9 Temples to Heaven
An extended family go on a religious pilgrimage and navigate their interpersonal dramas along the way in this deeply personal reflection on modern Thailand.
Accelerator Shorts 1
Emerging voices and fresh perspectives from across Australia and New Zealand.
Accelerator Shorts 2
New visions. Bold stories. The thrilling future of local filmmaking.
Adam’s Apple
In this candid and heartwarming portrait of transition – through gender and into adulthood – a filmmaker mother and trans son capture the power of acceptance and authenticity.
Ah Girl
Winner of Rotterdam’s Youth Jury Award, this beautifully affecting portrayal of young sisters navigating their parents’ divorce revolves around a pair of stunning child performances.
All of a Sudden
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto shared Best Actress Awards at Cannes for their sterling work in the latest long-form opus from master filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
All The Lovers In The Night
Based on Mieko Kawakami’s evocative novel, this tale of lost souls finding unexpected connection enchantingly explores loneliness and love.
American Doctor
An unapologetic cry for humanity that reveals the on-the-ground reality of the genocide in Gaza and the experiences of the frontline medical volunteers who put their principles into practice.
Aniki-Bóbó
The feature debut of Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira returns to the screen, beautifully restored, as a charming, proto-neorealist revelation.
Animation Shorts
A collection of films that explode the boundaries of cinematic imagination.
AnyMart
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale, this deadpan satire of late capitalism sees a convenience store become a stage for darkly funny horror.
Armani Beauty Cinema Club Opening Night: Wishful Thinking
This SXSW Grand Jury Award–winning high-concept rom-com playfully questions the notion that love is the most powerful force in existence … for better or worse.
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.
Atonement
An Iraqi mother meets a US marine, years after his squad killed her loved ones. Both suffer from the knowledge that bullets can never be un-fired.
Australian Shorts
Exciting new work from some of the nation’s most electrifying filmmakers.
Back Home
Let loose in Laos without a crew, master auteur Tsai Ming-liang delivers a quiet, contemplative meditation on place and belonging.
Barbara Forever
Avant-garde lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer’s life and pioneering work take centre stage in this archive-driven tribute to a queer cinema icon.
Bell, Book and Candle
In a stand-out performance, Kim Novak has a bewitching good time toying with Jimmy Stewart’s clueless mortal.
The Beloved
Javier Bardem enthrals as a legendary director with ambiguous intentions who casts his estranged daughter in an upcoming film.
Ben’Imana
This year’s Cannes Caméra d’Or winner is an unflinching, deeply felt portrait of a community seeking justice, and closure, in the wake of genocide.
Best MIFF Shorts
A program of MIFF 2026’s award-winning short films, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury.
The Best Summer
Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Bikini Kill, Pavement and more, all at one fateful Aussie music festival. Get in line – we’re heading to 1995.
Better Go Mad in the Wild
Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is an enchanting portrait of solitude and free-spirited abandon following eccentric twin brothers living in the Czech wilderness.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Set in a coastal New Zealand town over the summer of 2006, this queer coming-of-age story – executive-produced by Jane Campion – is a bittersweet slice of pre-smartphone-era teendom.
Bitter Christmas
Pedro Almodóvar returns with this witty, award-winning metafiction that satirises the vampiric nature of creativity.
Black God, White Devil
A landmark film of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, this underseen 1964 Cannes Competition western returns to the screen in a stunning 4K restoration.
The Blood Countess
Screen icon Isabelle Huppert mesmerises as a glamorous vampire in iconoclastic queer filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s high-camp comedy.
Blue Heron
A filmmaker sifts through old videos and memories in this emotionally devastating coming-of-age marvel, a multiple award winner at Locarno and Toronto.
Body Blow
A disgraced, sex-addicted cop is thrust into Sydney’s crime-ridden gay district – and into a raunchy entanglement – in this neon-soaked queer erotic thriller.
Boss Cat
Desperate for independence, Sonja discovers the vibrant world of krump dancing, where she embraces expressiveness, challenges social judgement and finds her people.
Bouchra
In this striking animation set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, a queer coyote breaks the wall of silence with her mother nine years after her coming out.
