2022
Al Cossar

By its very nature, film is in the business of distorting time – removing it from reality, making it meaningless, or meaningful. As we ready to return to Melbourne this August, it seems both can feel true, at once.
In 2022, we return to cinemas for the first time in a long time – our Opening Night will be our first together here in Melbourne, unbelievably, in three years. It has been a long, zigzagging, lockdown-laden road, but, incredibly, MIFF is back – and, against the odds, bigger than ever.
You’ll get nearly a whole month of MIFF this August: 18 days of cinema, 18 days of our Australia-wide digital offering on MIFF Play available at the touch of a button at your place. Not to mention a globally accessible XR platform, incredible venues right across the CBD (for the first time including IMAX as a full festival venue!), screenings in four suburban centres and nine regional Victorian centres.
Our mantra for our COVID years has been to “meet audiences where they are”, and as we welcome audiences back to the business of six films a day, we continue to recognise and to realise our new ways to connect – to the screen, and to those around us.
In 2022, we also celebrate our 70th anniversary through an extraordinary array of cinema and special events that places MIFF at the very heartbeat of Melbourne as one of the world’s great creative cities.
Celebrate the iconic and rediscover the lost in an epic portrait of Melbourne’s cinematic history in our Melbourne on Film retro and its accompanying book (featuring cinematic love letters and essays by an eye-popping selection of artists, creatives and writers), as well as through our MIFF Signatures project: three specially commissioned festival ID pieces that mark the moment where film and audience meet, in the inimitable voices of their acclaimed creators, Ivan Sen, Justin Kurzel and Soda Jerk.
The danger with milestones is that they tend to trap us in the mirror, leave us navel-gazing into oblivion. But this isn’t only a moment to look back, but a point we choose to look forward.
With the launch of the Bright Horizons Competition to coincide with our 70th edition, we welcome one of MIFF’s all-time festival initiatives – a jaw-dropping line-up of emerging international and Australian filmmaking talent, one that aspires to set the map alight as a must-see space for breakthrough cinema.
Whether it’s your moment to celebrate the flows of history with us, or just time to get back out of your house into a real world of imagination this year, we welcome you back to MIFF.
Films

107 Mothers

1976

2000 Weeks

6 Festivals

A House

A House Made of Splinters

A Love Song

A Male

A Marble Travelogue

A Night of Knowing Nothing

A Ticket in Tatts

Accelerator Shorts 1

Accelerator Shorts 2

Adoption





after a clearing

Aftersun

Age of Rage - The Australian Punk Revolution

Ahed's Knee

Alcarràs

All That Breathes

An Ordinary Woman

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

Anak

Animation Shorts

Anxious Body

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Astel

Audrey Napanangka

Australian Shorts

Battlecry

Because We Have Each Other

Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

Before, Now & Then




Best MIFF Shorts

Black Fire

Blaze

Blue Island

Bluey: In Cinema with Joe Brumm

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Body Melt

Bonjour Balwyn

Boy From Heaven

Brian and Charles

Broker

Burning Days

CAI-BER

Call Jane

Camera Test

Child of Empire

Children of the Mist

Citizen Ashe

City of Pirates

Clara Sola

Clay

Clean

Close

Corsage

Costa Brava, Lebanon

Creature

Crimes of the Future

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Natura

Death in Brunswick

Decision to Leave

Delikado

Demon Pond

Diagnosia

Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets

Diary for My Children

Ding

Documentary Shorts

Dogs in Space

Domingo and the Mist

Don't Cry, Pretty Girls!

Dreaming Walls

Dual

Eami

Earwig

Ekki Huggsa 360

El Gran Movimiento

Embrace Kids

Emily the Criminal

Endangered

Ennio

Enys Men

EO

Everybody Loves Jeanne

Everybody's Oma

Evolution (Kornél Mundruczó)

Évolution (Lucile Hadžihalilović)

Experimental Shorts

Faces 1976/1996

Falcon Lake

Family Gala - DC League of Super-Pets

Fashion Reimagined

Final Cut

Fire Front

Fire of Love

Five Cents

Flux Gourmet

Foragers

Framing Agnes

Franklin


Fulldome Showcase 1

Fulldome Showcase 2

Funny Pages

Fury

Futura

Gem

Gemini

General Hercules

Geographies of Solitude

Ghosts… of the Civil Dead

Give Me Pity!

Go With Grace

Godland

Gods of Mexico

Gondwana

Goodbye Jérôme!

