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

Exec-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living in a shopping mall.

Dir. Jeremy Workman / 2024 / 92 mins / USA / English / Documentary / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Documentaries
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

Legendary Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Music on Film
4:00pm

Personal Shopper director Olivier Assayas proves it is possible to make a beautiful lockdown-set film in this bittersweet, intimate comedy.

Dir. Olivier Assayas / 2024 / 105 mins / France / French / Drama, Comedy / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
4:00pm

In this Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner, an enigmatic young man yearns to belong with his disabled besties – but he’s not quite like them.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
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

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
5:00pm

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
5:10pm

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

A young boy orphaned by the cartel is up against inheriting a life of crime in this coming-of-age story from an award-winning Mexican filmmaking duo.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
6:15pm

In this evocative and ethereal mystery, a soothsaying matriarch wrestles with the darkness when her jihadist son returns from Syria.

Program Strand/s: Africa & Middle East
6:15pm

Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Berlin, Tribeca and more.

121 mins / Drama, Experimental, Thriller
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
6:15pm

The first Indian film to screen in Cannes competition in 30 years is a sensuous tale of two nurses, their romances and a mystical trip to the coast.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
6:15pm

Winner of the Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or, this razor-sharp, ultra-tense standoff offers a cinematic tribute to a real wartime figure.

6:15pm

A student at an all-girls boarding school is incredibly devoted to God. Or is it just to saintly Sister Agnes?

6:15pm

The Berlinale’s Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) winner is a shrine to fading memories from the director’s own childhood.

6:15pm

Part social-realist drama, part thriller, this workplace portrait depicts the pressure-cooker stresses of an overworked construction site.

Dir. Nicolas Panay / 2023 / 17 mins / France / French / Drama, Thriller / Australian Premiere
6:15pm

From Cannes Critics’ Week, this austere but affecting drama portrays religious superstition colliding with the harsh realities of rural life.

6:30pm
Local soul-seekers Surprise Chef re-score the the classic Australian film Wake in Fright, whose 4K restoration world-premieres at MIFF.
Dir. Ted Kotcheff / 1971 / 109 mins / English
Program Strand/s: Special Events
6:30pm

Winner of two Sundance awards, this moving documentary traces a young man’s exploits in a virtual world amid the restrictions of his physical life.

Dir. Benjamin Ree / 2024 / 104 mins / Norway / English / Documentary / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Documentaries
6:30pm

Film buffs ahoy! Alexei Toliopoulos is coming to MIFF’s Festival Hub for two nights only. His encyclopedic film knowledge is unmatched … is yours?

120 mins
6:30pm

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
6:30pm

This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.

Dir. Sean Wang / 2024 / 93 mins / USA / English, Mandarin / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
6:30pm

Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.

2024 / 94 mins / Australia / Drama, Animation
Program Strand/s: Australian Films
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6:45pm

In this brutally hilarious black comedy, an Aussie teen’s coma is her family’s time to shine.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
7:00pm

Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.

2024 / 94 mins / Australia / Drama, Animation
Program Strand/s: Australian Films
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