You don’t have to be in Melbourne to enjoy Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) thanks to a curated selection of films from the program in MIFF Online 2025. Of the 13 films chosen for MIFF Online 2025, two are in French. We’ve got a classic Chantal Akerman farce about the chaos of putting your house up for sale when potential buyers won’t leave, and a film about a 12 year old girl wrestling with her heritage as she grieves her adult brother. Read on to discover the films and to find out how you can watch them.
Demain on démenage (Tomorrow we move)
Director: Chantal Akerman
Countries: France, Belgium
Language: French
One of the films from the larger Akerman retrospective being shown at the in-person MIFF.
Aurore Clément (a frequent collaborator of Chantal Akerman’s who previously appeared in Les rendez-vous d’Anna, Toute une nuit and Lettre d’une cinéaste, and also features in A Private Life, MIFF 2025) stars as Catherine, a blustery widow who has moved in with her adult daughter Charlotte (Sylvie Testud, Lourdes, MIFF 2010), a writer commissioned to pen an erotic novel. Almost instantly, they begin to look for a new place to live, with Charlotte renting her own separate studio in order to write and Catherine occupying ever more space with her plans of becoming a piano teacher. But putting their duplex up for sale only invites more chaos, as potential buyers appear, and, through a farcical sequence of events, fail to leave.
(We couldn’t find a subtitled trailer)
Director: Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama
Country: Belgium
Languages: French, Arabic, Dutch
Twelve-year-old Eya lives in Brussels with her Tunisian migrant family, whose cultural traditions she finds alienating. Her strongest ally is her 25-year-old brother, Younès, who helps her with her schoolwork, encourages her TikTok dances and allows her to hang out with his big, boisterous friendship group. But when he is suddenly, tragically killed, Eya is left heartbroken. Struggling to make sense of her grief, she finds solace in the friends, relatives and neighbours who fill the family home in the aftermath, and resolves to find some way to honour Younès while learning to live without him.
Winning two special mentions at the 2025 Berlinale, Belgian-Tunisian-Danish filmmaker Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama has drawn from her own family history in developing this striking debut feature. A tender depiction of how ritual and community usher people through stages of grief as well as a poignant narrative of innocence lost, Têtes Brûlées is a coming-of-age tale imbued with dramatic weight and shot through with humanity.
NOTE: This film is also part of MIFF Schools 2025
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MORE MIFF 2025 CONTENT
Over the past few weeks, we have shared with you a number of articles about MIFF 2025:
- films in French from France and the Francophonie,
- international multilingual co-productions featuring French among the languages,
- international co-productions in which France was involved that aren’t in French,
- and the Chantal Akerman retrospective.
This article on MIFF Online 2025 rounds out our coverage for MIFF 2025.
KEY INFO FOR MIFF ONLINE 2025
WHAT: MIFF Online – Melbourne International Film Festival Online program
WHERE: Wherever you are in Australia with an internet connection
WHEN: From midnight (AEST) Friday 15 to midnight (AEST) Sunday 31 August
HOW: Purchase your access to the films here
HOW MUCH: Short films are free, access to feature films costs $16.
