Aquarius
The age of Aquarius floods into Nimbin in this radical, love-fuelled documentary exploring the lasting impact of a 1970s counterculture crucible.
Architecton
Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.
The Balconettes
In actor-turned-director Noémie Merlant’s dark French farce, three friends must conceal a #MeToo murder while haunted by the ghosts of abusive men.
Copa 71
Think the global surge in interest in women’s football is a relatively recent occurrence? This eye-opening documentary asks you to think again.
Crossing
And Then We Danced (MIFF 2019) director Levan Akin’s Teddy Jury Award–winning follow-up is a luminous salute to the various communities of Istanbul.
Ellis Park
Legendary Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary.
Flow
A menagerie adrift on a boat must work together to survive a catastrophic flood in this animated wonder arriving from Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Future Council
Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) takes eight kids on the ultimate school excursion: a road trip across Europe to seek solutions to the climate crisis.
In Vitro
A disturbing secret threatens a couple’s relationship in this rural-set sci-fi thriller starring Succession’s Ashley Zukerman.
Kid Snow
Centring on the titular tent boxer, this is a stunningly shot, epic drama featuring groundbreaking performances from acclaimed director Paul Goldman.
Kneecap
A Belfast hip-hop trio play themselves in this biopic that tracks their fictionalised roots and their real-life crusade to save the Gaeilge language.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Hear Martin Scorsese wax lyrical about how the mesmerising films of two of Britain’s finest inspired his own adventures in cinema.
Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola’s star-studded, largely self-funded, 40-years-in-the-making passion project arrives at MIFF in all its loopy, maximalist glory.
Memoir of a Snail
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Frederick Wiseman’s 44th feature documentary turns the lens on the kitchens of a Michelin three-star French restaurant and the family that runs it.
Music on Film Gala - Ellis Park
Legendary Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary.
Occupied City
This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.
Opening Night Gala - Memoir of a Snail
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
Queens of Concrete
Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.
September Says
An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.
Sing Sing
In this SXSW award-winner, a theatre group finds hope and meaning through self-expression within the confines of a maximum-security prison.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
US jazz collides with Cold War crimes in this film examining the CIA’s role in state-sanctioned murder – and its use of pop music to cover its tracks.
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.
We Were Dangerous
Executive-produced by Taika Waititi, this fiercely feminist Māori-led debut is an emotive subversion of the ‘coming-of-age delinquent’ narrative.
Wilding
Letting it all go to seed is the answer to revitalising the land and its visitors, suggests this soul-nourishing film about innovative farming.