MIFF 2023
Melbourne International Film Festival 2023
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- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsThomas SchubertPaula BeerLangston UibelA group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsKwon Hae-hyoLee Hye-yeongSong Seon-miByungsoo, a film director, goes with his daughter Jeongsu, an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, her office in the basement, a residence on the third floor, and an artist's studio at the top. The three of them chat and drink amicably until a business call pulls Byungsoo away. When he returns, it's the same place, but a different time, and the building owner invites him up to the second floor.
- DirectorShu Lea CheangStarsSarita ChoudhuryPedro PietriChing GonzalezYoung lesbian parents Shareen and Claire are raising their 5-year-old daughter Honey in a converted garage on Staten Island. Shareen salvages refuse with her pickup truck while Claire waits tables at the hip Naga Saki restaurant in Manhattan, caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. As a ghost barge bearing nuclear refuse circles the planet in search of a willing port, household pets begin to glow ominously, then disappear; and people start speaking in tongues. The crisis escalates when a multinational corporation is implicated, the couple's daughter Honey mysteriously vanishes, and a group of young New Yorkers strike back in an unlikely alliance with activists in the developing world.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaSeverino CavalcantiTony CurtisDowntown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story.
- DirectorYui KiyoharaStarsKumi HyôdôManami OhbaAi MikamiThree women of different generations walk through the streets of Tama New Town, over the course of one day. Each woman is burdened with her own worries and feelings of isolation as they struggle to move forward in their lives.
- DirectorJean RouchStarsDamouré ZikaLam Ibrahim DiaIllo GaoudelAn African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
- DirectorPablo BergerStarsIvan LabandaAlbert Trifol SegarraRafa CalvoThe adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsLioPascale SalkinDelphine SeyrigEmployees and clients of a commercial gallery only live for love; they dream it, proclaim it, sing it and dance it. Experience the encounters, reunions, passions and disappointments of a malicious chorus of girls and a group of idle boys.
- DirectorBishal DuttaStarsMegan SuriNeeru BajwaMohana KrishnanAn Indian-American teenager struggling with her cultural identity has a falling out with her former best friend and, in the process, unwittingly releases a demonic entity that grows stronger by feeding on her loneliness.
- DirectorBabak JalaliStarsAnaita Wali ZadaGregg TurkingtonJeremy Allen WhiteDonya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
- DirectorPierre FöldesStarsAmaury de CrayencourMathilde AuneveuxArnaud MaillardA giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
- DirectorPaloma Sermon-DaïStarsPurdey LombetMakenzy LombetDonovan NizetOne hot and stormy summer by a touristic lake, seventeen-year-old Purdey and her younger brother Makenzy walk the line between experiencing adolescence, finding love and fending for themselves.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
- DirectorLukas NathrathStarsSebastian Jakob DoppelbauerPauline WernerSusanne Dorothea SchneiderA group of friends getting together for one couple's farewell party while eyeing each other's achievements.
- DirectorMing Jin WooStarsAsmara AbigailBront PalaraeAmerul AffendiA time-traveling tale of a woman living in the Peninsular Malaysian east coast, who gets entangled with a man in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.
- DirectorSafi FayeStarsAssane FayeMaguette GueyeSafi FayeNgor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba.
- DirectorJason YuStarsKim Gook HeeYoon Kyung-hoLee Sun-kyunA young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDeniz CelilogluMerve DizdarMusab EkiciA young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.
- DirectorRoman LiubyiStarsAnastasiia AnykevychBridget FiskeSofiya GakhAn investigation into the circumstances surrounding the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsSong Kang-hoLim Soo-jungOh Jung-seDescribed as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
- DirectorVladimir PerisicStarsJovan GinicJasna DjuricicMiodrag JovanovicA 15-year-old who must accept the unacceptable-that his mother is an accomplice of the regime's crimes
- DirectorJames BenningIt centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned town and looking for the traces of a Black cultural history.
- DirectorChristopher MurrayStarsValentina Véliz CaileoDaniel AntiviloSebastian HülkOn the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an Indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa's father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organization of sorcerers.
- DirectorMonia ChokriStarsMagalie Lépine BlondeauPierre-Yves CardinalFrancis-William RhéaumeSophia's life is turned upside down when she meets Sylvain. She comes from a wealthy family, while Sylvain comes from a family of manual workers. Sophia questions her own values after abandoning herself to her great romantic impulses.
- DirectorJoanna HoggStarsTilda SwintonLouisAugust JoshiReturning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.