Rewards for the Tribe

An intimate and uplifting documentary that follows the making of the 2022 RISING work from Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre. A remarkable insight into world of artists woven with dreamlike choreography.

Hear My Eyes—Wake in Fright x Surprise Chef

The hard-drinking, roo-hunting, chaos-coaxing cult classic gets the Hear My Eyes treatment with a reimagined score from Melbourne/Naarm soul-seekers Surprise Chef.

The World According to Allee Willis

Follow the life and career of the songwriter behind the 'Friends' theme song and Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘September’. It’s a quirky, fun doco that sheds some light on vital queer history. The director and producer are in town, so add this to your list.

rumours

Starring Cate Blanchett and a giant brain in the forest, Guy Maddin’s audacious latest is a satire that follows the G7 to a remote retreat, ready to draft a do-nothing communiqué, while the apocalypse unfolds.

Ellis Park

RISING favourite and Dirty Three legend Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary.

Sasquatch Sunset

In a Northern Californian forest, a family of four Sasquatches try to survive in a habitat increasingly encroached on by Homo sapiens. This is a strange marriage of gross-out comedy and nature documentary that's unexpectedly poignant.

Dead End

Part of MIFF's focus on Iranian New Wave cinema, this is a devastating 1977 portrait of love and longing in a country built on fear and surveillance. Based on a story by Anton Chekhov.

Dig! xx

Charting the success of The Dandy Warhols and the implosion of The Brian Jonestown Massacre (especially Anton Newcombe), Dig! (2004) was a definitive rock document. Turns out Anton wasn’t done digging. Dig! XX brings us up-to-date 20 years later.

Janet Planet

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

Secret Mall Apartment

Executive-produced by Jesse Eisenberg, this stranger-than-fiction doc recounts how a 2000s artist collective spent four years living inside a shopping mall. Watch it online and in cinemas.

A Traveler's Needs

It wouldn't be MIFF without a subtle, people-watching comedy from South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo. He reunites with Isabelle Huppert in this mysteriously tricksy film that won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.

A Century of Sound

Cue Japan travel inspo. Slip into the serene surrounds of Japanese ‘listening cafés’, where music lovers, audiophiles and locals come together to hear records.

The Teaches of Peaches

Get front-row access and cum undun as Peaches marks 20 years of her album of the same name, accompanied by her genderqueer coterie of dancers and roadies.