Festival Wrap | MIFF 2024 MIFF 2024-09-11 | Highlights from a whirlwind festival.Thank you to all those who joined us this year for MIFF 2024. We'll catch you next year at MIFF 2025 for another cinematic extravaganza.To learn more about our out-of-season events and opportunities, head to miff.com.au
By the Stream | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-21 | A bucolic university is the site of scandal, boozy meals and mildly subversive theatre in prolific cult hero Hong Sang-soo’s 32nd film.
The Dead Dont Hurt | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-21 | Viggo Mortensen’s second feature is an unconventional western buoyed by the powerful presence of its lead, Vicky Krieps (Corsage, MIFF 2022).
Voice | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-19 | An inspirational insider’s look at a youth-led cross-country road trip to gather grassroots support for the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.
The Substance | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-19 | Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Music on Film | MIFF 2024 MIFF 2024-08-16 | Always one of MIFF’s most popular programs, Music on Film presents a cine-sonic smorgasbord that thrusts the aural onto the big screen.
Aquarius | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-12 | The age of Aquarius floods into Nimbin in this radical, love-fuelled documentary exploring the lasting impact of a 1970s counterculture crucible.
In Vitro | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-12 | A disturbing secret threatens a couple’s relationship in this rural-set sci-fi thriller starring Succession’s Ashley Zukerman.
Left Write Hook | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-05 | For eight survivors of abuse, a groundbreaking program that combines boxing and creative writing turns into a journey of recovery, transformation and friendship.
Grand Tour | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-02 | This Cannes Best Director–winning Asian odyssey spectacularly mashes up time and place, genre and form, to transport audiences somewhere sublime.
Runt | Trailer MIFF 2024-08-02 | 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.
MIFF Shorts | MIFF 2024 MIFF 2024-08-02 | The much-loved MIFF Shorts program highlights the art of saying more with less. This year’s selection includes animation, documentary, experimental, and Australian and international fiction shorts.Explore the program: miff.com.au/program/strand/miff-shorts
Future Council | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-31 | Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film; 2040) takes eight kids on the ultimate school excursion: a road trip across Europe to seek solutions to the climate crisis.
Flathead | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-30 | Two men in rural Queensland search for solace in spirituality in this cinematic blend of documentary and fiction.
Bright Horizons | MIFF 2024 MIFF 2024-07-29 | MIFF’s film competition, Bright Horizons, recognises the new, the next, the breakthrough and the best, with an extraordinary international line-up of first- and second-time filmmakers competing for the Bright Horizons Award presented by VicScreen – one of the richest film prizes in the world.Explore the 2024 slate: miff.com.au/program/strand/bright-horizons
Queens of Concrete (Premiere Fund) | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-16 | Three Australian girls seek the ultimate success in the world of competitive skateboarding while sliding into an adolescence without handrails.
Us and the Night | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-16 | Ten years in the making and shot on transcendent 16mm, this is an unconventional love story for every book-loving introvert.
Welcome to MIFF 2024 MIFF 2024-07-12 | This Winter, we’re taking over Melbourne with one of our most exciting programs ever featuring over 250 films from over 62 countries. We’ve got the hottest picks from the worldwide festival circuit, new Aussie films, future awards contenders and films showing for the first time in Victoria.miff.com.au
A Century in Sound | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Slip into the serene surrounds of Japanese ‘listening cafés’, where music lovers, audiophiles and locals come together to hear records.
A Catholic Schoolgirl | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | A student at an all-girls boarding school is incredibly devoted to God. Or is it just to saintly Sister Agnes?
Rose Gold | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Sit courtside as the Boomers win their history-making Olympic medal and affirm Australia as a force to be reckoned with in global basketball.Director: Matthew AdekponyaOrigin: AustraliaLanguage: English
Limbotopia | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.
A Thousand Odd Days | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | 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.
Misericordia | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | If you go into the woods today, you’re in for a darkly comedic surprise from French provocateur Alain Guiraudie.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Hear Martin Scorsese wax lyrical about how the mesmerising films of two of Britain’s finest inspired his own adventures in cinema.
Me & Mazzy Melancholy | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.
Canard | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.
Calf | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | In this sinister short set at an Irish farm, an accident corners a teenager into making an irreversible choice.
Malu | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.
Brief History of a Family | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | This taut, visually inventive Chinese thriller has drawn comparisons to buzzy social-class parables Saltburn and Parasite.
Pleasure | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Following an accident, two teen miscreants are brought closer together than ever before.
Babes | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.
Blackout | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.
Lea Tupuanga / Mother Tongue | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | A speech therapist oversells her Tongan language skills to get a job.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Like a visual poem, this ode to a Black woman’s joys and tragedies in the Deep South is rendered exquisitely tactile on the big screen.
A Traveler’s Needs | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | MIFF favourite Hong Sang-soo reunites with Isabelle Huppert in this mysteriously tricksy comedy that won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Abiding Nowhere | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Tsai Ming-liang continues his meditative, monastic Walking series with another hypnotic shrine to seeking transcendence in a chaotic world.
Cidade; Campo | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Two stories – one involving a country-to-city move, the other in reverse – explore the place of women in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
Oddity | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | This award-winning spine-chiller from Caveat director Damian McCarthy unleashes horror from every corner of a haunted house.
As the Tide Comes In | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | 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.
No Other Land | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | An impassioned and eye-opening piece of documentary activism by an Israeli-Palestinian film collective, awarded Best Documentary at the Berlinale.
Black Dog | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | A taciturn loner and a stray dog bond in this beautiful tale of cross-species kindred spirits set against widescreen images of the Gobi Desert.
Metaract | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | The artist’s quest for meaning is revealed through natural environments, which are recontextualised and juxtaposed with digital elements.
Lasting Impressions | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Plunge between the brushstrokes of impressionist artworks in this 3D spectacle that honours their daringly modern beauty.
A New Kind of Wilderness | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, this film follows a family living off-grid and facing change in the wake of the unexpected.
On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | For two young women stuck in suburban Hobart, there’s little to do but gossip, vent and take another hit from the bong.
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | The untold 40-year story of the crowning moments, creative turmoils and deep friendship of the pair behind At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta.
Pepe | Trailer MIFF 2024-07-11 | The strange and tragic tale of Pepe, the ‘cocaine hippo’ once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar – narrated by the ghost of the beast himself.
