Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) shared an impressive 2024 program of over 250 features, shorts and XR experiences running 8-25 August across Melbourne, around Victoria and online Australia-wide this August.
Yering Station, Artistic Director, Al Cossar, said: “Here it is – the big moment of our annual reveal, packed with anticipation, discovery, a celebration of all things cinema. This year’s MIFF program features over 250 films, with more than 400 sessions across 18 days, bringing together incredible Australian filmmaking, world cinema, drama, comedy, horror, animation, bold experimentation – things you’ve been waiting months to see, and others you never thought you’d get a chance to. The MIFF program this year, like every year, is a multi-faceted festival of cinematic excess, designed to delight, and sure to bring out the best in your imaginations. We’re thrilled to welcome audiences back – come along and settle in for all too many movies at Melbourne’s favourite binge this Winter!”
Returning to MIFF some twenty odd years since winning his Oscar for Harvie Krumpet – and twenty one years since that same short opened MIFF in 2003, Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail will make its Australian Premiere as the Opening Night Gala feature film on Thursday 8 August.
Popping up in theatres statewide, the MIFF Regional showcase brings some of the festival’s must-see titles to audiences further afield across the weekends of 16-18 August and 23-25 August. Meanwhile, MIFF Online – streaming via ACMI offers digital access Australia-wide to a limited selection of festival highlights from 9-25 August.
BRIGHT HORIZONS COMPETITION AND AWARD
Screening in competition at MIFF, the 2024 Bright Horizons films showcase an exciting array of innovative and compelling cinematic works from ten filmmakers on the rise.
In Good One, the revelatory debut from India Donaldson, a simple camping trip in the Catskills evolves into a life-changing experience. Breakout star Lily Collias delivers a stellar performance as the seventeen-year-old Sam who is roped along on a trip with her divorced father and his also divorced friend. Soon enough, competing egos come to the surface and just as Sam learns uncomfortable truths about them, so too does she discover where, and how, she’ll draw the line.
Inspired by Ken Russell and other British filmmakers of the 1960s and 70s, Luna Carmoon’s Hoard appears in competition at MIFF having scooped four prizes at Venice Critics’ Week. Starring newcomer Saura Lightfoot Leon and Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn, this intimate and at times confronting coming-of-age feature is centred on Maria, a young woman grappling with the grief, trauma and hoarding tendencies imposed by her mother.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter tale that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary. Over the course of one early 90s summer in Massachusetts, hyper-needy 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) comes to terms with the riddle that is her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson, Monos, MIFF 2019). Collaborating with cinematographer Maria von Hausswolff, who shoots on 16mm, Baker imbues her debut with a warm nostalgia that bathes her characters in an almost surreal haze. Presented by Letterboxd, Janet Planet is a certain marvel.
Belgian director Leonardo Van Dijl’s Julie Keeps Quiet tracks a young tennis prodigy who is teetering on the brink of athletic stardom when her coach at a prestigious training academy is accused of misconduct. With its mood of roiling tension beneath watchful stillness, this incisive character portrait premiered to acclaim at Cannes Critics’ Week, where it won the Critics’ Week (SACD) Award. Real-life tennis player Tessa Vanden Broeck delivers an impressively poised performance in her first acting role, making Julie’s vulnerable interiority powerfully eloquent despite her outward stoicism.
The desperate absurdities of colonisation are laid bare in the acidic Sweet Dreams, the assured second film from Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević, which took home Locarno’s Best Performance Award for lead actor Renée Soutendijk. Intent on subverting the conventional period drama, this satire about a Dutch family’s fallout following the death of their wealthy patriarch contronts the Netherlands’ colonial trespasses with dark humour, lurid colours and the confining Academy aspect ratio, building to what Sendijarević has dubbed a “horrific fairytale.”
In a reimagined Winnipeg that looks a lot like 1980s Iran – just with a lot more turkeys and Kleenex factories – two young kids find a banknote, leading them on an odyssey that takes them out of childhood and into the unforgiving world of adults. Calling Universal Language an “autobiographical hallucination” drawn from a love-hate relationship with his hometown, writer-director Matthew Rankin (who also plays himself in the film), brings the best of Iranian cinema to Canada’s most beige city in this delightful cross-cultural comedy.
Hope and familial bonds thrive in dangerous conditions in the groundbreaking The Village Next to Paradise – the first ever Somali film to screen at Cannes. Selected for Un Certain Regard, the affecting debut feature from Mo Harawe (Will My Parents Come to See Me, MIFF 2022) follows a makeshift family living in a cramped one-bedroom apartment in a small fishing village as they try to carve out a better life for themselves and together. Vividly rendered through Harawe’s rich visual language, The Village Next to Paradise is a gentle portrayal of survival in a country racked by instability and violence.
