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
- Cook Islands
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- India
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Mexico
- Norway
- Poland
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
- UK
- USA
Canada
Maps to the Stars
David Cronenberg’s gleefully toxic satire of Hollywood vanities stars Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, startling newcomer Evan Bird channelling Justin Beiber; and, in her Cannes-winning role, Julianne Moore.
Toons for Tots
NZIFF recommends this programme for children aged 3–6
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet 3D
L’extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet
The director of Amelie and Delicatessen takes to 3D and delights with his abundant visual wit in this tale of a ten-year-old boy genius’s attempts to understand his weird family and the even weirder wider world.