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'Adam Elliot's mordantly funny account of a decades-long correspondence between two hopelessly marooned loners is crammed with absurd and wonderful details. In 70s suburban Australia eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle needs to know where babies come from, but she isn't getting much change out of her blowsy, alcoholic mother. Picking a name at random from a Manhattan phonebook, she addresses her question to one Max Horovitz. A reclusive, paranoid 44-year-old Jew, his immediate response is severe trauma. But he gets his act together, writes back – at vast length – and the strangest, most erratic of mutually supportive pen-friendships is under way.' New Zealand International Film Festival

Screens with Butterflies 2012 (12 mins) Dir. Isabel Peppard

'Butterflies is a short stop motion animation that addresses some darker elements of the human condition. The things that truly mortify me are not vampires, werewolves and zombies, but rather, everyday things. The horror of waking up one morning and wondering where your life went, the horror of losing whole chunks of yourself on the road to adulthood and the horror of wondering dreamlessly through a colourless world.' Isabel Peppard