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20,000 Species of Bees

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.

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48 Hours

48 Hours

This restrained and powerful short shows how imprisonment doesn’t only affect the inmate.

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About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (The Wild Pear Tree) presents an ambitious epic of maladjusted male ego.

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Absence

Absence

Director Wu Lang

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.

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Afire

Afire

In Christian Petzold’s Silver Bear–winning drama, a summer getaway on Germany’s Baltic coast unravels against the backdrop of looming wildfires.

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AliEN0089

AliEN0089

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

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All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White

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.

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Ama Gloria

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.

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Anatomy of a Fall

Anatomy of a Fall

Bristling with emotional depth, this Palme d’Or–winning courtroom drama puts the complexities of a relationship on trial.

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Animalia

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.

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Anu

Anu

A deeply moving story of ordinary grief experienced in extraordinary circumstances.

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As Filhas do Fogo

As Filhas do Fogo

Director Pedro Costa

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

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Autobiography

Autobiography

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

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Baba

Baba

A gripping, darkly funny portrait of a middle-aged Iranian man whose life is rapidly unravelling.

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Banel & Adama

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.

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Big Bang

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.

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Birdeater

Birdeater

A bachelor party takes a feral turn in this genre-defying debut from an exciting new Australian directing duo.

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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

A charming character study about love, liberty and the pursuit of forbidden fruit, set in the Georgian countryside.

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Blinded by Centuries

Blinded by Centuries

Director Parinda Mai

A hypnotic, futuristic reimagining of a Buddhist folk tale that speaks to our chaotic moment.

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Blond Night

Blond Night

A chance encounter after dark offers an autistic man a moment of transcendence.

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Blood

Blood

Director Pedro Costa

Now magnificently restored, Pedro Costa’s oneiric debut film declared the arrival of an essential new voice in world cinema.

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Blue Jean

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.

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The Breaking Ice

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.

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The Buriti Flower

The Buriti Flower

This Cannes-winning blend of documentary and fiction is an intoxicating portrait of the Indigenous Krahô people and their unwavering resistance.

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Camarera de Piso

Camarera de Piso

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

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Charcoal

Charcoal

A Brazilian family caring for their ailing patriarch make a diabolical deal to shelter a drug don in this tense, darkly comic thriller.

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Chomp It!

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.

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Club Zero

Club Zero

In Jessica Hausner’s bold satire, a charismatic teacher convinces her teenage students that disordered eating can produce many kinds of enlightenment.

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Cold Water

Cold Water

Australian New Wave stalwart Bruce Spence (Stork; Mad Max 2) stars as a senile man haunted by events he can’t recall.

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Come and Work

Come and Work

Director Safi Faye

The first ever African film to screen at Cannes, this detailed investigation of village life is a profound meditation on time, memory and community.

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A Couple

A Couple

Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.

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Crushing Season

Crushing Season

Director James Ivor

A disgraced former football star finds himself at a dangerous crossroads after witnessing a murder.

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The Delinquents

The Delinquents

In this gently surreal, formally bold Argentinian take on the heist film, two bumbling bandits try to buy their liberty.

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Deserts

Deserts

In this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit, two debt collectors face the absurdity of their jobs while dwarfed by the majestic Moroccan desert.

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Development

Development

Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.

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Disco Boy

Disco Boy

Franz Rogowski propels this mesmeric musing on wounded masculinity, which is ignited by French electro superstar Vitalic’s feverish soundtrack.

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Drift

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.

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Earthlings

Earthlings

Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film.

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Earth Mama

Earth Mama

This delicate, absorbing portrait of motherhood follows a young Black woman caught up in a spiral of institutional disadvantage.

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Endless Sea

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.

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The Eternal Daughter

The Eternal Daughter

Director Joanna Hogg

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

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Eureka

Eureka

Slow cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.

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The Face of the Jellyfish

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.

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Fairplay

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.

