Accelerator Shorts: MIFF 68½
Animation Shorts
Anonymous Club
Courtney Barnett pulls back the curtain in this intimate first-person exposition on creativity, vulnerability and artistic life on the road.
Bandar Band
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.
Bodies in Motion
Bonanza!
Commissioned by Chunky Move, this playfully experimental work traverses ritual, body modification and algorithms.
Don't Forget to Go Home
Two Fijian-Indian sisters escape their cousin’s wedding to get high on disobedience and drugs.
Experimental Shorts
Freakscene – The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
This riveting firsthand account tells the story behind the legendary band that helped inspire the alternative rock sound of the 90s.
Happy Valley
Shot on cold-hued 16mm, this mournful, restless ode to Hong Kong sketches the city’s fragile present and indefinite future.
I'm Wanita
Meet Australia’s self-crowned “Queen of Honky-Tonk”: renegade country singer Wanita was born ready.
The Inheritance
A collective springs to life in this radiant tribute to radical Black politics.
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
An engrossing profile of a little-known 60s blues and folk icon, executive-produced by Wim Wenders.
Love in Bright Landscapes
An engrossing portrait of the rise and untimely demise of David McComb, the virtuosic frontman of Australian rock band The Triffids.
MIFF Centrepiece Gala - Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The “Black Woodstock” of 1969, which was filmed but never seen, finally makes it to the big screen in this Sundance US Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner.
No Ordinary Man
Maliciously outed after his death, musician Billy Tipton is now a transmasculine icon.
The Nowhere Inn
Carrie Brownstein and St. Vincent play versions of themselves in this music mockumentary that explores the absurdities of fame and friendship.
O Black Hole!
Loneliness is operatic in the latest film by Renee Zhan.
Paper Birds
A short-sighted boy uncovers family secrets in an intricate, Tim Burton–esque world.
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
A daughter explores her mother’s complex punk legacy in this no-holds-barred documentary.
Sisters With Transistors
Laurie Anderson narrates the untold history of the women who blazed a trail through electronic music.
Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The “Black Woodstock” of 1969, which was filmed but never seen, finally makes it to the big screen in this Sundance US Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner.
Symphony
Be swept up by Beethoven, Bernstein and Mahler in this joyous, majestic work.
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
Newly discovered archival footage provides a time capsule into the making of Tom Petty’s iconic 1994 album Wildflowers, revealing an artist at a career crossroads.
Wash My Soul in the River's Flow
We Are the Thousand
How do you get the world’s biggest rock band to play in your hometown? Become the world’s biggest rock band.