1:15pm

A 93-year-old grandma’s mission – and, yes, she chooses to accept it – is to reclaim her money from scammers by any means necessary.

Dir. Josh Margolin / 2023 / 97 mins / USA / English / Comedy / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
1:20pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
1:30pm

Letting it all go to seed is the answer to revitalising the land and its visitors, suggests this soul-nourishing film about innovative farming.

Dir. David Allen / 2023 / 75 mins / UK / English / Documentary / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: The Natural World
1:30pm

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
1:30pm

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
1:30pm

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
1:40pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
1:40pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
1:45pm

In this brutally hilarious black comedy, an Aussie teen’s coma is her family’s time to shine.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
1:45pm

Samuel Habib expands on his Emmy-nominated short My Disability Roadmap with this filmed road trip seeking guidance on how to live a “bad-ass” life.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
1:45pm

Nasser Taghavi’s poignant, tough-minded 1969 adaptation of a story by Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi.

Dir. Nasser Taghavi / 1969 / 86 mins / Iran / Farsi / Drama
Program Strand/s: Iranian New Wave: 1962–79
1:45pm

When an unfinished film, reborn, is stuck in stasis again, its creators meditate on how their lives have been transformed by the pandemic.

Dir. Lou Ye / 2024 / 105 mins / Germany, Singapore / Mandarin / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
2:00pm

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
2:00pm

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
2:00pm

Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.

88 mins / Drama, Horror
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
2:00pm

For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a program that combines boxing and writing turns into a journey of recovery and friendship.

Dir. Shannon Owen / 2024 / 98 mins / Australia / Documentary / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
2:10pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
2:10pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
2:20pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
2:30pm

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
2:30pm

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
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
3:15pm

For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a program that combines boxing and writing turns into a journey of recovery and friendship.

Dir. Shannon Owen / 2024 / 98 mins / Australia / Documentary / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
3:20pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
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

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:00pm

An undocumented Thai caregiver grapples with exploitation in this evocative portrait that received the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
4:00pm

Hop aboard as this engrossing film takes you to the world of the Unarians: cosmic visionaries who believe in higher planes, therapy and movie-making.

Dir. Jodi Wille / 2023 / 100 mins / USA / English / Documentary / International Premiere
Program Strand/s: Documentaries
4:00pm

For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a program that combines boxing and writing turns into a journey of recovery and friendship.

Dir. Shannon Owen / 2024 / 98 mins / Australia / Documentary / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
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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

For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a program that combines boxing and writing turns into a journey of recovery and friendship.

Dir. Shannon Owen / 2024 / 98 mins / Australia / Documentary / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
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
4:10pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:10pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
4:15pm

Tender and funny yet politically daring, this double-Berlinale-winning late-life romance is guaranteed to steal your heart.

Program Strand/s: Africa & Middle East
4:15pm

Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.

Dir. Eliza Cox / 2024 / 87 mins / Australia / English / Documentary / World Premiere
4:15pm

Elijah Wood stars as a wayward but well-meaning dad in this magical father–daughter quest set in the New Zealand wilderness.

Program Strand/s: Family Films
4:15pm

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
4:15pm

Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.

Dir. Eliza Cox / 2024 / 87 mins / Australia / English / Documentary / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Sports
4:30pm

In her idiosyncratically anarchic style, Yvonne Rainer tackles menopause, race and class with memoir, humour and the voices of many women.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1990 / 103 mins / USA / English / Experimental
4:30pm

A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
4:30pm

If you were a queer Canadian teenager and Aubrey Plaza appeared to you as your future self, would you heed her ominous warning?

Dir. Megan Park / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English / Comedy, Romance / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
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