MIFF returns to cinemas from 4 to 21 August with an expansive program of acclaimed international and local cinema, once again gracing metro, regional and suburban theatres, as well as streaming on MIFF Play from 11 to 28 August.
Ahead of the full program announcement on Tuesday 12 July, check out a snapshot of this year’s eagerly awaited program. Unless otherwise marked, tickets will be available to MIFF Members from Tuesday 12 July and to the general public from Friday 15 July.
One print. One screening. A one-of-a-kind chance to reflect on the ephemeral nature of celluloid, even as you watch it deteriorate before your eyes.
The winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear for Best Film is a wistful, sun-drenched paean to family and tradition in the face of upheaval.
Acclaimed Polish documentarian Paweł Łoziński finds wonder and wisdom in the everyday from two floors up.
Sari Braithwaite’s delightfully intimate new feature invites us to share the mundane and the magnificent with a neurodivergent, working-class family.
The genuinely inspirational story of how ‘trauma cleaner’ Sandra Pankhurst responded to an unseen world with radical kindness.
In his latest provocation, satire master Riley Stearns asks: if you had to duel your own clone to the death, would you win?
The winner of Rotterdam’s Tiger Award melds magic realism, mythology, ecology and ethnography into an exquisite cine-poem.
Aubrey Plaza plays a woman with nothing to lose in this thriller about the late-capitalist lines some are willing to cross for the American Dream.
In this love story written in lava, two intrepid scientists who adore volcanoes as much as each other gift the world with something extraordinary.
Bear witness to the possible futures of the planet’s oldest tropical rainforest in a world-first durational VR installation.
Joost Bakker investigates what it would be like to grow all the food you ever needed, leaving no waste as you do so, right at your doorstep.
Springtime (The Drones’ Gareth Liddiard, Dirty Three’s Jim White and The Necks’ Chris Abrahams) joins Chopper composer Mick Harvey to rescore the Aussie classic.
The 2021 Venice competition’s Special Jury Prize winner is a gorgeous meditation on light, landscape and the passage of history.
Charlotte Gainsbourg makes her directorial debut with this tender, quietly revelatory portrait of her mother, Jane Birkin.
Don your skinny jeans and vintage tees for this ode to New York’s aughts rock renaissance, featuring The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and LCD Soundsystem.
A 10-year-old must keep her grief-stricken immigrant family together in this moving Australian–Slovenian co-production.
Join a telekinetic young woman on a wild and bloody trip to New Orleans in this horror-comedy from the director of A Girl Walks Home at Night.
This award-winning, jaw-dropping documentary follows Vladimir Putin’s political rival as he investigates a state-sponsored poisoning: his own.
Hong Sang-soo reunites with muse Kim Min-Hee for another casually evocative tale of chance encounters, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Goran Stolevski’s heart-meltingly tender, quintessentially Melbourne queer coming-of-age tale will make you swoon from beginning to end.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is the essence of Gallic cool in this moody, insouciant film from French dramatist Mikhaël Hers (Amanda).
An idealistic film student is drawn into an enigmatic performance artist’s shadowy world in Alena Lodkina’s follow-up to the acclaimed Strange Colours.
An intriguing, intimate epic that charts the personal ebbs and flows of two men in conversation across the highways and byways of Melbourne.
Still waters run deep in this Irish-language story of love and loss set in 1980s Ireland, awarded the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus Grand Prix.
War and its personal fallout go under the microscope in this tale of one man’s struggle to live on in post-Maidan Ukraine.
Austrian master of discomfort Ulrich Seidl returns with his first narrative feature in nine years: an irresistible study of a sleazy songster.
This archival treasure trove chronicles the rise and role of Melbourne and Sydney filmmaking cooperatives in the 1960s and 1970s.
MIFF and Orchestra Victoria showcase the film scores that have captured the Victorian landscape and transformed it into imagined pasts and futures.
Easily one of the most brutal and twisted films of the year, Speak No Evil is a merciless horror of manners. You have been warned.
The Breakfast Club meets the outback in this uplifting coming-of-age road movie by Nyul Nyul / Yawuru director Jub Clerc (The Turning, The Heights).
As Australia’s housing crisis deepens, this Margot Robbie–narrated film shows us the fastest-growing social group facing homelessness: women over 55.
Legendary structuralist filmmaker James Benning crafts an ostensibly simple, quietly mischievous landscape work that reflects on his homeland today.
When a filmmaker son sets out to make a documentary about his filmmaker father, long-buried feelings and dormant memories bubble to the surface.
A beguiling and big-hearted animated reimagining of Anne Frank’s story from the lauded director of Waltz With Bashir.
