kajoo yannaga
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Follow the Companion Sky Spirit through a virtual walk on Country: emerging from subterranean soils to the ground level, ascending to meet the clouds.
This Teddy Award winner is a study of family bonds fraying in the aftermath of tragedy and of the found families that put us back together again.
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine
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A Wiseman-esque study of a Japanese village’s Shinto shrine whose feline residents bring the local humans joy, solace and sometimes consternation.
A stunning doc that follows the Yanomami people of the Amazon as they perform a sacred rite and defend their homeland from the incursion of mining.
Frame Documentary Showcase
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A special preview of four of Australia’s newest interactive documentary works-in-the-making, proudly co-presented by Frame Documentary, MIFF and ACMI X.
A steely criminal lawyer juggles a murder case and tending to her dying mother in this Turkish drama that unspools over a tense 24 hours.
Flow
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A menagerie adrift on a boat must work together to survive a catastrophic flood in this animated wonder arriving from Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Architecton
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Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.
A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.
Tensions explode in a family’s country home in the Zürcher brothers’ follow-up to their acclaimed The Girl and the Spider.
International Shorts 1
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An awarded and acclaimed cornucopia from directors known and new.
In this Sundance award-winner, race and class complicate the transaction between a wealthy couple and the scrap dealers they invite to their mansion.
A visually striking meditation on motherhood as a young woman goes to extraordinary lengths to help her pregnant mother.
A poignant glimpse of the bond between a father and his teenage daughter at the height of the Iran–Iraq war.
A superstitious widow confronts her mortality after human remains are discovered at her neighbour’s house.
A moving, beautifully shot portrait of two trans women on a road trip across Greece.
A powerful, queer-focused story about a Palestinian family who are forced to make an impossible choice.
Aquarius
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The age of Aquarius floods into Nimbin in this radical, love-fuelled documentary exploring the lasting impact of a 1970s counterculture crucible.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
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Modern and traditional values clash in acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring family drama, which won two prizes at Cannes.
Dory Previn: On My Way to Where
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Her uniquely emotional songwriting fuelled the best revenge on her cheating husband: a brilliant second solo career.
Good One
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A simple camping trip evolves into a life-changing experience in this sensitively told coming-of-age debut.
Crossing
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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.
Immerse yourself in a wildly imaginative, proudly neurodivergent world informed by autistic perspectives and perception.
Fungi: Web of Life
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Lose yourself in this immersive trip into the fascinating world of fungi, as narrated by Björk.
Sasquatch Sunset
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Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg star in undoubtedly the greatest wordless, scatological, horny and tragicomic Bigfoot movie in the history of cinema.
Left Write Hook
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For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a program that combines boxing and writing turns into a journey of recovery and friendship.
Slip into the serene surrounds of Japanese ‘listening cafés’, where music lovers, audiophiles and locals come together to hear records.
Universal Language
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This zany transformation of Canada’s beigest city into the site of a classic Iranian film won Cannes Directors’ Fortnight’s first ever Audience Award.
The past comes knocking in this four-time Venice-winning feature debut that blends grief, grime, love and childhood trauma.
A Different Man
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Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier) plays a wannabe actor who learns that confidence isn’t skin-deep in this deliciously twisted morality tale.
Comedian Nina Conti directs this darkly funny joy ride featuring a monkey, a radio host brought back from the brink and a dead man’s watch.
Underground auteur Joel Potrykus returns with a mind-bending and hilariously shocking trip into the existential terror of middle age.
Head South
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A charming autobiographical valentine to coming of age in New Zealand during the height of punk, which was Rotterdam’s 2024 opening-night film.
In Vitro
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A disturbing secret threatens a couple’s relationship in this rural-set sci-fi thriller starring Succession’s Ashley Zukerman.
Jon Bell expands his MIFF 2020 Best Australian Short Film winner into a feature-length horror steeped in the trauma of the Stolen Generations.
Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.
Revenge is a dish best served during a coffee break for an overworked, under-slept new father.
At the Hotel Vaip, where machines simulate human contact, guests pay a high price.
A schoolgirl discovers the catfish she bought for dinner is a talking sentient bioweapon.
Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.
In this sinister short set at an Irish farm, an accident corners a teenager into making an irreversible choice.
A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.
When a young man is caught masturbating, he descends into a downward spiral of humiliation.
Guy Pearce stars in this prison-set portrait of incarceration and salvation – the feature debut from Short Film Palme d’Or winner Charles Williams.