Spring Jam
Spring Jam
Pawo
Pawo
Anatole’s Little Saucepan
Anatole’s Little Saucepan

Screened as part of NZIFF 2016

Animation for Kids 8+ 

NZIFF recommends this programme for children aged 8+

71 minutes

Each year our animation programme provides one of the best opportunities to introduce our youngest friends to the pleasures of international cinema and the NZIFF experience. NZIFF 2016 presents not one but two Animation for Kids collections – with each film guaranteed to amuse, entertain and inspire curious young minds and indie-animation-loving grown-ups alike. — NM

Spring Jam 2016

Director/Screenplay

Producer

Georgiana Plaister
6 minutes

Lone Stag lacks a certain something on the antlers front: antlers. Without them he has little chance of getting any birds to help him make music for the spring jam.

Anatole’s Little Saucepan 2014

Director

France In English
6 minutes

Meet Anatole, who is never without the little saucepan behind him. It’s quite literally a drag and really holds him back, but there's someone in the world who can help make sense of it.

An Object at Rest 2015

Director

USA In English
6 minutes

This Oscar-nominated film follows the life of a stone as it travels over the course of millennia.

Two Friends 2014

Russia In English
4 minutes

It’s super hard for frogs and caterpillars to remain lifelong friends. This bittersweet story of inter-species friendship shows the tricky side of metamorphosis.

Some Thing 2015

Director

Germany In English
7 minutes

Perhaps it’s really not that bad to have something deeply strange inside you that others laugh at. 

About a Mother 2015

Russia In English
8 minutes

A compelling story about a mother raising her three boys, and the power of sacrifice, familial love and particularly strong hair.

My Grandfather Was a Cherry Tree 2015

Russia In English
12 minutes

A young boy tells us his views on love, life and death as he remembers his grandfather, who could listen to the trees breathing and believed that no one can die if someone still loves them.

Pawo 2015

Director

Germany In English
8 minutes

A toy figure finds herself in a curious world with some wonderfully strange companions.

Slaves of the Rave 2015

Director

UK In English
3 minutes

An amusing musical take on the ‘we are who we hang out with’ mentality.

Three Little Ninjas Delivery Service 2016

Belgium In English
11 minutes

When a not-so-charming prince slays the dragon, the princess promptly orders a new one from the Three Little Ninjas Delivery Service.