8 Billion Selves
Ana & Oto
In Rio de Janeiro, a filmmaker follows the misadventures of two young adults in existential crisis.
Another Other
Wesley Snipes and former Harvard president Claudine Gay star in this cleverly juxtaposed meeting of Black American figures interrogated by white state officials.
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
Luminous images and hypnotic sounds from the Gondwana rainforest metamorphose into a landscape of ancient secrets and dazzling dreams.
Best MIFF Shorts
A program of the award-winning short films, as chosen the MIFF Shorts Awards jury.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Poetry, politics and the layered history of the Black experience collide in this pulsating, kaleidoscopic essay film
Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera
The beginnings of Akerman’s signature style are captured in these early experimental short films she made at the age of 17.
Contact Lens
In this radically sensory homage to Jeanne Dielman, Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece becomes a canvas for reimagining women’s emancipation from both the constraints of daily life and the limits of the cinematic frame.
D'est
Documentary Shorts
Non-fiction to challenge, inspire and change the way you see.
Family Business
The act of filmmaking is gently interrogated in this screwball caper set in Los Angeles.
Fiume o morte!
The Great History of Western Philosophy
Chairman Mao, Socrates, the Monkey King and Mickey Mouse meet in this unhinged animated journey through Western and Eastern philosophy, mythology, art history, pop culture and stream-of-consciousness dream states.
Hotel Monterey
Ito Meikyū
L'Homme à la valise
La Chambre
Akerman creates an intimate still life in fluid form in this influential film that cleverly rearranges time and space.
Le 15/8
A young woman’s searching thoughts play out from indoors on a bright summer’s day.
Le jour où…
In a short she described as “an homage to Godard”, Akerman reflects on the future of cinema.
Les Rites de Passage
Riverside ritual and the dance of a spectral wraith commune in an alliance of the human and non-human, the ecological and the supernatural.
Lettre de cinéaste
“To make movies,” Akerman announces, “you have to get up.” Aurore Clément joins the director in a whimsical exploration of what happens next.
Little, Big, and Far
A bewitchingly thought-provoking meditation on the stars, and on humanity’s place on Earth and within the universe.
little boy
Veteran avant-garde director James Benning takes a tour through half a century of US history, as experienced through one man’s eyes, ears and hands.
Magic Farm
Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff and Simon Rex star in Amalia Ulman’s indie satire about a too-hip media company on a clueless quest in Argentina.
News From Home
Nightshift
In this 4K-restored treasure of 1980s cinema, a remarkable feminist filmmaker checks you in for one dreamy night in London’s lost punk underground.
No Dance
Philip Brophy collects pocket ‘portraits’ of record buyers and listeners, breakdancers and pogo-stick jumpers, a radio DJ and a drum-machine programmer.
Olivia & the Clouds
The Dominican Republic’s third ever animated feature film is a mesmerising, Rashomon-like exploration of love and loss.
Our Lady Who Burns
In the Portuguese mountains, traditional folklore takes a paranormal turn in this atmospheric meditation on storytelling, superstition, UFOs and cats.
Philip Brophy Restorations
Purge your body of the foul present day and immerse yourself afresh in 1980s Melbourne with two seminal films from a legendary experimentalist.
Portrait d’une paresseuse
In the Seven Women, Seven Sins chapter alternatively titled La Paresse (Sloth), Akerman directs and stars in an ironic meditation on idleness from the perspective of a filmmaker who’d seemingly rather stay in bed.
Razeh-del
The 1998 founding of Iran’s first women-run newspaper inspires two schoolgirls to dream of a film that can never be made: a lesbian love story that ends with the Ministry of Culture being set ablaze.
Remote Views
A televisual stream of consciousness assembled from archival footage set in the Black media explosion of the 1980s.
Revolving Rounds
Take a visionary 3D trip to the limits of perception as you float across an agricultural landscape, through an early three-dimensional device and into a pea plant that shatters into a million particles.
Rue Mallet-Stevens
Mystery, modernism and romance come alive after dark in the 16th arrondissement.
Salt Saliva Sperm & Sweat
A yuppie writer and his co-workers spend four days tasting and digesting, spitting profanities, gratifying sexual urges, and indulging appetites for violence.
Same Player Shoots Again
From 1967, Wim Wenders’s second film – and earliest surviving work – is an experimental crime thriller following a man with a machine gun across a tableau of repeated shots.
Saute ma ville
Akerman’s comedic and incendiary first completed short film – whose title loosely translates as “blow up my town” – explodes feminine conventions.
She Dolls With Dollies
Tongue-twisting poetry meets floral collage in this fragmented dream.
Shedding
A performance for the Bolex camera that captures the ethereal interplay between celluloid and the physical body.
This Is Not Your Garden
Ecological data are transformed into a hypnotic and haunting trip through a spectral field of pointillist light.
Three by Wim Wenders
Screening on the German auteur’s 80th birthday, these shorts showcase his passion for cinema.
Toute une nuit
Two Times João Liberada
A trans woman seeks to rescue a gender-nonconforming pioneer from a flawed film in this gloriously form-exploding tribute to community telling their own stories.
The World Doesn't End When You Do
An exhilarating work of collage that takes a wild ride through archival imagery, historical violence and the construction of Black identity in the West.
Zodiac Killer Project
One of history’s most notorious unsolved cases forms the basis for a humorously insightful investigation into the true-crime genre.