Gigi
Aquatic and amphibious imagery act as motifs for a young woman’s recollections of her life.
The Girl With the Needle
True crime as a post-WWI Scandi-noir fairytale – this Danish masterwork of tension and terror stars Trine Dyrholm and Vic Carmen Sonne.
Good One
A simple camping trip evolves into a life-changing experience in this sensitively told coming-of-age debut.
Grand Tour
This Cannes Best Director–winning Asian odyssey spectacularly mashes up time and place, genre and form, to transport audiences somewhere sublime.
Green Border
Agnieszka Holland returns with this devastating drama that follows Middle Eastern and North African refugees trapped as pawns in a political game.
He Ain't Heavy
Animal Kingdom star Leila George rejoins her mother Greta Scacchi in this devastating Australian drama about a family riven by drug addiction.
Head South
A charming autobiographical valentine to coming of age in New Zealand during the height of punk, which was Rotterdam’s 2024 opening-night film.
Hesitation Wound
A steely criminal lawyer juggles a murder case and tending to her dying mother in this Turkish drama that unspools over a tense 24 hours.
Hoard
The past comes knocking in this four-time Venice-winning feature debut that blends grief, grime, love and childhood trauma.
Honeymoon
A moving, beautifully shot portrait of two trans women on a road trip across Greece.
The Horn
A teenage girl’s mother begins to drift out of daily life, inexorably drawn to a mysterious sound.
House of the Seasons
This hearty, accomplished debut feature follows the highs and lows of a multi-generational family running a tofu factory in Daegu.
I Saw the TV Glow
Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.
In the Garden of Tulips
A poignant glimpse of the bond between a father and his teenage daughter at the height of the Iran–Iraq war.
In the Shadow of the Cypress
When a beached whale runs ashore, a father and daughter disagree about its fate.
In Vitro
A disturbing secret threatens a couple’s relationship in this rural-set sci-fi thriller starring Succession’s Ashley Zukerman.
Inside
Guy Pearce stars in this prison-set portrait of incarceration and salvation – the feature debut from Short Film Palme d’Or winner Charles Williams.
International Shorts 1
An awarded and acclaimed cornucopia from directors known and new.
International Shorts 2
Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Berlin, Tribeca and more.
Janet Planet
Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-ager that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary.
Julie Keeps Quiet
When her coach is accused of misconduct, a tennis prodigy decides – for her own complex reasons – not to return serve.
Kar
In this self-reflexive short, an emerging filmmaker asks himself whether it’s possible to make something meaningful in 10 minutes.
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.
La Cocina
Rooney Mara stars in this gorgeously shot, righteously angry portrait of kitchen workers stewing in the pressure-cooker conditions of an NYC bistro.
Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue
A speech therapist oversells her Tongan language skills to get a job.
Lee
Kate Winslet delivers a captivating performance alongside a stellar cast in this portrait of legendary WWII war photographer Lee Miller.
Malu
A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Winner of the Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or, this razor-sharp, ultra-tense standoff offers a cinematic tribute to a real wartime figure.
Mars Futures
A young woman, dissatisfied with life, makes a radical choice: to move to Mars.
The Masterpiece
In this Sundance award-winner, race and class complicate the transaction between a wealthy couple and the scrap dealers they invite to their mansion.
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.
Me & Mazzy Melancholy
Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.
The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste
A vision of wild, nightmarish childhood play stunningly shot on 16mm with vintage lenses.
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.
Memory
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are exceptional in this dark and difficult love story – director Michel Franco’s most optimistic film to date.
Misericordia
If you go into the woods today, you’re in for a darkly comedic surprise from French provocateur Alain Guiraudie.
Mongrel
An undocumented Thai caregiver grapples with exploitation in this evocative portrait that received the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes.
The Moogai
Jon Bell expands his MIFF 2020 Best Australian Short Film winner into a feature-length horror steeped in the trauma of the Stolen Generations.
Motel Destino
From Cannes competition lands a colourful, queered and beachside-set erotic thriller in which desire and destiny clash in a seedy sex hotel.
Moving
Caught between her divorcing parents, a little girl is forced to come to terms with her new reality in this touching family drama.
My Favourite Cake
Tender and funny yet politically daring, this double-Berlinale-winning late-life romance is guaranteed to steal your heart.
My First Film
Instead of writing off her abandoned first feature as a failure, filmmaker Zia Anger devised this imaginative, self-reflexive piece of autofiction.
My Sunshine
A coach trains two young figure skaters in this endearing, snow-blanketed portrait of youthful yearning and adult melancholy.
Norah
With the odds (and the law) stacked against them, a teenager and a teacher in creatively stunted Saudi Arabia find meaning and friendship through art.
Normal
A father–daughter dramedy with a distinctive flavour, this tale of dispiriting social services and living with disability is a true crowdpleaser.
Nothing but Shadows
A superstitious widow confronts her mortality after human remains are discovered at her neighbour’s house.
Oi
When a brash, boisterous queen-of-the-schoolyard undergoes a traumatic experience, she must confront her own behaviour and unexpressed desires.
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.