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Moving

Caught between her divorcing parents, a little girl is forced to come to terms with her new reality in this touching family drama.

Dir. Shinji Somai / 1993 / 124 mins / Japan / Japanese
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MURDER and murder

Winner of the Berlinale’s 1997 Teddy Award for Best Documentary/Essay, Yvonne Rainer’s final feature is also her most personal and playful.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1996 / 113 mins / USA / English
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Music on Film Gala - Ellis Park

Legendary Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary.

Dir. Justin Kurzel / 2024 / 105 mins / Australia / English, French, Indonesian
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My Favourite Cake

Tender and funny yet politically daring, this double-Berlinale-winning late-life romance is guaranteed to steal your heart.

Dir. Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha / 2024 / 97 mins / Germany, Iran, France, Sweden / Farsi
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My First Film

Instead of writing off her abandoned first feature as a failure, filmmaker Zia Anger devised this imaginative, self-reflexive piece of autofiction.

Dir. Zia Anger / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English
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My Old Ass

If you were a queer Canadian teenager and Aubrey Plaza appeared to you as your future self, would you heed her ominous warning?

Dir. Megan Park / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English
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My Sunshine

A coach trains two young figure skaters in this endearing, snow-blanketed portrait of youthful yearning and adult melancholy.

Dir. Hiroshi Okuyama / 2024 / 90 mins / Japan / Japanese
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A New Kind of Wilderness

Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, this film follows a family living off-grid and facing change in the wake of the unexpected.

Dir. Silje Evensmo Jacobsen / 2024 / 84 mins / Norway / English, Norwegian
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No Other Land

An impassioned and eye-opening piece of documentary activism by an Israeli–Palestinian film collective, awarded Best Documentary at the Berlinale.

Dir. Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor / 2024 / 96 mins / Norway, Palestine / English, Arabic, Hebrew
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Norah

With the odds (and the law) stacked against them, a teenager and a teacher in creatively stunted Saudi Arabia find meaning and friendship through art.

Dir. Tawfik Alzaidi / 2023 / 95 mins / Saudi Arabia / Arabic
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Normal

A father–daughter dramedy with a distinctive flavour, this tale of dispiriting social services and living with disability is a true crowdpleaser.

Dir. Olivier Babinet / 2023 / 87 mins / France / French
Short
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Nothing but Shadows

A superstitious widow confronts her mortality after human remains are discovered at her neighbour’s house.

Dir. Kathy Mitrani / 2023 / 18 mins / USA, Colombia / Spanish
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Occupied City

This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.

Dir. Steve McQueen / 2023 / 266 mins / USA, Netherlands, UK / English
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Oddity

This award-winning spine-chiller from Caveat director Damian McCarthy unleashes horror from every corner of a haunted house.

Dir. Damian Mc Carthy / 2024 / 98 mins / Ireland / English
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Oi

When a brash, boisterous queen-of-the-schoolyard undergoes a traumatic experience, she must confront her own behaviour and unexpressed desires.

Dir. Sophie Serisier / 2023 / 15 mins / Australia / English
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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird

The untold 40-year story of the crowning moments, creative turmoils and deep friendship of the pair behind At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta.

Dir. Nicolas Jack Davies / 2023 / 127 mins / Germany / English, Spanish
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.

Dir. Rungano Nyoni / 2024 / 95 mins / UK, Ireland, Zambia / English
Short
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On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands

For two young women stuck in suburban Hobart, there’s little to do but gossip, vent and take another hit from the bong.

Dir. Miguel de Jesus / 2024 / 13 mins / Australia, Portugal / English
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Opening Night Gala - Memoir of a Snail

Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.

Dir. Adam Elliot / 2024 / 94 mins / Australia / English
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The Organist

A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.

Dir. Andy Burkitt / 2023 / 97 mins / Australia / English
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The Outrun

Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

Dir. Nora Fingscheidt / 2023 / 117 mins / Germany, UK / English
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Pepe

The strange, tragic tale of the ‘cocaine hippo’ once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar – narrated by the ghost of the beast himself.

Dir. Nelson Carlos De los Santas Arias / 2024 / 122 mins / Germany, France, Dominican Republic, Namibia / Spanish, German, Afrikaans, Mbukushu
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Pigsy

A lazy, self-absorbed porker becomes an unlikely hero in this wild and wondrous sci-fi riff on the Chinese classic Journey to the West.

Dir. Li Wei Chiu / 2023 / 95 mins / Taiwan / Taiwanese
Short
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Pleasure

Following an accident, two teen miscreants are brought closer together than ever before.

Dir. Jasper Caverly / 2024 / 10 mins / Australia / English, Vietnamese
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Premiere With Purpose - Left Write Hook

For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a program that combines boxing and writing turns into a journey of recovery and friendship.

