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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Like a visual poem, this ode to a Black woman’s joys and tragedies in the Deep South is rendered exquisitely tactile on the big screen.
Analog Medium
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?
Aquarius
The age of Aquarius floods into Nimbin in this radical, love-fuelled documentary exploring the lasting impact of a 1970s counterculture crucible.
Audrey
In this brutally hilarious black comedy, an Aussie teen’s coma is her family’s time to shine.
Babes
This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.
Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts
A collaboration between Seth MacFarlane and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, this restoration unearths lost classics from animation’s Golden Age.
Blackout
A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.
Bőr (Skin)
An isolated Hungarian mother struggles to adapt to her family’s new life in 1950s Australia.
Bob Trevino Likes It
This SXSW award-winner will have you hitting ‘like’ with its tale of a pining daughter and the man who is not her father connecting online and IRL.
Bookworm
Elijah Wood stars as a wayward but well-meaning dad in this magical father–daughter quest set in the New Zealand wilderness.
Calf
In this sinister short set at an Irish farm, an accident corners a teenager into making an irreversible choice.
The Cars That Ate Paris
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.
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
Norman Rockwell meets John Cassavetes in this clear-eyed but deeply affectionate family holiday hangout.
Clown
A colourful riff on sibling rivalries and societal expectations.
Community to Commercial - Restored Australian Music Videos
Reminisce about Melbourne's community radio stations with a newly restored 1987 documentary, followed by a mix of indie band film clips.
Copa 71
Think the global surge in interest in women’s football is a relatively recent occurrence? This eye-opening documentary asks you to think again.
Crossing
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.
Cuckoo
Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.
Dìdi
This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.
Dahomey
As the restitution conversation gains global momentum, this striking Berlinale Golden Bear–winning documentary follows a stolen statue home.
Dale Frank – Nobody's Sweetie
The greatest look yet at a well-known artist very few have seen up close, as the titular visionary recluse invites us into his home.
The Damned
With this twist on the jingoistic, action-packed war movie, Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Director winner Roberto Minervini asks: what’s it all for?
Daughters
From EPs Kerry Washington and Joel Edgerton, this film joins four girls as they reunite with their incarcerated fathers for the Daddy Daughter Dance.
The Demon Disorder
Australian make-up and VFX veteran Steve Boyle (Star Wars; Daybreakers) makes his directorial debut with this grisly body-horror creature feature.
DEVO
This effusive documentary explodes onto the screen as it chronicles the remarkable rise and staying power of the 80s new-wave band behind ‘Whip It’.
A Different Man
Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier) plays a wannabe actor who learns that confidence isn’t skin-deep in this deliciously twisted morality tale.
Dig! XX
A classic tale of fame and destruction is revisited in this reconstructed rock doc about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Dory Previn: On My Way to Where
Her uniquely emotional songwriting fuelled the best revenge on her cheating husband: a brilliant second solo career.
Dream Team
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.
Ellis Park
Legendary Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary.
Emperor
An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) profiles the man who exposed apartheid in South Africa in this winner of the Cannes L’Œil d’Or for Best Documentary.
Every Little Thing
In this big-hearted documentary, a Los Angeles teacher takes time off to nurture injured hummingbirds and finds herself on an uplifting journey.
Every Morning
Eloise Grills’s poem ‘Every Morning I Am Reborn’ comes to life in this nimble, playful work of line-drawn animation.
Film About a Woman Who...
Hailed as her masterpiece, Yvonne Rainer’s second feature explores the nature of artifice via a coolly simmering woman in a subpar relationship.
Flathead
Two men in rural Queensland search for solace in spirituality in this cinematic blend of documentary and fiction.
Flide
Two friends hang out in inner Melbourne, where death seems to linger in the air.
Flower Show
Victorian-era high society’s stifling views of women are shown in full bloom.
Fungi: Web of Life
Lose yourself in this immersive trip into the fascinating world of fungi, as narrated by Björk.
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.
