Category: Focus

SOLD OUT “The Fractured” is a moody and elegant film; part story, part dream, part visual poem. It is a film that corralled the talents of team members spread across Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canada. MIAF’s Director Malcolm Turner will briefly outline why it was selected to open this year’s Australian Showcase, and then after a…

SOLD OUT “Devil’s Debt” was the closing film of MIAF’s Australian Showcase. It bristles with the high voltage energy of its young team, brilliantly channelling a range of animation’s most unique visual and narrative tropes. Some of the creators will join us for what promises to be a highly entertaining conversation about the harnessing of…

SOLD OUT Based in Melbourne, Princess Bento is one of Australia’s most successful animation studios. Their rise-and-rise has been remarkable. In the short time since their inception, they have produced a wide range of adult animated series, including “Koala Man” (20th Television Animation & HULU), “Universal Basic Guys” (FOX & Sony Animation), and “Hazbin Hotel”…

Max Hattler is a filmmaker whose work has turned up in successive MIAF’s. An innovator and experimenter par-excellence, his personal films have charted unique journeys into the animation landscape. From his Hong Kong base, he established “Relentless Melt,” a kind of ‘abstractheque’ that draws from incredible work within both his teaching and curating realms, to…

Direct from Estonian’s dependably brilliant Joonisfilm Studio comes “Kyiv Cake”; an exploration of certain world events through a lens that only animation – in fact, only Estonian animation – could ever hope to deliver. A rich and thought-provoking cocktail of observational insights viewed through a lightly contorted surrealist lens, “Kyiv Cake” places an animated prism…