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.
Angh
In 1960s rural India, a village chief and his son resist the pressure of conforming to the new world of Christianity.
Australian Shorts
Baltasar
An African migrant living in Spain is confronted with the bitter meaning of ‘home’.
Documentary Shorts
Genus Pan
Slow-cinema master Lav Diaz returns with another mordantly meditative piece – one that nabbed him Venice’s Orizzonti Best Director gong.
I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face
Cannes’ 2020 Short Film Palme d’Or winner depicts the lengths a young man goes to in a bid to see his girlfriend one last time.
International Shorts 1
International Shorts 2
Lizard
In the 2021 Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner, a young girl stumbles upon secrets at her local church in Lagos.
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.
Nafi’s Father
Two brothers with diametrically opposed approaches to their faith are pitted against one another in this tense family drama.
Nezunoban
Michael Beets depicts an elderly woman enacting the titular Japanese death ritual for her husband.
The Ninth Tower
When the Victorian Government locks down his public-housing building, a teenager responsible for his mother’s welfare is pushed to the brink.
Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth
A meditative guide through the Azores archipelago’s history and its inhabitants’ connection to the volatile land.
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.
The Trees
The darkly humorous 2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Competition Special Jury Prize winner pits a funeral custom against languishing olive trees.
You and Me, Before and After
Yael Stone and Emily Barclay star as frenemy sisters in this sibling dramedy by Madeleine Gottlieb.