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
4:30pm
Explore the rich history of Iranian cinema through the past to present day with the director and co-writers of Bright Horizons film Universal Language.
60 mins
Program Strand/s: MIFF Talks
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
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
4:45pm

A menagerie adrift on a boat must work together to survive a catastrophic flood in this animated wonder arriving from Cannes Un Certain Regard.

Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
5:00pm

Be swept up in this homage to the birth of Aussie surf culture compiled from 200 hours of home movies, iconic documentaries and restored 16mm footage.

Program Strand/s: Sports
5:00pm

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 / Drama, Horror / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America Headliners
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
5:00pm

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

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
5:30pm

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
6:30pm

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
6:30pm

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
6:45pm

MIFF favourite Hong Sang-soo reunites with Isabelle Huppert in this mysteriously tricksy comedy that won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
7:00pm

This symbolic tale of villagers terrorised by a scarecrow they themselves have planted is based on a story by co-screenwriter Houshang Golshiri.

Dir. Bahman Farmanara / 1979 / 109 mins / Iran / Farsi / Drama
Program Strand/s: Iranian New Wave: 1962–79
7:00pm

The complex relationship between two married artists is laid bare in this searing and joyful portrait of love and creativity in autumn.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
7:00pm

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
7:00pm

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 / Drama, Horror / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America Headliners
7:00pm

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
7:00pm

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

7:15pm

With absurdist humour and playful surrealism, this disarmingly funny Cannes award-winner rages at a middle-class Zambian family’s shameful silence.

Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
7:15pm

In this Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner, an enigmatic young man yearns to belong with his disabled besties – but he’s not quite like them.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
7:15pm

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 / Drama, Horror / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America Headliners
7:30pm

One of Australia’s greatest cult classics – equal parts ghost story and family drama – screens for the first time in a glorious new 4K restoration.

Dir. Joel Anderson / 2008 / 87 mins / Australia / English / Horror / World Premiere
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