2:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
2:40pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
2:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:00pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:00pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:10pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:10pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:20pm

An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:30pm

Best Director Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius crafts a stirring Holocaust fable – the first animated film to screen in Cannes competition since 2008.

Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
3:30pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:30pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:40pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:45pm

Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.

87 mins / Drama, Comedy
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
3:45pm

A speech therapist oversells her Tongan language skills to get a job.

3:45pm

In this dark nocturnal world, small actions – and inactions – suggest heavy emotions.

Dir. Jessica Sofarnos / 2024 / 10 mins / Australia / English / Drama / World Premiere
3:45pm

Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.

Dir. David Tse / 2023 / 13 mins / Australia / English, Mandarin, Japanese / Drama / World Premiere
3:45pm

Kar

In this self-reflexive short, an emerging filmmaker asks himself whether it’s possible to make something meaningful in 10 minutes.

Dir. Nick Allen / 2024 / 11 mins / Australia / English / Drama, Comedy / World Premiere
3:45pm

A vision of wild, nightmarish childhood play stunningly shot on 16mm with vintage lenses.

3:45pm

A colourful riff on sibling rivalries and societal expectations.

3:45pm

This distinctively Māori spin on the mockumentary recounts the exploits of a staunch and charming police officer.

4:00pm

Three works manifesting the subversive nature of Iranian New Wave documentary cinema as well as their deep roots in poetry.

85 mins / Iran / Documentary
Program Strand/s: Iranian New Wave: 1962–79
4:00pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:00pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:10pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:10pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:20pm

An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:30pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:30pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:40pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:00pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:00pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:10pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:10pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:20pm

An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:30pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:30pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:40pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
6:00pm

Agnieszka Holland returns with this devastating drama that follows Middle Eastern and North African refugees trapped as pawns in a political game.

Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
6:00pm

Two coal miners in love face their country’s buried trauma and reckon with their risky futures in this hypnotic Vietnamese queer romance.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
6:15pm

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
6:15pm

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.

Dir. Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane / 2024 / 90 mins / UK / English / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Documentaries
6:30pm

Made clandestinely with little money and a skeleton crew, Sohrab Shahid Saless’s 1973 debut feature is a quietly, mysteriously simmering masterpiece.

Dir. Sohrab Shahid Saless / 1973 / 80 mins / Iran / Farsi / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Iranian New Wave: 1962–79
6:30pm

Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) takes eight kids on the ultimate school excursion: a road trip across Europe to seek solutions to the climate crisis.

Program Strand/s: MIFF Schools The Natural World
6:30pm

A Belfast hip-hop trio play themselves in this biopic that tracks their fictionalised roots and their real-life crusade to save the Gaeilge language.

Dir. Rich Peppiatt / 2023 / 105 mins / Ireland / English, Irish / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
6:30pm

Executive-produced by Taika Waititi, this fiercely feminist Māori-led debut is an emotive subversion of the ‘coming-of-age delinquent’ narrative.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
6:30pm

The movement of a train arriving at Tehran’s central station is edited in sync with a maestro percussionist’s mesmerising use of the zarb.

Dir. Manouchehr Tayyab / 1964 / 9 mins / Iran / No Dialogue / Experimental
6:45pm

Be swept up in this homage to the birth of Aussie surf culture compiled from 200 hours of home movies, iconic documentaries and restored 16mm footage.

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