Flow, the striking animated allegory from Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis (Away), also arrives from Cannes Un Certain Regard to screen in competition at MIFF. In this wordless wonder, a menagerie of animals adrift on a boat must work together to survive a catastrophic flood. Having recently notched up four awards at Annecy International Animation Festival, this poignant parable for our climate-catastrophe times, Flow showcases an ascendant master hitting his stride.
With absurdist humour and playfully surrealist imagery, the disarmingly funny On Becoming a Guinea Fowl rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence in the wake of the death of one of their own. Rungano Nyoni follows her acclaimed directorial debut I Am Not a Witch (MIFF 2017) with another formally adventurous Zambian feminist social critique – this one winning the Best Director prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
Executive-produced by Thomas M. Wright (The Stranger, MIFF 2022) and supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, Inside is the impressive first feature from Short Film Palme d’Or winner Charles Williams. Shot in Melbourne and regional Victoria, the film showcases a trio of powerhouse performances – from Vincent Miller in his debut role, to a transformative turn from Cosmo Jarvis (Shōgun), to Guy Pearce (who also appears in The Shrouds, MIFF 2024) as a man seeing out a life sentence – in this prison-set portrait that poignantly examines the complex interplay between incarceration, rehabilitation and remorse.
HEADLINERS
MIFF’s Headliners strand, presented by MINI, features a captivating selection of the most anticipated and buzzed about new films from global cinema’s leading voices.
Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s star-studded, 40-years-in-the-making passion project arrives at MIFF in all its loopy, maximalist glory, in a strictly one-off special screening at IMAX. Steeped in the Roman Empire, Shakespeare and Dickens, and featuring Adam Driver, Jon Voight and Shia LeBeouf, Coppola’s out-of-control ‘fable’ is the stuff of modern-day moviemaking myth. Having invested over $120 million of his own money into the production when no studios would dare bankroll its uncompromising vision and mega-scale ambition – the film sees Coppola at work with unparalleled creative freedom. Dedicated to Coppola’s recently departed wife Eleanor, Megalopolis looms as an indelible vision from the 85-year-old auteur.
Mumbai-based director Payal Kapadia returns with the highly anticipated fiction follow-up to her striking debut feature documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing (MIFF, 2022). Recently shown in Cannes as the first Indian film to screen in competition in 30 years, All We Imagine as Light is the sensuous tale of three nurses, their romantic entanglements and a mystical trip to the coast. Awarded the 2024 Grand Prix at Cannes, Kapadia has delivered one of the year’s most assured films.
Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in an audacious gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay. The Substance sees French director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) ruthlessly marshal Cronenbergian tropes, from 1980s-inspired production design to some truly superlative prosthetics, provocatively depicting the turmoil of ageing as a woman in a patriarchal world. Featuring performances by Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, MIFF 2019) and Dennis Quaid.
MIFF mainstay and Sixth Generation legend Jia Zhang-ke (Unknown Pleasures, MIFF 2002, Ash Is Purest White, MIFF 2018) remains the master of capturing China’s relentless march towards modernity – and the ‘drifting generation’ lost in its wake. In Caught By the Tides, he fashions a free-flowing narrative from over 20 years of video, complete with varied aspect ratios and resolutions. At the centre of it all is Jia’s wife and muse Zhao Tao, a magnetic screen presence who digs deeper and deeper into a character that has spanned her husband’s career.
Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) plays a wannabe actor who learns that confidence isn’t skin-deep in the deliciously twisted morality tale, A Different Man. Channelling Cronenberg and Lynch in his film’s blend of body-horror, dark comedy and surrealism, indie auteur Aaron Schimberg shrewdly takes a scalpel to misplaced ambition and the superficiality of modern society. Stan, who won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance, appears alongside Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World, MIFF 2021) and Adam Pearson (Chained for Life) who are both equally magnetic.
The Cannes Best Director-winning Asian odyssey, Grand Tour, spectacularly mashes up time and place, genre and form, to transport audiences somewhere sublime. This stunning cinematic essay from Miguel Gomes (Tabu, MIFF 2012) is much grander in scope than its story of a determined bride in hot pursuit of her runaway groom across Asia; it demands to be experienced moment to moment. As one wise character recommends: “Abandon yourself to the world, and see how generous it is to you.
