Animation
Step into worlds limited only by imagination with these gorgeous, stylistically eclectic feature films.
Animation Shorts
A collection of films that explode the boundaries of cinematic imagination.
Bouchra
In this striking animation set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, a queer coyote breaks the wall of silence with her mother nine years after her coming out.
Coyote vs. ACME
Sick of being maimed by his shoddy tools, Wile E. Coyote sues the company responsible. Prepare to witness a legal comedy that’s dynamite … in every sense of the word.
Decorado
Unicorn Wars director Alberto Vázquez returns with another visionary, Goya Award–winning animated polemic.
Family Gala: Forgotten Island
Tayo na! Come along to MIFF’s Family Gala – a fun-filled centrepiece event for kids and adults alike – and enjoy the Australian premiere of new DreamWorks adventure Forgotten Island.
Forgotten Island
H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Manny Jacinto and Lea Salonga lend their voices to this fantastical animated tale of friendship, fearlessness and Filipino culture.
Jim Queen
Come for a gleefully filthy romp through Gay Paree as a buff influencer and his twink fight to cure a heinous virus that makes queer people straight!
Light Pillar
This amusingly deadpan portrait of loneliness, the death of cinema and technology’s seductive appeal combines animation and live action in visionary ways.
Small Treasures: Animations by Sarah Watt
A tribute to the early work of the late, great Australian writer/director.
Tangles
Sarah Leavitt’s acclaimed graphic novel about Alzheimer’s hits the screen with a stellar voice cast including Abbi Jacobson and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Viva Carmen
A painterly, profound adaptation of Georges Bizet’s iconic opera told from the perspective of children.
We Are Aliens
This poignant Cannes-premiering animation traces the friendship and falling-out of two boys after an incident at school changes their lives forever.