Ari Folman's The Congress, his first animated work after the critically acclaimed Waltz with Bashir, opens the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs) at Cannes Film Festival. Watch the first trailer of the film, and an animated excerpt.

An exhibition devoted to German Drawn Animation Film, 1930-1950, takes place in Dresden, Germany, from April 21 to September 29, 2013.

The Netherlands Institute for Animation (NIAF) has just published an announcement that is "on hold" as of 1 January 2013.

The Australian Isabel Peppard directs the stop-motion thriller Butterflies, and qualifies for an Oscar®.

Aaron Koblin and the Data Arts Team at Google have initiated an animated online project based on Surrealist poetic principles.

The renowned and Berlin-awarded  Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk died on 4 December.

Politically inspired, the documentary Imaginary Chile (Chile Imaginario) tells the story of a turbulent period in Chile.

The Oscar-hopeful French animated feature film, Le Tableau (The Painting) by Jean-François Laguionie, won the Best Music Award at the Tübingen-Stuttgart International Festival.

The first stereoscopic, stop-motion Spanish thriller O Apostolo is released in Spain, and gets a US version.

SAM (Orti) is a Spanish stop-motion animator, who takes inspiration from Almodovar to present his adult, comedy horror situations. Watch the trailer & a second clip (The People's Princess) from his upcoming feature film, POS ESO.