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Animation Shorts
Forms collide in this assorted collection of visual storytelling.
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Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts
A collaboration between Seth MacFarlane and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, this restoration unearths lost classics from animation’s Golden Age.
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Canard
Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.
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The Concierge
In this sparkling anime comedy set in a vibrant alternate world, the customer is always right – but they’re never human.
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A Crab in the Pool
On a scorching summer day, two siblings are reminded of their mother.
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Emperor
An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.
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Father's Letters
The true story of Professor Alexey Wangenheim, who writes hopeful letters home from a Gulag in Stalinist Russia.
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Flow
A menagerie adrift on a boat must work together to survive a catastrophic flood in this animated wonder arriving from Cannes Un Certain Regard.
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Flower Show
Victorian-era high society’s stifling views of women are shown in full bloom.
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Ghost Cat Anzu
This unconventional and delightfully wacky anime conjures a rotoscoped dream world as a grief-stricken girl befriends a giant bipedal cat spirit.
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Gigi
Aquatic and amphibious imagery act as motifs for a young woman’s recollections of her life.
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Golden Age of Iranian Animation, 1965-77
A showcase of Iranian animation, from the early efforts of Western-educated filmmakers to award-winning shorts produced by government agencies.
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Hurikán
In this Annecy Audience Award winner, a simple errand turns into a comic Sisyphean ordeal.
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In the Shadow of the Cypress
When a beached whale runs ashore, a father and daughter disagree about its fate.
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kajoo yannaga
Follow the Companion Sky Spirit through a virtual walk on Country: emerging from subterranean soils to the ground level, ascending to meet the clouds.
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Lasting Impressions
Plunge between the brushstrokes of impressionist artworks in this 3D spectacle that honours their daringly modern beauty.
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Magic Beach
Ten animators adapt Alison Lester’s children’s book, crafting a magical mixture of live action and animation destined to become a family favourite.
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Matta and Matto
At the Hotel Vaip, where machines simulate human contact, guests pay a high price.
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Memoir of a Snail
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
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The Memphis Chronicles: Water's Edge
Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.
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MIFF x Peninsula Hot Springs: Magic Beach
Ten animators adapt Alison Lester’s children’s book, crafting a magical mixture of live action and animation destined to become a family favourite.
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The Most Precious of Cargoes
Best Director Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius crafts a stirring Holocaust fable – the first animated film to screen in Cannes competition since 2008.
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Opening Night Gala - Memoir of a Snail
Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.
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Pigsy
A lazy, self-absorbed porker becomes an unlikely hero in this wild and wondrous sci-fi riff on the Chinese classic Journey to the West.
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Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
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Shé (Snake)
A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.
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Shadowtime
Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
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Taiwan With a Twist
Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.
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The Tree's Home
A striking allegory on the maternal instinct to sacrifice reminiscent of classic fairytales.
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