An immersive experience inspired by the musician Molécule’s adventures in the polar circle.

The winner of the 2023 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or is a colourful orgy of ennui and desire.

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

‘A’ is for ‘Aaaaah!’ in this wild and zany schoolyard romp.

A South London playground prompts an abstract meditation on work and play.

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

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

Three devoted individuals in Tanzania reintroduce a classic piece of the country’s film history to an audience.

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

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

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.

An immersive audiovisual experience through undulating and vaporous atmospheres, in the liminal space between the palpable and the elusive.

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

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

An intimate portrait of a single mother who turned to sex work during the pandemic.

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

Cave paintings collide with cinema in this breathtakingly immersive trip through space, sound and film texture.

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.

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

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

A dark trip through the psychic soup, where the observer becomes the observed.

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

A bizarre, imaginative and unforgettable animation from the legendary Estonian studio Nukufilm.

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

This account of an elderly woman’s nerve-racking journey across Manhattan is a heart-stoppingly sharp indictment of the US healthcare system.

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

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.

An arresting mockumentary about first contact and alien sex, which won the Méliès d’Or prize at Sitges.

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.

From Sundance comes a visceral and discombobulating depiction of a classroom crush.

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

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

A mystical experience unfolds as the movements of celestial bodies envelop the landscape and its inhabitants.

A playfully inventive queer pop collage that turns its gaze on mainstream media representations of the male body.

Footage of orbs in the skies of the Blue Mountains raises questions over the unexplained disappearance of the filmmaker who recorded them.

A jovial, dreamy rumination on love, time, what we collect and how we connect.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An immersive 3D trip into the heart of Barcelona’s Laberint d’Horta, where a statue of Eros awaits.

This lushly animated tale of sexual awakening, which screened in competition at Cannes, follows a humanoid bird as she matures from child to woman.

A wildly imaginative, hilarious and heartbreaking trip into a teenage girl’s mind, depicted as a phantasmagoria of self-loathing and angst.

A pulsating, eerily ambient collage film exploring the impact of colonialism on human desire.

This Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) and Teddy Award for Best Short Film winner depicts a Yankunytjatjara man’s search for belonging.

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

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.

The cyclical rhythms of a couple’s routines reach claustrophobic heights.

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

A diminutive middle-aged man hooks up with Batman in this playful, beautifully animated short.

Visionary fractal artist Julius Horsthuis collaborates with seven of his favorite musicians to create an abstract journey through music, space-time and mathematics.

Safi Faye’s groundbreaking 1983 ethnographic documentary uses one Senegalese woman’s experience to comment widely on gender and society.

An ingenious and ethereal animation that combines puppetry and photography.

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

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

From its Clermont-Ferrand premiere comes a mythic fable exploring memory and nostalgia.

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

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

An unhinged dumpling chef and her lover race against time in this unforgettably gross and hilariously over-the-top satire of Sydney foodie culture.

A depressed young man must face his intrusive thoughts in lurid colour.

The infectiously inspirational story of a self-taught Nigerian ballet dancer.

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

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

From Cannes comes the final work by the late, legendary genius Jean-Luc Godard – a dazzling glimpse into a feature film that never came to be.

An enveloping, awe-inspiring contemplation of the vast universe and humans’ place within it.

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

The search for a mythical island triggers a fascinating contemplation on historical expeditions and the worlds of virtual reality and AI.

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

Mud Crab director David Robinson-Smith returns with a stirring cine-poem about the rental crisis, starring Thom Green (Of an Age).

Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-liang quietly contemplates life in the mountains, reflecting on chairs, cats and portraits of his muse, Lee Kang-sheng.