Good One
A simple camping trip evolves into a life-changing experience in this sensitively told coming-of-age debut.
Grand Theft Hamlet
The show really must go on as two locked-down actors take Shakespeare to the least likely stage imaginable: the streets of Grand Theft Auto.
Green Border
Agnieszka Holland returns with this devastating drama that follows Middle Eastern and North African refugees trapped as pawns in a political game.
He Ain't Heavy
Animal Kingdom star Leila George rejoins her mother Greta Scacchi in this devastating Australian drama about a family riven by drug addiction.
Head South
A charming autobiographical valentine to coming of age in New Zealand during the height of punk, which was Rotterdam’s 2024 opening-night film.
Hear My Eyes - Wake in Fright x Surprise Chef
Heavenly Creatures
A friendship between two teens leads to an unspeakable crime in Peter Jackson’s tour de force, re-emerging for a special 30th-anniversary screening.
Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy
Chantal Akerman’s newly restored portrait embraces Jewish New York, from trauma and resilience to generous helpings of Borscht Belt jokes.
Hito
A schoolgirl discovers the catfish she bought for dinner is a talking sentient bioweapon.
Hoard
The past comes knocking in this four-time Venice-winning feature debut that blends grief, grime, love and childhood trauma.
Honey Kaha
This distinctively Māori spin on the mockumentary recounts the exploits of a staunch and charming police officer.
The Horn
A teenage girl’s mother begins to drift out of daily life, inexorably drawn to a mysterious sound.
I Saw the TV Glow
Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.
I Shall Not Hate
This doc from the streets of Israel and Palestine charts a five-time Nobel-nominated doctor’s mission to turn personal tragedy into worldwide hope.
Impossible Space
A symphonic journey through fascinating real and artificial visual worlds, inspired by the spirit of science and discovery.
In Conversation: David Lowery
Take a masterclass with visionary American director David Lowery, exploring his storied career. Hosted by Alexei Toliopoulos.
In Conversation: Ondi Timoner
Trailblazing documentarian and two-time winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize Ondi Timoner discusses her celebrated career, including Dig! XX.
In Conversation: Warren Ellis & Justin Kurzel
Ahead of the world premiere of Ellis Park, musician and composer Warren Ellis and director Justin Kurzel discuss their work and recent collaboration.
In Vitro
A disturbing secret threatens a couple’s relationship in this rural-set sci-fi thriller starring Succession’s Ashley Zukerman.
Janet Planet
Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-ager that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary.
Kar
In this self-reflexive short, an emerging filmmaker asks himself whether it’s possible to make something meaningful in 10 minutes.
Kid Snow
Centring on the titular tent boxer, this is a stunningly shot, epic drama featuring groundbreaking performances from acclaimed director Paul Goldman.
Kneecap
A Belfast hip-hop trio play themselves in this biopic that tracks their fictionalised roots and their real-life crusade to save the Gaeilge language.
La Cocina
Rooney Mara stars in this gorgeously shot, righteously angry portrait of kitchen workers stewing in the pressure-cooker conditions of an NYC bistro.
Lake Mungo 4K
One of Australia’s greatest cult classics – equal parts ghost story and family drama – screens for the first time in a glorious new 4K restoration.
Lasting Impressions
Plunge between the brushstrokes of impressionist artworks in this 3D spectacle that honours their daringly modern beauty.
Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue
A speech therapist oversells her Tongan language skills to get a job.
Lee
Kate Winslet delivers a captivating performance alongside a stellar cast in this portrait of legendary WWII war photographer Lee Miller.
Like My Brother
From the Tiwi Islands to Melbourne and back again, four young women who seek to make it in elite sport must face uncertain futures.
Lives of Performers
The genre-defying debut feature of legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer, which heralded an experimental new cinematic voice.
Look Into My Eyes
Supporter and sceptic alike will be touched as seven psychics connect clients with the supernatural – or simply with what’s buried in their psyches.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Hear Martin Scorsese wax lyrical about how the mesmerising films of two of Britain’s finest inspired his own adventures in cinema.
