Accelerator Shorts 1
Short films by emerging filmmakers from Australia participating in the MIFF Accelerator Lab 2021. See the work of tomorrow’s hottest directors today.
Angh
In 1960s rural India, a village chief and his son resist the pressure of conforming to the new world of Christianity.
Animation Shorts
Australian Shorts
Bach-Hông
A young Vietnamese-French woman is faced with the communist takeover of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Biolum
Charlotte Rampling guides you through underwater caves filled with bioluminescent creatures in this SXSW Virtual Cinema Competition Audience Award winner.
Black Hole
Winner of two Locarno Leopards of Tomorrow awards, this stunning portrait of adolescent abandon unfolds at the threshold of emerging maturity.
Cow
Festival favourite Andrea Arnold gets up close and personal with a dairy cow to unveil a surprising and unknown world.
Cryptozoo
Documentary Shorts
Each Other
An absurdist study of the human body as a limitless instrument for self-discovery.
Experimental Shorts
Giants
MIFF alumnus and Shorts Award winner Eddy Bell returns with an intimate and critical portrait of one of Australia’s worst droughts.
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
Remembrance blooms in this New York Film Festival–premiering avant-garde short.
Howard the Duck 70mm Special Screening
Prepare to be astounded as this quacktacular Marvel Comics oddity gets plucked from the depths of history for a glorious 70mm screening.
International Shorts 1
Jeanette Is the Dog
Melbourne has never looked sleeker than in this low-key mumblecore piece.
Nest
A timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.
Oldboy's Apples
Join a demon, a puppy and a rat in this stop-motion headtrip about a mysterious, magically summoned apple tree.
Paper Birds
A short-sighted boy uncovers family secrets in an intricate, Tim Burton–esque world.
Reptile
You always have to watch out for those early warning signs.
Stray
Hot Docs 2020’s Best International Feature Documentary winner offers a dog’s-eye view of life in Istanbul.
To Feather, to Wither
This cinematic insight into the craft of a taxidermist illuminates the relationship between artist and animal.
The Witching Hour - Late Night Folklore
Undead bikies, Satanic butlers, magic frogs, an ancient vampiric snake goddess. What more could you want from a cult folk-horror double feature?
With the Cattle
A ruminative film on the interplay between bovine lives and human consumption.