MIFF favourite Hong Sang-soo reunites with Isabelle Huppert in this mysteriously tricksy comedy that won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
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.
Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
A teenager must choose between family and a life-changing adventure abroad in this tender coming-of-age story.
Think the global surge in interest in women’s football is a relatively recent occurrence? This eye-opening documentary asks you to think again.
This epic, darkly comic portrait of Franzen-esque family dysfunction won multiple awards at both the 2024 Berlinale and the German Film Awards.
A musician couple retreat to a rural property to do some recording on vintage reel-to-reel tape. Is something supernatural lurking in the old house?
Direct from Cannes, this gentle, tender work chronicles the relationship between a twentysomething and her ageing grandmother.
The dynamics of a contentious yet co-dependent mother–daughter relationship are explored in this drama set among Melbourne’s Turkish community.
When a son goes to the coast to visit the estranged, troubled mother he hasn’t seen in three years, he struggles to reconnect with her.
When a brash, boisterous queen-of-the-schoolyard undergoes a traumatic experience, she must confront her own behaviour and unexpressed desires.
As two brothers get up to mischief in a fishing town, the cycles of toxic masculinity above the water reflect the hierarchies of predation below.
Hop aboard as this engrossing film takes you to the world of the Unarians: cosmic visionaries who believe in higher planes, therapy and movie-making.
A charming autobiographical valentine to coming of age in New Zealand during the height of punk, which was Rotterdam’s 2024 opening-night film.
Fresh from Cannes competition, Jia Zhang-ke’s latest portrait of Chinese society in flux is an epic drawn from over two decades of footage.
Hope and familial bonds thrive in dangerous conditions in this groundbreaking feature – the first ever Somali film to screen at Cannes.
An inspirational insider’s look at a youth-led cross-country road trip to gather grassroots support for the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are exceptional in this dark and difficult love story – director Michel Franco’s most optimistic film to date.
In this slasher, six Gen Z activists get more than they bargained for when they break into a furniture store and face a bloodthirsty security guard.
Exec-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living in a shopping mall.
Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.
Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-ager that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary.
Samuel Habib expands on his Emmy-nominated short My Disability Roadmap with this filmed road trip seeking guidance on how to live a “bad-ass” life.
A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
Supporter and sceptic alike will be touched as seven psychics connect clients with the supernatural – or simply with what’s buried in their psyches.
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.
One of Australia’s greatest cult classics – equal parts ghost story and family drama – screens for the first time in a glorious new 4K restoration.
Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.
Ohio-born bluesy rockers The Black Keys get candid and introspective in this warts-and-all documentary direct from SXSW.
With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.
Australian make-up and VFX veteran Steve Boyle (Star Wars; Daybreakers) makes his directorial debut with this grisly body-horror creature feature.
An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.