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 →About Dry Grasses
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (The Wild Pear Tree) presents an ambitious epic of maladjusted male ego.
Read More →Absence
Lee Kang-sheng brings undeniable star power to this graceful, pensive story of a man trying to find his place in a world that has left him behind.
Read More →Afire
In Christian Petzold’s Silver Bear–winning drama, a summer getaway on Germany’s Baltic coast unravels against the backdrop of looming wildfires.
Read More →AliEN0089
Virtual and real-world violence blur in this terrifying, Sundance award-winning short.
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 →Anatomy of a Fall
Bristling with emotional depth, this Palme d’Or–winning courtroom drama puts the complexities of a relationship on trial.
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 →As Filhas do Fogo
Portuguese director Pedro Costa merges cinema, music and theatre for this tale of three sisters separated by an erupting volcano.
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 →Baba
A gripping, darkly funny portrait of a middle-aged Iranian man whose life is rapidly unravelling.
Read More →Banel & Adama
Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s first longform work is a haunting fable of star-cross’d lovers set in a rural village.
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 →Birdeater
A bachelor party takes a feral turn in this genre-defying debut from an exciting new Australian directing duo.
Read More →Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
A charming character study about love, liberty and the pursuit of forbidden fruit, set in the Georgian countryside.
Read More →Blinded by Centuries
A hypnotic, futuristic reimagining of a Buddhist folk tale that speaks to our chaotic moment.
Read More →Blond Night
A chance encounter after dark offers an autistic man a moment of transcendence.
Read More →Blood
Now magnificently restored, Pedro Costa’s oneiric debut film declared the arrival of an essential new voice in world cinema.
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 →The Breaking Ice
The French New Wave lives on in this luminous, snow-covered Gen Z love triangle from Wet Season and Ilo Ilo director Anthony Chen.
Read More →The Buriti Flower
This Cannes-winning blend of documentary and fiction is an intoxicating portrait of the Indigenous Krahô people and their unwavering resistance.
Read More →Camarera de Piso
Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel weaves economic struggle, thriller and diva melodrama into a stunning exercise in bodily language.
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 →Chomp It!
Two crocodile men go to a public pool to cool off. It turns out one of them is distinctly more human – and the other is unable to contain his desire.
Read More →Club Zero
In Jessica Hausner’s bold satire, a charismatic teacher convinces her teenage students that disordered eating can produce many kinds of enlightenment.
Read More →Cold Water
Australian New Wave stalwart Bruce Spence (Stork; Mad Max 2) stars as a senile man haunted by events he can’t recall.
Read More →Come and Work
The first ever African film to screen at Cannes, this detailed investigation of village life is a profound meditation on time, memory and community.
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 →Crushing Season
A disgraced former football star finds himself at a dangerous crossroads after witnessing a murder.
Read More →The Delinquents
In this gently surreal, formally bold Argentinian take on the heist film, two bumbling bandits try to buy their liberty.
Read More →Deserts
In this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit, two debt collectors face the absurdity of their jobs while dwarfed by the majestic Moroccan desert.
Read More →Development
Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.
Read More →Disco Boy
Franz Rogowski propels this mesmeric musing on wounded masculinity, which is ignited by French electro superstar Vitalic’s feverish soundtrack.
Read More →Drift
Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat shine in the stirring new work from Anthony Chen, which explores how friendship can salve the traumas of the past.
Read More →Earthlings
Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.
Read More →Earth Mama
This delicate, absorbing portrait of motherhood follows a young Black woman caught up in a spiral of institutional disadvantage.
Read More →Endless Sea
This account of an elderly woman’s nerve-racking journey across Manhattan is a heart-stoppingly sharp indictment of the US healthcare system.
Read More →The Eternal Daughter
Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton star in Joanna Hogg’s Gothic coda to her two Souvenir films, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.
Read More →Eureka
Slow cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.
Read More →The Face of the Jellyfish
In this Kafkaesque comedy for the selfie age, a woman must confront just what makes her identity her own after her face abruptly changes overnight.
Read More →Fairplay
A dark comedy about a teenager craving recognition, a worker who’ll do anything to win the jackpot and a senior executive at the end of his career.
Read More →Fairyland
This heartfelt Sofia Coppola–produced drama explores the intricacies of a father–daughter bond blossoming amid queer liberation and the AIDS crisis.
Read More →Femme
After being attacked outside a London nightclub, a drag queen decides to turn the tables in this Hitchcockian queer noir.
Read More →Fremont
With a laconic Jarmuschian vibe, Fremont is a heartfelt comedic ode to the immigrant experience.
Read More →Fresh Kill
Radical lesbians, radioactive fish lips and toxic cat food collide in this sci-fi – a transgressive landmark of anarcho-satire and queer hacktivism.
Read More →From the Main Square
This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.
Read More →Fuck Me, Richard
A twisted tale of broken legs, painkillers and phone sex that explores the dark heart of transactional relationships – and the sick thrill of a scam.
