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 2
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
Animation Shorts
Are You Still Watching?
Zoe Terakes voices a sex-crazed twentysomething in this lurid fever dream of queerness in lockdown.
Australian Shorts
Beautiful They
A chance meeting paves the way for a deeper connection.
Call History
Claudie seeks advice from an old flame as a new love is born from the embers.
Celts
This complex, evocative period piece about human disconnection invites you to a party in 1990s Belgrade – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume optional.
Days
The intricacies of a moment of connection are dwelt on in this meditative examination of male desire by Tsai Ming-liang.
Documentary Shorts
Don't Forget to Go Home
Two Fijian-Indian sisters escape their cousin’s wedding to get high on disobedience and drugs.
Flee
This award-winning, stylistically bold documentary tells the story of an Afghan refugee’s coming home – and coming out – via animation and archival footage.
Great Freedom
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.
Hating Peter Tatchell
Presented by Sir Ian McKellen and co–executive-produced by Elton John, this unflinching portrait reveals a human rights activist at once revered and notorious.
International Shorts 2
Madalena
In this Brazilian Gothic cri de coeur, the murder of a trans woman reverberates in the lives of the people around her.
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’?
The Men Who Wait
On a slag heap that once belonged to a coalmine, revellers seek erotic gratification.
Moffie
This bruising, tender queer drama reminiscent of Beau Travail explores homophobia and repressed desire in the Apartheid-era South African military.
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Before Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Rosa Parks, there was Pauli Murray. Remember their name.
No Ordinary Man
Maliciously outed after his death, musician Billy Tipton is now a transmasculine icon.
North by Current
Part road movie, part video essay, this lyrical tour-de-force from Angelo Madsen Minax finds catharsis in confronting family drama.
Riding Scooters
A teenager is faced with the choice between rising up to become the better man or debasing himself for acceptance.
Sunburn
Zoe Terakes and Brenna Harding star as best friends mutually overcoming a tragedy.
Wojnarowicz
Artist, outsider, writer, queer activist. David Wojnarowicz was all of these things and more, as Chris McKim captures in his fiery documentary.
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
The first feature documentary made by queer filmmakers about queer life – by the Mariposa Film Group – captures an essential moment in the gay liberation movement.
You and Me, Before and After
Yael Stone and Emily Barclay star as frenemy sisters in this sibling dramedy by Madeleine Gottlieb.