Melbourne International Animation Festival 2026

MIAF 2026

Melbourne International Animation Festival 2026. 🥳

Thanks to those who made it to MIAF this year.

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  • MIAF 2025 artwork Q&A

    The unveiling of MIAF’s annual artwork is always one of the highlights of the entire festival cycle. From a public perspective it tends to be the first thing that pops up heralding the countdown to the next festival. It’s a different story inside the machine where elements of successive MIAF’s can be years in the…

  • MIAF 2025 reschedule

    When we announced our 2025 dates back in October last year they matched the annual early May timing. That has become our ‘new normal’ since our post-lockdown relaunch and we have been working with increasing pace to deliver MIAF 2025 on schedule. Late last week ACMI elected to launch a major anime festival which they…

  • MIAF 2025 submissions now closed

    Wow. Submissions are now closed for MIAF 2025. Thank you to EVERYONE who submitted a film. We have over 2,000 films for consideration. Going to be a busy couple of months getting through them all.

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