29 Hour Long Birthday
Mark Jenkin’s thorny postcard from New York and its surrounds presents a world of jackhammers, MAGA caps and celebrity spotting.
Acetone Reality
Animation, found images and video recordings collide against a mind-bending dialogue between two computer-generated voices.
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.
As Told by a Corpse
In this ecstatic vision of the body in flux, a newborn encounters their digital mutation 25 years on.
Au hasard
Do we see what other moviegoers see? A fascinating act of cinematic misdirection for our age of misinformation.
The Awake
Body, remember…
A poetic evocation of the senses through the grain of film.
By the Faith of José Gerónimo
A transfixing, meditative journey into faith, history and cultural identity in the Dominican Republic.
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.
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up
Venture to the cutting edge of XR in this haunting, reality-bending pilgrimage between digital worlds and a living forest.
Écosystème
An immersive sensory dive into the depths of the sea.
Daria’s Night Flowers
Multiple MIFF award winner Maryam Tafakory returns with an epistolary tale of suppressed desire.
David Bowie Is Dead
An Ektachrome city symphony that captures a London lost to the quicksand of time.
Dead Tongue
In this profound experiment in oral history, a former dog trainer who worked for the Chilean dictatorship struggles to confront his past.
Dear Marianne
Narrated by director Mark Jenkin, this poetic vignette follows a Cornishman’s travels in Ireland – through Wexford, Waterford and Cork – in search of the familiar.
A Dog Called Discord
Super-8 images of a little white dog on a bleak northern beach are resurrected through the magic of film.
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Delphine Seyrig stars opposite model Veruschka (in drag) in this acerbic Oscar Wilde adaptation, an avant-garde take on fake news.
Dry Leaf
A young woman’s disappearance prompts an investigative road trip tinted with magic realism in this strangely gorgeous, wildly lo-fi Georgian gem.
Eight Bridges
James Benning, America’s master of slow cinema, invites audiences to consider bridges: structural and political, physical and metaphorical.
Embargo
Something sinister lurks on the fringes of a seemingly empty business complex.
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
With glitter, feathers and gender-bending sailors, Ulrike Ottinger’s rarely screened early experimental film sets the scene for her work to come.
The Essential Cornishman
A precursor to Mark Jenkin’s acclaimed debut feature Bait (MIFF 2019), this audiovisual stream of consciousness pays homage to the Beat poets via the mythical Cornish west.
Experimental Shorts
Visionary work from the avant-garde that reimagines the possibilities of cinema.
FELT
A spectral journey across modern America, as a man sees mountains – and sets out to recreate them.
Firestorm
World-premiering at MIFF, this generative-AI cinematic work explores the future of wildfires and the possibilities of immersive cinema.
Forever…Forever
Experience time on a planetary scale as rhythms of day and night pulsate in harmony with the celestial bodies in a landscape’s seasonal light.
Freak Orlando
In what she describes as a “small theatre of the world”, Ulrike Ottinger explores the span of human history in this deeply surreal, outré romp.
An Fylmow Berr | The Shorts of Mark Jenkin
A retrospective dedicated to the mysterious world of the singular Cornish filmmaker.
The Heart of the Forest
A mesmerising odyssey into the world of trees, unveiling their interconnected lives and the breathtaking biodiversity flourishing within the woods.
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
Mark Jenkin’s most recent cinematic diary is a fascinating return to – and reckoning with – his work and cultural influences.
Infernal Combustion
Overlapping highways become a tableau of automotive lunacy.
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
In Ulrike Ottinger’s ultimate ethnographic odyssey, a group of women travelling by train are taken hostage by a Mongolian princess.
Land of Barbar
A reimagined spin on a canonical tale that flips Western narratives about North Africa.
Light Pillar
This amusingly deadpan portrait of loneliness, the death of cinema and technology’s seductive appeal combines animation and live action in visionary ways.
Lost in the Water
Drops of water open portals to memory in this immersive, mysterious new work from MIFF alum Allison Chhorn.
Madame X: An Absolute Ruler
Gold. Love. Adventure. Tabea Blumenschein stars as the leather-clad lesbian pirate Madame X, who promises a new way of life to the brave women who dare to join her crew.
Man Wearing a Helmet
Haunting fragments of colonial violence testify to First Nations trauma and survival in this unflinching short.
Medea
In her only film role, opera singer Maria Callas stars as the infamous sorceress in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s mesmeric take on the immortal Greek tragedy.
No Title
In this beguiling miniature, an owl returns the audience’s stare.
Of Womb
Evading the hard truth of their religious matriarch’s death, three sisters gestate dark ecstasies of faith and folk horror. Blessed be Mother.
Phenomena
A filmmaker’s chemistry experiments produce dazzlingly psychedelic results in this spectacular, scientifically illuminating Australian debut.
Phillip Philadelphia
Crude, lust-riddled and brilliantly cracked, this Gold Coast–set fever dream is the latest twisted caper from maverick auteur Adam C. Briggs.
Revolving Rounds
A camera floats across farmland and into an ancient stereoscopic device, plunging the viewer into the splintered heart of the image itself.
The Road to Zennor
A poetic valentine to Mark Jenkin’s beloved Kodak Ektachrome, this hypnotic short glimpses Cornwall in bittersweet late autumn.
Rojo Žalia Blau
Stunning European landscapes converge in this hypnotic homage to three-strip Technicolor.
Sour Minnows
This surrealist stoner noir follows two LA roommates whose reality starts slipping after they witness a shocking scene of pavement worship one sunny afternoon.
Swing Swish Sway
A brilliantly multilayered, textural homage to a pioneer of queer rights.
Ticket of No Return
An enigmatic woman with no name books herself a one-way trip in order to drink her way through West Berlin in Ulrike Ottinger’s most revered film.
Time Life Volume 9. Life Model
The mechanical gaze of a book scanner becomes a hyper-speed collage of anatomy.
29 Hour Long Birthday
Acetone Reality
Aro berria — Aro berria
As Told by a Corpse
Au hasard
The Awake
Body, remember…
By the Faith of José Gerónimo — A donde nos lleva la fe de José Gerónimo
Chronovisor
Cinema of Spectacle: Experimental Visions
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up — 雲在兩千米
Écosystème
Daria’s Night Flowers — گلهای شب ِدریا
David Bowie Is Dead
Dead Tongue
Dear Marianne
A Dog Called Discord
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press — Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse
Dry Leaf — ხმელი ფოთოლი
Eight Bridges
Embargo
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors — Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen
The Essential Cornishman
Experimental Shorts
FELT
Firestorm
Forever…Forever
Freak Orlando
An Fylmow Berr | The Shorts of Mark Jenkin
The Heart of the Forest
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
Infernal Combustion
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
Land of Barbar — بالد البربر
Light Pillar — 寒夜灯柱
Lost in the Water
Madame X: An Absolute Ruler — Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin
Man Wearing a Helmet
Medea
No Title
Of Womb
Phenomena
Phillip Philadelphia
Revolving Rounds
The Road to Zennor
Rojo Žalia Blau
Sour Minnows
Swing Swish Sway
Ticket of No Return — Bildnis einer Trinkerin