6:15pm

A suite of films produced by Kanoon, the celebrated government agency that brought culture and literacy to children and young adults in Iran.

Program Strand/s: Iranian New Wave: 1962–79
6:15pm

This zany transformation of Canada’s beigest city into the site of a classic Iranian film won Cannes Directors’ Fortnight’s first ever Audience Award.

Program Strand/s: Bright Horizons
6:30pm

A stunning doc that follows the Yanomami people of the Amazon as they perform a sacred rite and defend their homeland from the incursion of mining.

Program Strand/s: The Natural World
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

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 / English / Drama, Animation
Program Strand/s: Australian Films
6:30pm

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
6:30pm

US jazz collides with Cold War crimes in this film examining the CIA’s role in state-sanctioned murder – and its use of pop music to cover its tracks.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
6:45pm

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

Program Strand/s: Australian Films
6:45pm

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

6:45pm

A collection of the best short films from the festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury and the MIFF Shorts programmers.

100 mins
Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
6:45pm

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
6:45pm

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
7:00pm

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
8:30pm

Class is in session! Celebrate the world of gender-punk icon Peaches in this audacious Teddy Award–winning documentary.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
9:00pm

In this striking genre-bender from Cannes Critics’ Week, a young woman wants to rise the ranks of bull-running – but a rogue animal is on the loose.

Dir. Emma Benestan / 2024 / 99 mins / France / French / Drama, Horror / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Night Shift
9:00pm

Rock your world with this mesmerising documentary about the increasingly impermanent building blocks of civilisation.

Program Strand/s: The Natural World
9:15pm

From Cannes competition lands a colourful, queered and beachside-set erotic thriller in which desire and destiny clash in a seedy sex hotel.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
9:15pm

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
9:15pm

Norman Rockwell meets John Cassavetes in this clear-eyed but deeply affectionate family holiday hangout.

Dir. Tyler Taormina / 2024 / 106 mins / USA / English / Victorian Premiere
9:30pm

Comedian Nina Conti directs this darkly funny joy ride featuring a monkey, a radio host brought back from the brink and a dead man’s watch.

Dir. Nina Conti / 2024 / 96 mins / UK / English / Drama, Comedy / International Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
9:30pm

This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.

Dir. Sean Wang / 2024 / 93 mins / USA / English, Mandarin / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
11:00pm

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
11:00pm

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

Program Strand/s: MIFF Schools
11:00pm

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
11:00pm

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

11:00pm

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
11:00pm

A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.

Dir. Pedro Freire / 2024 / 101 mins / Brazil / Portuguese / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Latin America
11:00pm

Two activist-survivors navigate the aftermath of Iraq’s October 2019 protests in this extraordinary collaborative portrait of contemporary Iraq.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
11:00pm

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
11:00pm

A downtrodden father literally takes flight from the strictures of society in this supernaturally tinged, Tunisia-set odyssey.

Program Strand/s: Africa & Middle East
11:00pm

Amid the climate crisis, an eight-square-kilometre island off the Danish coast is a microcosm of the rest of the world in this witty portrait.

Program Strand/s: The Natural World
11:00pm

Oi

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
11:00pm

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
11:00pm

With the odds (and the law) stacked against them, a teenager and a teacher in creatively stunted Saudi Arabia find meaning and friendship through art.

Program Strand/s: Africa & Middle East
11:00pm

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
11:00pm

This immersive, epic work of memorialisation from Oscar winner Steve McQueen uncovers WWII histories hidden in plain sight.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
11:00pm

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
11:00pm

An intimate and uplifting dance documentary that ponders human connection and perfection, featuring Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre.

Program Strand/s: Australian Films Documentaries
11:00pm

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
11:00pm

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
11:00pm

A kaleidoscopic ride through the 50-year career of the mega-hit songwriter behind the Friends theme song, Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ and more.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
11:00pm

Egos clash in this tense coming-of-age tale set in an isolated cabin in the Canadian wilderness, which won the Berlinale Generation 14plus Grand Prix.

Dir. Philippe Lesage / 2024 / 161 mins / France, Canada / French / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
11:00pm

Tensions explode in a family’s country home in the Zürcher brothers’ follow-up to their acclaimed The Girl and the Spider.

Dir. Ramon Zürcher / 2024 / 117 mins / Switzerland / German / Drama / Victorian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Europe & UK
11:00pm

A collection of the best short films from the festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury and the MIFF Shorts programmers.

Program Strand/s: MIFF Shorts
11:00pm

Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.

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