A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance all collide for Guy Maddin’s audacious Rumours. Once again joining forces with co-director siblings Evan and Galen Johnson (The Green Fog, MIFF 2018), Maddin delivers an explosively topical satire set in a German forest where a nearby fictional G7 summit is taking place. A bittersweet hit at this year’s Cannes, Rumours delivers witty and wildly existential laughs.
Responding to his country’s punishing political climate, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil, MIFF 2021; A Man of Integrity, MIFF 2017) returns with a searing family drama that captures the growing unrest among a generation deprived of rights. Having shot the incendiary film in secret, and – after receiving an eight-year prison sentence earlier this year – Rasoulof fled the country to attend its competition premiere at Cannes. Much like its maker, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a courageous testament to resistance against tyranny.
Following the recent death of his wife, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds fashions a deeply personal meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror land. As Karsh, Vincent Cassel is a dead-ringer proxy for Cronenberg while Diane Kruger gives three full-throttle performances: as Karsh’s dead wife, as her alive twin sister and as an AI assistant that might be messing with Karsh’s mind. Guy Pearce (who also appears in Inside, MIFF 2024) joins the cast as Karsh’s paranoid hacker ex-brother-in-law, hamming it up with aplomb.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Chinese auteur Lou Ye (Summer Palace, MIFF 2006) tackles the seismic disruption brought by COVID through an exhilarating blend of drama and documentary. In An Unfinished Film, a fictional crew based near Wuhan stumbles upon 10-year-old footage of a (real) aborted queer film and sets about reuniting the cast to complete it with a new act. But this is early 2020, and fate has other ideas. With the film halted once again, the project comes to morph into something else entirely.
Named one of the top 10 independent films of 2023 by the National Board of Review, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is award-winning poet and photographer Raven Jackson’s mesmerising debut feature. Shot in gorgeous 35mm, this ode to a Black woman’s joys and tragedies in the Deep South is propelled by a visceral soundscape and a sparse but revealing script. For fans of Barry Jenkins (who has a producer credit here) and Terrence Malick.
In cult UK comedy treasure Alice Lowe’s second feature, a woman’s misguided fatal attraction to the same pretty bad-boy has lasted six centuries…so far. After co-writing and starring in comedy slasher Prevenge, Lowe is joined in Timestalker by an eager ensemble cast including Hot Fuzz’s Nick Frost, Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds, Interview With the Vampire’s Jacob Anderson and period-drama darling Aneurin Barnard.
Forming a trilogy on human togetherness (alongside The Strange Little Cat and The Girl and the Spider, MIFF 2021), The Sparrow in the Chimney marks the highly anticipated return of Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, the Swiss filmmaking brothers behind some of the most distinctive experimental dramas to emerge from Europe. Rebellious and hopeful, their latest sees tensions explode when two sisters come together with their families for a birthday party in their countryside.
MIFF favourite Hong Sang-soo reunites with Isabelle Huppert for a third time (Another Country, MIFF 2012; Claire’s Camera, MIFF 2017) in A Traveler’s Needs, the mysteriously tricksy comedy that won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. Wide-eyed Iris (Huppert) is an expat adrift in Seoul. Eking out a strangely dislocated life mooching in the spare bedroom of a younger man, much to his mother’s ruffled chagrin, Iris teaches French to the locals using unusual methods that hint at deeper meanings.
Award-winning comedian Nina Conti makes her directorial debut with Sunlight, a darkly funny joy ride featuring a monkey, a radio host brought back from the brink and a dead man’s watch. Co-written by Conti and her real-life partner comedian Shenoah Allen (and executive produced by Christopher Guest), the pair also share their chemistry on-screen in what can only be described as an unconventional love story. With its upbeat soundtrack and the sprawling desert landscape of New Mexico, Sunlight is sure to provoke both belly laughs, melancholy and a heartwarming afterglow.
The incomparable Jane Squibb (Nebraska) leads delightful crowdpleaser Thelma as the titular 93-year-old grandma on a mission for revenge after falling for an online money scam. Having seen his own grandmother targeted by digital fraudsters, improv-comedy veteran Josh Margolin has crafted a rollicking action-comedy parody that serves as a touching tribute to the determination and defiance of older people. Joining in on the fun are Blaxploitation legend Richard Roundtree (Shaft himself, in his final role), Parker Posey and Malcolm MacDowell.
