
2008
Blake Williams returns to MIFF with a stereoscopic 3D piece that collapses time, distance and intimacy.

Ain't No Time for Women
Hot Docs 2021’s Best Canadian Short Documentary winner turns the lens on Saïda’s, a salon where Tunisian women can talk politics while getting their hair done.

Angh
In 1960s rural India, a village chief and his son resist the pressure of conforming to the new world of Christianity.

Are You Still Watching?
Zoe Terakes voices a sex-crazed twentysomething in this lurid fever dream of queerness in lockdown.

As One
In the woods, a young woman and man scuffle as they fight for life.

Bach-Hông
A young Vietnamese-French woman is faced with the communist takeover of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

Baltasar
An African migrant living in Spain is confronted with the bitter meaning of ‘home’.

The Bends
A mixed martial arts fighter discovers she’s pregnant in the lead-up to the most important fight of her career.

Black Hole
Winner of two Locarno Leopards of Tomorrow awards, this stunning portrait of adolescent abandon unfolds at the threshold of emerging maturity.

Bonanza!
Commissioned by Chunky Move, this playfully experimental work traverses ritual, body modification and algorithms.

Bubble
A couple’s date at a tucked-away hole-in-the-wall takes a turn for the ravenous.

Call History
Claudie seeks advice from an old flame as a new love is born from the embers.

Craftsman
Isolated and maligned by her peers, a woodworker crafts a more assured self-image.

Don't Forget to Go Home
Two Fijian-Indian sisters escape their cousin’s wedding to get high on disobedience and drugs.

Each Other
An absurdist study of the human body as a limitless instrument for self-discovery.

earthearthearth
IFFR Tiger Award winner Daïchi Saïto presents an absorbing, otherworldly study of our planet.

The Echo
In a nondescript place, seemingly forgotten by time, a teenager tries to outrun his loneliness.

Entre tú y Milagros
In this coming-of-age tale, which won Venice’s Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film, a Colombian 15-year-old born into privilege experiences a rude awakening.

Finding Jedda
The directorial debut from producer Tanith Glynn-Maloney reimagines the 1954 auditions for Charles Chauvel’s iconic final film.

Freedom Swimmer
Olivia Martin McGuire parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for freedom in Hong Kong today.

The Game
Step into a referee’s boots and onto the field to soak up the ecstasy and thrilling stakes of a soccer match.

Giants
MIFF alumnus and Shorts Award winner Eddy Bell returns with an intimate and critical portrait of one of Australia’s worst droughts.

Glen
Divorced, lonely and inept with the web, a 50-year-old man decides to try his hand at finding love online – with spectacularly catastrophic results.

Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
Remembrance blooms in this New York Film Festival–premiering avant-garde short.

Gravedad
In a world with extremes of gravity, Rosa must navigate what it means to feel emotional ups and downs.

Happy Valley
Shot on cold-hued 16mm, this mournful, restless ode to Hong Kong sketches the city’s fragile present and indefinite future.

Hot Mother
Attempting to quell some tension, a mother and daughter head to the hot springs… but more heat isn’t what they need.

The Human Voice
Tilda Swinton sets the screen ablaze in Pedro Almodóvar’s expressionistic, dangerously dramatic English-language debut.

The I and S of Lives
Kevin Jerome Everson’s camera dances with a rollerskater in this mesmerising exercise in fluidity and embeddedness.

Is This Just a Story?
Yugantar’s most well-known film is a collaboration with the Hyderabad-based feminist activist collective Stree Shakti Sanghatana and an urgent treatise on domestic violence.

Jeanette Is the Dog
Melbourne has never looked sleeker than in this low-key mumblecore piece.

Jungle
A young woman awakens to find herself in the midst of a living nightmare.

KKUM
Prayers by day, dreams by night – a mother keeps her son safe.

Laura
Two estranged friends stumble upon each other and reconnect over a shared loss.

Lili Alone
Produced by Wang Yang and Palme d’Or winner Qiu Yang, Lili Alone is a beautifully mournful story about one woman’s sacrifice.

Listen to the Beat of Our Images
As humans shoot for the stars, what do we lose along the way?

Lizard
In the 2021 Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner, a young girl stumbles upon secrets at her local church in Lagos.

Maat Means Land
Poised at the intersection of activism and art, wunderkind Fox Maxy’s TikTok-esque tapestry documents the injustice and legacy of colonisation.

Madrid, Bad Life
Over a hundred years since the publication of the sociological text, La mala vida en Madrid, that coined the term in Spain, what does it mean to be a ‘lowlife’?