Read More →Gate Crash
‘Would you choose them as your mates?’ asks this dark and dreamlike snapshot of a teenage friendship group.
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 →Goodbye Julia
A moral thriller set against a nation torn in two, which won the inaugural Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize.
Read More →Hafekasi
A 10-year-old girl becomes newly aware of her cultural identity in this impressive debut that received a Tribeca Narrative Short Special Jury Mention.
Read More →Heat Spell
Tensions rise along with the temperature gauge in this blistering snapshot of sibling rivalry.
Read More →Hounds
Bringing echoes of the Coen brothers and Tarantino to the mean streets of Morocco, this Cannes prize-winner is not the Casablanca you think you know.
Read More →The House of Loss
A touching and evocative portrait of postwar trauma in a country desperate to move on from its past.
Read More →How to Have Sex
A sun-drenched, hormone-laden trip of teenage kicks turns dark in this compellingly contemporary navigation of sexual politics.
Read More →Human Nature
The winner of the Rotterdam Ammodo Tiger Short Competition’s top prize is a touching portrait of shared uncertainty.
Read More →I'm on Fire
Making mixtapes becomes a means of survival for a troubled 12-year-old Italian-American in this ferociously energetic, 80s-set coming-of-age story.
Read More →In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
Hit the town and seek out the next illegal rave in this euphoric, multisensory joyride about the 1980s Acid House movement.
Read More →Inshallah a Boy
The first Jordanian film to screen at Cannes takes ferocious aim at the country’s ingrained misogyny.
Read More →Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
This hypnotic, transcendental debut feature follows a young man’s mystical journey across a beguiling rural Vietnam.
Read More →Invincible
This deeply moving Clermont-Ferrand International Special Jury Prize winner follows a troubled teen’s last-ditch attempt at freedom.
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 →It's Raining in the House
Winner of the French Touch Prize of the Jury at Cannes Critics’ Week, this coming-of-age drama is a stirring social-realist fiction debut.
Read More →I, Your Mother
“When will you return?” This haunting question – familiar to many an expat – is asked of a Senegalese student in West Berlin.
Read More →Japanese Story
In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.
Read More →Jia
In this award-winning film, two strangers are brought together by shared grief, experienced from vastly different perspectives.
Read More →The Job
A multi-award-winning Melbourne director shows how trauma can radically reconfigure our worldview.
Read More →Junglefowl
Political unrest fractures the innocence of childhood in this haunting snapshot of Sri Lanka’s brutal conflict.
Read More →Katele (Mudskipper)
Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Elma Kris and Waangenga Blanco lead this film about a Torres Strait Islander woman whisked away from her thankless job.
Read More →Kayo Kayo Colour?
Naturalistic and brimming with empathy, this debut drama unfolds over 24 hours in a marginalised Muslim community in India.
Read More →Kidnapped
A pope’s audacious act tears the Catholic Church and all of Italy apart in this gripping true story.
Read More →La Chimera
A preternaturally skilled archaeologist goes on an Orphean quest for his lost love in Alice Rohrwacher’s latest and most romantically bewitching film.
Read More →Last Summer
Catherine Breillat (Abuse of Weakness) returns with a daring portrait of a woman’s intimate relationship with her teen stepson, starring Léa Drucker.
Read More →Letter From My Village
This trailblazing work – the first feature made by a woman from Sub-Saharan Africa – sets a story of love and land against a postcolonial backdrop.
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 →Little by Little
In her first foray into cinema, Safi Faye acts in Jean Rouch’s comedy about two Nigeriens whose Paris trip becomes a lesson in ‘reverse ethnography’.
Read More →Lost Country
In this tense coming-of-age drama direct from Cannes Critics’ Week, a teenage boy confronts the political injustice upheld by his mother.
Read More →Lou
An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.
Read More →The Maiden
In this exceptional debut feature, a supernatural discovery transfigures two teenagers’ world of graffiti, grief and suburban exploration.
Read More →The Man Who Couldn't Leave
The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.
Read More →Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)
This Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) and Teddy Award for Best Short Film winner depicts a Yankunytjatjara man’s search for belonging.
Read More →Master Gardener
Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver deliver outstanding, nuanced performances in Paul Schrader’s latest explosive study of male guilt and redemption.
Read More →May December
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal.
Read More →Meantime
A young man goes on a holiday to the countryside, where his would-be-peaceful wellness routine is assailed by the terrifying sounds of silence.
Read More →Medusa Deluxe
Scissors out! Someone literally slays at a hairdressing competition in this exuberant one-take murder mystery.
Read More →Mercy Road
The first virtually produced Australian feature, Mercy Road is an unrelentingly tense psychological thriller from Tracks director John Curran.
Read More →MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Bank 4K Restoration
MIFF Ambassador Robert Connolly presents a radiant 4K restoration of his debut feature: an entertaining, anti-capitalist caper of greed and deception.
