2:40pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
2:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:00pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:00pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:10pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:10pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:20pm

An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:30pm

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.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
3:30pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:30pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:40pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
3:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:00pm

Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.

82 mins / Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
4:00pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:00pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:00pm

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

4:00pm

On a sweltering summer’s day, two elderly friends talk about work, travel and dreams.

Dir. Grace Tan / 2024 / 6 mins / Australia, Spain / Spanish / Drama / World Premiere
4:00pm

A young woman, dissatisfied with life, makes a radical choice: to move to Mars.

Dir. Hannah Moore / 2024 / 14 mins / Australia / English / Drama, Sci-Fi / World Premiere
4:00pm

An isolated Hungarian mother struggles to adapt to her family’s new life in 1950s Australia.

4:00pm

A teenage girl’s mother begins to drift out of daily life, inexorably drawn to a mysterious sound.

Dir. Mark Wills / 2023 / 13 mins / Australia / English / Drama, Thriller / World Premiere
4:00pm

Two friends hang out in inner Melbourne, where death seems to linger in the air.

Dir. Hugo Kohler / 2023 / 13 mins / Australia / English / Drama / World Premiere
4:00pm

Following an accident, two teen miscreants are brought closer together than ever before.

4:10pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:10pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:20pm

An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:30pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:30pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:40pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:00pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:00pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:10pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:10pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:20pm

An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:30pm

Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:30pm

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:40pm

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
5:40pm

Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
6:00pm

A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
6:15pm

An impassioned and eye-opening piece of documentary activism by an Israeli–Palestinian film collective, awarded Best Documentary at the Berlinale.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
6:15pm

Death comes as a giant macaw in this A24 fairytale about letting go, featuring a career-best turn from Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Dir. Daina Oniunas-Pusić / 2023 / 111 mins / USA, UK / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
6:15pm

A debauched, exuberant French art fairytale stuns all over again in a luscious new 4K restoration.

Dir. Niki de Saint Phalle / 1976 / 82 mins / France / French / Fantasy
Program Strand/s: Restorations
6:30pm

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 / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films
6:30pm

A profile of Australian academic, agitator and surveillance expert Des Ball – the man who counselled the US against nuclear escalation in the 1970s.

Dir. John Hughes / 2024 / 89 mins / Australia / English / Documentary / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
6:30pm

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.

Dir. Tracie Laymon / 2024 / 102 mins / USA / English / Drama, Comedy / International Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
6:30pm

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 / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America Headliners
6:30pm

Film buffs ahoy! Alexei Toliopoulos is coming to MIFF’s Festival Hub for two nights only. His encyclopedic film knowledge is unmatched … is yours?

120 mins
6:45pm

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 / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
8:30pm

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
9:00pm

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
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