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Category: Retrospective

  • One Of A Kind: Tribute To Antoinette Starkiewicz

    One Of A Kind: Tribute To Antoinette Starkiewicz

    Extended edition for International Animation Day 2024 Please not this session is rated: Unrestricted M (Mature) – Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult. TICKETSSold out!! Join us for a newly expanded retrospective of Polish-Australian animator Antoinette Starkiewicz, following the success of our sold-out MIAF 2024 showcase. This edition features…

  • Nukufilm Catch-Up: The Best New Nuku Films

    Nukufilm Catch-Up: The Best New Nuku Films

    TICKETS “Nuku” is Estonian for “puppet” and Nukufilm is one of the greatest fountains of imaginative, boundary-pushing puppet films in the world. No European programming trip was complete without a visit and no MIAF was complete without the latest Nukufilm offerings up on the big screen where they belong. The covid lockdowns put paid to…

  • EKA Showcase

    EKA Showcase

    TICKETS Estonia’s EKA Academy of Arts is home to one of the finest, most open and diverse animation courses in Europe, if not the world. It draws students from around the European union who seek to create unique animated films that stand as individual, creative statements, not as calling cards for a life in the…

  • One Of A Kind: Tribute To Antoinette Starkiewicz

    One Of A Kind: Tribute To Antoinette Starkiewicz

    TICKETSSOLD OUT Join us for a retrospective screening honouring the bold and unforgettable work of Polish-Australian animator Antoinette Starkiewicz. Known for her dazzling and vibrant animation, Antoinette’s creations were often as irreverent and raunchy as they were bewitchingly delicate. Often inspired by music and dance, Antoinette’s filmography explores themes of feminine sexuality and agency, critiques…

  • Grendel Grendel Grendel

    Grendel Grendel Grendel

    Please not this session is rated: General (G) Tickets (sold out) VERY LIMTED late release tickets available! Classic Australian Feature The story behind the preservation and digitising of “Grendel Grendel Grendel” stands as MIAF’s most exciting moment. Grendel’s director, Alex Stitt, was an icon of Australian animation and design. His most recognised work includes the…

  • MOME Showcase (Hungary) [2023]

    MOME Showcase (Hungary) [2023]

    TICKETS Here at MIAF, we’re not the only ones to notice it. The rise and rise of Hungarian animation is one of the subjects that comes up over and over at festivals when programmers get together to try and outsmart each other. The reasons for it may be elusive but the results speak for themselves.…

  • Pannonia: A Certain Drama_2022

    Pannonia: A Certain Drama_2022

    TICKETS (soon) The Pannonia Studio has a fascinating history. Formed in 1951 in communist era Hungary, it produced hundreds of animated shorts and more than 20 animated features – including the classic “Son Of White Mare” by Marcell Jankovics. The animated shorts being made at Pannonia were absolutely unlike anything else being made in communist…

  • It’s A Mad, Mad Pannonia World_2022

    It’s A Mad, Mad Pannonia World_2022

    TICKETS (soon) The Pannonia Studio has a fascinating history. Formed in 1951 in communist era Hungary, it produced hundreds of animated shorts and more than 20 animated features – including the classic “Son Of White Mare” by Marcell Jankovics. The animated shorts being made at Pannonia were absolutely unlike anything else being made in communist…

  • Son Of The White Mare – Marcell Jankovics (feature)_2022

    Son Of The White Mare – Marcell Jankovics (feature)_2022

    TICKETS (soon) Pannonia Studio Showcase #3 Marcell Jankovics‘ stunning 1981 odyssey “Son Of The White Mare” radiates with a refreshing energy, pushing the boundaries of the animated form even by its own hallucinogenic standards. Unfolding like artwork etched into a cave wall and brought to restless life by an unclassifiable spell that only cinema can…

  • Symphony In Sweeatch: The Crazed Other-World of Dax Norman_2021

    Symphony In Sweeatch: The Crazed Other-World of Dax Norman_2021

    TICKETS Dax Norman clearly has Picasso and Dali trapped in his imagination – and it looks like they’re both fighting hard to get out. Nothing will prepare you for an immersion into the hyper-animated world of Dax Norman. His films approach and rush past as a kind of tumbling, mutating surrealist caravan being chased by…