Elijah Wood (Come to Daddy, MIFF 2019) stars as a wayward but well-meaning father in the charming throwback, Bookworm. In it, 11-year-old bibliophile Mildred (Nell Fisher) and her washed-up illusionist father (Wood) embark on a quest in the New Zealand wilderness to hunt down a mythical beast that may prove essential to healing their family. For his second feature film, director Ant Timpson has conjured a fantastical coming-of-age odyssey that is sure to appeal to both the young and the young-at-heart.
Having received the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes, Mongrel is the striking feature from directors Chiang Wei Liang and You Qiao Yin that takes viewers inside the lives of undocumented workers in Taiwan. Driven by an unswerving lead performance from Wanlop Rungkumjad (Manta Ray, MIFF 2019), this evocative portrait sees Oom, a calm and attentive caregiver, attempting to maintain his own humanity amidst exploitation at the hands of his employer.
Winning a Berlinale Encounters Special Jury Award, Some Rain Must Fall is the arresting first feature from MIFF Accelerator Lab and Victorian College of the Arts alumnus Qiu Yang, who won the Short Film Palme d’Or back in 2017. With an extraordinary central performance from Yu Aier as a woman in the midst of a midlife existential crisis, Yang quietly and confidently infuses his intimate family drama with a palpable suspense and pinprick-sharp class commentary to create a masterful psychological thriller.
Delivering a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood is Babes, the raucous ‘mom-com’ written by and starring Ilana Glazer (Broad City). It follows pals Eden (Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) as their friendship is put to the test when the carefree and single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night-stand. Described as a perinatal Bridesmaids, director Pamela Adlon (Better Things) delivers both a bawdy comedy and an unexpectedly sweet love story between dear friends.
DOCUMENTARY HIGHLIGHTS
Black Box Diaries is a daring work of first-person investigative journalism that charts the extraordinary case that not only launched #MeToo in Japan but altered the country’s justice system for good. Retelling her own experience of rape and the ensuing legal battle, director and survivor Shiori Itō gives powerful voice to her life-and law-changing story – and hope to women everywhere.
As the restitution conversation gains momentum worldwide, the striking Berlinale Golden Bear-winning documentary, Dahomey, tracks a stolen statue home to the Republic of Benin. While literally capturing the careful transportation of the statue and other artefacts, French filmmaker Mati Diop (A Thousand Suns, MIFF 2014) and cinematographer Joséphine Drouin-Viallardwere also begin to unpack much needed questions around the significance of these items to the Beninese people, the country’s vestigial ties to France and the very purpose of museums.
When Mats Steen dies at just 25 due to a rare degenerative disease, his parents are inundated with heartfelt condolence messages from strangers all around the world who had – unbeknownst to them – come to befriend Mats virtually. Winner of two Sundance awards, Benjamin Ree’s extraordinary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin traces Steen’s exploits in the video game landscape of World of Warcraft – amid the restrictions of his physical life with Duchenne muscular dystrophy – and the many people who came to know and love him.
The 27 residents of Mandø, an eight-square-kilometre island off the Danish coast, serve as a microcosm for the world’s impending climate concerns in As the Tide Comes In. To make this sensitively handled, at times humorous account of life in remote conditions, co-director and visual anthropologist Sofie Husum Johannesen immersed herself in the locals’ experiences, lending a scholarly eye that elevates the film’s observational storytelling. Meanwhile, director Juan Palacios was behind the visually arresting camerawork of sky meeting sea, ebbing tides and flat plains, culminating in footage gathered across 15 trips in four years.
Executive-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, the stranger-than-fiction Secret Mall Apartment recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living inside a shopping mall. Screening to much acclaim at SXSW and Hot Docs, this funny, charismatic and slyly provocative film from director Jeremy Workman (Lily Topples The World; Claire Makes It Big, MIFF 1999) captures the scrappy DIY ethos and us-against-the-world spirit of its subjects, interrogating what it means to make art in the face of late-period capitalism.
The complex relationship between two married artists is laid bare over the course of a year in Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other. At 84 and 75, Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett have been together for a quarter of a century. But when Barrett injures herself in a fall, the couple’s dynamic alters significantly, and long-buried resentments come to the surface. Receiving CPH:DOX’s Dox:Award Special Mention, Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter’s film is a tender, at times funny, other times painfully candid study of the realities behind the romantic ideal of growing old together.
Intercepted takes its name from a cache of audio recordings played throughout this haunting psychological portrait of invasion: phone calls from invading Russian fighters, as captured by Ukrainian security forces. Director Oksana Karpovych – who was working for Al Jazeera when the Russian invasion began – has authored a wholly unique study of war and what it does to the mindset of people caught up in its cruelties.
