1:00pm

The complexities of the migrant experience are tenderly depicted in this deeply felt debut feature, which arrives fresh from Cannes Critics’ Week.

Dir. Constance Tsang / 2024 / 116 mins / USA / Mandarin / Drama, Romance / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
1:45pm

And Then We Danced (MIFF 2019) director Levan Akin’s Teddy Jury Award–winning follow-up is a luminous salute to the various communities of Istanbul.

Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
3:45pm

To pay for the conversion therapy she believes her gay son needs, a well-intentioned tollbooth operator turns to crime in this crafty drama.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
4:15pm

The genre-defying debut feature of legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer, which heralded an experimental new cinematic voice.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1972 / 90 mins / USA / English / Experimental
6:00pm

Rooney Mara stars in this gorgeously shot, righteously angry portrait of kitchen workers stewing in the pressure-cooker conditions of an NYC bistro.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
6:15pm

Guy Pearce stars in this prison-set portrait of incarceration and salvation – the feature debut from Short Film Palme d’Or winner Charles Williams.

Dir. Charles Williams / 2024 / 104 mins / Australia / Drama, Crime / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Bright Horizons
6:30pm

A kaleidoscopic ride through the 50-year career of the mega-hit songwriter behind the Friends theme song, Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ and more.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
6:30pm

Masoud Kimiai’s 1974 film embodies all that is great about Iranian cinema of the 1970s: it is political, provocative, sincere, angry and tragic.

Dir. Masoud Kimiai / 1974 / 126 mins / Iran / Farsi / Drama
Program Strand/s: Iranian New Wave: 1962–79
6:30pm

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.

Dir. Raven Jackson / 2023 / 92 mins / USA / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
6:45pm

This hearty, accomplished debut feature follows the highs and lows of a multi-generational family running a tofu factory in Daegu.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
9:15pm

A classic tale of fame and destruction is revisited in this reconstructed rock doc about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Dir. Ondi Timoner / 2024 / 145 mins / USA / English / Documentary / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Music on Film
9:15pm

In cult UK comedy treasure Alice Lowe’s film, a woman’s misguided fatal attraction to the same pretty bad-boy has lasted six centuries … so far.

Dir. Alice Lowe / 2024 / 97 mins / UK / English / Sci-Fi / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Night Shift
9:30pm

Winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, this nerve-shredding portrait follows a Guinean delivery rider zipping across Paris in hopes of attaining legal residency.

Dir. Boris Lojkine / 2024 / 92 mins / France / French / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
9:30pm

This taut, visually inventive Chinese thriller has drawn comparisons to buzzy social-class parables Saltburn and Parasite.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
9:30pm

Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.

Dir. Jane Schoenbrun / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English / Drama, Horror / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America Headliners
9:45pm

With the odds (and the law) stacked against them, a teenager and a teacher in creatively stunted Saudi Arabia find meaning and friendship through art.

Program Strand/s: Africa & Middle East
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