1001 Frames
Auditioning for the dream role of Scheherazade in One Thousand and One Nights becomes a nightmare in this form-blurring thriller.
400 Cassettes
Faye and Elly leave high school behind for a summer under a sky full of stars. But are they living in the moment, or in a past that’s only just coming to light?
5'12"
Following the death of his mother, a local oddball becomes inexplicably obsessed with growing one inch taller.
Accelerator Shorts 1
Exciting new filmmaking voices from across Australia and New Zealand.
Accelerator Shorts 2
Fresh talent. Bold stories. Meet the next generation of local filmmakers.
ACE
Riding along with his imaginary daredevil friend ACE, six-year-old Jimmy sets out on an epic quest to save his parents’ marriage.
Adam's Sake
Ali
In a coastal town where women are forbidden to sing, a teenage boy with an unusual gift joins a singing competition. Will he reveal his true voice?
Alphabet Lane
An isolated couple reinvigorate their relationship with parallel imaginary correspondences in this offbeat exploration of the mysteries of love.
Ana & Oto
In Rio de Janeiro, a filmmaker follows the misadventures of two young adults in existential crisis.
April
Local authorities close in on a rural Georgian doctor, leaving her with nowhere to run.
The Arch
This newly 4K-restored masterwork – made when its director was just 27 – was one of the earliest independent arthouse films in Hong Kong.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
The Baltimorons
In this SXSW Audience Award winner, a dental mishap plays cupid for a washed-up comedian and a disillusioned dentist on a life-changing Christmas Eve.
Best MIFF Shorts
A program of the award-winning short films, as chosen the MIFF Shorts Awards jury.
Birthright
Drawing battlelines between baby boomers and millennials, this theatrical pitch-black comedy offers a fresh slice of Australian Gothic.
Black Ox
A farmer descends from a mountain in this Zen Buddhist meditation on the modernisation of Japan that boasts stunning celluloid imagery.
Bleat!
When a male goat who was raised to be a sacrificial offering falls pregnant, a remote Tamil community wonders if it’s a curse or a miracle.
Blue Moon
Ethan Hawke brings legendary Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart to life in Richard Linklater’s A-list ensemble portrait of fallen stardom.
The Blue Trail
Taking home the Berlinale Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, this brightly coloured odyssey is a spirited rebuke to ageism.
BMX Bandits
No mere stackhat can restrain Nicole Kidman’s irrepressible teenage curls in this freshly restored Aussie action classic.
The Body
Jane spends her days playing a corpse on true-crime TV. At night, she tries to wash it all off, but the feelings start to stick.
Brand New Landscape
Fresh from its Cannes premiere, 26-year-old director Yuiga Danzuka’s poignant family drama is an assured portrait of emotional and urban isolation.
A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers
In 1980s Taiwan, a young woman’s trip to the cinema – to see Dario Argento’s Deep Red – awakens sexual desires and celluloid dreams.
By Design
In this absurdist satire, a woman is magically transformed into a chair – and discovers that everyone likes her better that way.
Cactus Pears
The unsaid speaks volumes in this Sundance Grand Jury Prize–winning, Marathi-language queer romance set in rural India.
The Chronology of Water
Common Pear
In a climate-ravaged future, a team of scientists analyse footage of farmers from the past, hoping to understand their emotional connection to the land.
Dani: The Portrait of a Beauty
Based on genre paintings by Shin Yun-bok, this interactive experience recreates the rituals, performances and daily life of the Joseon Dynasty in the 1700s.
Deaf
With the arrival of their first child, a deeply-in-love couple – one deaf, one hearing – encounter unexpected roadblocks in their relationship.
Demain on déménage
DJ Ahmet
A charming coming-of-age story about finding your place in a world where tradition and modernity collide.
Dreams
Jessica Chastain reunites with Michel Franco for this scathing yet enthralling drama about immigration, manipulation and a romance built on inequality.
Dreams (Sex Love)
A teenage girl gives voice to her desires in this charming, thought-provoking Norwegian coming-of-age drama.
Drunken Noodles
Eagles of the Republic
When he takes on one leading role too many, an Egyptian celebrity becomes a pawn for an oppressive regime he believes can’t touch him.
The End
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon sing and dance their way through the end of the world in acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical.
Enzo
Robin Campillo directs a sensual queer coming-of-age tale of a bourgeois French teen and the Ukrainian labourer who shakes up his world.
The Eviction
After a troubling incident, a group of university students face an ethical dilemma: whether or not to evict one of their own.
The Extraordinary Miss Flower
Faceless
An Indigenous man lives three parallel realities in white Australia: sleeping rough by the Birrarung, navigating Naarm’s art scene and dining with mining powerbrokers.
Familiar Touch
The winner of a trio of awards at Venice, this profoundly empathetic drama creatively portrays a woman’s experience of dementia from her own vantage point.
Family Business
The act of filmmaking is gently interrogated in this screwball caper set in Los Angeles.
Family Man
A mysterious man appears in a mountain village, silently moving into a family’s home. Is he connected to the father who vanished many years before?
First Light
A nun encounters a lethal criminal conspiracy and begins to question her beliefs in this poetic, sensory meditation on faith, power and corruption.
Fwends
Estranged mates get lost in Melbourne and fall back in love with one another in this lilting indie ode to the city and slacker cinema.
The Girls
The extraordinary debut of trailblazing Sri Lankan filmmaker Sumitra Peries is a poignant, pointed study of two sisters battling class and gender restrictions.
Greetings From Mars
Is there life on Mars? One young autistic lad wants to find out … if he can only conquer four weeks at his grandparents’ place in the country first.
