The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead: Film Review

Not your ordinary animated characters. The new, Australian independent feature, The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead by Elliot Cowan. Film review.

My Mommy is in America, and She Met Buffalo Bill Review: Past Absence, Present Fantasies

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Marc Boréal et Thibaut Chatel direct a French retro drama that animates with a restrained technique intimate worries of a 6-year-old child.

From the Earth To the Moon Review: Warm Collage of Human Folly

Jules Verne adapted into a Greek animated feature. Review for Angelos Spartalis' collage animation film, From the Earth to the Moon.

Rio 2096: A Story Of Love and Fury Review

Without being passionate enough, it is militant, beautiful and engrossing.  The film by Luiz Bolognesi, Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury.

A Lion in Stop-Motion: The Disney of Duivendrecht

A documentary about stop-motion Dutch animator Joop Geesink, who made a career in advertising.

Jasmine review: Politics and Letters that Cross in the Mail

Jasmine is a heart-wrenching tale of love entrapped in a tumultuous national history.

Tito on Ice review: Going Through the Balkan Black Box

Max Andersson & Helena Ahonen direct a road movie on the Balkans, and mix stylistically animation with live-action. Read the film review of Tito on Ice.

The Art of Happiness (L' Arte Della Felicita) Film Review: Constructing Hope

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The adult animated feature The Art of Happiness presents successfully a dramatic family story and its aftermath in the background of a world gone astray.

A Jewish Girl in Shanghai: Sensitive Holocaust

A sensitive Chinese animated feature on the Holocaust: A Jewish Girl in Shanghai.

Ku! Kin-Dza-Dza review: Cello and Planet Sympathy

An animated Russian feature and a satire of the modern world in Ku! Kin-Dza-Dza. Read the film review.

The King of Pigs review: It hurts to be a human

The South Korean animated film King of Pigs is a fascinating study of violence destroying humanity.

Arjun, The Warrior Prince review: Prince or Warrior

The Indian feature film on the Mahabharata hero Arjun is a welcome, if incomplete portrayal of a nation and its own, distinctive codes.

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