Animation is such an engaging art form – perfect for inspiring the wide-open imaginations of our youngest NZIFF audience members. Not that the inspiration stops there – these eclectic and entertaining films are sure to appeal to both the young and young at heart. — NM
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
Denmark
![Aquarela](/assets/resized/sm/upload/f5/j5/92/0i/1_%7B256feaaa-df20-e911-944e-0ad9f5e1f797%7D%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=6fa6ecae54)
Aquarela
The elemental power and glory of water is captured with high frame rate, ultra-definition cameras in film artist Victor Kossakovsky’s spectacular visual documentary.
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Cold Case Hammarskjöld
What starts out as an investigation into the plane crash that killed UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961 soon spirals into something even darker under the direction of Danish provocateur Mads Brügger.
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Koko-di Koko-da
Visually arresting and very adult, Swedish director Johannes Nyholm’s devilishly devised folktale focuses on a grieving couple’s infinite camping trip from hell.
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The Orphanage
Parwareshgah
A touch of Bollywood fantasy enlivens this moving story of a savvy Afghan teen living in a Soviet-run orphanage in the late 1980s while a destructive war rages through the country.
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A White, White Day
Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur
Evidence of a deceased wife’s affair tips a grieving ex-cop in remote Iceland over the edge, leading to a shocking spiral of events in search of the truth.