Short films by emerging filmmakers from Australia participating in the MIFF Accelerator Lab 2021. See the work of tomorrow’s hottest directors today.

Short films by emerging filmmakers from Australia participating in the MIFF Accelerator Lab 2021. See the work of tomorrow’s hottest directors today.

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.

An aspiring Peruvian performer must decide whether she’s dancing for others or for herself.

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

An unplanned pregnancy unites two very different Costa Rican women in unique ways.

Amid Iran’s widespread 2019 floods, three young musicians set out for a career-making gig in Tehran. But as the water rises, their chances of making it on time diminish.

Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza match wits – and red pens – as a cranky author and peppy publisher in this rollicking literary comedy.

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

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

This ode to sport and friendship takes us to the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp, where two soccer-obsessed teens see the game as their way out.

The intricacies of a moment of connection are dwelt on in this meditative examination of male desire by Tsai Ming-liang.

Two Fijian-Indian sisters escape their cousin’s wedding to get high on disobedience and drugs.

A hypnotic portrait of a young couple surviving life in an off-the-beaten-track, opportunity-starved outback town.

The drift of twentysomething life comes under the lens in this celebrated Aussie slacker satire.

Slow-cinema master Lav Diaz returns with another mordantly meditative piece – one that nabbed him Venice’s Orizzonti Best Director gong.

Remembrance blooms in this New York Film Festival–premiering avant-garde short.

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

In this achingly romantic postwar-set film, which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, a man imprisoned for his sexuality finds that love offers sweet release.

The bold directorial debut of Portrait of a Lady on Fire actor Luàna Bajrami is a luminously kinetic depiction of teenage ennui and troublemaking.

Melbourne has never looked sleeker than in this low-key mumblecore piece.

Co-writers Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales depict a modern-age bond in this touching SXSW Audience Award–winning film, told entirely across screens.

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

This story of a Syrian refugee awaiting resettlement on a remote Scottish island is at once heart-wrenching and humorous.

Vanessa Paradis, François Damiens and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi lead this charming, lovestruck comedy set in a port of northern France.

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’?

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

Co-writers Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales depict a modern-age bond in this touching SXSW Audience Award–winning film, told entirely across screens.

An uplifting, flower shop–set meet-cute between an apprentice florist and the customer of his dreams.

Carrie Brownstein and St. Vincent play versions of themselves in this music mockumentary that explores the absurdities of fame and friendship.

In this delightful slacker story, a young Parisian comic-book artist is on the hunt for stability, a career, self-confidence, love – but nothing seems to go her way.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Joachim Trier’s latest – winner of Best Actress at Cannes – is an elegant, playful character study about a young woman’s existential crisis.

Yael Stone and Emily Barclay star as frenemy sisters in this sibling dramedy by Madeleine Gottlieb.