
The Afterlight
One print. One screening. A one-of-a-kind chance to reflect on the ephemeral nature of celluloid, even as you watch it deteriorate before your eyes.

Because We Have Each Other
Sari Braithwaite’s delightfully intimate new feature invites us to share the mundane and the magnificent with a neurodivergent, working-class family.

Closing Night Gala - Clean
The genuinely inspirational story of how ‘trauma cleaner’ Sandra Pankhurst responded to an unseen world with radical kindness.

Dual
In his latest provocation, satire master Riley Stearns asks: if you had to duel your own clone to the death, would you win?

Embrace Kids

Emily the Criminal
Aubrey Plaza plays a woman with nothing to lose in this thriller about the late-capitalist lines some are willing to cross for the American Dream.

Fire of Love
In this love story written in lava, two intrepid scientists who adore volcanoes as much as each other gift the world with something extraordinary.

Franklin

Gondwana
Bear witness to the possible futures of the planet’s oldest tropical rainforest in a world-first durational VR installation.

Greenhouse by Joost
Joost Bakker investigates what it would be like to grow all the food you ever needed, leaving no waste as you do so, right at your doorstep.

Meet Me in the Bathroom
Don your skinny jeans and vintage tees for this ode to New York’s aughts rock renaissance, featuring The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and LCD Soundsystem.

Moja Vesna
A 10-year-old must keep her grief-stricken immigrant family together in this moving Australian–Slovenian co-production.

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
Join a telekinetic young woman on a wild and bloody trip to New Orleans in this horror-comedy from the director of A Girl Walks Home at Night.

Navalny
This award-winning, jaw-dropping documentary follows Vladimir Putin’s political rival as he investigates a state-sponsored poisoning: his own.

Opening Night Gala - Of an Age
Goran Stolevski’s heart-meltingly tender, quintessentially Melbourne queer coming-of-age tale will make you swoon from beginning to bittersweet end.

Petrol
An idealistic film student is drawn into an enigmatic performance artist’s shadowy world in Alena Lodkina’s follow-up to the acclaimed Strange Colours.

The Plains
An intriguing, intimate epic that charts the personal ebbs and flows of two men in conversation across the highways and byways of Melbourne.

Senses of Cinema
This archival treasure trove chronicles the rise and role of Melbourne and Sydney filmmaking cooperatives in the 1960s and 1970s.

Speak No Evil
Easily one of the most brutal and twisted films of year, Speak No Evil is a merciless horror of manners. You have been warned.

Sweet As
The Breakfast Club meets the outback in this uplifting coming-of-age road movie by Nyul Nyul / Yawuru director Jub Clerc (The Turning, The Heights).

Under Cover
As Australia’s housing crisis deepens, this Margot Robbie–narrated film shows us the fastest-growing social group facing homelessness: women over 55.

The United States of America
Legendary structuralist filmmaker James Benning crafts an ostensibly simple, quietly mischievous landscape work that reflects on his homeland today.

Volcano Man
When a filmmaker son sets out to make a documentary about his filmmaker father, long-buried feelings and dormant memories bubble to the surface.

Where Is Anne Frank
A beguiling and big-hearted animated reimagining of Anne Frank’s story from the lauded director of Waltz With Bashir.