10:00am

Egos clash in this tense coming-of-age tale set in an isolated cabin in the Canadian wilderness, which won the Berlinale Generation 14plus Grand Prix.

Dir. Philippe Lesage / 2024 / 161 mins / France, Canada / French / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
10:15am

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

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
12:30pm

The strange, tragic tale of the ‘cocaine hippo’ once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar – narrated by the ghost of the beast himself.

Program Strand/s: Experimentations
1:30pm

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?

Program Strand/s: North America
3:15pm

In this evocative and ethereal mystery, a soothsaying matriarch wrestles with the darkness when her jihadist son returns from Syria.

Program Strand/s: Africa & Middle East
3:45pm

Premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, this scathing, subversively feminist take on the police procedural puts modern-day India under scrutiny.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
6:00pm

A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.

Dir. Pedro Freire / 2024 / 101 mins / Brazil / Portuguese / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Latin America
6:15pm

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.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
6:30pm

From the Tiwi Islands to Melbourne and back again, four young women who seek to make it in elite sport must face uncertain futures.

Program Strand/s: Sports
6:45pm

Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.

88 mins / Drama, Horror
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
6:45pm

As two brothers get up to mischief in a fishing town, the cycles of toxic masculinity above the water reflect the hierarchies of predation below.

Dir. Jack Shepherd / 2024 / 15 mins / Australia / English / Drama / World Premiere
6:45pm

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When a brash, boisterous queen-of-the-schoolyard undergoes a traumatic experience, she must confront her own behaviour and unexpressed desires.

Dir. Sophie Serisier / 2023 / 15 mins / Australia / English / Drama / World Premiere
6:45pm

When a son goes to the coast to visit the estranged, troubled mother he hasn’t seen in three years, he struggles to reconnect with her.

Dir. Riley Blakeway / 2023 / 14 mins / Australia / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
6:45pm

The dynamics of a contentious yet co-dependent mother–daughter relationship are explored in this drama set among Melbourne’s Turkish community.

Dir. Lara Köse / 2023 / 12 mins / Australia / English, Turkish / Drama / World Premiere
6:45pm

Direct from Cannes, this gentle, tender work chronicles the relationship between a twentysomething and her ageing grandmother.

6:45pm

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?

Dir. Tom Campbell / 2023 / 18 mins / Australia / English / Drama, Horror / World Premiere
9:00pm

Ten years in the making and shot on transcendent 16mm, this is an unconventional love story for every book-loving introvert.

9:00pm

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 / Documentary / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Documentaries
9:15pm

The desperate absurdities of colonisation are laid bare in this satire of a Dutch family’s fallout following the death of their wealthy patriarch.

Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
9:15pm

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.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
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