Short
Past Event

Shameless!

When a young man is caught masturbating, he descends into a downward spiral of humiliation.

Dir. Raghav Rampal / 2024 / 9 mins / Australia / English, Hindi
Feature
Past Event

She Loved Blossoms More

Three brothers attempt to lure their mum back from the dead in this bizarre and strangely beautiful nightmare tale.

Dir. Yannis Veslemes / 2024 / 88 mins / France, Greece / French, Greek
Feature
Past Event

She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones

Receiving the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus Special Mention, this playful coming-of-age story follows the intertwined lives of two Chinese students.

Dir. Youjia Qu / 2024 / 107 mins / China / Mandarin
Feature
Past Event

Shin Godzilla

Now symbolising more modern disasters, Godzilla is back with a vengeance and in an almost unrecognisable form – but with the same catastrophic intent.

Dir. Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi / 2016 / 120 mins / Japan / English, German, Japanese
Feature
Past Event

The Shrouds

Responding to his wife’s death, David Cronenberg fashions a meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror lens.

Dir. David Cronenberg / 2024 / 119 mins / France, Canada / English
Feature
Past Event

Simon of the Mountain

In this Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner, an enigmatic young man yearns to belong with his disabled besties – but he’s not quite like them.

Dir. Federico Luis / 2024 / 97 mins / Argentina, Chile, Uruguay / Spanish
Feature
Past Event

A Simple Event

Made clandestinely with little money and a skeleton crew, Sohrab Shahid Saless’s 1973 debut feature is a quietly, mysteriously simmering masterpiece.

Dir. Sohrab Shahid Saless / 1973 / 80 mins / Iran / Farsi
Feature
Past Event

Sing Sing

In this SXSW award-winner, a theatre group finds hope and meaning through self-expression within the confines of a maximum-security prison.

Dir. Greg Kwedar / 2023 / 106 mins / USA / English
Short
Past Event

Single File

Time collides and collapses in this kaleidoscopic reflection on change in Hong Kong.

Dir. Simon Liu / 2023 / 10 mins / USA, UK, Hong Kong, Italy / English, Cantonese
Short
Past Event

Slow Shift

Monkeys overrun the remains of an ancient civilisation in this rich reflection on myth and reality.

Dir. Shambhavi Kaul / 2023 / 9 mins / USA, India / No Dialogue
Feature
Past Event

The Small Back Room

Now in a stunning 4K restoration, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s WWII thriller remains a classic of aching romance and high-wire suspense.

Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger / 1949 / 106 mins / UK / English
Feature
Past Event

Some Rain Must Fall

This Berlinale award-winning domestic noir is the arresting first feature from Melbourne-trained Short Film Palme d’Or winner Qiu Yang.

Dir. Qiu Yang / 2024 / 98 mins / USA, France, Singapore, China / Mandarin, Wu Chinese
Feature
Past Event

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

US jazz collides with Cold War crimes in this film examining the CIA’s role in state-sanctioned murder – and its use of pop music to cover its tracks.

Dir. Johan Grimonprez / 2024 / 150 mins / France, Belgium / English, French, Dutch
Feature
Past Event

The Sparrow in the Chimney

Tensions explode in a family’s country home in the Zürcher brothers’ follow-up to their acclaimed The Girl and the Spider.

Dir. Ramon Zürcher / 2024 / 117 mins / Switzerland / German
Feature
Past Event

Stephen Cummins Retrospective

A crucial chapter in Australia’s queer history is brought to light in this National Film and Sound Archive restoration of Stephen Cummins’s films.

Dir. Stephen Cummins / 59 mins / Australia / English
Feature
Past Event

The Stimming Pool

Immerse yourself in a wildly imaginative, proudly neurodivergent world informed by autistic perspectives and perception.