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Fairyland

Fairyland

This heartfelt Sofia Coppola–produced drama explores the intricacies of a father–daughter bond blossoming amid queer liberation and the AIDS crisis.

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Femme

Femme

After being attacked outside a London nightclub, a drag queen decides to turn the tables in this Hitchcockian queer noir.

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Fremont

Fremont

With a laconic Jarmuschian vibe, Fremont is a heartfelt comedic ode to the immigrant experience.

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Fresh Kill

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.

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From the Main Square

From the Main Square

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

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Fuck Me, Richard

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.

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Gate Crash

Gate Crash

‘Would you choose them as your mates?’ asks this dark and dreamlike snapshot of a teenage friendship group.

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Generations of Men

Generations of Men

Director Joanna Joy

A revisionist western inspired by author Judith Wright’s family history – the first narrative work to feature the Barada and Darumbal languages.

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Goodbye Julia

Goodbye Julia

A moral thriller set against a nation torn in two, which won the inaugural Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize.

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Hafekasi

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.

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Heat Spell

Heat Spell

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

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Hounds

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.

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The House of Loss

The House of Loss

Director Jinkyu Jeon

A touching and evocative portrait of postwar trauma in a country desperate to move on from its past.

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How to Have Sex

How to Have Sex

A sun-drenched, hormone-laden trip of teenage kicks turns dark in this compellingly contemporary navigation of sexual politics.

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Human Nature

Human Nature

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

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I'm on Fire

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.

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In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats

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.

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Inshallah a Boy

Inshallah a Boy

The first Jordanian film to screen at Cannes takes ferocious aim at the country’s ingrained misogyny.

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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

This hypnotic, transcendental debut feature follows a young man’s mystical journey across a beguiling rural Vietnam.

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Invincible

Invincible

This deeply moving Clermont-Ferrand International Special Jury Prize winner follows a troubled teen’s last-ditch attempt at freedom.

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I Promise You Paradise

I Promise You Paradise

From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a masterful portrait of an ostracised immigrant searching for salvation.

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I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs

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.

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It's Raining in the House

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.

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I, Your Mother

I, Your Mother

Director Safi Faye

“When will you return?” This haunting question – familiar to many an expat – is asked of a Senegalese student in West Berlin.

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Japanese Story

Japanese Story

Director Sue Brooks

In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.

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Jia

Jia

Director Vee Shi

In this award-winning film, two strangers are brought together by shared grief, experienced from vastly different perspectives.

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The Job

The Job

A multi-award-winning Melbourne director shows how trauma can radically reconfigure our worldview.

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Junglefowl

Junglefowl

Political unrest fractures the innocence of childhood in this haunting snapshot of Sri Lanka’s brutal conflict.

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Katele (Mudskipper)

Katele (Mudskipper)

Director John Harvey

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Elma Kris and Waangenga Blanco lead this film about a Torres Strait Islander woman whisked away from her thankless job.

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Kayo Kayo Colour?

Kayo Kayo Colour?

Naturalistic and brimming with empathy, this debut drama unfolds over 24 hours in a marginalised Muslim community in India.

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Kidnapped

Kidnapped

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

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La Chimera

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.

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Last Summer

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.

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Letter From My Village

Letter From My Village

Director Safi Faye

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.

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linda 4 eva

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.

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Little by Little

Little by Little

Director Jean Rouch

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’.

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Lost Country

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.

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Lou

Lou

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

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The Maiden

The Maiden

Director Graham Foy

In this exceptional debut feature, a supernatural discovery transfigures two teenagers’ world of graffiti, grief and suburban exploration.

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The Man Who Couldn't Leave

The Man Who Couldn't Leave

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

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Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)

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.

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Master Gardener

Master Gardener

Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver deliver outstanding, nuanced performances in Paul Schrader’s latest explosive study of male guilt and redemption.

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May December

May December

Director Todd Haynes

Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal.

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Meantime

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.

