Bulletproof
Hot Docs award winner Todd Chandler examines disturbing evolutions in today’s USA, where schools operate in the shadow of mass shootings.
Craftsman
Isolated and maligned by her peers, a woodworker crafts a more assured self-image.
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.
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 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.
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.
Thorax
Siegfried A. Fruhauf returns with a dazzlingly abstracted Rorschach-like lightshow.
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Bill Morrison revisits lesser-known chapters of Soviet film history in this hypnotic fever dream that melds art and archive.