Greenhouse by Joost

Harka

Harry's War

Head On

Hear My Eyes: Chopper x Springtime & Mick Harvey

Hey Al, Baby

Hide and Seek

Hideous

History of Ha

Hit the Road

Holy Cowboys

Holy Spider

Home

Homosexuality: A Film for Discussion

Horse Brothers

I Am Trying to Remember

I Didn't See You There

I'm So Sorry

Ice Merchants

Il Buco


In Conversation: Greenhouse by Joost


In Front of Your Face

In His Mercy

In Search of Anna

In This Life's Body

Incredible but True

Inferno

Inner Outer Space

Innocence

International Shorts 1

International Shorts 2

Intersect

Isn't It a Beautiful World

It's Fine, I'm Fine

It's Raining Frogs Outside

Jane by Charlotte

Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind

Joyland

Kāinga

La bouche de Jean-Pierre

La Jauría

Leila's Brothers

Leonor Will Never Die

Lime Parfait

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds

LOLA

Lonesome

Long Line of Ladies

Love and Other Catastrophes

Lucky Peach

Lynch/Oz

Mad Max

Madame Pirate: Becoming a Legend

Maggie May

Malcolm

Man on Earth

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Mars One

Masquerade

Mass

Mate

Mediterranean Fever

Meet Me in the Bathroom

Melbourne Home Movie Collection

Metronom

MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: One More Time With Feeling + This Much I Know to Be True

MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Sound of One Hand Clapping

MIFF Play Premiere - Funny Pages



MIFF Talks: Consuming Culture





Millie Lies Low

Mira's Daughter

Moja Vesna

Mom's Cat

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

Monaco

Monkey Grip

Monoliths

Montegelato

Moonage Daydream

Moshari

Moving Out

Mr Landsbergis

Mud Crab

Murmurs of the Jungle

My Imaginary Country

My Old School

My Small Land

My Sunny Maad

Myth

Nature

Navalny

Nazarbazi

Nectar

Nelly & Nadine

Neptune Frost

Night Creatures

No Dogs or Italians Allowed

No Way to Forget

Noise

Not Dark Yet

Nothing Compares

Nowhere to Go but Everywhere

Of an Age

On the Count of Three

On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World)

One Fine Morning

Opening Night Gala - Of an Age

Oz – A Rock'n'Roll Road Movie

Pacifiction

Palm Trees and Power Lines

Pamfir

Partita for 8 Voices

Patterns of the Afternoon

Perianayaki

Persona

Peter von Kant

Petrol

Phlegm

Piggy

Pilgrims

Pink Reef

Plan 75

Playground

Please Baby Please

Polycephaly in D

Prayers for the Stolen

Project Zero

Pub: The Movie

Punctured Sky

Pure Shit

R.M.N.

Radical Compromise

Reflection

Return to Dust

Return to Seoul

Rewind & Play

RIM

Rimini

Robe of Gems

Rodeo

Rustling

Saloum

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

Sambizanga

Same Old

Sandstorm

Seeing Red and Feeling Blue

Senses of Cinema

Seriously Red

Shadow

Show Me Other Places

Showing Melbourne to Maningrida

Sick of Myself

Sierra

Silent Land

Sissy

Skin & Bone

Soft Animals

Something in the Dirt

Something in the Garden


Speak No Evil

Speak of Country

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey - David Thomas Tribute Screening

Stars at Noon


Strange Country

Subtotals

Sushi Noh

Sweet As

Tearless

That Kind of Summer

The African Desperate

The Afterlight

The Apartment With Two Women

The Balcony Movie

The Blue Caftan

The Box

The Canyon

The Cassandra Cat

The Cathedral

The Cloud Messenger

The Club

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future

The Crossing

The Dam

The Demands of Ordinary Devotion

The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone

The Eight Mountains

The Endangered Generation?

The Exam

The Factory

The Flying Sailor

The Girl

The Goddess

The Gravedigger's Wife

The Heiresses

The Home Song Stories

The Humans

The Integrity of Joseph Chambers

The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour

The Lost City of Melbourne

The Melbourne Wedding Belle

The Mole Song - Final

The Mountain

The Novelist's Film

The Passengers of the Night

The Pawnshop

The Pez Outlaw

The Plains

The Pudding Thieves

The Quiet Girl

The Real Charlie Chaplin

The Reason I Jump

The Reflected City

The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor

The Silent Twins

The Sound of Dreaming

The Spag

The Spirit of the Beehive

The Story of the Kelly Gang

The Stranger (Ameer Fakher Eldin)

The Stranger (Thomas M. Wright)

The Tale of King Crab

The Tsugua Diaries

The United States of America

The Water

The Water Murmurs

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Tori and Lokita

Tremor

Triangle of Sadness

Trumpets in the Sky

Tsutsué

Tuī Ná

Unclenching the Fists

Under Cover

Under the Fig Trees

Unicorn Wars

Unrest

Utama

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Victim

Violence in Cinema: Part 1

Vive L’Amour

Volcano Man

Vortex

War Pony

Warm Blood

Warsha

Wash My Soul in the River's Flow - Archie Roach Tribute Screening

Washday

Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons

Watcher

We Aim to Please

We Are Still Here

We Might As Well Be Dead

We Never Asked for This

We Were Once Kids

We, Students!

When Pomegranates Howl

Where Is Anne Frank

Whether the Weather Is Fine

Who Killed The KLF?

Will My Parents Come to See Me

Will You Look at Me

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Winter's Harvest

Worlds of Ice

WTF Shorts

You Won't Be Alone

Your House and Mine

Yuni
