As If the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up
Returning to her hometown in Mexico, Olivia is flooded with childhood memories. At first, they’re happy – but then she remembers the moment when everything changed.
The Bad Guys 2
The felonious critters are back for one last caper – and this time, they’re doing it for the girls.
Best MIFF Shorts
A program of the award-winning short films, as chosen the MIFF Shorts Awards jury.
Caries
Inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter, a shaman attempts to create her masterpiece while battling storms of soup and toothpaste.
Death Does Not Exist
An existential modern fable told in surreal imagery, this transfixing hand-drawn animation is a vivid treatise on the personal cost of revolution.
The Eating of an Orange
A surreal animated fable of repression, sexual awakening and copulating slugs.
Family Gala: The Bad Guys 2
The felonious critters are back for one last caper – and this time, they’re doing it for the girls.
The Fix-It-Man and the Fix-It-Wooman
On a big-city dance floor, two soft sculptures try to impress each other with their moves. But it takes a comical mishap to bring them together.
Glasses
During an eye examination, a woman is confronted with a surreal world of her shadow selves.
God is shy
Are you scared of swimming when you can’t see what’s below you? Of Jungian shadow figures? Of The Shining? What about the chance to talk to God?
The Great History of Western Philosophy
Chairman Mao, Socrates, the Monkey King and Mickey Mouse meet in this unhinged animated journey through Western and Eastern philosophy, mythology, art history, pop culture and stream-of-consciousness dream states.
Imagine
A phone-obsessed teen is pulled into a vortex in this genre-bending fable that asks: what might we discover if we finally look up?
Lesbian Space Princess
Set in a gaylaxy far, far away, this is the multi-award-winning Australian animated musical rom-com of your rainbow alphabet dreams.
Maya, Give Me a Title
Michel Gondry returns to his roots with this wildly creative animated omnibus, assembling surreal two-dimensional adventures to entertain his young daughter.
Murmuration
Trapped in a nursing home – a place of bingo, pills, dentures and dementia – an elderly man starts to wish he were one of the birds outside.
Olivia & the Clouds
The Dominican Republic’s third ever animated feature film is a mesmerising, Rashomon-like exploration of love and loss.
Retirement Plan
In the comical throes of middle age, a man voiced by Domhnall Gleeson fantasises about all the things he’ll do once he retires.
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
The first feature in 20 years from stop-motion animation legends the Brothers Quay is an episodic, shapeshifting, disorienting, death-etched fairytale.
Shadows
A 14-year-old runaway mother races through the crowded Baghdad airport, fleeing the dark past that stands between her and freedom.
Space Cadet
Veteran DJ Kid Koala takes to the screen with this animated tale of a robot and an astronaut – a shrine to longing, loss and the power of music.
The Square
In the depths of a North Korean winter, a Swedish diplomat’s secret lover disappears. Can he find out what happened to her before it’s too late?
A Story About Fire
In this evocative animation based on an ancient Chinese myth, a cowardly monkey musters the courage to discover the secret of all warmth.
Water Girl
In this heartwarming, heartbreaking tale of maternity, love and loss, a free diver reminisces on a lifetime spent underwater.
