This year’s Animation Now unleashes the unique properties of animation across a wide variety of techniques, bringing to life a diversity of sumptuous, often complex creative visions.
Films — by Country
- Aotearoa New Zealand
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Cook Islands
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Nepal
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
- UK
- USA
- Ukraine
Spain
Demonstration
Remarkable footage of a Barcelona anti-austerity demonstration – and its quelling – shaped into a lyrical tribute to the spirit of protest by Victor Kossakovsky ( ¡Vivan las Antipodas!) and 32 Spanish film students.
Enemy
Jake Gyllenhaal delivers two great performances in this compelling and creepy doppelgänger tale about a dishevelled university professor who spots his exact double performing in a movie, and tracks him down.
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados
Inspired by actual events in 1966, this buoyant and funny road movie about an English-language teacher determined to meet John Lennon won all the major Spanish film awards this year.
Story of My Death
Història de la meva mort
Albert Serra’s teasing 18th-century drama sees Casanova cross paths with Dracula, as Enlightenment reason and secular pleasure give way to the dangerous passions of Gothic romanticism.