Animation Shorts (Animation)
Viewer Advice: Contains themes of child abuse, domestic violence and violence towards women.
A kaleidoscope of animated wonder from around the world.
Featuring a delirious animated short about a shaman who paints murals inside the body of a narcissistic weather presenter, a hilarious romantic encounter told via Indigenous soft sculptures, and the strangest eye examination you’re ever likely to see.
Films in this package: As If the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up (dir. Natalia León), Caries (dir. Aline Höchli), The Fix-It-Man And The Fix-It-Wooman (dir. Nelson Armstrong, Cornelius Ebatarinja), Glasses (dir. Yumi Joung), Murmuration (dir. Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger), Retirement Plan (dir. John Kelly), Shadows (dir. Rand Beiruty) and Water Girl (dir. Sandra Desmazières).