Explore: Comedy

Shorts Package
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Accelerator Shorts 1

Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.

87 mins
Shorts Package
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Animation Shorts

Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.

106 mins
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Audrey

In this brutally hilarious black comedy, an Aussie teen’s coma is her family’s time to shine.

Dir. Natalie Bailey / 2024 / 96 mins / Australia / English
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Babes

This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.

Dir. Pamela Adlon / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English
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Bob Trevino Likes It

This SXSW award-winner will have you hitting ‘like’ with its tale of a pining daughter and the man who is not her father connecting online and IRL.

Dir. Tracie Laymon / 2024 / 102 mins / USA / English
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Bookworm

Elijah Wood stars as a wayward but well-meaning dad in this magical father–daughter quest set in the New Zealand wilderness.

Dir. Ant Timpson / 2024 / 103 mins / New Zealand / English
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Canard

Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.

Dir. Elie Chapuis / 2023 / 9 mins / Switzerland / No Dialogue
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The Carriage Driver

Nosrat Karimi’s 1971 film about ‘marriage Iranian style’ – a kind of commedia all’iraniana.

Dir. Nosrat Karimi / 1971 / 117 mins / Iran / Farsi
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Clown

A colourful riff on sibling rivalries and societal expectations.

Dir. Aarushi Chowdhury / 2023 / 10 mins / Australia / English, Hindi
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Cookies

Revenge is a dish best served during a coffee break for an overworked, under-slept new father.

Dir. Alessandro Stigliano / 2023 / 10 mins / Sweden / Swedish
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Dream Team

If you think you’ve seen enough crime dramas that you can predict every twist, think again. This trippy investigation will keep you second-guessing.

Dir. Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn / 2024 / 91 mins / USA / English
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Dying

This epic, darkly comic portrait of Franzen-esque family dysfunction won multiple awards at both the 2024 Berlinale and the German Film Awards.

Dir. Matthias Glasner / 2024 / 181 mins / Germany / German
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Hito

A schoolgirl discovers the catfish she bought for dinner is a talking sentient bioweapon.

Dir. Stephen Lopez / 2023 / 22 mins / Philippines / English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Kapampangan
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Honey Kaha

This distinctively Māori spin on the mockumentary recounts the exploits of a staunch and charming police officer.

Dir. Te Waiarangi Ratana / 2023 / 19 mins / New Zealand / English
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Hurikán

In this Annecy Audience Award winner, a simple errand turns into a comic Sisyphean ordeal.

Dir. Jan Saska / 2024 / 13 mins / Czech Republic / Czech
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Kar

In this self-reflexive short, an emerging filmmaker asks himself whether it’s possible to make something meaningful in 10 minutes.

Dir. Nick Allen / 2024 / 11 mins / Australia / English
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Matt and Mara

Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.

Dir. Kazik Radwanski / 2024 / 80 mins / Canada / English
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The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste

A vision of wild, nightmarish childhood play stunningly shot on 16mm with vintage lenses.

Dir. Pernell Marsden / 2024 / 7 mins / Australia / English
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Misericordia

If you go into the woods today, you’re in for a darkly comedic surprise from French provocateur Alain Guiraudie.

Dir. Alain Guiraudie / 2024 / 103 mins / France / French
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My Old Ass

If you were a queer Canadian teenager and Aubrey Plaza appeared to you as your future self, would you heed her ominous warning?

Dir. Megan Park / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English
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Normal

A father–daughter dramedy with a distinctive flavour, this tale of dispiriting social services and living with disability is a true crowdpleaser.

Dir. Olivier Babinet / 2023 / 87 mins / France / French
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.

Dir. Rungano Nyoni / 2024 / 95 mins / UK, Ireland, Zambia / English
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The Organist

A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.

Dir. Andy Burkitt / 2023 / 97 mins / Australia / English
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Pigsy

A lazy, self-absorbed porker becomes an unlikely hero in this wild and wondrous sci-fi riff on the Chinese classic Journey to the West.

Dir. Li Wei Chiu / 2023 / 95 mins / Taiwan / Taiwanese
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Problemista

Tilda Swinton plays the boss from hell in this absurdist satire of US immigration policy and the New York art scene from multi-hyphenate Julio Torres.

Dir. Julio Torres / 2023 / 104 mins / USA / English, Spanish
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Rumours

A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.

Dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson / 2024 / 109 mins / Germany, Canada / English
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Runt

Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber and Deborah Mailman star in the heartwarming adaptation about a girl and her dog who set out to save the family farm.

Dir. John Sheedy / 2024 / 90 mins / Australia / English
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Sasquatch Sunset

Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg star in undoubtedly the greatest wordless, scatological, horny and tragicomic Bigfoot movie in the history of cinema.

Dir. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English
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Shameless!

When a young man is caught masturbating, he descends into a downward spiral of humiliation.

Dir. Raghav Rampal / 2024 / 9 mins / Australia / English, Hindi
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The Substance

Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Dir. Coralie Fargeat / 2024 / 141 mins / USA, UK, France / English
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Sunlight

Comedian Nina Conti directs this darkly funny joy ride featuring a monkey, a radio host brought back from the brink and a dead man’s watch.

Dir. Nina Conti / 2024 / 96 mins / UK / English
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Suspended Time

Personal Shopper director Olivier Assayas proves it is possible to make a beautiful lockdown-set film in this bittersweet, intimate comedy.

Dir. Olivier Assayas / 2024 / 105 mins / France / French
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Thelma

A 93-year-old grandma’s mission – and, yes, she chooses to accept it – is to reclaim her money from scammers by any means necessary.

Dir. Josh Margolin / 2023 / 97 mins / USA / English
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A Traveler’s Needs

MIFF favourite Hong Sang-soo reunites with Isabelle Huppert in this mysteriously tricksy comedy that won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.

Dir. Hong Sang-soo / 2024 / 90 mins / South Korea / English, French, Korean
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Universal Language

This zany transformation of Canada’s beigest city into the site of a classic Iranian film won Cannes Directors’ Fortnight’s first ever Audience Award.

Dir. Matthew Rankin / 2024 / 89 mins / Canada / French, Farsi
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Vulcanizadora

Underground auteur Joel Potrykus returns with a mind-bending and hilariously shocking trip into the existential terror of middle age.

Dir. Joel Potrykus / 2024 / 85 mins / USA / English
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WTF Shorts

Unfiltered and unapologetic. Not for the faint of heart.

99 mins