Armani Beauty Cinema Club Opening Night: Wishful Thinking
This SXSW Grand Jury Award–winning high-concept rom-com playfully questions the notion that love is the most powerful force in existence … for better or worse.
Bell, Book and Candle
In a stand-out performance, Kim Novak has a bewitching good time toying with Jimmy Stewart’s clueless mortal.
Chimney Town: Frozen in Time
This thoughtful, visually vivid sequel to anime mega-hit Poupelle of Chimney Town is an epic adventure about the power of belief.
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.
The Dollhouse
When you invite someone into your home, how do you treat them? Play along with little Juniper and help her learn the kindness her family lacks.
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.
Fingerbang
A lonely woman’s torrid affair with a severed finger turns toxic in a macabre Gothic tale that warns not to lose yourself to digital love.
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.
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.
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.
Madame X: An Absolute Ruler
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.
Ninja Scroll
Vividly restored in 4K, this 1993 anime masterpiece follows a ronin, a ninja and a spy on their quest to defeat eight superhuman warriors.
Opening Night Gala: Wicker
MIFF 2026 commences with the Australian premiere of Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer’s cheeky, star-studded and irresistible fable Wicker.
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.
Sense of Nowhere
Where do we go when we zone out, and how do we return to reality? Zone in – your own way – through a mindful flow of sonic textures and visual motifs.
Sparks
Small-town Nevadan teens attempt to time-travel to 1960s Paris in this charming debut that evokes the hangout spirit of the French New Wave.
Wicker
Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård lead this cheeky, star-studded and irresistible fable.
Wishful Thinking
This SXSW Grand Jury Award–winning high-concept rom-com playfully questions the notion that love is the most powerful force in existence … for better or worse.
Armani Beauty Cinema Club Opening Night: Wishful Thinking
Bell, Book and Candle
Chimney Town: Frozen in Time — Entotsu Machi no Poupelle - Yakusoku no Tokeidai (映画 えんとつ町のプペル 〜約束の時計台〜)
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up — 雲在兩千米
The Dollhouse — La Maison de Poupée
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press — Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse
Fingerbang
Freak Orlando
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
Light Pillar — 寒夜灯柱
Madame X: An Absolute Ruler — Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin
Ninja Scroll — Jûbê ninpûchô
Opening Night Gala: Wicker
Phillip Philadelphia
Sense of Nowhere
Sparks
Wicker