Acetone Reality
Animation, found images and video recordings collide against a mind-bending dialogue between two computer-generated voices.
Aro berria
With ecstatic sequences reminiscent of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, this complex portrait of new-age commune life is a striking feature debut.
As Told by a Corpse
In this ecstatic vision of the body in flux, a newborn encounters their digital mutation 25 years on.
Body, remember…
A poetic evocation of the senses through the grain of film.
By the Faith of José Gerónimo
A transfixing, meditative journey into faith, history and cultural identity in the Dominican Republic.
Chronovisor
In this wild, one-of-a-kind shrine to the wonders of research, an academic falls down a multimedia rabbit hole of hoax, conspiracy and Vatican intervention.
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up
Venture to the cutting edge of XR in this haunting, reality-bending pilgrimage between digital worlds and a living forest.
Daria’s Night Flowers
Multiple MIFF award winner Maryam Tafakory returns with an epistolary tale of suppressed desire.
Dead Tongue
In this profound experiment in oral history, a former dog trainer who worked for the Chilean dictatorship struggles to confront his past.
Eight Bridges
James Benning, America’s master of slow cinema, invites audiences to consider bridges: structural and political, physical and metaphorical.
Experimental Shorts
Visionary work from the avant-garde that reimagines the possibilities of cinema.
Forever…Forever
Experience time on a planetary scale as rhythms of day and night pulsate in harmony with the celestial bodies in a landscape’s seasonal light.
Freak Orlando
In what she describes as a “small theatre of the world”, Ulrike Ottinger explores the span of human history in this deeply surreal, outré romp.
Land of Barbar
A reimagined spin on a canonical tale that flips Western narratives about North Africa.
Light Pillar
This amusingly deadpan portrait of loneliness, the death of cinema and technology’s seductive appeal combines animation and live action in visionary ways.
Lost in the Water
Drops of water open portals to memory in this immersive, mysterious new work from MIFF alum Allison Chhorn.
Man Wearing a Helmet
Haunting fragments of colonial violence testify to First Nations trauma and survival in this unflinching short.
Of Womb
Evading the hard truth of their religious matriarch’s death, three sisters gestate dark ecstasies of faith and folk horror. Blessed be Mother.
Phenomena
A filmmaker’s chemistry experiments produce dazzlingly psychedelic results in this spectacular, scientifically illuminating Australian debut.
Rojo Žalia Blau
Stunning European landscapes converge in this hypnotic homage to three-strip Technicolor.
Swing Swish Sway
A brilliantly multilayered, textural homage to a pioneer of queer rights.
Ticket of No Return
An enigmatic woman with no name books herself a one-way trip in order to drink her way through West Berlin in Ulrike Ottinger’s most revered film.
Time Life Volume 9. Life Model
The mechanical gaze of a book scanner becomes a hyper-speed collage of anatomy.
Waking Hours
A nocturnal descent into the lives of Afghan people smugglers living in the forests of the Balkan route, this Venice award winner is a profound, immersive experience.
Acetone Reality
Aro berria — Aro berria
As Told by a Corpse
Body, remember…
By the Faith of José Gerónimo — A donde nos lleva la fe de José Gerónimo
Chronovisor
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up — 雲在兩千米
Daria’s Night Flowers — گلهای شب ِدریا
Dead Tongue
Eight Bridges
Experimental Shorts
Forever…Forever
Freak Orlando
Land of Barbar — بالد البربر
Light Pillar — 寒夜灯柱
Lost in the Water
Man Wearing a Helmet
Of Womb
Phenomena
Rojo Žalia Blau
Swing Swish Sway
Ticket of No Return — Bildnis einer Trinkerin
Time Life Volume 9. Life Model