Glorious highly imaginative animated images in myriad formats, selected with an eye to the giant screen, from the world’s best by NZIFF veteran/Melbourne International Animation Festival supremo Malcolm Turner.
Films — by Country
- Albania
- Aotearoa New Zealand
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- DR Congo
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
- UK
- USA
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
Poland
The Mill & the Cross
Bruegel’s immense frieze of rustic life, The Way to Calvary, lives and breathes in this visually ravishing recreation. “An extraordinary imaginative leap… a unique, immersive museum-meets-cinema experience.” — Variety
Planet Kirsan
Planeta Kirsan
In the tiny ex-Soviet state of Kalmykia, President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has decreed chess to be the root of all things and has made it a compulsory subject in schools. A surreally disturbing picture of tin-pot authority in action.