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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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Allensworth

Allensworth

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

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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 Coolbaroo Club

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.

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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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F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

Director Fox Maxy

A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.

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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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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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.

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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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Iron Butterflies

Iron Butterflies

In this surreal and haunting documentary, a Ukrainian filmmaker obsessively sifts through the shrapnel of the MH17 plane crash.

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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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Joan Baez I Am a Noise

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.

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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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Keeping Hope

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.

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Kindred

Kindred

An autobiographical story about the removal of Aboriginal children from their birth families and a celebration of friendship, love and resilience.

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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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Mast-del

Mast-del

Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

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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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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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Rebel With a Cause - Part 1

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.

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Rebel With a Cause - Part 2

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.

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Surfacing

Surfacing

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

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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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Tomato Kitchen

Tomato Kitchen

Director Junyi Xiao

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

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Undercurrents: Meditations on Power

Undercurrents: Meditations on Power

Director Margot Nash

Australian filmmaker Margot Nash (We Aim to Please) reimagines her own archival footage for this poetic essay on resistance amid instability.

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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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