Maid Servant
Yugantar focuses on female labour rights in Maid Servant (Molkarin, 1981), which features domestic workers in Pune.

Marcelita
An elderly woman and her nephew wax nostalgic in this charming ode to times gone by.

The Men Who Wait
On a slag heap that once belonged to a coalmine, revellers seek erotic gratification.

Multiply
A 2020 large-scale participatory-dance work choreographed by the acclaimed Stephanie Lake expresses the inexpressible in lockdown.

Nest
A timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.

Nestor
Routine is the only thing keeping Nestor afloat.

Nezunoban
Michael Beets depicts an elderly woman enacting the titular Japanese death ritual for her husband.

Nina
In this multi-award-winning drama, a child pickpocket dreams of a better life.

The Ninth Tower
When the Victorian Government locks down his public-housing building, a teenager responsible for his mother’s welfare is pushed to the brink.

Not a Wallflower
An uplifting, flower shop–set meet-cute between an apprentice florist and the customer of his dreams.

O Black Hole!
Loneliness is operatic in the latest film by Renee Zhan.

Oldboy's Apples
Join a demon, a puppy and a rat in this stop-motion headtrip about a mysterious, magically summoned apple tree.

One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean
In the age of information overload, the challenge is to avoid drowning.

Piano Under the Stars
Be swept away by renowned Chilean composer Claudio Recabarren Madrid’s cosmic keys.

Poise
Stuck in a holding pattern, two men attempt to break the cycle.

Poleng
Naina Sen explores the relationship between biracial identity and generational belonging through traditional Balinese dance.

The Prelude - Michelle
An exquisitely shot insight into dance, dramaturgy and performance featuring dancer Michelle Heaven.

Prom Night
A Lynchian depiction of self-transformation in the social media age.

Reptile
You always have to watch out for those early warning signs.

Riding Scooters
A teenager is faced with the choice between rising up to become the better man or debasing himself for acceptance.

Slap
An intimidating encounter with a group of teens forces a 12-year-old to ponder her place in the world.

Step Into the River
This DOK Leipzig Silver Dove for Short Documentary and Animated Film winner grapples with China’s one-child policy through a story about two friends.

The Story of Lee Ping
Jillian Nguyen and Mark Coles Smith star as a Chinese erotic dancer and an Aboriginal farmhand in this 1920s period drama.

Such Small Hands
When a new arrival is alienated by her peers at a girls’ orphanage, she exacts revenge by inventing an activity that takes gameplay to the extreme.

Sunburn
Zoe Terakes and Brenna Harding star as best friends mutually overcoming a tragedy.

Sunset Country
A middle-aged woman cares for her elderly father, whose will to live is on the wane.

This is a stained glass window
This intimately-made film draws on conceptual art and performance documentation to self-reflexively survey Barbara Cleveland’s then-15-year collaborative relationship.

Thorax
Siegfried A. Fruhauf returns with a dazzlingly abstracted Rorschach-like lightshow.

Tobacco Ember
Yugantar focuses on female labour rights in Tobacco Ember (Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali, 1982), which features factory workers in Nipani.

To Feather, to Wither
This cinematic insight into the craft of a taxidermist illuminates the relationship between artist and animal.

Tough
After her father unexpectedly hits her, a young girl decides to toughen up.

Train Again
Peter Tscherkassky pays homage to avant-garde filmmaker Kurt Kren, his own film L’arrivée and the cinema’s original muse in this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection.

The Trees
The darkly humorous 2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Competition Special Jury Prize winner pits a funeral custom against languishing olive trees.

Trona Pinnacles
A family unravels while road-tripping near Death Valley in the California desert.

Une Belle Journée
A French couple travelling by campervan around Australia discover their relationship is at a crossroads.

Valpi (Tectonics)
Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy present a lo-fi 3D film captured in the crushing shadow of volcanoes.

Wirun
A Noongar high school student struggles to perform a Shakespearean sonnet for her drama class.

With the Cattle
A ruminative film on the interplay between bovine lives and human consumption.

Yellow Girl and Me
On the cusp of turning 10, a Jamaican girl is about to learn how not to drown.

You and Me, Before and After
Yael Stone and Emily Barclay star as frenemy sisters in this sibling dramedy by Madeleine Gottlieb.

Your Street
Winner of Best Short Film at the Swiss Film Awards, this documentary observes the impact of time – and historical trauma – on one commemorative street.