Ablaze
Tiriki Onus thought he knew his grandfather Bill, until an unearthed film reel suggests he might have been the first ever Aboriginal filmmaker.
Accelerator Shorts 2
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.
Araatika: Rise Up!
For Indigenous Australian rugby league players, a pre-game ‘unity dance’ is an important step towards celebrating their cultures and combating entrenched racism.
Australian Shorts
The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson
Leah Purcell AM writes, directs and stars in this highly anticipated adaptation – a vivid reckoning with Australia’s colonial history through the tale of one woman’s resilience.
Experimental Shorts
Finding Jedda
The directorial debut from producer Tanith Glynn-Maloney reimagines the 1954 auditions for Charles Chauvel’s iconic final film.
Fist of Fury Noongar Daa
A Bruce Lee martial-arts classic gets an Indigenous twist as the first feature film ever to be fully dubbed in an Aboriginal Australian language.
International Shorts 1
IOPU
Moment and memory blend as you bear witness to a Samoan rite of passage.
James & Isey
Ahead of her 100th birthday, Isey and her devoted son James prepare for the party of a lifetime.
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.
MIFF Opening Night Gala - The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson
Leah Purcell AM writes, directs and stars in this highly anticipated adaptation – a vivid reckoning with Australia’s colonial history through the tale of one woman’s resilience.
NFSA Restores: Radiance
Rachel Perkins’ affecting Aussie classic sees three estranged sisters reluctantly reunite for their mother’s funeral and grapple with long-suppressed family secrets.
Nudo Mixteco
The lives of Indigenous women collide in this powerful feature debut, which takes aim at poverty, prejudice and the patriarchy.
Off Country
Indigenous teenagers navigate exams, social dramas and maintaining meaningful connections to home while at boarding school.
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.
Vacant Possession
Starring Pamela Rabe, Margot Nash’s acclaimed first feature – now gloriously restored – is a must for the big screen.
Wash My Soul in the River's Flow
Wirun
A Noongar high school student struggles to perform a Shakespearean sonnet for her drama class.
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
From race to religion, flesh to nature, this comprehensive documentary explores how cinema exhumes the old traumas that modernity tries to bury.