The Airport Chaplain
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.
Dead Man’s Wire
A top-notch cast play out a hair-raising real-life 1970s hostage situation in this blackly comedic thriller from Gus Van Sant.
Death of a Shaman
As Ecuador erupts in protest, the custodian of a threatened way of life contemplates the future of his family line and his people.
Digby & Camille
Extra Geography
A self-assigned summer project leads to tough lessons in life, love and friendship for a precocious pair of boarding school BFFs.
Guided by Horses
Amid the breathtaking vistas of the Kimberley, a groundbreaking equine sanctuary helps First Nations teenagers discover reconnection and healing.
Hard as Puck
Hear My Eyes: Memento
See Christopher Nolan’s breakthrough film, complete with an all-new live score by Michael “CAVS” Cavanagh (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard).
The History of Concrete
When a cult filmmaker decides to make a Hallmark-style documentary on concrete, he paves a path to something far more profound and hilarious.
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Five working-class Gen Z friends drift apart in this deeply felt study of adulthood that won the Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes.
Jebediah: Are We OK?
Take a 30-year journey with the beloved Australian alternative rock band, from humble beginnings to the harder aspects of growing up.
John Cameron Mitchell Presents: Hedwig and the Angry Inch 25th Anniversary
Watch a cult-classic genderqueer musical in the best way – with a witty live commentary by its transgressive and talented director/star.
Mad Rush
A young woman gets caught in an elaborate phone scam which sends her on a twisted odyssey through the Melbourne CBD.
Member Screening – Dead Man's Wire
The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. “Tony” Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to the Hall’s head. This is the true story of the stand-off that took the world by storm as Tony demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution, and a personal apology from the Halls for cheating him out of what he was “owed.”
A film by Gus Van Sant starring Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino.
- Bookings: Bookings for this screening will open at 6pm on Wednesday 27 May – If tickets are booked out, please join the waitlist on the booking page.
- Seating: There are NO allocated seats for MIFF Member screenings – It's first-come, first-served. Please arrive on time to select your desired seats.
Minotaur
Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
A twentysomething homebody is stuck carrying more than she bargained for in this gleefully gloopy Kiwi body-horror comedy.
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
John Turturro stars as a pavement-pounding old-school thief who needs all his Big Apple savvy to save his wife and way of life from a young crypto gangster.
Phenomena
A filmmaker’s chemistry experiments produce dazzlingly psychedelic results in this spectacular, scientifically illuminating Australian debut.
Queen at Sea
Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay star in this unflinchingly knotty drama about a woman and her stepfather at odds over her dementia-stricken mother.
Rose
Sandra Hüller’s knockout, Silver Bear–winning performance anchors this tragic folktale about a woman who poses as a male soldier in 17th-century Germany.
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Fresh from Cannes, this knockout historical thriller from genre master Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds mysteries afoot in a castle’s locked rooms.
The Story of Documentary Film
The premier chronicler of all things cinematic shines a projectionist’s lamp on more than a century of reality-based storytelling.
The Sun Never Sets
A radiant Dakota Fanning anchors indie cinema luminary Joe Swanberg’s long-awaited return: a canny and heartfelt love-triangle dramedy set in Alaska.
Sweet Milk Lake
After being mistaken for his brother, a young trans man adapts to a precarious new life in his estranged father’s rural town.
We Are Aliens
This poignant Cannes-premiering animation traces the friendship and falling-out of two boys after an incident at school changes their lives forever.