Accelerator Shorts 1
Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.
Alarms
Part social-realist drama, part thriller, this workplace portrait depicts the pressure-cooker stresses of an overworked construction site.
Alazar
From Cannes Critics’ Week, this austere but affecting drama portrays religious superstition colliding with the harsh realities of rural life.
Alemania
A teenager must choose between family and a life-changing adventure abroad in this tender coming-of-age story.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Like a visual poem, this ode to a Black woman’s joys and tragedies in the Deep South is rendered exquisitely tactile on the big screen.
All Shall Be Well
This Teddy Award winner is a study of family bonds fraying in the aftermath of tragedy and of the found families that put us back together again.
All We Imagine as Light
The first Indian film to screen in Cannes competition in 30 years is a sensuous tale of two nurses, their romances and a mystical trip to the coast.
Analog Medium
A musician couple retreat to a rural property to do some recording on vintage reel-to-reel tape. Is something supernatural lurking in the old house?
Animale
In this striking genre-bender from Cannes Critics’ Week, a young woman wants to rise the ranks of bull-running – but a rogue animal is on the loose.
Animation Shorts
Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.
Armand
In this Cannes Caméra d’Or winner, a fraught parent–teacher conference at a Norwegian primary school plunges into a claustrophobic breakdown.
Behind the Mountains
A downtrodden father literally takes flight from the strictures of society in this supernaturally tinged, Tunisia-set odyssey.
Binti
A visually striking meditation on motherhood as a young woman goes to extraordinary lengths to help her pregnant mother.
Black Dog
A taciturn loner and a stray dog bond in this beautiful tale of cross-species kindred spirits set against widescreen images of the Gobi Desert.
Blood Like Water
A powerful, queer-focused story about a Palestinian family who are forced to make an impossible choice.
Blue Sun Palace
The complexities of the migrant experience are tenderly depicted in this deeply felt debut feature, which arrives fresh from Cannes Critics’ Week.
Bőr (Skin)
An isolated Hungarian mother struggles to adapt to her family’s new life in 1950s Australia.
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.
Bookworm
Elijah Wood stars as a wayward but well-meaning dad in this magical father–daughter quest set in the New Zealand wilderness.
Brick and Mirror
Iranian cinema’s first true modern masterpiece, released in 1964, explores fear and responsibility in the aftermath of the 1953 coup.
Brief History of a Family
This taut, visually inventive Chinese thriller has drawn comparisons to buzzy social-class parables Saltburn and Parasite.
Calf
In this sinister short set at an Irish farm, an accident corners a teenager into making an irreversible choice.
The Carriage Driver
Nosrat Karimi’s 1971 film about ‘marriage Iranian style’ – a kind of commedia all’iraniana.
The Cars That Ate Paris
Peter Weir’s classic comedy of the macabre returns in an immaculate, all-new 4K restoration co-presented by the National Film and Sound Archive.
A Catholic Schoolgirl
A student at an all-girls boarding school is incredibly devoted to God. Or is it just to saintly Sister Agnes?
Caught by the Tides
Fresh from Cannes competition, Jia Zhang-ke’s latest portrait of Chinese society in flux is an epic drawn from over two decades of footage.
Cidade; Campo
Two stories – one involving a country-to-city move, the other in reverse – explore the place of women in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
Close Your Eyes
Legendary Spanish auteur Víctor Erice’s long-awaited return to feature films is a mystery-fuelled meditation on cinema itself.
Clown
A colourful riff on sibling rivalries and societal expectations.
Cookies
Revenge is a dish best served during a coffee break for an overworked, under-slept new father.
The Cow
This 1969 film portrays the themes of solitude and obsession in the story of a poor villager whose only source of joy and livelihood is his cow.
A Crab in the Pool
On a scorching summer day, two siblings are reminded of their mother.
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.
Cuckoo
Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.
Dìdi
This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.
The Damned
With this twist on the jingoistic, action-packed war movie, Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Director winner Roberto Minervini asks: what’s it all for?
A Daydream With Fini
On a sweltering summer’s day, two elderly friends talk about work, travel and dreams.
Dead End
A devastating 1977 portrait of love and longing in a country built on fear and surveillance, based on a story by Anton Chekhov.
The Deer
Masoud Kimiai’s 1974 film embodies all that is great about Iranian cinema of the 1970s: it is political, provocative, sincere, angry and tragic.
A Different Man
Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier) plays a wannabe actor who learns that confidence isn’t skin-deep in this deliciously twisted morality tale.
Dying
This epic, darkly comic portrait of Franzen-esque family dysfunction won multiple awards at both the 2024 Berlinale and the German Film Awards.
East of Noon
This dreamlike tale of youth and resistance set in a surreal modern-day Egypt is also a stirringly beautiful ode to creative expression.
Emperor
An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.
Father's Letters
The true story of Professor Alexey Wangenheim, who writes hopeful letters home from a Gulag in Stalinist Russia.
First Horse
A haunting riff on the western framed from a Māori perspective.
Flide
Two friends hang out in inner Melbourne, where death seems to linger in the air.
Flower Show
Victorian-era high society’s stifling views of women are shown in full bloom.
Ghost Trail
This portrait of justice-seeking Syrians in European exile is a deftly calibrated spy thriller propelled by stand-out performances.