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.
Accelerator Shorts: MIFF 68½
Angh
In 1960s rural India, a village chief and his son resist the pressure of conforming to the new world of Christianity.
Australian Shorts
Biolum
Charlotte Rampling guides you through underwater caves filled with bioluminescent creatures in this SXSW Virtual Cinema Competition Audience Award winner.
Come Back Anytime
Food lovers won’t be able to resist this tantalising story of a master ramen chef and his legendary Tokyo noodle shop.
Cryptozoo
Documentary Shorts
earthearthearth
IFFR Tiger Award winner Daïchi Saïto presents an absorbing, otherworldly study of our planet.
Experimental Shorts
Gaia
Mytho-pagan eco horror meets fungi-infused body horror in the primordial South African jungle.
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.
International Shorts 1
International Shorts 2
Laura
Two estranged friends stumble upon each other and reconnect over a shared loss.
Listen to the Beat of Our Images
As humans shoot for the stars, what do we lose along the way?
Luzzu
A lead turn reminiscent of Marlon Brando anchors this neo-realist look at the Maltese fishing industry.
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.
The Men Who Wait
On a slag heap that once belonged to a coalmine, revellers seek erotic gratification.
Nest
A timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.
Nightsss
Dive into this erotic, sensorial experience that transforms spoken word into audiovisual landscapes.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean
In the age of information overload, the challenge is to avoid drowning.
River
From mountain high to river deep, director Jennifer Peedom follows her 2017 MIFF hit Mountain with a stunning new cine-sonic journey along the world’s waterways.
Rock Bottom Riser
Erupting with unforgettable images of Hawaii, this boundary-breaking essay film captures the splendour and turbulent colonial history of the island nation.
Sanrizuka – Peasants of the Second Fortress
Ogawa Productions’ first internationally successful film captures farmers in Sanrizuka, Japan, resisting a government takeover of their land.
Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth
A meditative guide through the Azores archipelago’s history and its inhabitants’ connection to the volatile land.
Stray
Hot Docs 2020’s Best International Feature Documentary winner offers a dog’s-eye view of life in Istanbul.
Taming the Garden
Like a real-life fairytale, Taming the Garden is the story of an unseen billionaire who ‘steals’ trees in his desire to build his own private Eden.
The Trees
The darkly humorous 2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Competition Special Jury Prize winner pits a funeral custom against languishing olive trees.
Valpi (Tectonics)
Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy present a lo-fi 3D film captured in the crushing shadow of volcanoes.
With the Cattle
A ruminative film on the interplay between bovine lives and human consumption.