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.
Bubble
A couple’s date at a tucked-away hole-in-the-wall takes a turn for the ravenous.
Call History
Claudie seeks advice from an old flame as a new love is born from the embers.
Don't Forget to Go Home
Two Fijian-Indian sisters escape their cousin’s wedding to get high on disobedience and drugs.
Entre tú y Milagros
In this coming-of-age tale, which won Venice’s Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film, a Colombian 15-year-old born into privilege experiences a rude awakening.
Glen
Divorced, lonely and inept with the web, a 50-year-old man decides to try his hand at finding love online – with spectacularly catastrophic results.
Hot Mother
Attempting to quell some tension, a mother and daughter head to the hot springs… but more heat isn’t what they need.
International Shorts 2
The Men Who Wait
On a slag heap that once belonged to a coalmine, revellers seek erotic gratification.
Nudo Mixteco
The lives of Indigenous women collide in this powerful feature debut, which takes aim at poverty, prejudice and the patriarchy.
Pleasure
Göteborg’s Best Feature Film winner fearlessly dissects the contemporary porn industry through the perspective of a young woman determined to be a star.
Riding Scooters
A teenager is faced with the choice between rising up to become the better man or debasing himself for acceptance.
Slap
An intimidating encounter with a group of teens forces a 12-year-old to ponder her place in the world.
Smooth Talk
Laura Dern is unforgettable in this 1986 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner – now digitally restored – as a teen who pursues experiences she’s not really sure she wants.
Wojnarowicz
Artist, outsider, writer, queer activist. David Wojnarowicz was all of these things and more, as Chris McKim captures in his fiery documentary.
You and Me, Before and After
Yael Stone and Emily Barclay star as frenemy sisters in this sibling dramedy by Madeleine Gottlieb.