Grand Theft Hamlet
The show really must go on as two locked-down actors take Shakespeare to the least likely stage imaginable: the streets of Grand Theft Auto.
Grandmamauntsistercat
Winner of the Berlinale’s Teddy Award for Best Short Film, this story of a matriarchal family repurposes archival footage from communist Poland.
Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy
Chantal Akerman’s newly restored portrait embraces Jewish New York, from trauma and resilience to generous helpings of Borscht Belt jokes.
Hoard
The past comes knocking in this four-time Venice-winning feature debut that blends grief, grime, love and childhood trauma.
Honeymoon
A moving, beautifully shot portrait of two trans women on a road trip across Greece.
Hurikán
In this Annecy Audience Award winner, a simple errand turns into a comic Sisyphean ordeal.
The Hyperboreans
Showcased in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Beau Is Afraid’s breakout animators turn Chile’s Neo-Nazi history into a nightmarish stop-motion meta-movie.
I Shall Not Hate
This doc from the streets of Israel and Palestine charts a five-time Nobel-nominated doctor’s mission to turn personal tragedy into worldwide hope.
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.
In the Shadow of the Cypress
When a beached whale runs ashore, a father and daughter disagree about its fate.
INNERSTAR 01: Reddening
The first entry in a series inspired by astronomical phenomena and the exploration of consciousness and existence from a philosophical perspective.
Intercepted
A haunting psychological portrait of invasion, this Berlinale-awarded documentary covertly listens in as Russian troops call home.
It follows It passes on
Postwar memories of the Taiwanese Kinmen Islands are seen as if through broken glass, summoned by way of incense, ceramics, sand, light and shadows.
Iwakura
Rooted in Shinto mythology, Iwakura invokes the spirits that embody the sacred rock formations found throughout Japan.
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.
Julie Keeps Quiet
When her coach is accused of misconduct, a tennis prodigy decides – for her own complex reasons – not to return serve.
The Land at Night
An eerie trip across the landscape takes a dark turn into Australian Gothic.
Lasting Impressions
Plunge between the brushstrokes of impressionist artworks in this 3D spectacle that honours their daringly modern beauty.
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
A hypnotic interplay between footage of fireworks shot during a Japanese summer festival.
Limbotopia
First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.
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.
Malu
A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.
Man number 4
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photo on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Winner of the Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or, this razor-sharp, ultra-tense standoff offers a cinematic tribute to a real wartime figure.
Matt and Mara
Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.
Matta and Matto
At the Hotel Vaip, where machines simulate human contact, guests pay a high price.
The Medallion
Ethiopian-Australian filmmaker Ruth Hunduma hears her mother’s testimony of surviving the ‘Red Terror’ genocide of Ethiopia in the 1970s.
Memoir of a Snail
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
Metaract
The artist’s quest for meaning is revealed through natural environments, which are recontextualised and juxtaposed with digital elements.
Misericordia
If you go into the woods today, you’re in for a darkly comedic surprise from French provocateur Alain Guiraudie.
Mongrel
An undocumented Thai caregiver grapples with exploitation in this evocative portrait that received the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes.
Moving
Caught between her divorcing parents, a little girl is forced to come to terms with her new reality in this touching family drama.
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.
A New Kind of Wilderness
Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, this film follows a family living off-grid and facing change in the wake of the unexpected.
Normal
A father–daughter dramedy with a distinctive flavour, this tale of dispiriting social services and living with disability is a true crowdpleaser.
Nothing but Shadows
A superstitious widow confronts her mortality after human remains are discovered at her neighbour’s house.
Oddity
This award-winning spine-chiller from Caveat director Damian McCarthy unleashes horror from every corner of a haunted house.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.
On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands
For two young women stuck in suburban Hobart, there’s little to do but gossip, vent and take another hit from the bong.
Opening Night Gala - Memoir of a Snail
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
Pigsy
A lazy, self-absorbed porker becomes an unlikely hero in this wild and wondrous sci-fi riff on the Chinese classic Journey to the West.
Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
Reinas
In this winner of the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus Grand Prix, a man fights his worst impulses to be a better father to his two emigrating daughters.
Remains of the Hot Day
The Berlinale’s Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) winner is a shrine to fading memories from the director’s own childhood.
Santosh
Premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, this scathing, subversively feminist take on the police procedural puts modern-day India under scrutiny.
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.
Shé (Snake)
A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.
Shadowtime
Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
She Loved Blossoms More
Three brothers attempt to lure their mum back from the dead in this bizarre and strangely beautiful nightmare tale.
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.