Virtual and real-world violence blur in this terrifying, Sundance award-winning short.

James Benning invites us to contemplate Black history as he turns his structuralist lens on the first African American municipality in California.

German auteur Wim Wenders’s majestic 3D portrait of compatriot, artworld luminary and friend Anselm Kiefer.

This dryly humorous, Wiseman-esque film about an esteemed Czech art school asks: who gets to decide what art is?

Portuguese director Pedro Costa merges cinema, music and theatre for this tale of three sisters separated by an erupting volcano.

Established feature directors return to the short form to play with time and experiment with structure.

In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.

Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel weaves economic struggle, thriller and diva melodrama into a stunning exercise in bodily language.

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.

Hailed as one of the greatest giallo works ever made, this oneiric fever dream about an amateur sleuth attracted praise from Alfred Hitchcock himself.

A double Berlinale award winner capturing the joys, heartaches and rhythms of rural Mexican life as seen through the eyes of children and young women.

The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades.

This account of an elderly woman’s nerve-racking journey across Manhattan is a heart-stoppingly sharp indictment of the US healthcare system.

Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton star in Joanna Hogg’s Gothic coda to her two Souvenir films, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.

A quirky and lesser-known piece of the Italian giallo maestro’s tapestry, and a lesson in cinematic innovation.

This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.

This rare Aussie take on the popular exorcism subgenre builds to a brutal finale you won’t be able to excise from your mind.

Tensions rise along with the temperature gauge in this blistering snapshot of sibling rivalry.

Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.

The winner of the Rotterdam Ammodo Tiger Short Competition’s top prize is a touching portrait of shared uncertainty.

An awarded and acclaimed cornucopia from directors known and new.

A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.

A pope’s audacious act tears the Catholic Church and all of Italy apart in this gripping true story.

Catherine Breillat (Abuse of Weakness) returns with a daring portrait of a woman’s intimate relationship with her teen stepson, starring Léa Drucker.

The Aussie brothers behind 100 Bloody Acres mix frights and frivolity in recreating a 1970s talk show that goes straight to hell.

Winner of Rotterdam’s top prize, this moving documentary explores the lives of Cameroonian children at the edge of a war zone.

First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.

In this tense coming-of-age drama direct from Cannes Critics’ Week, a teenage boy confronts the political injustice upheld by his mother.

An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.

A SXSW Audience Award winner, this doc traces the unlikely ascendancy of one of rock’s most influential yet under-sung figures: Pavement’s Gary Young.

The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.

In this award-winning feature debut, one chaotic day sees a young trans man’s past chase him as he chooses his future.

In this Cannes Un Certain Regard comedy, the ineffability of romance is put to the test by an unfaithful married philosopher.

Winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, this empathetic film invites viewers to spend time with the residents of a floating art-therapy centre in Paris.

Sit courtside as the Boomers win their history-making Olympic medal and affirm Australia as a force to be reckoned with in global basketball.

A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.

Obstinacy and recklessness lead a team of fishermen out into dangerous waters.

In the southern Estonian woods, a group of women talk and embrace the soul-cleansing power of steam in this Sundance award-winning documentary.

Witchcraft, revenge and Indigenous rancour swell in this atmospheric, anti-colonial bildungsroman set in 19th-century Chile.

A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.

Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play reunited lovers in Pedro Almodóvar’s sensual queer western, direct from Cannes.

An immersive fairytale whose everyday heroes are mothers and children in Italian prisons.

From Cannes comes the final work by the late, legendary genius Jean-Luc Godard – a dazzling glimpse into a feature film that never came to be.

This dazzling rabbit hole of a film, which evokes cinephile Everest La Flor (MIFF 2019), sketches the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of a woman’s disappearance.

From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana (MIFF 2022) comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.

Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang quietly contemplates life in the mountains, reflecting on chairs, cats and portraits of his muse, Lee Kang-sheng.