10:00am

kajoo yannaga
Free Session

Follow the Companion Sky Spirit through a virtual walk on Country: emerging from subterranean soils to the ground level, ascending to meet the clouds.

Dir. April Phillips / 2024 / 10 mins / Australia / Yuin / Animation / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
10:00am

The first Nepalese film to screen in competition at Berlin follows the physical and spiritual Himalayan journey of a woman on a truth-seeking mission.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
10:45am

Letting it all go to seed is the answer to revitalising the land and its visitors, suggests this soul-nourishing film about innovative farming.

Dir. David Allen / 2023 / 75 mins / UK / English / Documentary / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: The Natural World
11:00am

Matt and Mara
Selling Fast

Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.

Program Strand/s: North America
1:00pm

Lee
Selling Fast

Kate Winslet delivers a captivating performance alongside a stellar cast in this portrait of legendary WWII war photographer Lee Miller.

Dir. Ellen Kuras / 2023 / 117 mins / UK / English / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
1:00pm

This portrait of justice-seeking Syrians in European exile is a deftly calibrated spy thriller propelled by stand-out performances.

Dir. Jonathan Millet / 2024 / 106 mins / France / French, Arabic / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
1:15pm

This hearty, accomplished debut feature follows the highs and lows of a multi-generational family running a tofu factory in Daegu.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
2:30pm

Modern and traditional values clash in acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring family drama, which won two prizes at Cannes.

Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof / 168 mins
3:30pm

An Unfinished Film
Selling Fast

When an unfinished film, reborn, is stuck in stasis again, its creators meditate on how their lives have been transformed by the pandemic.

Dir. Lou Ye / 2024 / 105 mins / Germany, Singapore / Mandarin / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
3:45pm

Grand Tour
Selling Fast

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
4:00pm
Peter Weir’s classic comedy of the macabre returns in an immaculate, all-new 4K restoration co-presented by the National Film and Sound Archive.
91 mins
4:00pm

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

116 mins / Drama, Experimental, Thriller
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
4:00pm

Sunlight
Standby

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.

Dir. Nina Conti / 2024 / 96 mins / UK / English / Drama, Comedy / International Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
4:00pm

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
4:00pm

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

4:00pm

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

4:00pm

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

4:00pm

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

5:30pm

Join the creative team behind kajoo yannaga to unpack the layered processes, practices and ideas that contributed to the realisation of this work.

60 mins / English
Program Strand/s: MIFF Talks
6:00pm

Ten animators adapt Alison Lester’s children’s book, crafting a magical mixture of live action and animation destined to become a family favourite.

Program Strand/s: Special Events
6:15pm

A voyage through the singular career of Scottish post-rock legends Mogwai, from their beginnings in the 90s to the creation of their latest album.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
6:15pm

When her coach is accused of misconduct, a tennis prodigy decides – for her own complex reasons – not to return serve.

Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
6:15pm

Amid the climate crisis, an eight-square-kilometre island off the Danish coast is a microcosm of the rest of the world in this witty portrait.

Program Strand/s: The Natural World
6:15pm

Responding to his wife’s death, David Cronenberg fashions a meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror lens.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
6:30pm

An inspirational insider’s look at a youth-led cross-country road trip to gather grassroots support for the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
6:30pm

Elijah Wood stars as a wayward but well-meaning dad in this magical father–daughter quest set in the New Zealand wilderness.

Program Strand/s: Family Films
6:30pm

Guy Pearce stars in this prison-set portrait of incarceration and salvation – the feature debut from Short Film Palme d’Or winner Charles Williams.

2024 / 104 mins / Australia / Drama, Crime / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Bright Horizons
6:30pm

Elijah Wood stars as a wayward but well-meaning dad in this magical father–daughter quest set in the New Zealand wilderness.

Program Strand/s: Family Films
6:30pm

A crucial chapter in Australia’s queer history is brought to light in this National Film and Sound Archive restoration of Stephen Cummins’s films.

Program Strand/s: Restorations
6:30pm

Good One
Selling Fast

A simple camping trip evolves into a life-changing experience in this sensitively told coming-of-age debut.

Dir. India Donaldson / 2024 / 90 mins / USA / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
6:30pm

Problemista
Standby

Tilda Swinton plays the boss from hell in this absurdist satire of US immigration policy and the New York art scene from multi-hyphenate Julio Torres.

Dir. Julio Torres / 2023 / 104 mins / USA / English, Spanish / Drama, Comedy / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
6:45pm

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
6:45pm

Oddity
Standby

This award-winning spine-chiller from Caveat director Damian McCarthy unleashes horror from every corner of a haunted house.

Program Strand/s: Night Shift
6:45pm

Adam Elliot (Memoir of a Snail), Emma Kelly (Magic Beach), Kathy Sarpi (Magic Beach) and Gints Zilbalodis (Flow) discuss their approaches to animation.

60 mins
Program Strand/s: MIFF Talks
7:00pm

Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-ager that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary.

Dir. Annie Baker / 2023 / 113 mins / USA / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
7:10pm

Guy Pearce stars in this prison-set portrait of incarceration and salvation – the feature debut from Short Film Palme d’Or winner Charles Williams.

2024 / 104 mins / Australia / Drama, Crime / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Bright Horizons
8:00pm

Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-ager that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary.

Dir. Annie Baker / 2023 / 113 mins / USA / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
8:00pm

Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.

Dir. Eliza Cox / 2024 / 87 mins / Australia / English / Documentary / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Sports
8:45pm

Audrey
Standby

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

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
8:45pm

Dream Team
Standby

If you think you’ve seen enough crime dramas that you can predict every twist, think again. This trippy investigation will keep you second-guessing.

Program Strand/s: Experimentations
9:00pm

An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.

Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
9:15pm

Class is in session! Celebrate the world of gender-punk icon Peaches in this audacious Teddy Award–winning documentary.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
9:15pm

With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.

Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
9:15pm

The untold 40-year story of the crowning moments, creative turmoils and deep friendship of the pair behind At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
9:15pm

The Substance
Standby

Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
9:30pm

Mongrel
Selling Fast

An undocumented Thai caregiver grapples with exploitation in this evocative portrait that received the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
9:30pm

The Organist
Standby

A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
9:30pm

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
11:00pm

Delirious, debaucherous and downright dangerous – the Scala played home to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll (and John Waters) in Thatcher-era London.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
11:15pm

Jon Bell expands his MIFF 2020 Best Australian Short Film winner into a feature-length horror steeped in the trauma of the Stolen Generations.

Dir. Jon Bell / 2023 / 86 mins / Australia / English / Drama, Horror / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Night Shift
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