MIFF will host a free showing of the double Sundance-winning Daughters in its Australian Premiere. In this deeply moving feature documentary executive-produced by Kerry Washington and Joel Edgerton, activist and Girls for Change CEO Angela Patton and filmmaker Natalie Rae follow four young girls as they prepare to meet their incarcerated fathers – many of whom have been sentenced for up to 20 years – for a day of celebration at the prison’s Daddy Daughter Dance.
British filmmaker David Hinton (Nora, MIFF 2009) brings his deft touch for kinetic storytelling to bear on this beautifully drawn documentary exploring the remarkable oeuvre of The Red Shoes co-directors Michael Powell (the late husband of editor supreme Thelma Schoonmaker) and Emeric Pressburger. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger is presented by unbridled super-fan Martin Scorsese who waxes lyrical about how the mesmerising films of two of Britain’s finest inspired his own adventures in cinema.
AUSTRALIAN HIGHLIGHTS
Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber, Jack Thompson and Deborah Mailman star in the heartwarming and hilarious adaptation of Craig Silvey’s bestselling Runt, which is set to make its World Premiere at MIFF. Ignoring the age-old axiom not to work with children or animals, director John Sheedy (H Is for Happiness, MIFF 2019) rose to the challenge to do both, with magnificent results. Newcomer Lily LaTorre delivers a charisma-fuelled performance as Annie, while the notable Australian cast bring to life this upbeat underdog tale for the whole family.
A disturbing secret threatens a couple’s relationship in the Australian eco-thriller, In Vitro, starring Succession’s Ashley Zukerman. Writer-directors Tom McKeith and Will Howarth (Beast) also worked with co-writer and star Talia Zucker on their thought-provoking screenplay that was developed after being selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Meanwhile, cinematographer Shelley Farthing-Dawe imbues a haunting energy to the plains around Cooma and Goulburn in New South Wales, which serve as the moody backdrop to this tense, outback-set sci-fi nail-bitter.
World Premiere feature Voice offers an inspirational insider’s look at the Indigenous-run collective Deadly Inspiring Youth Doing Good (DIYDG) as they embark on a 3,000 kilometre cross-country roadtrip to gather support for the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum. But while they seek to inspire a new future, the resulting votes seemingly bring another fight for recognition to a close. Directed by Krunal Padhiar alongside DIYDG co-founder and chair Semara Jose as co-director, this observational film is the first major Australian documentary to chronicle the journey of the Voice referendum in 2023.
Twilight Time is the gripping profile of Australian academic, agitator and surveillance expert Des Ball – the man who counselled the US against nuclear escalation in the 1970s and was subsequently hailed by former president Jimmy Carter as “the man who saved the world.” Employing a wealth of archival footage, veteran documentarian John Hughes (Senses of Cinema, MIFF 2022) has captured a timely look at Australia’s complicated involvement in global strategy, defence policy and mass surveillance.
Shot in and around Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, the latest fiction feature from director Paul Goldman (Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story, MIFF 2023) explores a mostly untold chapter of Australia’s national narrative in the true story of Irish tent boxer, Kid Snow. British actors Billy Howle and Tom Bateman star alongside a sterling local cast that includes Phoebe Tonkin, Mark Coles Smith, Tasma Walton and Hunter Page-Lochard. As punches are thrown, Kid Snow is ultimately a story of hope and the redemptive power of love.
Co-directed by Danielle MacLeanh and Sal Balharrie, Like My Brother is an inspiring World Premiere documentary about four young women from the Tiwi Islands who all dream of playing professional footy in the AFLW. But while dreaming is one thing, achieving it is another as they each navigate the hardship of leaving loved ones, the strain of distance and homesickness and the barriers faced by many First Nations young people.