Man number 4
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photo on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
The Man Who Envied Women
An acerbic, whip-smart account of a womanising professor at the breaking point of his marriage to a fed-up artist.
Mars Futures
A young woman, dissatisfied with life, makes a radical choice: to move to Mars.
Matt and Mara
Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.
Me & Mazzy Melancholy
Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.
The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste
A vision of wild, nightmarish childhood play stunningly shot on 16mm with vintage lenses.
The Medallion
Ethiopian-Australian filmmaker Ruth Hunduma hears her mother’s testimony of surviving the ‘Red Terror’ genocide of Ethiopia in the 1970s.
Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola’s star-studded, largely self-funded, 40-years-in-the-making passion project arrives at MIFF in all its loopy, maximalist glory.
Memoir of a Snail
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
Memory
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are exceptional in this dark and difficult love story – director Michel Franco’s most optimistic film to date.
The Memphis Chronicles: Water's Edge
Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Frederick Wiseman’s 44th feature documentary turns the lens on the kitchens of a Michelin three-star French restaurant and the family that runs it.
Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound
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.
The Moogai
Jon Bell expands his MIFF 2020 Best Australian Short Film winner into a feature-length horror steeped in the trauma of the Stolen Generations.
MURDER and murder
Winner of the Berlinale’s 1997 Teddy Award for Best Documentary/Essay, Yvonne Rainer’s final feature is also her most personal and playful.
Music on Film Gala - Ellis Park
Legendary Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary.
My First Film
Instead of writing off her abandoned first feature as a failure, filmmaker Zia Anger devised this imaginative, self-reflexive piece of autofiction.
My Old Ass
If you were a queer Canadian teenager and Aubrey Plaza appeared to you as your future self, would you heed her ominous warning?
A New Kind of Wilderness
Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, this film follows a family living off-grid and facing change in the wake of the unexpected.
No Other Land
An impassioned and eye-opening piece of documentary activism by an Israeli–Palestinian film collective, awarded Best Documentary at the Berlinale.
Occupied City
This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.
Oddity
This award-winning spine-chiller from Caveat director Damian McCarthy unleashes horror from every corner of a haunted house.
Oi
When a brash, boisterous queen-of-the-schoolyard undergoes a traumatic experience, she must confront her own behaviour and unexpressed desires.
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
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.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.
On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands
For two young women stuck in suburban Hobart, there’s little to do but gossip, vent and take another hit from the bong.
Opening Night Gala - Memoir of a Snail
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
The Organist
A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
Pleasure
Following an accident, two teen miscreants are brought closer together than ever before.
Privilege
In her idiosyncratically anarchic style, Yvonne Rainer tackles menopause, race and class with memoir, humour and the voices of many women.
Problemista
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.
Punctum
In this dark nocturnal world, small actions – and inactions – suggest heavy emotions.
Queens of Concrete
Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.
Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
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.
Rewards for the Tribe
An intimate and uplifting dance documentary that ponders human connection and perfection, featuring Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre.
The Ride Ahead
Samuel Habib expands on his Emmy-nominated short My Disability Roadmap with this filmed road trip seeking guidance on how to live a “bad-ass” life.
Romulus, My Father (Restoration)
Eric Bana and Kodi Smit-McPhee star in this emotionally textured, AFI Award–winning drama based on the acclaimed memoir – now lavishly restored.
Rumours
A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.
Runt
Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber and Deborah Mailman star in the heartwarming adaptation about a girl and her dog who set out to save the family farm.
Sasquatch Sunset
Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg star in undoubtedly the greatest wordless, scatological, horny and tragicomic Bigfoot movie in the history of cinema.
Scala!!!
Delirious, debaucherous and downright dangerous – the Scala played home to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll (and John Waters) in Thatcher-era London.
Secret Mall Apartment
Exec-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living in a shopping mall.
September Says
An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.
