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
- Afghanistan
- Aotearoa New Zealand
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Palestine
- Peru
- Poland
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
- UK
- USA
- USSR
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Vietnam
Canada
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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.
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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.
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Dark Suns
Soleils noirs
This striking black-and-white documentary criss-crosses Mexico, unearthing grassroots tales of grief, resilience and determined resistance in the wake of a decades-long drug war and political corruption.
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Genesis
Genèse
Beautifully shot and expertly edited, Philippe Lesage’s artfully told chronicle of young love bristles with tension and overflows with compassion.
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It Must Be Heaven
Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s artfully composed, comedic contemplation of his place in the world discerns universal truths and absurdities in the minutiae.
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Stuffed
A fully rounded, elegantly observed documentary on the world of taxidermy, its dedicated practitioners and their empathy for the animals whose lives and beauty they lovingly preserve.