9:30am

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
11:00am

A lazy, self-absorbed porker becomes an unlikely hero in this wild and wondrous sci-fi riff on the Chinese classic Journey to the West.

Program Strand/s: MIFF Schools
11:45am

Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

Dir. Nora Fingscheidt / 2023 / 117 mins / Germany, UK / English / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
1:30pm

A teenager must choose between family and a life-changing adventure abroad in this tender coming-of-age story.

Program Strand/s: MIFF Schools
2:00pm

Think the global surge in interest in women’s football is a relatively recent occurrence? This eye-opening documentary asks you to think again.

Program Strand/s: Sports
2:30pm

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
3:45pm

Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.

88 mins / Drama, Horror
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
3:45pm

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
3:45pm

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

3:45pm

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
3:45pm

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
3:45pm

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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
3:45pm

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
4:15pm

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
6:15pm

A charming autobiographical valentine to coming of age in New Zealand during the height of punk, which was Rotterdam’s 2024 opening-night film.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
6:15pm

Fresh from Cannes competition, Jia Zhang-ke’s latest portrait of Chinese society in flux is an epic drawn from over two decades of footage.

Dir. Jia Zhang-ke / 2024 / 111 mins / China / Mandarin / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Headliners
6:15pm

Hope and familial bonds thrive in dangerous conditions in this groundbreaking feature – the first ever Somali film to screen at Cannes.

Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
6:15pm

An inspirational insider’s look at a youth-led cross-country road trip to gather grassroots support for the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
6:15pm

Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are exceptional in this dark and difficult love story – director Michel Franco’s most optimistic film to date.

Dir. Michel Franco / 2023 / 103 mins / USA, Mexico / English / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
6:30pm

In this slasher, six Gen Z activists get more than they bargained for when they break into a furniture store and face a bloodthirsty security guard.

Dir. RKSS / 2023 / 83 mins / France, Canada / English / Horror, Thriller / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Night Shift
6:30pm

Exec-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living in a shopping mall.

Dir. Jeremy Workman / 2024 / 92 mins / USA / English / Documentary / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Documentaries
6:30pm

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.

Program Strand/s: Night Shift
6:30pm

Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-ager that pays extraordinary attention to the ordinary.

Dir. Annie Baker / 2023 / 113 mins / USA / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
6:45pm

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
9:00pm

A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.

Dir. Larry Fessenden / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English / Horror / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Night Shift
9:00pm

Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.

Dir. Adam Elliot / 2024 / 94 mins / Australia / Drama, Animation
Program Strand/s: Australian Films
9:00pm

Supporter and sceptic alike will be touched as seven psychics connect clients with the supernatural – or simply with what’s buried in their psyches.

Dir. Lana Wilson / 2023 / 108 mins / USA / English / Documentary / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Documentaries
9:15pm

This doc from the streets of Israel and Palestine charts a five-time Nobel-nominated doctor’s mission to turn personal tragedy into worldwide hope.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
9:15pm

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
9:15pm

Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.

Program Strand/s: North America
9:15pm

Ohio-born bluesy rockers The Black Keys get candid and introspective in this warts-and-all documentary direct from SXSW.

Dir. Jeff Dupre / 2024 / 89 mins / USA / English / Documentary / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Music on Film
9:15pm

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
9:30pm

Australian make-up and VFX veteran Steve Boyle (Star Wars; Daybreakers) makes his directorial debut with this grisly body-horror creature feature.

Dir. Steve Boyle / 2024 / 85 mins / Australia / English / Horror / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Night Shift
9:45pm

An unsettling and oneiric tale of sisterhood is French actor Ariane Labed’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, based on a Gothic novel.

Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
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