barbarian that’s feted to become a new cult classic.
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The Coolbaroo Club
Restored by the National Film and Sound Archive, this film recounts how a haven of Indigenous dance and activism arose from segregated postwar Perth.
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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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Crushing Season
A disgraced former football star finds himself at a dangerous crossroads after witnessing a murder.
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Development
Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.
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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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Disco Boy
Franz Rogowski propels this mesmeric musing on wounded masculinity, which is ignited by French electro superstar Vitalic’s feverish soundtrack.
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Dog Apartment
A bizarre, imaginative and unforgettable animation from the legendary Estonian studio Nukufilm.
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Drift
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.
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Earthlings
Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.
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Earth Mama
This delicate, absorbing portrait of motherhood follows a young Black woman caught up in a spiral of institutional disadvantage.
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Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades.
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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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The Eternal Daughter
Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton star in Joanna Hogg’s Gothic coda to her two Souvenir films, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.
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Eureka
Slow-cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.
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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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Fairyland
This heartfelt Sofia Coppola–produced drama explores the intricacies of a father–daughter bond blossoming amid queer liberation and the AIDS crisis.
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Femme
After being attacked outside a London nightclub, a drag queen decides to turn the tables in this Hitchcockian queer noir.
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Fremont
With a laconic Jarmuschian vibe, Fremont is a heartfelt comedic ode to the immigrant experience.
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Fresh Kill
Radical lesbians, radioactive fish lips and toxic cat food collide in this sci-fi – a transgressive landmark of anarcho-satire and queer hacktivism.
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Fuck Me, Richard
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.
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Gate Crash
‘Would you choose them as your mates?’ asks this dark and dreamlike snapshot of a teenage friendship group.
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Generations of Men
A revisionist western inspired by author Judith Wright’s family history – the first narrative work to feature the Barada and Darumbal languages.
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Geometry of Faith
A mystical experience unfolds as the movements of celestial bodies envelop the landscape and its inhabitants.
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Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
This rare Aussie take on the popular exorcism subgenre builds to a brutal finale you won’t be able to excise from your mind.
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Gods of the Supermarket
A playfully inventive queer pop collage that turns its gaze on mainstream media representations of the male body.
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Grain of Truth
Footage of orbs in the skies of the Blue Mountains raises questions over the unexplained disappearance of the filmmaker who recorded them.
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Gush
A maximalist, kaleidoscopic visual essay of hurt and healing, and a one-of-a-kind statement of bodily sovereignty from wunderkind Fox Maxy.
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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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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
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.
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Hello Dankness
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.
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The Hidden Spring
Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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.
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How to Have Sex
A sun-drenched, hormone-laden trip of teenage kicks turns dark in this compellingly contemporary navigation of sexual politics.
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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.
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I'm on Fire
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.
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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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Invisible Beauty
An intimate self-portrait of Black model, booking agent and fashion changemaker Bethann Hardison and her challenge to the colourist status quo.
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Iron Butterflies
In this surreal and haunting documentary, a Ukrainian filmmaker obsessively sifts through the shrapnel of the MH17 plane crash.
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It Lives Inside
An ancient Hindu demon stalks an Indian-American teen between two cultures in this terrifying and original monster movie.
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I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs
A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.
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It's Only Life After All
On Her Shoulders director Alexandria Bombach recounts how two unassuming childhood friends became lesbian icons as folk-rock duo Indigo Girls.
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Japanese Story
In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.
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Jia
In this award-winning film, two strangers are brought together by shared grief, experienced from vastly different perspectives.
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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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The Job
A multi-award-winning Melbourne director shows how trauma can radically reconfigure our worldview.
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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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Kindred
An autobiographical story about the complexities of being an Aboriginal child raised in a white world, and a celebration of friendship and resilience.
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Kiss the Future
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.
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Laberint Sequences
An immersive 3D trip into the heart of Barcelona’s Laberint d’Horta, where a statue of Eros awaits.
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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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Late Night With the Devil
The Aussie brothers behind 100 Bloody Acres mix frights and frivolity in recreating a 1970s talk show that goes straight to hell.
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linda 4 eva
A wildly imaginative, hilarious and heartbreaking trip into a teenage girl’s mind, depicted as a phantasmagoria of self-loathing and angst.
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Little by Little
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’.
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Little Richard: I Am Everything
A rollicking deep dive into the life of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most exhilarating personalities, whose queerness was hidden in plain sight.
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Lord Shango
Christianity clashes with African spiritualism when a mother summons a tribal priest to avenge her daughter in this oddity of 70s Black cinema.
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Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
This essential music documentary asks: why is the 1970s’ most original and ethereal folk singer almost forgotten today?
