10:00am

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
10:00am

Follow the Companion Sky Spirit through a virtual walk on Country: emerging from subterranean soils to the ground level, ascending to meet the clouds.

Dir. April Phillips / 2024 / 10 mins / Australia / Yuin / Animation / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: MIFF XR
10:15am

Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber and Deborah Mailman star in the heartwarming adaptation about a girl and her dog who set out to save the family farm.

Dir. John Sheedy / 2024 / 90 mins / Australia / English / Drama, Comedy / World Premiere
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Family Films
10:45am

Now in a stunning 4K restoration, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s WWII thriller remains a classic of aching romance and high-wire suspense.

Program Strand/s: Restorations
11:00am

In this sparkling anime comedy set in a vibrant alternate world, the customer is always right – but they’re never human.

Dir. Yoshimi Itazu / 2023 / 70 mins / Japan / Japanese / Animation / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: MIFF Schools
11:00am

Titanic’s Oscar-winning costume designer and Bright Horizons juror Deborah L. Scott shares stories from her career in this hour-long masterclass.

60 mins
Program Strand/s: MIFF Talks
11:00am

Frederick Wiseman’s 44th feature documentary turns the lens on the kitchens of a Michelin three-star French restaurant and the family that runs it.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
12:00pm

Ten animators adapt Alison Lester’s children’s book, crafting a magical mixture of live action and animation destined to become a family favourite.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Family Films
12:30pm

Legendary Spanish auteur Víctor Erice’s long-awaited return to feature films is a mystery-fuelled meditation on cinema itself.

Dir. Víctor Erice / 2023 / 169 mins / Spain / Spanish / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
12:45pm

Two coal miners in love face their country’s buried trauma and reckon with their risky futures in this hypnotic Vietnamese queer romance.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
12:45pm

Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.

82 mins / Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
12:45pm

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
12:45pm

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
12:45pm

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

12:45pm

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

12:45pm

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

12:45pm

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
12:45pm

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
1:00pm

Tilda Swinton plays the boss from hell in this absurdist satire of US immigration policy and the New York art scene from multi-hyphenate Julio Torres.

Dir. Julio Torres / 2023 / 104 mins / USA / English, Spanish / Drama, Comedy / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
1:00pm

Ten animators adapt Alison Lester’s children’s book, crafting a magical mixture of live action and animation destined to become a family favourite.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Family Films
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1:00pm

Best Director Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius crafts a stirring Holocaust fable – the first animated film to screen in Cannes competition since 2008.

Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
1:00pm

Ten animators adapt Alison Lester’s children’s book, crafting a magical mixture of live action and animation destined to become a family favourite.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Family Films
1:15pm

Two stories – one involving a country-to-city move, the other in reverse – explore the place of women in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.

Dir. Juliana Rojas / 2024 / 119 mins / Brazil / Portuguese / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Latin America
1:15pm

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
1:15pm

Winner of the Berlinale’s 1997 Teddy Award for Best Documentary/Essay, Yvonne Rainer’s final feature is also her most personal and playful.

Dir. Yvonne Rainer / 1996 / 113 mins / USA / English / Experimental
1:30pm

This unconventional and delightfully wacky anime conjures a rotoscoped dream world as a grief-stricken girl befriends a giant bipedal cat spirit.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
1:45pm

Instead of writing off her abandoned first feature as a failure, filmmaker Zia Anger devised this imaginative, self-reflexive piece of autofiction.

Dir. Zia Anger / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
2:00pm

Two men in rural Queensland search for solace in spirituality in this cinematic blend of documentary and fiction.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
2:00pm

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
2:00pm

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

2024 / 94 mins / Australia / Drama, Animation
Program Strand/s: Australian Films
2:00pm

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
2:00pm

The age of Aquarius floods into Nimbin in this radical, love-fuelled documentary exploring the lasting impact of a 1970s counterculture crucible.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
3:00pm

Rooney Mara stars in this gorgeously shot, righteously angry portrait of kitchen workers stewing in the pressure-cooker conditions of an NYC bistro.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
3:15pm

Modern and traditional values clash in acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring family drama, which won two prizes at Cannes.

Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof / 2024 / 168 mins / Iran / Farsi / Drama, Thriller / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Headliners
3:30pm

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
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
3:45pm

When her coach is accused of misconduct, a tennis prodigy decides – for her own complex reasons – not to return serve.

Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
3:45pm

Chantal Akerman’s newly restored portrait embraces Jewish New York, from trauma and resilience to generous helpings of Borscht Belt jokes.

Program Strand/s: Restorations
4:00pm

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
4:00pm

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
4:00pm

Lose yourself in this immersive trip into the fascinating world of fungi, as narrated by Björk.

4:00pm

This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.

Dir. Pamela Adlon / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English / Comedy / International Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
4:00pm

In this winner of the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus Grand Prix, a man fights his worst impulses to be a better father to his two emigrating daughters.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
4:00pm

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
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
4:15pm

This Berlinale award-winning domestic noir is the arresting first feature from Melbourne-trained Short Film Palme d’Or winner Qiu Yang.

Program Strand/s: Asia Pacific
4:15pm

The 2024 winner of San Sebastián’s Golden Shell is an earthy tribute to motherhood and female power against overwhelming odds.

Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
6:00pm

Rooney Mara stars in this gorgeously shot, righteously angry portrait of kitchen workers stewing in the pressure-cooker conditions of an NYC bistro.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
6:15pm

If you go into the woods today, you’re in for a darkly comedic surprise from French provocateur Alain Guiraudie.

Dir. Alain Guiraudie / 2024 / 103 mins / France / French / Drama, Comedy / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
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