Animation Shorts HERO

MIFF presents

Animation Shorts

2025 | Unclassified (18+)
Film

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When

Sat 9 Aug - Sun 17 Aug 2025

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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).

Runtime: 190

Event duration

106 mins

Rating

Unclassified (18+)

Where

Cinema 1 (Level 2)
ACMI, Fed Square

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