NZIFF recommends this programme for children aged 7–10 years (and up).
Films — by Strand
Animation
![Animation Now 2014](/assets/resized/sm/upload/io/b3/rt/xh/Hotzanak%202-0-208-0-156-crop.jpg?k=4f4ebbbbbd)
Animation Now 2014
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.
![Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?](/assets/resized/sm/upload/zu/rt/o7/kw/KEY%20Still2_Animated%20babyprojector%20projecting%20real%20image%20of%20Noam%20Chomsky%20from%20Michel%20Gondry%E2%80%99s%20IS%20THE%20MAN%20WHO%20IS%20TALL%20HAPPY%20Courtesy%20of%20Sundance%20Selects.-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=876a4482ec)
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?
Director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mood Indigo) and philosopher-activist Noam Chomsky talk about life and language in a conversation gorgeously illuminated with Gondry’s hand-drawn animations.
![Patema Inverted](/assets/resized/sm/upload/o5/55/2u/p7/KEY%20Patema-et-le-monde-inverse-Sakasama-no-Patema-2013-1-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=876a4482ec)
Patema Inverted
Sakasama no Patema
In this charming and ingeniously elaborate anime world one tribe’s gravity is another tribe’s anti-gravity. A plucky upside-down girl and a gallant right-way-up boy switch perspectives.
![Toons for Tots](/assets/resized/sm/upload/vq/pp/q1/wi/I%20Want%20My%20Hat%20Back-0-208-0-156-crop.jpg?k=5f4e58653a)
Toons for Tots
NZIFF recommends this programme for children aged 3–6