Animation Shorts
Are You Still Watching?
Zoe Terakes voices a sex-crazed twentysomething in this lurid fever dream of queerness in lockdown.
Bach-Hông
A young Vietnamese-French woman is faced with the communist takeover of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Best MIFF Shorts
A collection of the best short films of the festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards Jury and the MIFF Shorts Programmer.
Biolum
Charlotte Rampling guides you through underwater caves filled with bioluminescent creatures in this SXSW Virtual Cinema Competition Audience Award winner.
Bodies in Motion
Bodyless
Military rule fuses with ultra-modern digital technologies to open up an ethereal portal that transcends time.
Bonanza!
Commissioned by Chunky Move, this playfully experimental work traverses ritual, body modification and algorithms.
Cryptozoo
Flee
This award-winning, stylistically bold documentary tells the story of an Afghan refugee’s coming home – and coming out – via animation and archival footage.
Fortune!
Enter the mind of the world’s greatest con man – and get that dough.
Freedom Swimmer
Olivia Martin McGuire parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for freedom in Hong Kong today.
Gravedad
In a world with extremes of gravity, Rosa must navigate what it means to feel emotional ups and downs.
IOPU
Moment and memory blend as you bear witness to a Samoan rite of passage.
KKUM
Prayers by day, dreams by night – a mother keeps her son safe.
Nestor
Routine is the only thing keeping Nestor afloat.
Nightsss
Dive into this erotic, sensorial experience that transforms spoken word into audiovisual landscapes.
Ninjababy
A twentysomething has to grapple with the pressures of impending maturity as well as the ‘ninjababy’ that has snuck inside her seemingly undetected.
O Black Hole!
Loneliness is operatic in the latest film by Renee Zhan.
Oldboy's Apples
Join a demon, a puppy and a rat in this stop-motion headtrip about a mysterious, magically summoned apple tree.
Paper Birds
A short-sighted boy uncovers family secrets in an intricate, Tim Burton–esque world.
Poise
Stuck in a holding pattern, two men attempt to break the cycle.
The Spine of Night
This ultra-gory animated fantasy is a chaotic ride perfectly calibrated for your inner 1980s teenage dirtbag.
Step Into the River
This DOK Leipzig Silver Dove for Short Documentary and Animated Film winner grapples with China’s one-child policy through a story about two friends.
Trona Pinnacles
A family unravels while road-tripping near Death Valley in the California desert.
Wolf Children
Just your ordinary story of a girl who falls in love with a wolfman and raises their children – this anime classic celebrates difference and unconventional families.
Year of the Everlasting Storm
Jafar Panahi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Laura Poitras and other global cinema heavyweights reflect on 2020 in this sweeping anthology film for the COVID age.