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Medusa Deluxe

Medusa Deluxe

Scissors out! Someone literally slays at a hairdressing competition in this exuberant one-take murder mystery.

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Mercy Road

Mercy Road

Director John Curran

The first virtually produced Australian feature, Mercy Road is an unrelentingly tense psychological thriller from Tracks director John Curran.

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MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Bank 4K Restoration

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.

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MIFF Bright Horizons Special Screening: Slam 4K Restoration

MIFF Bright Horizons Special Screening: Slam 4K Restoration

Director Marc Levin

Bright Horizons Jury member Saul Williams presents this restored indie classic in which he plays a young Black prisoner who seizes poetic justice.

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Millennium Mambo

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.

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Monster

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.

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Mossane

Mossane

Director Safi Faye

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.

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The Munekata Sisters

The Munekata Sisters

In their quest to restore long-lost romance, two sisters learn that the course of true love never runs smoothly.

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Mutt

Mutt

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

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Nanitic

Nanitic

A snapshot of a Vietnamese-Canadian family’s routines during its matriarch’s final days.

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The Nature of Love

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.

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Neneh Superstar

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.

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Omen

Omen

Director Baloji

Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.

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One Last Evening

One Last Evening

Moving cities is the perfect excuse to throw a party … and unpack some awkward home truths.

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Paula

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.

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Querelle

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.

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Radical

Radical

CODA scene-stealer Eugenio Derbez leads this luminous Sundance Festival Favorite Award winner about an inspiring teacher.

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Remembering Every Night

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.

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Sand

Sand

The hauntings of the Sri Lankan Civil War are explored with quiet, incisive force in this Rotterdam Special Jury Prize winner.

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Scrapper

Scrapper

A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.

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The Shadowless Tower

The Shadowless Tower

Director Zhang Lu

This beguiling tale of a middle-aged man who’s lost his bearings doubles as a charming meditation on the frayed bonds of family.

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Showing Up

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.

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Shut Eye

Shut Eye

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

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The Silent Ones

The Silent Ones

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

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Simo

Simo

The rivalry between teenage brothers reaches dangerous heights in Toronto’s 2022 Best Canadian Short winner.

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Snow in September

Snow in September

The winner of Best Short Film at both Toronto and Venice is a subtly menacing, Mongolia-set tale of sexual awakening.

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Sorcery

Sorcery

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

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Stay Alive, My Son (Chapters 1 & 2)

Stay Alive, My Son (Chapters 1 & 2)

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

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Stone Turtle

Stone Turtle

The supernatural encroaches on a woman’s simple existence in this FIPRESCI Prize–winning tale of folklore, deception and retribution.

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Stonewalling

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.

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Strange Way of Life

Strange Way of Life

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

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Subtraction

Subtraction

A husband and wife get mixed up with their doppelgangers in this Hitchcockian thriller from Iranian auteur Mani Haghighi (Pig; A Dragon Arrives!).

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Sunflower

Sunflower

In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.

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The Sweet East

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.

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Terrestrial Verses

Terrestrial Verses

Director Ali Asgari

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.

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This Is Not Here

This Is Not Here

A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

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Tomato Kitchen

Tomato Kitchen

Director Junyi Xiao

What dark secrets are hidden out back, in this stylish and metaphorical mystery?

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Tommy Guns

Tommy Guns

A deft exploration of the brutal scars of colonialism whose genre twists and turns give new meaning to ‘the horror of war’.

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Tótem

Tótem

A spellbinding family portrait that presents a child’s-eye view of love, loss and life in all their messy, glorious, heartbreaking colour.

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Voices in Deep

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.

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Walking

Walking

In this meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teen follows his mum through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

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Walk Up

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.

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We Used to Own Houses

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).

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White Plastic Sky

White Plastic Sky

Becoming one with nature takes a dystopian turn in this visionary rotoscoped romance.

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With Love to the Person Next to Me

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.

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