The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
In Dario Argento’s assured and tense debut, an American expat in Rome is entangled in a serial killer’s web.
Read More →The Black Cat
Harvey Keitel stars in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of obsession and violence, now splendidly restored by Cinecittà.
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 →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 →The Coolbaroo Club
Restored by the National Film and Sound Archive, this film recounts how a haven of Indigenous dance and activism arose from segregated postwar Perth.
Read More →Deep Red
Hailed as one of the greatest giallo works ever made, this oneiric fever dream about an amateur sleuth attracted praise from Alfred Hitchcock himself.
Read More →Do You Like Hitchcock?
If you like Hitchcock, you’ll love Dario Argento’s exhilarating 2005 homage to the Master of Suspense.
Read More →The Five Days
A rarely screened outlier in Argento’s career, this deliciously dark historical comedy follows a thief and a baker caught up in a political uprising.
Read More →Four Flies on Grey Velvet
A quirky and lesser-known piece of the Italian giallo maestro’s tapestry, and a lesson in cinematic innovation.
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 →I Heard It Through the Grapevine
From the Deep South to DC, civil rights pioneer and I Am Not Your Negro subject James Baldwin revisits key sites in the US fight for racial equality.
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 →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 →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 →Lord Shango
Christianity clashes with African spiritualism when a mother summons a tribal priest to avenge her daughter in this oddity of 70s Black cinema.
Read More →The Man Who Couldn't Leave
The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.
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 →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 →Opera
After bringing bloodshed to a ballet school in Suspiria, the giallo maestro wreaks operatic havoc on a soprano tackling a Shakespeare adaptation.
Read More →The Phantom of the Opera
There’s no-one better to deliver an outré rendition of the Music of the Night than an underground maestro who loves mayhem and organ music.
Read More →Phenomena
This oeuvre of outré, starring a then-14-year-old Jennifer Connelly, is widely regarded as one of Dario Argento’s most eccentric and bizarre films.
Read More →Return to Reason
Man Ray’s classic shorts are reimagined for their 100th anniversary alongside an ecstatic soundtrack from SQÜRL members Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan.
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 →Suspiria
With a title derived from the Latin phrase ‘sighs from the depths’, Dario Argento’s most famous film is a masterwork of skin-crawling terror.
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 →Tenebrae
Inspired by the director’s own brush with an obsessive fan, this stylish slasher offers meta-commentary on sexism and screen violence.
Read More →Trouble Every Day
Claire Denis’s divisive, seductively erotic horror film rises again, with Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo in all their grisly, sensuous glory.
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