Read More →MIFF Bright Horizons Special Screening: Slam 4K Restoration
Bright Horizons Jury member Saul Williams presents this restored indie classic in which he plays a young Black prisoner who seizes poetic justice.
Read More →Millennium Mambo
A dazzling 4K restoration of Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien’s sensual 2001 tale of an adrift bar hostess at the turn of the millennium.
Read More →Monster
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tender answer to the question ‘Who’s the monster?’, awarded Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes, will melt your heart.
Read More →Mossane
In a rare work of pure fiction for Safi Faye, drawing from a Wolof legend, a teen brings disaster to her village after defying an arranged marriage.
Read More →The Munekata Sisters
In their quest to restore long-lost romance, two sisters learn that the course of true love never runs smoothly.
Read More →Mutt
In this award-winning feature debut, one chaotic day sees a young trans man’s past chase him as he chooses his future.
Read More →Nanitic
A snapshot of a Vietnamese-Canadian family’s routines during its matriarch’s final days.
Read More →The Nature of Love
In this Cannes Un Certain Regard comedy, the ineffability of romance is put to the test by an unfaithful married philosopher.
Read More →Neneh Superstar
Put on your ballet shoes for this triumphant, feel-good tale of a 12-year-old Parisian dancer who overcomes the odds of institutional prejudice.
Read More →Omen
Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.
Read More →One Last Evening
Moving cities is the perfect excuse to throw a party … and unpack some awkward home truths.
Read More →Paula
In this sensitively told drama, a teenager’s battle with body image is a microcosm for the crushing weight of beauty standards on all young women.
Read More →Querelle
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s iconic final film is a ravishing adaptation of Jean Genet’s homoerotic classic about a deadly sailor on shore leave.
Read More →Radical
CODA scene-stealer Eugenio Derbez leads this luminous Sundance Festival Favorite Award winner about an inspiring teacher.
Read More →Remembering Every Night
Get lost with three women as they wander a town on the outskirts of Tokyo, whose discombobulating architecture mirrors the vastness of life.
Read More →Sand
The hauntings of the Sri Lankan Civil War are explored with quiet, incisive force in this Rotterdam Special Jury Prize winner.
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 →The Shadowless Tower
This beguiling tale of a middle-aged man who’s lost his bearings doubles as a charming meditation on the frayed bonds of family.
Read More →Showing Up
As much an ode to the daily creative grind as it is to the creative partnership between director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams.
Read More →Shut Eye
A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.
Read More →The Silent Ones
Obstinacy and recklessness lead a team of fishermen out into dangerous waters.
Read More →Simo
The rivalry between teenage brothers reaches dangerous heights in Toronto’s 2022 Best Canadian Short winner.
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 →Sorcery
Witchcraft, revenge and Indigenous rancour swell in this atmospheric, anti-colonial bildungsroman set in 19th-century Chile.
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 →Stone Turtle
The supernatural encroaches on a woman’s simple existence in this FIPRESCI Prize–winning tale of folklore, deception and retribution.
Read More →Stonewalling
A Gen Z woman contends with shifting cultural values and the one-child policy’s lasting impacts to understand her place in the world.
Read More →Strange Way of Life
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play reunited lovers in Pedro Almodóvar’s sensual queer western, direct from Cannes.
Read More →Subtraction
A husband and wife get mixed up with their doppelgangers in this Hitchcockian thriller from Iranian auteur Mani Haghighi (Pig; A Dragon Arrives!).
Read More →Sunflower
In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.
Read More →The Sweet East
Sean Price Williams makes his feature directorial debut with this freewheeling picaresque trip through the cliques and communes of today’s USA.
Read More →Terrestrial Verses
A series of formally daring vignettes about the absurdity and menace of state control in Iran, laced with both scathing irony and glimmers of hope.
Read More →This Is Not Here
A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Read More →Tomato Kitchen
What dark secrets are hidden out back, in this stylish and metaphorical mystery?
Read More →Tommy Guns
A deft exploration of the brutal scars of colonialism whose genre twists and turns give new meaning to ‘the horror of war’.
Read More →Tótem
A spellbinding family portrait that presents a child’s-eye view of love, loss and life in all their messy, glorious, heartbreaking colour.
Read More →Voices in Deep
Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this humanistic drama.
Read More →Walking
In this meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teen follows his mum through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
Read More →Walk Up
Telling four stories (or maybe just one) over four storeys, Hong Sang-soo’s latest MIFF entry is a shrewd chamber play set within a single building.
Read More →We Used to Own Houses
Mud Crab director David Robinson-Smith returns with a stirring cine-poem about the rental crisis, starring Thom Green (Of an Age).
Read More →White Plastic Sky
Becoming one with nature takes a dystopian turn in this visionary rotoscoped romance.
Read More →With Love to the Person Next to Me
A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.
Read More →