MIFF Schools
A program to enhance students’ cinema and language learning, intercultural understanding, and media-analysis skills – but also open to all learners, regardless of age, beyond the classroom.
Alemania
A teenager must choose between family and a life-changing adventure abroad in this tender coming-of-age story.
The Concierge
In this sparkling anime comedy set in a vibrant alternate world, the customer is always right – but they’re never human.
Future Council
Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) takes eight kids on the ultimate school excursion: a road trip across Europe to seek solutions to the climate crisis.
Moving
Caught between her divorcing parents, a little girl is forced to come to terms with her new reality in this touching family drama.
Normal
A father–daughter dramedy with a distinctive flavour, this tale of dispiriting social services and living with disability is a true crowdpleaser.
Pigsy
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.
She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones
Receiving the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus Special Mention, this playful coming-of-age story follows the intertwined lives of two Chinese students.
Winners
Using football as her vehicle, Soleen Yusef references her own refugee tale through the poignant journey of an 11-year-old’s new life in Germany.