48 Hours
This restrained and powerful short shows how imprisonment doesn’t only affect the inmate.
Read More →Allensworth
James Benning invites us to contemplate Black history as he turns his structuralist lens on the first African American municipality in California.
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 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 →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 →F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now
A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.
Read More →From the Main Square
This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.
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 →Invincible
This deeply moving Clermont-Ferrand International Special Jury Prize winner follows a troubled teen’s last-ditch attempt at freedom.
Read More →Iron Butterflies
In this surreal and haunting documentary, a Ukrainian filmmaker obsessively sifts through the shrapnel of the MH17 plane crash.
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 →Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Tracing her stratospheric rise, this portrait of the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist reveals a rich life not without its struggles.
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 →Keeping Hope
Mark Coles Smith (Sweet As) faces down a traumatic event from his past in the hope of helping young First Nations men in the Kimberley.
Read More →Kindred
An autobiographical story about the removal of Aboriginal children from their birth families and a celebration of friendship, love and resilience.
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 →Mast-del
Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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 →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 →Rebel With a Cause - Part 1
Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.
Read More →Rebel With a Cause - Part 2
Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.
Read More →Surfacing
An immersive fairytale whose everyday heroes are mothers and children in Italian prisons.
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 →Tomato Kitchen
What dark secrets are hidden out back, in this stylish and metaphorical mystery?
Read More →Undercurrents: Meditations on Power
Australian filmmaker Margot Nash (We Aim to Please) reimagines her own archival footage for this poetic essay on resistance amid instability.
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).
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