Analog Medium
A musician couple retreat to a rural property to do some recording on vintage reel-to-reel tape. Is something supernatural lurking in the old house?
Animale
In this striking genre-bender from Cannes Critics’ Week, a young woman wants to rise the ranks of bull-running – but a rogue animal is on the loose.
Blackout
A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.
Bőr (Skin)
An isolated Hungarian mother struggles to adapt to her family’s new life in 1950s Australia.
Calf
In this sinister short set at an Irish farm, an accident corners a teenager into making an irreversible choice.
Canard
Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.
Cuckoo
Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.
The Demon Disorder
Australian make-up and VFX veteran Steve Boyle (Star Wars; Daybreakers) makes his directorial debut with this grisly body-horror creature feature.
Experimental Shorts
Unconventional cinema that tests the boundaries of form and function.
I Saw the TV Glow
Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.
Lake Mungo 4K
One of Australia’s greatest cult classics – equal parts ghost story and family drama – screens for the first time in a glorious new 4K restoration.
The Land at Night
An eerie trip across the landscape takes a dark turn into Australian Gothic.
Matta and Matto
At the Hotel Vaip, where machines simulate human contact, guests pay a high price.
The Memphis Chronicles: Water's Edge
Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.
The Moogai
Jon Bell expands his MIFF 2020 Best Australian Short Film winner into a feature-length horror steeped in the trauma of the Stolen Generations.
Oddity
This award-winning spine-chiller from Caveat director Damian McCarthy unleashes horror from every corner of a haunted house.
The Organist
A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.
Rumours
A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.
Shé (Snake)
A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.
Shameless!
When a young man is caught masturbating, he descends into a downward spiral of humiliation.
The Shrouds
Responding to his wife’s death, David Cronenberg fashions a meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror lens.
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.
Wake Up
In this slasher, six Gen Z activists get more than they bargained for when they break into a furniture store and face a bloodthirsty security guard.
