MIFF will once again showcase the best new Australian filmmaking, beloved auteurs, and live-score cinema events like ‘Julia Holter: The Passion Of Joan Of Arc’ and ‘Parasite Live In Concert’, with composer Jung Jae-il, presented by Orchestra Victoria.
Headliners at this year’s festival include the Palme d’Or-winning ‘It Was Just An Accident’, by Iranian master director Jafar Panahi; A24-backed dramedy ‘Sorry, Baby’ by Eva Victor, and Richard Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’’, a portrait of fallen stardom. Plus there are events like Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut ‘The Chronology Of Water’, Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’, ‘The Love That Remains’ from Hlynur Palmason, and ‘The Blue Trail’ from director Gabriel Mascaro.

'Peter Hujar's Day'
In the realm of queer storytelling and storytellers, MIFF will also be showing a suite of queer films. There's 'Lesbian Space Princess', a campy and cult-ready animated musical rom-com, set in a rainbow-splattered galaxy. 'The Little Sister' is a tender coming out story, which just won the Queer Palm and Best Actress, at Cannes.
'Peter Hujar's Day', on 16mm film, stars Ben Whishaw and is a love letter to downtown NYC's queer scene. . . While 'The Secret Of Me' is a powerful, intimate documentary on intersex identity and the fight for bodily autonomy.
'Drunken Noodles' presents a stylish, sex-positive queer timewarp from Lucio Castro, and is set in sweaty, dreamy NYC, and 'The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo' is a Chilean drag-western-telenovela set during the AIDS crisis.

'The Little Sister'
Check out the list of queer films at MIFF below.
Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 Queer Films
Lesbian Space Princess
Peter Hujar's Day
Enzo
The Little Sister
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
The Secret of Me
Portrait d'une Jeune Fille de la Fin des Années 60 à Bruxelles
High Art
Love Letters
Gen_
Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman
Two Times Joao Liverada
I Only Rest in the Storm
Je Tu Il Elle
Night Stage
Drunken Noodles
Cactus Pears
Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna
Melbourne International Film Festival is on from 7-24 August.