Accelerator Shorts 1
Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.
Animation Shorts
Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.
Audrey
In this brutally hilarious black comedy, an Aussie teen’s coma is her family’s time to shine.
Babes
This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.
Bob Trevino Likes It
This SXSW award-winner will have you hitting ‘like’ with its tale of a pining daughter and the man who is not her father connecting online and IRL.
Bookworm
Elijah Wood stars as a wayward but well-meaning dad in this magical father–daughter quest set in the New Zealand wilderness.
Canard
Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.
The Carriage Driver
Nosrat Karimi’s 1971 film about ‘marriage Iranian style’ – a kind of commedia all’iraniana.
Clown
A colourful riff on sibling rivalries and societal expectations.
Cookies
Revenge is a dish best served during a coffee break for an overworked, under-slept new father.
Dream Team
If you think you’ve seen enough crime dramas that you can predict every twist, think again. This trippy investigation will keep you second-guessing.
Dying
This epic, darkly comic portrait of Franzen-esque family dysfunction won multiple awards at both the 2024 Berlinale and the German Film Awards.
Hito
A schoolgirl discovers the catfish she bought for dinner is a talking sentient bioweapon.
Honey Kaha
This distinctively Māori spin on the mockumentary recounts the exploits of a staunch and charming police officer.
Hurikán
In this Annecy Audience Award winner, a simple errand turns into a comic Sisyphean ordeal.
Kar
In this self-reflexive short, an emerging filmmaker asks himself whether it’s possible to make something meaningful in 10 minutes.
Matt and Mara
Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.
The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste
A vision of wild, nightmarish childhood play stunningly shot on 16mm with vintage lenses.
Misericordia
If you go into the woods today, you’re in for a darkly comedic surprise from French provocateur Alain Guiraudie.
My Old Ass
If you were a queer Canadian teenager and Aubrey Plaza appeared to you as your future self, would you heed her ominous warning?
Normal
A father–daughter dramedy with a distinctive flavour, this tale of dispiriting social services and living with disability is a true crowdpleaser.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.
The Organist
A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.
Pigsy
A lazy, self-absorbed porker becomes an unlikely hero in this wild and wondrous sci-fi riff on the Chinese classic Journey to the West.
Problemista
Tilda Swinton plays the boss from hell in this absurdist satire of US immigration policy and the New York art scene from multi-hyphenate Julio Torres.
Rumours
A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.
Runt
Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber and Deborah Mailman star in the heartwarming adaptation about a girl and her dog who set out to save the family farm.
Sasquatch Sunset
Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg star in undoubtedly the greatest wordless, scatological, horny and tragicomic Bigfoot movie in the history of cinema.
Shameless!
When a young man is caught masturbating, he descends into a downward spiral of humiliation.
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.
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.
Suspended Time
Personal Shopper director Olivier Assayas proves it is possible to make a beautiful lockdown-set film in this bittersweet, intimate comedy.
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.
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.
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.
Vulcanizadora
Underground auteur Joel Potrykus returns with a mind-bending and hilariously shocking trip into the existential terror of middle age.