2024 Melbourne International Film Festival Program Lineup
Bright Horizons
Flow
Good One
Hoard
Inside (Premiere Film Fund)
Janet Planet
Julie Keeps Quiet
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Sweet Dreams
The Village Next to Paradise
Universal Language
Special Events
Music on Film Gala: Ellis Park (Premiere Film Fund)
Godzilla 70th Anniversary Marathon
Hear My Eyes: Wake in Fright x Surprise Chef
Hot Springs x Magic Beach Screening
Lasting Impressions
Premiere with Purpose: Left Write Hook (Premiere Film Fund)
Family Gala: Magic Beach (Premiere Film Fund)
Opening Night Gala: Memoir of a Snail (Premiere Film Fund)
Planetarium Fulldome Showcase
African & Middle East
Behind the Mountains
East of Noon
To a Land Unknown
My Favourite Cake
Norah
Who Do I Belong To
Asia Pacific
A Traveler’s Needs
Abiding Nowhere
All Shall Be Well
An Unfinished Film
Black Dog
Brief History of a Family
Ghost Cat Anzu
Head South
House of the Seasons
Mongrel
My Sunshine
Santosh
Shambhala
Some Rain Must Fall
Viet and Nam
We Were Dangerous
Australian
Aquarius
Audrey (Premiere Film Fund)
Dale Frank – Nobody’s Sweetie
Flathead
He Ain’t Heavy
In Vitro
Kid Snow
Rewards for the Tribe
The Organist
Twilight Time
Voice
Documentaries
A New Kind of WIlderness
Black Box Diaries
Dahmoney
Daughters
Direct Action
Ernest Cold: Lost and Found
Gaucho Gaucho
Grand Theft Hamlet
I Shall Not Hate
Immortals
Intercepted
Look Into My Eyes
Made in England: The films of Powell and Pressburger
Menu-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
No Other Land
Occupied City
Scala!!!
Secret Mall Apartments
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
The Ride Ahead
The Stimming Pool
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
Welcome Space Brothers
Europe & UK
Armand
Close Your Eyes
Crossing
Ghost Trail
Green Border
Hesitation Wound
Kneecap
Lee
Misericordia
September Says
Sunlight
Suspended Time
The Girl With the Needle
The Most Precious of Cargoes
The Outrun
The Rye Horn
The Sparrow in the Chimney
The Story of Souleymane
Tuesday
Experimentations
Dream Team
Pepe
The Hyperboreans
Us and the Night
Family Films
Bookworm
Magic Beach (Premiere Film Fund)
Runt
Headliners
A Different Man
All We Imagine as Light
Caught by the Tides
Dying
Grand Tour
I Saw the TV Glow
Megalopolis
Rumours
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Shrouds
The Substance
Iranian New Wave: 1962-79
A Simple Event
Brick and Mirror
Dead End
Golden Age of Iranian Animation
Iranian Subversive Documentaries, 1961-67
Kanoon: From Didactic to Poetic, 1974-77
Tall Shadows of the Wind
The Carriage Driver
The Cow
The Deet
The Stranger and the Frog
Tranquility in the Presence of Others
Latin America
Cidade; Campo
La Cocina
Malu
Motel Destino
Reinas
Simon of the Mountain
Sujo
Toll
You Burn Me
MIFF Schools
Alemania
The Concierge
Moving
Normal
Pigsy
She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones
Winners
MIFF XR
Emperor
Frame Documentary Showcase
kajoo yannaga
Queer Utopia: Act 1 Cruising
Shadowtime
Taiwan With a Twist
The Memphis Chronicles: Water’s Edge
Music on Film
A Century in Sound
Community to Commercial – Restored Australian Music Videos
DEVO
Dig! XX
Dory Previn: On My Way to Where
Ellis Park (Premiere Film Fund)
Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Teaches of Peaches
The World According to Alle Willis
This Is a Film About The Black Keys
Night Shift
Animale
Blackout
Cuckoo
Oddity
She Loved Blossoms More
The Demon Disorder
The Moogai
Timestalker
Wake Up
North America
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Babes
Blue Sun Palace
Bob Trevino Likes It
Dìdi
Matt and Mara
Memory
My First Film
My Old Ass
Problemista
Sasquatch Sunset
Sing Sing
The Damned
Thelma
Vulcanizadora
Who by Fire
Restorations
Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts
Histories d’Amerique; Food, Family and Philosophy
Lake Mungo 4K
Romulus, My Father
Stephen Cummins Retrospective
The Cars That Ate Paris
The Small Black Room
Un rêve plus long que la nuit
Shorts
Accelerator Shorts 1
Accelerator Shorts 2
Animation Shorts 2
Australian Shorts
Documentary Shorts
Experimental Shorts
International Shorts 1
International Shorts 2
WTF Shorts
Sports
Copa 71
Like My Brother
Queens of Concrete (Premiere Film Fund)
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday
The Natural World
Architecton
As the Tide Comes In
Every Little Thing
Fungi: Web of Life
Future Council
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine
The Falling Sky
Wilding
Yvonne Rainer: Autobiographical Fictions
Film About a Woman Who…
Lives of Performers
The Man Who Envied Women
MURDER and murder
Privilege