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

Amid bushfires, the pandemic and punters’ changing tastes, the family behind the Bells Family Carnival fight to preserve its century-long legacy.

Three children spread their wings as they farewell their parents and enter a boarding school for students who are blind or have low vision.

This rare Aussie take on the popular exorcism subgenre builds to a brutal finale you won’t be able to excise from your mind.

Venture behind the pink tutu with the legendary Sex and the City stylist to discover the creative process that made her a New York icon.

Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.

Hit the town and seek out the next illegal rave in this euphoric, multisensory joyride about the 1980s Acid House movement.

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

A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.

Tracing her stratospheric rise, this portrait of the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist reveals a rich life not without its struggles.

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

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

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

Winner of Rotterdam’s top prize, this moving documentary explores the lives of Cameroonian children at the edge of a war zone.

A rollicking deep dive into the life of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most exhilarating personalities, whose queerness was hidden in plain sight.

This essential music documentary asks: why is the 1970s’ most original and ethereal folk singer almost forgotten today?

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

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

This poetic, visually striking meditation on growing up under apartheid in South Africa is unlike any documentary memoir you’ve seen before.

Winner of Un Certain Regard’s Best Director and L’Œil d’Or at Cannes, this Moroccan documentary sets out to untangle personal and national secrets.

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

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

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

From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana (MIFF 2022) comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.

Activist and filmmaker George Gittoes follows the frontline artists daring to stand up to the Russian invasions of Ukraine and Afghanistan.