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Animation

2:00 pm

14 March 2026

Luxe Cinemas - Tauranga

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A vibrant collection of animated works that push beyond genre and age. From hand-drawn intimacy to cutting-edge digital experimentation, these films prove that animation is not a style — it’s a language.

FILMS

In Half

Directed By:
Jorge Morais Valle
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Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self-identity.

"The Fall" Love never let us down

Directed By:
PAULO GARCIA, NATALIA GOUVEA, BRUNO MONTEIRO
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Life Eternal

Directed By:
Michael Winter
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Isaac relives his relationship as he tries to come to terms with the untimely death of his girlfriend.

Starring Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism) and Griffin Puatu (Beastars) 'Life Eternal' is a hand-drawn animation telling a story of grief and love through a unique lens.

What Stands in the Dark

Directed By:
Pouya Afshar
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What Stands in the Dark, reimagines Rumi’s “Elephant in the Dark,” portraying a fragmented search for truth. Five unseen figures encounter different parts of an immense being, each interpreting it through their own lens. The film reveals how limited perception breeds illusion, yet invites reverence for the act of seeking itself.

What Stands in the Dark is a production of [P]ART Collective.

FearISH

Directed By:
Soheila Madadi
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A hungry fish searches for food in its aquarium, but its world is suddenly disrupted when it is struck by something unexpected.

Code Deimos

Directed By:
Kas Kerrigan
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A rescue operative enters an abandoned sci-fi facility to find a missing scientist. He discovers her wounded, but their escape is quickly cut short. As a monstrous threat closes in, he makes a final stand, leaving the scientist to watch in horror.

Other I

Directed By:
Aline Popescu
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In a vast cathedral devoted to a strange, otherworldly deity, a young girl offers gifts that begin as harmless token of devotion but escalate into brutal sacrifices of her own body. This haunting allegory asks what happens when blind faith and the comforts we never question demand more of us than we have to give.

Saintly

Directed By:
Lumyth Projects
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Music Video for Michaela Tempers release 'Saintly'

Hell

Directed By:
Parker Croft
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A place where dreams are real, wishes come true, and everything is always awful for everyone.

Dobrina

Directed By:
Hannes Rall
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Lotte Reiniger meets Sergio Leone in this animated short,
where desire burns as bright as the desert sun. A brand-new animated short that premiered in June 2025, successfully touring the festival circuit now.

Horizon

Directed By:
analogmirage
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"Sometimes I look at the horizon and it feels like something in me slips away."

Horizon is an AI-generated short film, the story of the Air Runner Girl, a girl who can fly through dreams.

Targeted

Directed By:
Ruby Meades
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In the not too distant future when the targeted ads won't go away, one guy decides to target THEM.

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