Abiding Nowhere
Tsai Ming-liang continues his meditative, monastic Walking series with another hypnotic shrine to seeking transcendence in a chaotic world.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Like a visual poem, this ode to a Black woman’s joys and tragedies in the Deep South is rendered exquisitely tactile on the big screen.
Architecton
Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.
Babes
This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.
Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts
A collaboration between Seth MacFarlane and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, this restoration unearths lost classics from animation’s Golden Age.
Blackout
A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.
Blue Sun Palace
The complexities of the migrant experience are tenderly depicted in this deeply felt debut feature, which arrives fresh from Cannes Critics’ Week.
Bob Trevino Likes It
This SXSW award-winner will have you hitting ‘like’ with its tale of a pining daughter and the man who is not her father connecting online and IRL.
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine
A Wiseman-esque study of a Japanese village’s Shinto shrine whose feline residents bring the local humans joy, solace and sometimes consternation.
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
Norman Rockwell meets John Cassavetes in this clear-eyed but deeply affectionate family holiday hangout.
Cuckoo
Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.
Dìdi
This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.
The Damned
With this twist on the jingoistic, action-packed war movie, Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Director winner Roberto Minervini asks: what’s it all for?
Daughters
From EPs Kerry Washington and Joel Edgerton, this film joins four girls as they reunite with their incarcerated fathers for the Daddy Daughter Dance.
The Dead Don't Hurt
Viggo Mortensen’s second feature is an unconventional western buoyed by the powerful presence of its lead, Vicky Krieps.
DEVO
This effusive documentary explodes onto the screen as it chronicles the remarkable rise and staying power of the 80s new-wave band behind ‘Whip It’.
A Different Man
Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier) plays a wannabe actor who learns that confidence isn’t skin-deep in this deliciously twisted morality tale.
Dig! XX
A classic tale of fame and destruction is revisited in this reconstructed rock doc about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Dory Previn: On My Way to Where
Her uniquely emotional songwriting fuelled the best revenge on her cheating husband: a brilliant second solo career.
Dream Team
If you think you’ve seen enough crime dramas that you can predict every twist, think again. This trippy investigation will keep you second-guessing.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) profiles the man who exposed apartheid in South Africa in this winner of the Cannes L’Œil d’Or for Best Documentary.
Film About a Woman Who...
Hailed as her masterpiece, Yvonne Rainer’s second feature explores the nature of artifice via a coolly simmering woman in a subpar relationship.
Good One
A simple camping trip evolves into a life-changing experience in this sensitively told coming-of-age debut.
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.
In the Garden of Tulips
A poignant glimpse of the bond between a father and his teenage daughter at the height of the Iran–Iraq war.
Janet Planet
Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-ager that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary.
La Cocina
Rooney Mara stars in this gorgeously shot, righteously angry portrait of kitchen workers stewing in the pressure-cooker conditions of an NYC bistro.
Lasting Impressions
Plunge between the brushstrokes of impressionist artworks in this 3D spectacle that honours their daringly modern beauty.
Lives of Performers
The genre-defying debut feature of legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer, which heralded an experimental new cinematic voice.
Look Into My Eyes
Supporter and sceptic alike will be touched as seven psychics connect clients with the supernatural – or simply with what’s buried in their psyches.
The Man Who Envied Women
An acerbic, whip-smart account of a womanising professor at the breaking point of his marriage to a fed-up artist.
Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola’s star-studded, largely self-funded, 40-years-in-the-making passion project arrives at MIFF in all its loopy, maximalist glory.
Memory
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are exceptional in this dark and difficult love story – director Michel Franco’s most optimistic film to date.
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Frederick Wiseman’s 44th feature documentary turns the lens on the kitchens of a Michelin three-star French restaurant and the family that runs it.
MURDER and murder
Winner of the Berlinale’s 1997 Teddy Award for Best Documentary/Essay, Yvonne Rainer’s final feature is also her most personal and playful.
My First Film
Instead of writing off her abandoned first feature as a failure, filmmaker Zia Anger devised this imaginative, self-reflexive piece of autofiction.
My Old Ass
If you were a queer Canadian teenager and Aubrey Plaza appeared to you as your future self, would you heed her ominous warning?
Nothing but Shadows
A superstitious widow confronts her mortality after human remains are discovered at her neighbour’s house.
Occupied City
This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.
Privilege
In her idiosyncratically anarchic style, Yvonne Rainer tackles menopause, race and class with memoir, humour and the voices of many women.
Problemista
Tilda Swinton plays the boss from hell in this absurdist satire of US immigration policy and the New York art scene from multi-hyphenate Julio Torres.
The Ride Ahead
Samuel Habib expands on his Emmy-nominated short My Disability Roadmap with this filmed road trip seeking guidance on how to live a “bad-ass” life.
Sasquatch Sunset
Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg star in undoubtedly the greatest wordless, scatological, horny and tragicomic Bigfoot movie in the history of cinema.
Secret Mall Apartment
Exec-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living in a shopping mall.
Shadowtime
Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Shambhala
The first Nepalese film to screen in competition at Berlin follows the physical and spiritual Himalayan journey of a woman on a truth-seeking mission.
Sing Sing
In this SXSW award-winner, a theatre group finds hope and meaning through self-expression within the confines of a maximum-security prison.
Single File
Time collides and collapses in this kaleidoscopic reflection on change in Hong Kong.
Slow Shift
Monkeys overrun the remains of an ancient civilisation in this rich reflection on myth and reality.
Some Rain Must Fall
This Berlinale award-winning domestic noir is the arresting first feature from Melbourne-trained Short Film Palme d’Or winner Qiu Yang.