10:45am

In this big-hearted documentary, a Los Angeles teacher takes time off to nurture injured hummingbirds and finds herself on an uplifting journey.

11:00am

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

Dir. Nosrat Karimi / 1971 / 117 mins / Iran / Farsi / Drama, Comedy / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Iranian New Wave: 1962–79
1:00pm

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.

1:15pm

Caught between her divorcing parents, a little girl is forced to come to terms with her new reality in this touching family drama.

Dir. Shinji Somai / 1993 / 124 mins / Japan / Japanese / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: MIFF Schools
1:30pm

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.

Dir. Raven Jackson / 2023 / 92 mins / USA / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
1:30pm

Reminisce about Melbourne's community radio stations with a newly restored 1987 documentary, followed by a mix of indie band film clips.

2024 / 70 mins / Australia / English / Music
1:45pm

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.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
3:00pm

Trailblazing documentarian and two-time winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize Ondi Timoner discusses her celebrated career, including Dig! XX.

60 mins / English
Program Strand/s: MIFF Talks
3:15pm

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 / Drama, Comedy / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Headliners
4:00pm

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 / Drama, Thriller / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
4:00pm

Legendary Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Music on Film
4:00pm

Hailed as her masterpiece, Yvonne Rainer’s second feature explores the nature of artifice via a coolly simmering woman in a subpar relationship.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1974 / 105 mins / USA / English / Experimental
4:15pm

Far-reaching, resonating subjects pulled from various corners of the world.

88 mins / Documentary
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
4:15pm

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

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
4:15pm

For two young women stuck in suburban Hobart, there’s little to do but gossip, vent and take another hit from the bong.

4:15pm

Ethiopian-Australian filmmaker Ruth Hunduma hears her mother’s testimony of surviving the ‘Red Terror’ genocide of Ethiopia in the 1970s.

4:15pm

A profound portrait of survival set among the mountains of south-eastern Türkiye.

4:15pm

A harrowing account of an abusive and violent relationship during a woman’s early adulthood.

4:15pm

Direct from Cannes, this eerie tour visits sites of ‘violent righteousness’.

Dir. Nate Lavey / 2024 / 24 mins / USA / English / Documentary / Australian Premiere
4:30pm

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 / Drama, Comedy / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Family Films
6:30pm

Showcased in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Beau Is Afraid’s breakout animators turn Chile’s Neo-Nazi history into a nightmarish stop-motion meta-movie.

Program Strand/s: Experimentations
6:30pm

Executive-produced by Taika Waititi, this fiercely feminist Māori-led debut is an emotive subversion of the ‘coming-of-age delinquent’ narrative.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
6:45pm

Responding to his wife’s death, David Cronenberg fashions a meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror lens.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
6:45pm

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

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
7:00pm

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.

Dir. Peter Weir / 1974 / 91 mins / Australia / English / Drama
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Restorations
7:15pm

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 / Drama, Comedy / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
7:30pm

A classic tale of fame and destruction is revisited in this reconstructed rock doc about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Dir. Ondi Timoner / 2024 / 145 mins / USA / English / Documentary / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Music on Film
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