New Films On Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Barnes + More To Screen At MIFF 2025

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The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is back this August with a stacked 2025 program — and music fans are eating good.

This year’s ‘Music on Film’ slate is led by some massive names: Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Barnes and and the ever-ironic Pavement will all get their turn on the big screen, each in their own deeply different, deeply fascinating ways.

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Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Man – Session Times Here

Premiering globally at MIFF, this new doco picks up where Working Class Boy left off, following Barnesy through his post-Chisel solo career, addiction battles, personal reckonings and everything in between. Directed by Andrew Farrell, the flick promises the same blunt honesty that’s made Barnes one of Aussie rock’s most enduring (and relatable) voices. No sugar-coating, no puffed-up mythology — just a bloke still making sense of a life lived loud.

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley – Session Times Here

From Janis: Little Girl Blue filmmaker Amy Berg comes a tender, beautifully considered portrait of Jeff Buckley’s short but seismic time on earth. With the blessing of his mum, Mary Guibert (who’s long guarded his legacy), the film combines rare archival footage with intimate interviews from friends, collaborators and past loves — painting a picture of the man behind Grace, and the heartbreaking magic he left behind.

Pavements – Session Times Here

Equal parts doco, meta-satire, and conceptual art prank, Pavements (yes, plural) takes the slacker legends’ recent reunion as a launchpad for total creative chaos. Stranger Things actor and Djo frontman Joe Keery stars as Stephen Malkmus, a fake biopic, an off-Broadway musical, and a Pavement pop-up museum — all part of director Alex Ross Perry’s intentionally unhinged tribute to a band that never played by the rules. It’s billed as being weird, it’s funny, and pretty much exactly how Pavement should be remembered.

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Other MIFF 2025 Sound & Screen events include a doco all about Texas psych-punk jesters Butthole Surfers entitled Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt, a doco tracing the origins of Chicago house music dubbed Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, Parasite live in concert (with Bong Joon-ho’s score performed live by Orchestra Victoria), Julia Holter soundtracking The Passion of Joan of Arc — plus a massive overall program of 275+ films.

MIFF runs from Thursday, 7th August – Sunday, 24th August across cinemas in Melbourne, with regional and online screenings continuing til Sunday, 31st August.

Tickets are on sale now for members, and go live from this Tuesday, 15th July for the rest of us.

You can suss the full program right now over at miff.com.au