Bruno Bozzetto prepares Viavai

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

Quirino Cristiani: the maker of the first animated feature film

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.

Top 5 animated feature films of 2011

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

Pinocchio: a new European collaboration on a classic story

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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).

Chico & Rita gets a US release

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.

Alois Nebel: an existential thriller for old times' sake

 The Czech director Tomáš Luňák adapts a graphic novel, and brings the intricacies of the Cold War era into animated focus.

Mononoke Shima no Naki: Friends from Japan

Forget Miyazaki! (if you can) Here comes the first 3D, CGI feature film from Japan, directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

Barry Purves presents Tchaikovsky

The acclaimed and Oscar-nominated Barry Purves gives us a glimpse of his forthcoming stop-motion work on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Watch a 'majestic' excerpt with the director at work.

Paul Driessen returns: Oedipus

The Oscar-nominated Dutch director, and master of the absurdist humor, now goes back to the famous tormented Greek story of Oedipus.

Green Wave: the new war documentary-animation

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Ali Samadi Ahadi directs a documentary about the 2009 Iran uprising, called "The Green Wave", and shots it in live-action and animation.

Brothers Quay direct Maska

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Stephen and Timothy Quay tackle the world of Stanislaw Lem, and prepare for Annecy 2011.

How bad is 3D?

In a moment when the industry has fallen in love with everything in 3D, there are some lone voices.

News from the independent animation production world

Calls addressed to animation project at the stage of development

Awards and prizes to European and independent animation films.

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