Dir. The Neurocultures Collective, Steven Eastwood / 2024 / 70 mins / UK / English
Talks and Masterclasses
Past Event

Stories of the Spirit Realm: kajoo yannaga (come on let’s walk together)

Join the creative team behind kajoo yannaga to unpack the layered processes, practices and ideas that contributed to the realisation of this work.

60 mins / English
Feature
Past Event

The Story of Souleymane

Winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, this nerve-shredding portrait follows a Guinean delivery rider zipping across Paris in hopes of attaining legal residency.

Dir. Boris Lojkine / 2024 / 92 mins / France / French
Feature
Past Event

The Stranger and the Fog

In Bahram Beyzaie’s dazzling 1974 film, a mysterious stranger arrives in a coastal village on a drifting boat and falls for a local woman.

Dir. Bahram Beyzaie / 1974 / 140 mins / Iran / Farsi
Feature
Past Event

Stress Positions

Bougie Brooklynites behave badly in this queer COVID-set comedy straight from Sundance.

Dir. Theda Hammel / 2023 / 96 mins / USA / English
Feature
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The Substance

Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Dir. Coralie Fargeat / 2024 / 141 mins / USA, UK, France / English
Feature
Past Event

Sujo

A young boy orphaned by the cartel is up against inheriting a life of crime in this coming-of-age story from an award-winning Mexican filmmaking duo.

Dir. Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez / 2024 / 126 mins / USA, Mexico, France / Spanish
Feature
Past Event

Sunlight

Comedian Nina Conti directs this darkly funny joy ride featuring a monkey, a radio host brought back from the brink and a dead man’s watch.

Dir. Nina Conti / 2024 / 96 mins / UK / English
Feature
Past Event

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

A nuanced and inspirational account of the life-changing legacy of leading man turned disability activist Christopher Reeve.

Dir. Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui / 2024 / 106 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

Suspended Time

Personal Shopper director Olivier Assayas proves it is possible to make a beautiful lockdown-set film in this bittersweet, intimate comedy.

Dir. Olivier Assayas / 2024 / 105 mins / France / French
Feature
Past Event

Sweet Dreams

The desperate absurdities of colonisation are laid bare in this satire of a Dutch family’s fallout following the death of their wealthy patriarch.

Dir. Ena Sendijarević / 2023 / 102 mins / Netherlands, Sweden, Indonesia / Indonesian, Dutch
XR
Past Event

Taiwan With a Twist

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

20 mins / Taiwan
Feature
Past Event

Tall Shadows of the Wind

This symbolic tale of villagers terrorised by a scarecrow they themselves have planted is based on a story by co-screenwriter Houshang Golshiri.

Dir. Bahman Farmanara / 1979 / 109 mins / Iran / Farsi
Feature
Past Event

Teaches of Peaches

Class is in session! Celebrate the world of gender-punk icon Peaches in this audacious Teddy Award–winning documentary.

Dir. Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer / 2024 / 102 mins / Germany / English, German
Feature
Past Event

Thelma

A 93-year-old grandma’s mission – and, yes, she chooses to accept it – is to reclaim her money from scammers by any means necessary.

Dir. Josh Margolin / 2023 / 97 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

This Is a Film About The Black Keys

Ohio-born bluesy rockers The Black Keys get candid and introspective in this warts-and-all documentary direct from SXSW.

Dir. Jeff Dupre / 2024 / 89 mins / USA / English
Short
Past Event

A Thousand Odd Days

When a son goes to the coast to visit the estranged, troubled mother he hasn’t seen in three years, he struggles to reconnect with her.

Dir. Riley Blakeway / 2023 / 14 mins / Australia / English
Feature
Past Event

Timestalker

In cult UK comedy treasure Alice Lowe’s film, a woman’s misguided fatal attraction to the same pretty bad-boy has lasted six centuries … so far.

Dir. Alice Lowe / 2024 / 97 mins / UK / English
Feature
Past Event

To a Land Unknown

Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.

