MASIFF: Josephine (2025)

Director: Beth de Araújo | Year: 2025 | Rating: Unclassified 18+ | Runtime: 119 mins | Country: USA| Genre: Drama | Language: English

A heartbreaking portrait of innocence lost, this acclaimed Sundance award winner and surefire Oscar contender is one of the most essential films of 2026.

After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime, she begins acting out to regain a sense of safety, while the adults are helpless to console her.

A tense, devastating and empathetic portrait of a young girl wrestling with fear and anger she can neither escape nor comprehend. Featuring a phenomenal, career-best Channing Tatum in this award-winning drama.

Winner – Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2026.

Winner – Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2026.

Accompanying Short: THE NATIVE POLICE

Director: Charles Perrurle Perkins | Year: 2025 | Rating: Unclassified 15+ | Runtime: 11 mins | Country: Australia | Genre: Drama, First Nations | Language: English, Pidgin English

In 1884, an Aboriginal Native Police officer escorts an Arrernte girl across desert Country, as violence forces a reckoning with identity and survival. Shot on Arrernte Country around Mparntwe/Alice Springs.