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Abiding Nowhere
Tsai Ming-liang continues his meditative, monastic Walking series with another hypnotic shrine to seeking transcendence in a chaotic world.
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Accelerator Shorts 1
Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.
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Alarms
Part social-realist drama, part thriller, this workplace portrait depicts the pressure-cooker stresses of an overworked construction site.
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Alazar
From Cannes Critics’ Week, this austere but affecting drama portrays religious superstition colliding with the harsh realities of rural life.
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Alemania
A teenager must choose between family and a life-changing adventure abroad in this tender coming-of-age story.
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All Shall Be Well
This Teddy Award winner is a study of family bonds fraying in the aftermath of tragedy and of the found families that put us back together again.
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All We Imagine as Light
The first Indian film to screen in Cannes competition in 30 years is a sensuous tale of two nurses, their romances and a mystical trip to the coast.
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Animale
In this striking genre-bender from Cannes Critics’ Week, a young woman wants to rise the ranks of bull-running – but a rogue animal is on the loose.
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Animation Shorts
Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.
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Architecton
Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.
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Armand
In this Cannes Caméra d’Or winner, a fraught parent–teacher conference at a Norwegian primary school plunges into a claustrophobic breakdown.
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As the Tide Comes In
Amid the climate crisis, an eight-square-kilometre island off the Danish coast is a microcosm of the rest of the world in this witty portrait.
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Behind the Mountains
A downtrodden father literally takes flight from the strictures of society in this supernaturally tinged, Tunisia-set odyssey.
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Best MIFF Shorts
A collection of the best short films from the festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury and the MIFF Shorts programmers.
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Binti
A visually striking meditation on motherhood as a young woman goes to extraordinary lengths to help her pregnant mother.
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Black Box Diaries
This daring work of first-person journalism charts the case that not only launched #MeToo in Japan but changed the country’s legal system for good.
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Black Dog
A taciturn loner and a stray dog bond in this beautiful tale of cross-species kindred spirits set against widescreen images of the Gobi Desert.
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Blood Like Water
A powerful, queer-focused story about a Palestinian family who are forced to make an impossible choice.
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Blue Sun Palace
The complexities of the migrant experience are tenderly depicted in this deeply felt debut feature, which arrives fresh from Cannes Critics’ Week.
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Break No.1 & Break No.2
A thrillingly bold montage of still images and video work that pays tribute to memory and time.
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Brick and Mirror
Iranian cinema’s first true modern masterpiece, released in 1964, explores fear and responsibility in the aftermath of the 1953 coup.
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Brief History of a Family
This taut, visually inventive Chinese thriller has drawn comparisons to buzzy social-class parables Saltburn and Parasite.
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Canard
Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.
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The Carriage Driver
Nosrat Karimi’s 1971 film about ‘marriage Iranian style’ – a kind of commedia all’iraniana.
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A Catholic Schoolgirl
A student at an all-girls boarding school is incredibly devoted to God. Or is it just to saintly Sister Agnes?
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The Cats of Gokogu Shrine
A Wiseman-esque study of a Japanese village’s Shinto shrine whose feline residents bring the local humans joy, solace and sometimes consternation.
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Caught by the Tides
Fresh from Cannes competition, Jia Zhang-ke’s latest portrait of Chinese society in flux is an epic drawn from over two decades of footage.
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A Century in Sound
Slip into the serene surrounds of Japanese ‘listening cafés’, where music lovers, audiophiles and locals come together to hear records.
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Cidade; Campo
Two stories – one involving a country-to-city move, the other in reverse – explore the place of women in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
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Close Your Eyes
Legendary Spanish auteur Víctor Erice’s long-awaited return to feature films is a mystery-fuelled meditation on cinema itself.
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The Concierge
In this sparkling anime comedy set in a vibrant alternate world, the customer is always right – but they’re never human.
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Cookies
Revenge is a dish best served during a coffee break for an overworked, under-slept new father.
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The Cow
This 1969 film portrays the themes of solitude and obsession in the story of a poor villager whose only source of joy and livelihood is his cow.
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A Crab in the Pool
On a scorching summer day, two siblings are reminded of their mother.
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Crushed
A harrowing account of an abusive and violent relationship during a woman’s early adulthood.
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Daphne was a torso ending in leaves
Winner of the KNF Award at Rotterdam, a playful and richly cinematic ode to the mythological Greek nymph.
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A Daydream With Fini
On a sweltering summer’s day, two elderly friends talk about work, travel and dreams.
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Dead End
A devastating 1977 portrait of love and longing in a country built on fear and surveillance, based on a story by Anton Chekhov.
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The Deer
Masoud Kimiai’s 1974 film embodies all that is great about Iranian cinema of the 1970s: it is political, provocative, sincere, angry and tragic.
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Destroy All Monsters
The ninth film in the Godzilla series sees an array of monsters rampage at the foot of Mount Fuji.
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Direct Action
Winner of the Berlinale’s Encounters Award for Best Film, this bold and vital documentary explores the militant activist community in France.
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Documentary Shorts
Far-reaching, resonating subjects pulled from various corners of the world.
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Dying
This epic, darkly comic portrait of Franzen-esque family dysfunction won multiple awards at both the 2024 Berlinale and the German Film Awards.
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East of Noon
This dreamlike tale of youth and resistance set in a surreal modern-day Egypt is also a stirringly beautiful ode to creative expression.
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Experimental Shorts
Unconventional cinema that tests the boundaries of form and function.
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The Falling Sky
A stunning doc that follows the Yanomami people of the Amazon as they perform a sacred rite and defend their homeland from the incursion of mining.
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Father's Letters
The true story of Professor Alexey Wangenheim, who writes hopeful letters home from a Gulag in Stalinist Russia.
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First Horse
A haunting riff on the western framed from a Māori perspective.