MIFF 2026
OUR REGIONAL PROGRAM BELOW
We’re excited to be a regional screening location for the Melbourne International Film Festival 2026.
From 14–16 and 21–23 August, MIFF returns to nine cinemas across regional Victoria for the festival’s 74th edition with a bold, original program of Australian and international films. From hotly anticipated titles to outstanding debuts by emerging filmmakers, see it first at MIFF 2026.
MIFF continues its commitment to meeting audiences where they are. The MIFF Regional program, supported by VicScreen, presents a selection of this year’s most anticipated titles. Some stellar titles screening at Theatre Royal include Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s Broken English, Arlo Dean Cook’s Jebediah: Are We OK? (with Q&A), and Taratoa Stappard’s Mārama.
Outside of regional Victoria, MIFF returns to metro Melbourne sites from 06-23 August.
Browse the full program at miff.com.au
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OPENING NIGHT FILM
WICKER
Unclassified 18+
FRI 14 AUG, 7PM
Dir. Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson / USA / 1h 45m
Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård lead this cheeky, star-studded and irresistible fable about a cranky fisherwoman and the sexy handwoven husband she wishes for.
In a seaside village lost to time, a fisherwoman delivers the food relied on by the townsfolk, who barely tolerate her cantankerous presence. Unexpectedly named the next to wed and sick of the disdain, she commissions the local basketmaker to weave her the perfect husband, and he goes above and beyond. When you’re married to the hottest and handiest man around, however, jealousies inevitably flare up.
DIGBY & CAMILLE
SAT 15 AUG, 4PM
Dir. Trevor Graham, Digby Webster / Australia
1h 32m / Rating: M
In this tender, intimate and humorous documentary, experience the adventures and frustrations of a pair of inseparable lovers as they dream of building a life together.
BROKEN ENGLISH
SAT 15 AUG, 7PM
Dir. Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard / UK
1h 39m / Rating: Unclassified 15+
From chart-topper to tabloid fodder and back again, the legendary British rock balladeer Marianne Faithfull reflects candidly on her storied past.
HEN
SUN 16 AUG, 3PM
Dir. György Pálfi / Germany, Greece, Hungary
1h 36m / Rating: Unclassified 15+
Anything but a straightforward ‘animal picture’, director György Pálfi delivers a sobering study in human nature and a provocative commentary on burning social and political issues, through the eyes of a chicken on the run.
JEBEDIAH: ARE WE OK?
SUN 16 AUG, 6PM
Dir. Arlo Dean Cook / Australia
1h 29m / Rating: Unclassified 15+
Take a 30-year journey with the beloved Australian alternative rock band, from humble beginnings to the dark side of success.
ROSE
FRI 21 AUG, 7:30PM
Dir. Markus Schleinzer / Austria, Germany
1h 34m / Rating: Unclassified 18+
Sandra Hüller’s knockout, Silver Bear–winning performance anchors this tragic folktale about a woman who poses as a male soldier in 17th-century Germany.
SOVEREIGN SHORTS
SAT 22 AUG, 4PM
Australia / Rating: Unclassified 15+
MIFF is thrilled to announce the four distinctive projects selected for Sovereign Shorts. MIFF, VicScreen and National Indigenous Television (NITV) sought original and compelling short documentary proposals from Victorian-based First Peoples writers and directors exploring the theme of Treaty as lived experience.
TIME AND WATER
SAT 22 AUG, 7PM
Dir. Sara Dosa / USA, Iceland
1h 30m / Rating: Unclassified 15+
Iceland’s glaciers – once imposing, now imperilled – loom over a personal journey through generations in Sara Dosa’s follow-up to Fire of Love.
SWEET MILK LAKE
SUN 23 AUG, 4PM
Dir. Harvey Zielinski / Australia
1h 33m / Rating: Unclassified 18+
After being mistaken for his brother, a young trans man adapts to a precarious new life in the rural town in which he was raised.
Mārama
SUN 23 AUG, 7:30PM
Dir. Taratoa Stappard / New Zealand
1h 29m / Rating: Unclassified 18+
This distinctly Māori Gothic horror, set in a haunted seaside manor, tells a terrifying tale of dark family secrets and one woman’s wrath in the face of colonial violence.