Dir. Mahdi Fleifel / 2024 / 105 mins / Germany, Netherlands, UK, France, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestine / English, Greek, Arabic
Feature
Past Event

Toll

To pay for the conversion therapy she believes her gay son needs, a well-intentioned tollbooth operator turns to crime in this crafty drama.

Dir. Carolina Markowicz / 2023 / 101 mins / Brazil, Portugal / Portuguese
Feature
Past Event

Tranquility in the Presence of Others

Nasser Taghavi’s poignant, tough-minded 1969 adaptation of a story by Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi.

Dir. Nasser Taghavi / 1969 / 86 mins / Iran / Farsi
Feature
Past Event

A Traveler’s Needs

MIFF favourite Hong Sang-soo reunites with Isabelle Huppert in this mysteriously tricksy comedy that won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.

Dir. Hong Sang-soo / 2024 / 90 mins / South Korea / English, French, Korean
Short
Past Event

The Tree's Home

A striking allegory on the maternal instinct to sacrifice reminiscent of classic fairytales.

Dir. Hyemi Kim / 2023 / 12 mins / South Korea / No Dialogue
Feature
Past Event

Tuesday

Death comes as a giant macaw in this A24 fairytale about letting go, featuring a career-best turn from Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Dir. Daina Oniunas-Pusić / 2023 / 111 mins / USA, UK / English
Feature
Past Event

Twilight Time

A profile of Australian academic, agitator and surveillance expert Des Ball – the man who counselled the US against nuclear escalation in the 1970s.

Dir. John Hughes / 2024 / 89 mins / Australia / English
Feature
Past Event

Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

The complex relationship between two married artists is laid bare in this searing and joyful portrait of love and creativity in autumn.

Dir. Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet / 2023 / 100 mins / USA, UK, Denmark / English, French, Italian
Feature
Past Event

Un rêve plus long que la nuit

A debauched, exuberant French art fairytale stuns all over again in a luscious new 4K restoration.

Dir. Niki de Saint Phalle / 1976 / 82 mins / France / French
Feature
Past Event

An Unfinished Film

When an unfinished film, reborn, is stuck in stasis again, its creators meditate on how their lives have been transformed by the pandemic.

Dir. Lou Ye / 2024 / 105 mins / Germany, Singapore / Mandarin
Feature
Past Event

Universal Language

This zany transformation of Canada’s beigest city into the site of a classic Iranian film won Cannes Directors’ Fortnight’s first ever Audience Award.

Dir. Matthew Rankin / 2024 / 89 mins / Canada / French, Farsi
Talks and Masterclasses
Past Event

Universal Language & Iranian Cinema

Explore the rich history of Iranian cinema through the past to present day with the director and co-writers of Bright Horizons film Universal Language.
60 mins
Feature
Past Event

Us and the Night

Ten years in the making and shot on transcendent 16mm, this is an unconventional love story for every book-loving introvert.

Dir. Audrey Lam / 2024 / 67 mins / Australia / English
Talks and Masterclasses
Past Event

Very Animated: Life in Clay, Ink & CGI

Adam Elliot (Memoir of a Snail), Emma Kelly (Magic Beach), Kathy Sarpi (Magic Beach) and Gints Zilbalodis (Flow) discuss their approaches to animation.

60 mins
Short
Past Event

Very Gentle Work

Direct from Cannes, this eerie tour visits sites of ‘violent righteousness’.

Dir. Nate Lavey / 2024 / 24 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

Viet and Nam

Two coal miners in love face their country’s buried trauma and reckon with their risky futures in this hypnotic Vietnamese queer romance.

Dir. Trương Minh Quý / 2024 / 129 mins / Vietnam / Vietnamese
Feature
Past Event

The Village Next to Paradise

Hope and familial bonds thrive in dangerous conditions in this groundbreaking feature – the first ever Somali film to screen at Cannes.

Dir. Mo Harawe / 2024 / 133 mins / Germany, France, Austria, Somalia / Somali