20,000 Species of Bees
Featuring a remarkable lead performance from nine-year-old Sofia Otero, 20,000 Species of Bees is an empathetic exploration of gender and generations.
Read More →48 Hours
This restrained and powerful short shows how imprisonment doesn’t only affect the inmate.
Read More →Accelerator Shorts 2
Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.
Read More →All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
Love seeps through the cracks in this touching tale of same-sex desire in metropolitan Nigeria, which won the Berlinale’s Teddy Award.
Read More →Ama Gloria
From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a heartbreaking and unforgettably tender portrait of a six-year-old French girl’s bond with her Cape Verdean nanny.
Read More →Animalia
A mix of sci-fi genre-bending and apocalyptic tension, this debut uses an alien invasion to peer across the stakes of faith and family in Morocco.
Read More →Anu
A deeply moving story of ordinary grief experienced in extraordinary circumstances.
Read More →Autobiography
In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.
Read More →Big Bang
This sardonic film, which won Locarno’s Pardino d’oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film, recounts a small person’s larger-than-life rebellion.
Read More →Blue Jean
This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.
Read More →Casa Susanna
Deep in the US’s Catskill Mountains of the 50s and 60s sat a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men to experience life without fear.
Read More →The Cat o' Nine Tails
Do murderous thoughts lurk in our very DNA? Dario Argento interrogates nature vs nurture in his suspenseful second film.
Read More →Charcoal
A Brazilian family caring for their ailing patriarch make a diabolical deal to shelter a drug don in this tense, darkly comic thriller.
Read More →A Couple
Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.
Read More →Deep Sea
Heed the call of the waves and dive headfirst into this innovative and visually resplendent Chinese animation.
Read More →Development
Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.
Read More →Earthlings
Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.
Read More →From the Main Square
This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.
Read More →Generations of Men
A revisionist western inspired by author Judith Wright’s family history – the first narrative work to feature the Barada and Darumbal languages.
Read More →International Shorts 1
Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Venice, Locarno and more.
Read More →I Promise You Paradise
From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a masterful portrait of an ostracised immigrant searching for salvation.
Read More →I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs
A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.
Read More →Jia
In this award-winning film, two strangers are brought together by shared grief, experienced from vastly different perspectives.
Read More →Junglefowl
Political unrest fractures the innocence of childhood in this haunting snapshot of Sri Lanka’s brutal conflict.
Read More →Limbotopia in VR
First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.
Read More →linda 4 eva
A wildly imaginative, hilarious and heartbreaking trip into a teenage girl’s mind, depicted as a phantasmagoria of self-loathing and angst.
Read More →Lou
An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.
Read More →The Man Who Couldn't Leave
The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.
Read More →May December
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal.
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Omen
Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.
Read More →Pictures of Ghosts
Brazil’s modern master returns with a haunting tribute to the film-going experience in this Cannes-touted documentary.
Read More →R21 aka Restoring Solidarity
This time capsule of an extraordinary unseen history is a work of documentation and preservation – both of a moment in time and of the moving image.
Read More →Scrapper
A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.
Read More →Snow in September
The winner of Best Short Film at both Toronto and Venice is a subtly menacing, Mongolia-set tale of sexual awakening.
Read More →Stay Alive, My Son (Chapters 1 & 2)
A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.
Read More →Surfacing
An immersive fairytale whose everyday heroes are mothers and children in Italian prisons.
Read More →Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
William Greaves’s once-forgotten countercultural masterpiece about a beleaguered New York movie crew turns the conventions of filmmaking inside out.
Read More →Turbulence: Jamais Vu
From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana (MIFF 2022) comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.
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