Competition films streaming now on MIFF Play, viewable from anywhere in Australia
Our 70th in-person MIFF has come to an end, but you can catch up on over 100 films through our digital program showing on MIFF Play.
One of our top picks for MIFFing at home is our Bright Horizons Award winner Neptune Frost, a wildly ambitious, radically experimental Afrofuturist musical that transcends space, time and gender, directed by visionary poet and musician Saul Williams alongside actor and playwright Anisia Uzeyman.
Don’t miss your chance to see this electrifying film, screening only on MIFF Play until 28 August – capacity is strictly limited.
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Direct from Cannes
A disquieting sci-fi drama direct from Cannes, Plan 75 envisions a dark path for Japan’s ageing population.
Director Hayakawa Chie creates a devastatingly recognisable world – favouring a realist lens over excessive sci-fi strangeness – from a Japan that, for her, is increasingly becoming intolerant of those on the margins.
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The Natural World
A special collection of nonfiction films that observe and dissect the intersections of humankind and nature.
As part of our MINI-presented program strand, The Natural World, leading Australian documentarian Eddie Martin puts viewers on the frontlines of the deadly 2019–2020 bushfires. Fire Front chronicles the catastrophe with a perspective and scale never before seen.
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Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets
The improbable tale of the irreverent subredditors who took on Wall Street at the height of the pandemic – and caused a financial sensation.
It was an episode so unhinged that it seemed to encapsulate the chaos of the moment: in January 2021, mere weeks after rioters stormed the US Capitol, an army of amateur investors – egged on by billionaire iconoclast Elon Musk – attempted to take down Wall Street.
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Love and Other Catastrophes
“A fast, funny excursion into the world of college students in the mid-’90s, boosted by a terrific ensemble of five engaging young thesps … Forthright, frank and freewheeling.” – Variety
Emma-Kate Croghan’s rom-com about five university students and their intertwined sexual and academic crises captures all the chaos and energy of 1990s Melbourne.
Presented by the University of Melbourne and the NFSA
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The Pez Outlaw
Corporate espionage thriller. Globe-trotting heist caper. Sweet rom-com. True-crime documentary. The Pez Outlaw is all these things and more.
As bright and vibrant as his money-making candy caddies, Steve “The Pez Outlaw” Glew emerges as a fascinating subject for this bold film executive-produced by Chris Smith (Tiger King; The Yes Men; Collapse, MIFF 2010).
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Piggy
The cruelty of teenage girls is more distressing than the growing pile of bloodied bodies in this ferocious study of the horrors of bullying.
With splashes of dark humour punctuating the gruesome violence that builds to its cathartic, morally ambiguous climax, Piggy offers a brutally fresh and fierce take on the revenge genre.