Dir. Shannon Owen / 2024 / 98 mins / Australia
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Privilege

In her idiosyncratically anarchic style, Yvonne Rainer tackles menopause, race and class with memoir, humour and the voices of many women.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1990 / 103 mins / USA / English
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Problemista

Tilda Swinton plays the boss from hell in this absurdist satire of US immigration policy and the New York art scene from multi-hyphenate Julio Torres.

Dir. Julio Torres / 2023 / 104 mins / USA / English, Spanish
Short
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Punctum

In this dark nocturnal world, small actions – and inactions – suggest heavy emotions.

Dir. Jessica Sofarnos / 2024 / 10 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Queens of Concrete

Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.

Dir. Eliza Cox / 2024 / 87 mins / Australia / English
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Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Dir. Lui Avallos / 2023 / 25 mins / Brazil, Portugal / English, Portuguese
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Reinas

In this winner of the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus Grand Prix, a man fights his worst impulses to be a better father to his two emigrating daughters.

Dir. Klaudia Reynicke / 2024 / 104 mins / Spain, Switzerland, Peru / Spanish
Short
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Remains of the Hot Day

The Berlinale’s Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) winner is a shrine to fading memories from the director’s own childhood.

Dir. Wenqian Zhang / 2024 / 24 mins / China / Mandarin, Wu Chinese
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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Winner of two Sundance awards, this moving documentary traces a young man’s exploits in a virtual world amid the restrictions of his physical life.

Dir. Benjamin Ree / 2024 / 104 mins / Norway / English
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The Return of Godzilla

Marking 30 years since the kaiju burst onto the world stage, this film plays as a direct sequel to the 1954 original, kicking off a brand-new series.

Dir. Koji Hashimoto / 1984 / 103 mins / Japan / Japanese
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Rewards for the Tribe

An intimate and uplifting dance documentary that ponders human connection and perfection, featuring Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre.

Dir. Rhys Graham / 2023 / 90 mins / Australia / English
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Rhythm

The movement of a train arriving at Tehran’s central station is edited in sync with a maestro percussionist’s mesmerising use of the zarb.

Dir. Manouchehr Tayyab / 1964 / 9 mins / Iran / No Dialogue
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The Ride Ahead

Samuel Habib expands on his Emmy-nominated short My Disability Roadmap with this filmed road trip seeking guidance on how to live a “bad-ass” life.

Dir. Samuel Habib, Dan Habib / 2024 / 97 mins / USA / English
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Romulus, My Father (Restoration)

Eric Bana and Kodi Smit-McPhee star in this emotionally textured, AFI Award–winning drama based on the acclaimed memoir – now lavishly restored.

Dir. Richard Roxburgh / 2007 / 104 mins / Australia / English
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Rumours

A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.

Dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson / 2024 / 109 mins / Germany, Canada / English
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Runt

Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber and Deborah Mailman star in the heartwarming adaptation about a girl and her dog who set out to save the family farm.

Dir. John Sheedy / 2024 / 90 mins / Australia / English
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The Rye Horn

The 2024 winner of San Sebastián’s Golden Shell is an earthy tribute to motherhood and female power against overwhelming odds.

Dir. Jaione Camborda / 2023 / 105 mins / Spain, Belgium, Portugal / Spanish, Portuguese, Galician
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Santosh

Premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, this scathing, subversively feminist take on the police procedural puts modern-day India under scrutiny.

Dir. Sandhya Suri / 2024 / 125 mins / Germany, UK, France, India / Hindi
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Sasquatch Sunset

Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg star in undoubtedly the greatest wordless, scatological, horny and tragicomic Bigfoot movie in the history of cinema.

Dir. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English
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Scala!!!

Delirious, debaucherous and downright dangerous – the Scala played home to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll (and John Waters) in Thatcher-era London.

Dir. Jane Giles, Ali Catterall / 2023 / 96 mins / UK / English
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Secret Mall Apartment

Exec-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living in a shopping mall.

Dir. Jeremy Workman / 2024 / 92 mins / USA / English
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Modern and traditional values clash in acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring family drama, which won two prizes at Cannes.

Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof / 2024 / 168 mins / Iran / Farsi
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September Says

An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.

Dir. Ariane Labed / 2024 / 100 mins / Germany, UK, France, Greece, Ireland / English
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Shé (Snake)

A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.

Dir. Renee Zhan / 2023 / 15 mins / UK / English, Mandarin
XR
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Shadowtime

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Dir. Sister Sylvester, Deniz Tortum / 2023 / 20 mins / USA, Netherlands, Türkiye / English
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Shambhala

The first Nepalese film to screen in competition at Berlin follows the physical and spiritual Himalayan journey of a woman on a truth-seeking mission.

Dir. Min Bahadur Bham / 2024 / 150 mins / USA, France, Norway, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Qatar, Türkiye, Nepal / Tibetan, Nepalese