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Lou
An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.
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The Maiden
In this exceptional debut feature, a supernatural discovery transfigures two teenagers’ world of graffiti, grief and suburban exploration.
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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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Master Gardener
Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver deliver outstanding, nuanced performances in Paul Schrader’s latest explosive study of male guilt and redemption.
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May December
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal.
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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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Mercy Road
The first virtually produced Australian feature, Mercy Road is an unrelentingly tense psychological thriller from Tracks director John Curran.
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MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Bank 4K Restoration
MIFF Ambassador Robert Connolly presents a radiant 4K restoration of his debut feature: an entertaining, anti-capitalist caper of greed and deception.
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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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Monolith
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.
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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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Mutt
In this award-winning feature debut, one chaotic day sees a young trans man’s past chase him as he chooses his future.
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Nanitic
A snapshot of a Vietnamese-Canadian family’s routines during its matriarch’s final days.
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Omen
Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.
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Opening Night Gala - Shayda

Passages
Love Is Strange (MIFF 2014) director Ira Sachs embraces the art of French cinema in this queer, Paris-set musing on a complicated relationship.
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Past Lives
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.
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Pentola
A diminutive middle-aged man hooks up with Batman in this playful, beautifully animated short.
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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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Pictures of Ghosts
Brazil’s modern master returns with a haunting tribute to the filmgoing experience in this Cannes-touted documentary.
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Querelle
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s iconic final film is a ravishing adaptation of Jean Genet’s homoerotic classic about a deadly sailor on shore leave.
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R21 aka Restoring Solidarity
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.
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Rebel With a Cause - Part 1
Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.
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Rebel With a Cause - Part 2
Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.
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Riddle of Fire
Direct from Cannes comes a charming, lo-fi fantasy caper for adults and children alike that’s destined for cult status.
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Room 999
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.
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The Rooster
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.
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Rose Gold
Sit courtside as the Boomers win their history-making Olympic medal and affirm Australia as a force to be reckoned with in global basketball.
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Scarygirl
Jillian Nguyen, Sam Neill, Tim Minchin and Deborah Mailman lend their voices to this Australian animated adventure based on the popular novel and game.
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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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Shayda
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.
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Shortcomings
First-time director Randall Park (Fresh off the Boat; Always Be My Maybe) takes on social mores with this fresh and fun misanthropic comedy.
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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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Shut Eye
A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.
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Slow Light
From its Clermont-Ferrand premiere comes a mythic fable exploring memory and nostalgia.
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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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Stay Alive, My Son (Chapters 1 & 2)
A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.
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A Still Small Voice
This Sundance US Documentary Directing Award winner is a revelatory portrait of a hospital chaplain and the people under her care.
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A Storm Foretold
Cartoon villain, master manipulator, traitor or true patriot? You decide in this engrossing portrait of Donald Trump’s wily adviser Roger Stone.
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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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Sunflower
In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.
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The Sweet East
Sean Price Williams makes his feature directorial debut with this freewheeling picaresque trip through the cliques and communes of today’s USA.
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Sweet Juices
An unhinged dumpling chef and her lover race against time in this unforgettably gross and hilariously over-the-top satire of Sydney foodie culture.
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
William Greaves’s once-forgotten countercultural masterpiece about a beleaguered New York movie crew turns the conventions of filmmaking inside out.
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Take a Look at This Guy
A depressed young man must face his intrusive thoughts in lurid colour.
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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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Then Comes the Body
The infectiously inspirational story of a self-taught Nigerian ballet dancer.
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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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This Is Not Here
A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
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Time Bomb Y2K
This archival explosion relives the wild and unhinged madness of the turn of the millennium.
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Trouble Every Day
Claire Denis’s divisive, seductively erotic horror film rises again, with Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo in all their grisly, sensuous glory.
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The Tuba Thieves
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.
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Turbulence: Jamais Vu
From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.
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Undercurrents: meditations on power
Australian filmmaker Margot Nash (We Aim to Please) reimagines her own archival footage for this poetic essay on resistance amid instability.
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Vision of Paradise
The search for a mythical island triggers a fascinating contemplation on historical expeditions and the worlds of virtual reality and AI.
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Voices in Deep
Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this humanistic drama.
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Walking
In this meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teen follows his mum through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
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We Used to Own Houses
Mud Crab director David Robinson-Smith returns with a stirring cine-poem about the rental crisis, starring Thom Green (Of an Age).
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With Love to the Person Next to Me
A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.
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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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You'll Never Find Me
An elderly caravan-park resident tangles with a mysterious woman in this deliciously unpredictable horror debut from an Australian filmmaking duo.
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