Program Strands

Tales from Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Congo and beyond.

Flights of imaginative fancy: hand-drawn, rotoscope, CGI.

Stories from South Korea, Malaysia, China, India and more.

Homegrown titles from the brightest local talent.

MIFF’s competition, lauding the breakthrough and the best.

A retrospective celebrating 10 years of Critics Campus.

A selection of titles by the master of Italian horror.

The groundbreaking works of the late Senegalese director.

Inspiring, blood-boiling, entertaining, emotional and true.

Films from France, Germany, Georgia, the UK and more.

Unprecedented takes on sound, sight and storytelling.

The perfect pairing – make it a whole night out.

Celebrate MIFF 2023 in style with these unmissable events.

Auteurs, award-winners, the most anticipated new works.

Travel to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and elsewhere.

Your favourite festival, streaming Australia-wide.

For all ‘learners’, regardless of age, beyond the classroom.

The art of saying more with less.

Discuss the themes, ideas and talent of the 2023 festival.

Extend your reality through total audiovisual immersion.

A cine-sonic smorgasbord: the aural on the big screen.

The creepy and weird things that go bump in the night.

Illustrious tales from Canada and the US.

MIFF’s co-commissioned ‘stories that need telling’.

Screening across seven regional Victorian cinemas.

Classics and curios, newly restored to their former glory.