9:00pm

This Cannes Best Director–winning Asian odyssey spectacularly mashes up time and place, genre and form, to transport audiences somewhere sublime.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
9:00pm

An awarded and acclaimed cornucopia from directors known and new.

Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
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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.

Dir. Francis Ford Coppola / 2024 / 138 mins / USA / English / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Headliners
9:00pm

A powerful, queer-focused story about a Palestinian family who are forced to make an impossible choice.

Dir. Dima Hamdan / 2023 / 14 mins / Palestine / Arabic / Drama / Australian Premiere
9:00pm

A moving, beautifully shot portrait of two trans women on a road trip across Greece.

9:00pm

A superstitious widow confronts her mortality after human remains are discovered at her neighbour’s house.

9:00pm

A poignant glimpse of the bond between a father and his teenage daughter at the height of the Iran–Iraq war.

Dir. Julia Elihu / 2023 / 13 mins / USA, Iran / Farsi / Drama / Australian Premiere
9:00pm

A visually striking meditation on motherhood as a young woman goes to extraordinary lengths to help her pregnant mother.

9:00pm

In this Sundance award-winner, race and class complicate the transaction between a wealthy couple and the scrap dealers they invite to their mansion.

9:15pm

Animal Kingdom star Leila George rejoins her mother Greta Scacchi in this devastating Australian drama about a family riven by drug addiction.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
9:15pm

A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
9:15pm

A taciturn loner and a stray dog bond in this beautiful tale of cross-species kindred spirits set against widescreen images of the Gobi Desert.

Dir. Guan Hu / 2024 / 106 mins / China / Mandarin / Drama, Thriller / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
9:30pm

This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.

Dir. Pamela Adlon / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English / Comedy / International Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
9:45pm

A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.

Dir. Larry Fessenden / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English / Horror / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Night Shift
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