Our longstanding animation programmer Malcolm Turner, also head honcho at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, offers a selection of the best and brightest from this year’s Animation NOW! Festival.
Films — by Country
- Aotearoa New Zealand
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Morocco
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Romania
- Russia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- The Netherlands
- UK
- USA
- USSR
- Uruguay
- Vietnam
Canada

Carmine Street Guitars
Ron Mann’s absorbing documentary portrays a week in the life of old-school guitar maker Rick Kelly and his Greenwich Village workshop with its devoted clientele of rock royalty.

Come to Daddy
Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie and Madeleine Sami lead Kiwi director (and NZIFF/Incredibly Strange programmer) Ant Timpson’s deranged comic thriller about a father-son reunion that goes very, very south.