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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.

Dir. Ray Yeung / 2024 / 93 mins / Hong Kong / Cantonese
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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.

Dir. Payal Kapadia / 2024 / 115 mins / Netherlands, France, India, Luxembourg / Malayalam, Hindi
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Aquarius

The age of Aquarius floods into Nimbin in this radical, love-fuelled documentary exploring the lasting impact of a 1970s counterculture crucible.

Dir. Wendy Champagne / 2024 / 82 mins / Australia / English
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Architecton

Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.

Dir. Victor Kossakovsky / 2024 / 98 mins / USA, Germany, French Polynesia / Italian
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Armand

In this Cannes Caméra d’Or winner, a fraught parent–teacher conference at a Norwegian primary school plunges into a claustrophobic breakdown.

Dir. Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel / 2024 / 113 mins / Norway / Norwegian
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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.

Dir. Guan Hu / 2024 / 106 mins / China / Mandarin
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Brief History of a Family

This taut, visually inventive Chinese thriller has drawn comparisons to buzzy social-class parables Saltburn and Parasite.

Dir. Jianjie Lin / 2023 / 99 mins / France, Denmark, Qatar, China / Mandarin
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The Cats of Gokogu Shrine

A Wiseman-esque study of a Japanese village’s Shinto shrine whose feline residents bring the local humans joy, solace and sometimes consternation.

Dir. Kazuhiro Soda / 2024 / 119 mins / USA, Japan / Japanese
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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

Norman Rockwell meets John Cassavetes in this clear-eyed but deeply affectionate family holiday hangout.

Dir. Tyler Taormina / 2024 / 106 mins / USA / English
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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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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.

Dir. Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine / 2023 / 89 mins / UK / English, Spanish, French, Italian
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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.

Dir. Levan Akin / 2024 / 106 mins / France, Sweden, Denmark, Georgia, Türkiye / English, Georgian, Turkish, Russian
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Cuckoo

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.

Dir. Tilman Singer / 2024 / 102 mins / Germany, USA / English
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Dahomey

As the restitution conversation gains global momentum, this striking Berlinale Golden Bear–winning documentary follows a stolen statue home.

Dir. Mati Diop / 2024 / 68 mins / France, Senegal / English, French
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Dale Frank – Nobody's Sweetie

The greatest look yet at a well-known artist very few have seen up close, as the titular visionary recluse invites us into his home.

Dir. Jenny Hicks / 2024 / 107 mins / Australia / English
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The Dead Don't Hurt

Viggo Mortensen’s second feature is an unconventional western buoyed by the powerful presence of its lead, Vicky Krieps.

Dir. Viggo Mortensen / 2023 / 129 mins / USA, Mexico, Canada, Denmark
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The Demon Disorder

Australian make-up and VFX veteran Steve Boyle (Star Wars; Daybreakers) makes his directorial debut with this grisly body-horror creature feature.

Dir. Steve Boyle / 2024 / 85 mins / Australia / English
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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.

Dir. Aaron Schimberg / 2024 / 112 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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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) profiles the man who exposed apartheid in South Africa in this winner of the Cannes L’Œil d’Or for Best Documentary.

Dir. Raoul Peck / 2024 / 106 mins / USA, France / English
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First Horse

A haunting riff on the western framed from a Māori perspective.

Dir. Awanui Simich-Pene / 2023 / 11 mins / New Zealand / Māori
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Flathead

Two men in rural Queensland search for solace in spirituality in this cinematic blend of documentary and fiction.

Dir. Jaydon Martin / 2023 / 90 mins / Australia / English
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Ghost Trail

This portrait of justice-seeking Syrians in European exile is a deftly calibrated spy thriller propelled by stand-out performances.

Dir. Jonathan Millet / 2024 / 106 mins / France / French, Arabic
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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.

Dir. Magnus von Horn / 2024 / 115 mins / Sweden, Denmark, Poland / Danish
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Grand Tour

This Cannes Best Director–winning Asian odyssey spectacularly mashes up time and place, genre and form, to transport audiences somewhere sublime.

Dir. Miguel Gomes / 2024 / 128 mins / France, Japan, Italy, China, Portugal / Portuguese
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Green Border

Agnieszka Holland returns with this devastating drama that follows Middle Eastern and North African refugees trapped as pawns in a political game.

Dir. Agnieszka Holland / 2023 / 152 mins / Poland / English, French, Arabic, Polish
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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.

Dir. David Vincent Smith / 2024 / 102 mins / Australia / English
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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.

Dir. Jonathan Ogilvie / 2024 / 98 mins / New Zealand / English
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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.

Dir. Selman Nacar / 2023 / 84 mins / Türkiye / Turkish
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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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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.

Dir. Oh Jung-min / 2023 / 121 mins / South Korea / Japanese, Korean
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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.

Dir. Jane Schoenbrun / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English
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Immortals

Two activist-survivors navigate the aftermath of Iraq’s October 2019 protests in this extraordinary collaborative portrait of contemporary Iraq.

Dir. Maja Tschumi / 2024 / 94 mins / Switzerland, Iraq / Arabic
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In Vitro

A disturbing secret threatens a couple’s relationship in this rural-set sci-fi thriller starring Succession’s Ashley Zukerman.

Dir. Will Howarth, Tom McKeith / 2024 / 89 mins / Australia / English
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kajoo yannaga

Follow the Companion Sky Spirit through a virtual walk on Country: emerging from subterranean soils to the ground level, ascending to meet the clouds.

Dir. April Phillips / 2024 / 10 mins / Australia / Yuin
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Kid Snow

Centring on the titular tent boxer, this is a stunningly shot, epic drama featuring groundbreaking performances from acclaimed director Paul Goldman.

Dir. Paul Goldman / 2024 / 127 mins / Australia / English
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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.

Dir. Rich Peppiatt / 2023 / 105 mins / Ireland / English, Irish
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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.

Dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios / 2024 / 139 mins / USA, Mexico / English, Spanish
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Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue

A speech therapist oversells her Tongan language skills to get a job.

Dir. Vea Mafile'o / 2023 / 17 mins / New Zealand / English, Tongan
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Lee

Kate Winslet delivers a captivating performance alongside a stellar cast in this portrait of legendary WWII war photographer Lee Miller.

Dir. Ellen Kuras / 2023 / 117 mins / UK / English
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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.

Dir. David Hinton / 2024 / 131 mins / UK / English
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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.

Dir. Àlex Lora Cercós / 2024 / 20 mins / Spain / Spanish
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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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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.

Dir. Francis Ford Coppola / 2024 / 138 mins / USA / English
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Memory

Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are exceptional in this dark and difficult love story – director Michel Franco’s most optimistic film to date.

Dir. Michel Franco / 2023 / 103 mins / USA, Mexico / English
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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.

Dir. Frederick Wiseman / 2023 / 240 mins / USA / English, French
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Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound

A voyage through the singular career of Scottish post-rock legends Mogwai, from their beginnings in the 90s to the creation of their latest album.

Dir. Antony Crook / 2024 / 90 mins / Scotland / English
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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.

Dir. Jon Bell / 2023 / 86 mins / Australia / English
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The Most Precious of Cargoes

Best Director Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius crafts a stirring Holocaust fable – the first animated film to screen in Cannes competition since 2008.

Dir. Michel Hazanavicius / 2024 / 81 mins / France / French
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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.

Dir. Karim Aïnouz / 2024 / 112 mins / Germany, France, Brazil / Portuguese