A suite of films produced by Kanoon, the celebrated government agency that brought culture and literacy to children and young adults in Iran.
Universal Language
Standby
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.
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.
Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.
Memoir of a Snail
Standby
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
Think the global surge in interest in women’s football is a relatively recent occurrence? This eye-opening documentary asks you to think again.
US jazz collides with Cold War crimes in this film examining the CIA’s role in state-sanctioned murder – and its use of pop music to cover its tracks.
In this brutally hilarious black comedy, an Aussie teen’s coma is her family’s time to shine.
Us and the Night
Standby
Ten years in the making and shot on transcendent 16mm, this is an unconventional love story for every book-loving introvert.
Best MIFF Shorts
Selling Fast
A collection of the best short films from the festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury and the MIFF Shorts programmers.
Thelma
Selling Fast
A 93-year-old grandma’s mission – and, yes, she chooses to accept it – is to reclaim her money from scammers by any means necessary.
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.
Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.
Teaches of Peaches
Selling Fast
Class is in session! Celebrate the world of gender-punk icon Peaches in this audacious Teddy Award–winning documentary.
In this striking genre-bender from Cannes Critics’ Week, a young woman wants to rise the ranks of bull-running – but a rogue animal is on the loose.
Architecton
Standby
Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.
From Cannes competition lands a colourful, queered and beachside-set erotic thriller in which desire and destiny clash in a seedy sex hotel.
Caught by the Tides
Selling Fast
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.
Norman Rockwell meets John Cassavetes in this clear-eyed but deeply affectionate family holiday hangout.
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.
This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.
The dynamics of a contentious yet co-dependent mother–daughter relationship are explored in this drama set among Melbourne’s Turkish community.
A teenager must choose between family and a life-changing adventure abroad in this tender coming-of-age story.
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.
Direct from Cannes, this gentle, tender work chronicles the relationship between a twentysomething and her ageing grandmother.
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?
A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.
Two activist-survivors navigate the aftermath of Iraq’s October 2019 protests in this extraordinary collaborative portrait of contemporary Iraq.
Think the global surge in interest in women’s football is a relatively recent occurrence? This eye-opening documentary asks you to think again.
A downtrodden father literally takes flight from the strictures of society in this supernaturally tinged, Tunisia-set odyssey.
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.
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.
With the odds (and the law) stacked against them, a teenager and a teacher in creatively stunted Saudi Arabia find meaning and friendship through art.
Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.
This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.
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.
An intimate and uplifting dance documentary that ponders human connection and perfection, featuring Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre.
Exec-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living in a shopping mall.
The 2024 winner of San Sebastián’s Golden Shell is an earthy tribute to motherhood and female power against overwhelming odds.
A kaleidoscopic ride through the 50-year career of the mega-hit songwriter behind the Friends theme song, Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ and more.
Egos clash in this tense coming-of-age tale set in an isolated cabin in the Canadian wilderness, which won the Berlinale Generation 14plus Grand Prix.
Tensions explode in a family’s country home in the Zürcher brothers’ follow-up to their acclaimed The Girl and the Spider.
A collection of the best short films from the festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury and the MIFF Shorts programmers.
