Genre: Animation

Illustration of a woman in a colorful headwrap using a vintage poloroid camera to take a picture in an outdoor city scape.

Ana, en passant

DirFernanda Salgado

Following her grandmother’s death in Paris, a young woman travels to Brazil where she encounters her exact double in this lyrical animated drama.

Anime-style illustration of a girl and boy on the floor of a bedroom facing each other. The girl wears all pink and is drawn in the same style as the enviroment. The boy is black and white, in a manga illustration style and nervously sweating as they converse.

Animate!

Cherry and Virgin

DirMasanao Kawajiri

Stylish visual worlds collide when an erotic manga artist and a talented illustrator—both virgins—connect in this sensitive love letter to anime.

Illustration in the style of a watercolor painting, a young boy on a bicycle waves goodbye to two other children, one standing next to their bicycle and another sitting in a cell phone tower at dusk amid a meadow and cloudy sky.

Animate!

Iron Boy Le Corset

DirLouis Clichy

In this dreamy ink and watercolor animation, music and romance provide escape from rigid family obligation for an imaginative child in an iron back brace.

An animation of two men standing behind a large portrait of a blonde women with a sultry expression, the men stare at the image, one with an expression of awe, the other with a slight smile and tired demeanor.

Animate!Special Presentation

Ray Gunn

DirBrad Bird

From Oscar winner Brad Bird comes this noir-infused sci-fi epic about a private eye and a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star.

In black-and-white animation two people embrace in a backyard garden, in front of them vegetables and flowers grow, behind them stands a fence obscuring homes and trees, a cloudy sky with streaks of light.

Animate!OutLook

Tangles

DirLeah Nelson

A young queer woman grapples with her vibrant mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis in this charming and deeply moving animated memoir.

Anime-style, a vampire hunter in all black with long hair and a wide-brimmed hat stands before a glowing moon, gripping a weapon with his eyes narrowed, a large sword strapped to his back.

After Dark Animate!

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

DirYoshiaki Kawajiri

Playing in the U.S. for the first time in Japanese, this cult animated dark fantasy delivers a vampire adventure brimming with style.