Broken English
From chart-topper to tabloid fodder and back again, the legendary British rock balladeer Marianne Faithfull reflects candidly on her storied past.
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Recently restored to 4K, this underseen odd-couple romance is a sweet slice of 1980s New York life featuring cameos from Larry David and Orson Welles.
Chili Finger
A lawyer receives a cash settlement after finding a finger in her fast food – but things start to go sideways when the company investigates how it got there.
Chimney Town: Frozen in Time
This thoughtful, visually vivid sequel to anime mega-hit Poupelle of Chimney Town is an epic adventure about the power of belief.
Chronicles From the Siege
Depicting life under constant bombardment, a Berlin award winner highlights how humour and humanity persist amid the horrors of war.
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.
Cinema of Spectacle: Experimental Visions
Singular visions through the looking glasses.
Clarissa
Sophie Okonedo is sublime as a contemporary Nigerian Mrs. Dalloway in a star-stacked drama that deftly revitalises Virginia Woolf’s themes of memory and regret.
Closure
Transcending true-crime cliché, this masterful study of obsession documents a father’s quest for answers in the wake of his teenage son’s disappearance.
Congo Boy
With its star-making, Cannes award-winning turn, this coming-of-age tale about a teenage refugee whose musical ambitions might just save his life is as poetic as it is uplifting.
Corpus
Lured to a mansion in the woods of upstate New York, party-loving bros find a threesome of witchy femmes who are down for much darker carnal pursuits.
Coward
Lukas Dhont’s stirring latest film – which won its leads a pair of Best Actor prizes at Cannes – depicts a clandestine romance between two young men that blooms in the trenches of WWI.
Coyote vs. ACME
Sick of being maimed by his shoddy tools, Wile E. Coyote sues the company responsible. Prepare to witness a legal comedy that’s dynamite … in every sense of the word.
Crocodile
Spanning 13 years, this lively documentary chronicles the incredible rise of a group of young Nigerian filmmakers working outside the system.
The Currents
The Cycle of Love
To find the Swedish girl who’d won his heart, a young Indian artist set out to cross the world – by bike. Find out what happened next in this moving true story.
Dao
A freewheeling family saga bounces between a wedding in France and a funeral in Guinea-Bissau, exuberantly exploring identity and belonging.
The Day She Returns
Ever-industrious South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo meditates on the nature of performance in this tale of a celeb coming in from the cold.
Dead Man's Wire
A top-notch cast led by Bill Skarsgård and Dacre Montgomery play out a hair-raising real-life 1970s hostage situation in this blackly comedic thriller from Gus Van Sant.
9 Temples to Heaven — 9 วัด สู่สวรรค์
Accelerator Shorts 1
Accelerator Shorts 2
Adam’s Apple
Ah Girl — 泡泡糖女孩
All of a Sudden — Soudain
All The Lovers In The Night — すべて真夜中の恋人たち (Subete Mayonaka no Koibitotachi)
American Doctor
Aniki-Bóbó — Aniki-Bóbó
Animation Shorts
AnyMart — チルド
Armani Beauty Cinema Club Opening Night: Wishful Thinking
Aro berria — Aro berria
Atonement
Australian Shorts
Back Home — Hui Jia
Barbara Forever
Bell, Book and Candle
The Beloved
Ben’Imana
Best MIFF Shorts
The Best Summer
Better Go Mad in the Wild — Radeji zešílet v divočině
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Bitter Christmas — Amarga Navidad
Black God, White Devil — Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol
The Blood Countess — Die Blutgräfin
Blue Heron
Body Blow
Boss Cat
Bouchra
Broken English
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Chili Finger
Chimney Town: Frozen in Time — Entotsu Machi no Poupelle - Yakusoku no Tokeidai (映画 えんとつ町のプペル 〜約束の時計台〜)
Chronicles From the Siege
Chronovisor
Cinema of Spectacle: Experimental Visions
Clarissa
Closure
Congo Boy
Corpus
Coward
Coyote vs. ACME
Crocodile
The Currents — Las Corrientes
The Cycle of Love
Dao
The Day She Returns — Geunyeoga doraon nal (그녀가 돌아온 날)