
Accelerator Shorts 1
Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.
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Speak Percussion’s Kaylie Melville and Tilman Robinson collaborate with filmmaker Sabina Maselli (Landing), for this hypnotic environmental short.
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Alcarràs
The winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear for Best Film is a wistful, sun-drenched paean to family and tradition in the face of upheaval.
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Australian Shorts
Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.
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The Canyon
An experimental critique of modernism set in the dystopian present, exaggerating the sensuality of consumerism and the comfort of unconscious thought.
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The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
This surreal, offbeat fable of environmental destruction and familial reconciliation defies audience expectations at every turn.
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Delikado
From the frontlines, this thriller-esque documentary cuts like a chainsaw at the heart of the Philippines’ fight for its environmental life.
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Documentary Shorts
Far-reaching, resonating subjects pulled from various corners of the world.
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Eami
The winner of Rotterdam’s Tiger Award melds magic realism, mythology, ecology and ethnography into an exquisite cine-poem.
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Experimental Shorts
Unconventional cinema that tests the boundaries of form and function.
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Fashion Reimagined
No designer has ever tested the ethics of their practice by visiting all their suppliers around the world … until Mother of Pearl’s Amy Powney.
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Fire of Love
In this love story written in lava, two intrepid scientists who adore volcanoes as much as each other gift the world with something extraordinary.
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Geographies of Solitude
A portrait of one woman’s quest to preserve a unique landscape in the face of ecological devastation and the limits of her solitary existence.
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Gondwana
Bear witness to the possible futures of the planet’s oldest tropical rainforest in a world-first durational VR installation.
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Go With Grace
MIFF Accelerator Lab alumna Domini Marshall (Slap) delivers an affecting exploration of victim-survivor trauma.
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Horse Brothers
Arthouse giant Guy Maddin (The Green Fog, My Winnipeg) voices a talking horse in this surreal comedy-horror.
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International Shorts 1
Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Sundance and Berlin.
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International Shorts 2
An award-packed cornucopia from directors known and new.
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Intersect
A breathtaking five-chapter investigation of the interface between the real and virtual worlds.
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The Lost City of Melbourne
The ‘modernisation’ of Melbourne in the 50s razed much of the city, including its elegant cinemas. Now, a Melbourne-made doc brings them back to life.
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Masquerade
A queer woman returns to her Lagos home in search of healing, where she discovers a new understanding of the people and experiences that shaped her.
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Murmurs of the Jungle
A grandmother teaches her grandson about the origins of their remote Indigenous village in this stunning, ethereal short.
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Myth
When strangers appear outside her window and lure her mother away, seven-year-old Sophie follows.
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Pink Reef
A mermaid struggles with identity in an alienating suburban world without running water.
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Show Me Other Places
A Sri Lankan woman navigates a multitude of spaces – from the physical to the digital and into the virtual plane.
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The Sound of Dreaming
Across place and time, lucid dreams reconnect two people who once crossed paths.
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In a post-collapse world, a prisoner cleans an all-white room while a rebel investigates a decaying factory.
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Strange Country
Cleverman’s Hunter Djali Yumunu Page-Lochard stars in this gorgeously shot First Nations mystery that tells of ancient spirits inhabiting the land.
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Tsutsué
A moving story of two Ghanaian boys haunted by the loss of their older brother.
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The United States of America
Legendary structuralist filmmaker James Benning crafts an ostensibly simple, quietly mischievous landscape work that reflects on his homeland today.
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Washday
As her father turns his car into a water pump, a little girl transforms into a force of nature.
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The Water
A summertime romance awakens a Spanish town’s superstitious history in this lyrical drama about the gifts and burdens of family legacies.
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The Water Murmurs
The 2022 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or winner is a hypnotic work that watches with strange wonder as the world ends in the aftermath of an asteroid.
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We Never Asked for This
Frankie and Charlie regret moving into a tiny home, but a sick cockatiel offers a welcome distraction.
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Whether the Weather Is Fine
Locarno’s Cinema e Gioventù Prize winner blends drama, absurdity and humour in depicting a Philippine city’s survival in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
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