We present the list of Asian films that will be screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia) which will take place in-person from August 3 – 20, 2023, and online from August 18 – 27, 2023.

Note: the list may include movies made by filmmakers with Asian ancestry.

– Feature Films –
Absence by Wu Lang – China | 2023 – 100 minutes
Art College 1994 by Liu Jian – China | 2023 – 118 minutes
Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak – Indonesia, Germany, France, Poland, Qatar, Singapore | 2022 – 115 minutes
Cobweb by Kim Jee-woon – Korea | 2023 – 135 minutes
Deep Sea by Xiaopeng Tian – China | 2023 – 90 minutes
Drift by Anthony Chen – Singapore, France, Greece, UK | 2023 – 93 minutes
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An – Singapore, Vietnam, Spain, France | 2023 – 182 minutes
Kayo Kayo Colour? by Shahrukhkhan Chavada – India | 2023 – 96 minutes
Millennium Mambo by Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Taiwan | 2001 – 120 minutes
Monster by Hirokazu Kore-eda – Japan | 2023 – 126 minutes
Past Lives by Celine Song – Korea, USA | 2023 – 106 minutes
Remembering Every Night by Kiyohara Yui – Japan | 2023 – 116 minutes
Sand by Visakesa Chandrasekaram – Sri Lanka | 2023 – 100 minutes
Shortcomings by Randall Park – USA | 2023 – 92 minutes
Sleep by Jason Yu – Korea | 2023 – 99 minutes
Stone Turtle by Woo Ming Jin – Indonesia, Malaysia | 2022 – 91 minutes
Stonewalling by Huang Ji, Otsuka Ryuji – Japan | 2022 – 148 minutes
The Breaking Ice by Anthony Chen – China | 2023 – 97 minutes
The Munekata Sisters by Yasujirô Ozu – Japan | 1950 – 112 minutes
The Shadowless Tower by Zhang Lu – China | 2022 – 144 minutes
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes by Tomohisa Taguchi – Japan | 2022 – 83 minutes
Tiger Stripes by Amanda Nell Eu – Malaysia, Indonesia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Taiwan | 2023 – 95 minutes
Walk Up by Hong Sang-soo – Korea | 2022 – 97 minutes
Youth (Spring) by Wang Bing – China | 2023 – 212 minutes

– Short Films –
Anu by Pulkit Arora – India, New Zealand | 2023 – 13 minutes
Blinded by Centuries Parinda Mai – Thailand, USA | 2023 – 14 minutes
Chomp It! by Lam Li Shuen, Mark Chua – Singapore | 2023 – 12 minutes
Fur by Zhen Li – USA | 2022 – 7 minutes
Lotus-Eyed Girl by Rajee Samarasinghe – Sri Lanka, USA | 2022 – 6 minutes
Snow in September by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir – Mongolia, France | 2022 – 20 minutes
The House of Loss by Jinkyu Jeon – Japan, Korea | 2022 – 10 minutes
Tomato Kitchen by Junyi Xiao – China | 2022 – 9 minutes
Trial by CLAUDE, Shin Hyejin – Korea | 2022 – 45 minutes
Where do you stand, Tsai Ming-liang? by Tsai Ming-liang – 23 minutes

– VR –
Limbotopia in VR – Taiwan
The Man Who Couldn’t Leave – Taiwan

More information: https://miff.com.au/