The French animation studio Les films de l' Arlequin offers a unique color palette along with original stories in its animated films. See some of its projects-in-development.

The Oscar-nominated Czech director Michaela Pavlátová goes to Cannes with her new erotic film, Tram.

A restored version of the 1968 animated Beatles (aka George Dunning) classic, Yellow Submarine will be simultaneously released theatrically and in dvd/blu-ray.

The French director of Kirikou and the Sorceress and Tales of the Night is present at the 11th AniFest festival, and talks about his present and future career.

The Oscar-nominated and Cannes-awarded  Hungarian visual artist and animator Marcell Jankoviks presents the history of human sin and civilisation in religiously epic proportions, in his latest feature animated film, The Tragedy of Man.

A Portuguese and a Zimbambwean artist tell a harsh but relevant political story.

e} A retrospective of Theodore Ushev at Clermont- Ferrand short film festival.

 The Italian satirist animator and director Bruno Bozzetto announces his first full-length picture in 36 years.

The Italian Gabriele Zucchelli and Caravel Animation present a documentary on the mystery of the first (and now extinct) animated feature film, El Apostol, made in Argentina.

 The top 5 animated films of 2011 (and not all of them from the US) by Zippy Frames.

4 European studios from France, Luxembourg, Italy and Belgium bring forward a new animated version of the classic Pinocchio story (and no lie in this story).

The animation festivals' darling, the musical story of Chico & Rita gets a  US release. At the same time, itenters the race for the best animated feature at the 2012 Oscars.