SBS World Movies: Focus: Animation
This month SBS World Movies celebrates some of the very best, unusual, and distinctive recent animation.
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In September SBS World Movies celebrates some of the very best, unusual, and distinctive recent animation.
Your Name (2016)
Wednesday, 4 September at 9.05pm **Australian Premiere**
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. Currently the highest grossing Japanese movie of all time.
Anomalisa (2015)
Wednesday, 11 September at 9.30pm **Australian Premiere**
Stop-motion animation film about a disenchanted motivational speaker and his romantic relationship with an enigmatic woman he meets at a speaking engagement. Written by Charlie Kaufman.
Tehran Taboo (2017)
Wednesday, 18 September at 9.30pm **Australian Premiere**
A single mother forced into prostitution befriends a young woman who needs an operation to restore her virginity. Both women push against the restrictions of an oppressive Iranian society.
My Life As A Zucchini (2016)
Wednesday, 25 September at 9.40pm **Australian Premiere**
After losing his mother, a young boy is befriended by a police officer and sent to a foster home with other orphans his age. With the help of his new friends, he begins to trust and love again.