NZIFF recommends this programme for children aged 4+
Films — by Country
- Aotearoa New Zealand
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
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- China
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- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Lithuania
- Norway
- Palestine
- Paraguay
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
- UK
- USA
- USSR
- Ukraine
- West Germany
Switzerland
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Animation NOW! 2018
A celebratory showcase of some of the year’s best and brightest animated shorts. If you’re looking to sample the animation ecosystem in all its multi-coloured, variously shaped glories, there’s no better place to begin.
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Animation NOW! Crazy Towne
A wild and otherworldly programme of animation at its craziest and most creative.
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Animation NOW! Handmade
Drawings move, paintings come to life and puppets take the stage, one painstaking frame at a time.
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Animation NOW! Morph ‘n’ Move
The impossible and improbable comes to life in this kinetic collection of animation that not only pushes the envelope, but busts it wide open.
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Blue My Mind
A mysterious high-school girl dives headfirst into the vices of teenage life, while undergoing a radical and uncontrollable transformation of her own, in Lisa Brühlmann’s formidable debut feature.
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Eldorado
Markus Imhoof’s powerful doco combines agonising encounters with asylum seekers adrift and in limbo with a moving personal recollection of his own relationship with a refugee during WWII.
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The Image Book
Le livre d’image
The latest essay film from Jean-Luc Godard, still going strong, is a dense yet intellectually dexterous vision board on cinema, image-making and the state of the world.