Animation
Discover bizarre dream worlds, homegrown science fiction and touching love stories in this boundary-pushing selection.
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.
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.
Olivia & the Clouds
The Dominican Republic’s third ever animated feature film is a mesmerising, Rashomon-like exploration of love and loss.
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.
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?