Shé (Snake)
A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.
Shadowtime
Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Shameless!
When a young man is caught masturbating, he descends into a downward spiral of humiliation.
Shin Godzilla
Now symbolising more modern disasters, Godzilla is back with a vengeance and in an almost unrecognisable form – but with the same catastrophic intent.
The Shrouds
Responding to his wife’s death, David Cronenberg fashions a meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror lens.
Sing Sing
In this SXSW award-winner, a theatre group finds hope and meaning through self-expression within the confines of a maximum-security prison.
Single File
Time collides and collapses in this kaleidoscopic reflection on change in Hong Kong.
The Small Back Room
Now in a stunning 4K restoration, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s WWII thriller remains a classic of aching romance and high-wire suspense.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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.
Stephen Cummins Retrospective
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.
The Stimming Pool
Immerse yourself in a wildly imaginative, proudly neurodivergent world informed by autistic perspectives and perception.
Stories of the Spirit Realm: kajoo yannaga (come on let’s walk together)
Join the creative team behind kajoo yannaga to unpack the layered processes, practices and ideas that contributed to the realisation of this work.
Stress Positions
Bougie Brooklynites behave badly in this queer COVID-set comedy straight from Sundance.
The Substance
Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Sunlight
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.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
A nuanced and inspirational account of the life-changing legacy of leading man turned disability activist Christopher Reeve.
Teaches of Peaches
Class is in session! Celebrate the world of gender-punk icon Peaches in this audacious Teddy Award–winning documentary.
Thelma
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.
This Is a Film About The Black Keys
Ohio-born bluesy rockers The Black Keys get candid and introspective in this warts-and-all documentary direct from SXSW.
A Thousand Odd Days
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.
Timestalker
In cult UK comedy treasure Alice Lowe’s film, a woman’s misguided fatal attraction to the same pretty bad-boy has lasted six centuries … so far.
To a Land Unknown
Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.
A Traveler’s Needs
MIFF favourite Hong Sang-soo reunites with Isabelle Huppert in this mysteriously tricksy comedy that won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Tuesday
Death comes as a giant macaw in this A24 fairytale about letting go, featuring a career-best turn from Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Twilight Time
A profile of Australian academic, agitator and surveillance expert Des Ball – the man who counselled the US against nuclear escalation in the 1970s.
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
The complex relationship between two married artists is laid bare in this searing and joyful portrait of love and creativity in autumn.
Us and the Night
Ten years in the making and shot on transcendent 16mm, this is an unconventional love story for every book-loving introvert.
Very Gentle Work
Direct from Cannes, this eerie tour visits sites of ‘violent righteousness’.
Voice
An inspirational insider’s look at a youth-led cross-country road trip to gather grassroots support for the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.
Vulcanizadora
Underground auteur Joel Potrykus returns with a mind-bending and hilariously shocking trip into the existential terror of middle age.
Wake Up
In this slasher, six Gen Z activists get more than they bargained for when they break into a furniture store and face a bloodthirsty security guard.
We Were Dangerous
Executive-produced by Taika Waititi, this fiercely feminist Māori-led debut is an emotive subversion of the ‘coming-of-age delinquent’ narrative.
Welcome Space Brothers
Hop aboard as this engrossing film takes you to the world of the Unarians: cosmic visionaries who believe in higher planes, therapy and movie-making.
Wilding
Letting it all go to seed is the answer to revitalising the land and its visitors, suggests this soul-nourishing film about innovative farming.
Withered Blossoms
Direct from Cannes, this gentle, tender work chronicles the relationship between a twentysomething and her ageing grandmother.
The World According to Allee Willis
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.
Yakka
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.
You Are My Tomorrow
The dynamics of a contentious yet co-dependent mother–daughter relationship are explored in this drama set among Melbourne’s Turkish community.
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday
Be swept up in this homage to the birth of Aussie surf culture compiled from 200 hours of home movies, iconic documentaries and restored 16mm footage.