Carlos Osuna directs Fat, Bold and Short, an animated  feature film from Colombia that presents a strong portrait of human personality in need of friendship and love.

A short Spanish film by Javier Ara, Dreaming with a normal life, reveals the pain of being different. Watch the short:

The international animation festival Animasyros welcomes its guests in an all-animation day in Athens, 17/12.

The Argentinean feast of Expotoons 2011 ended with the award announcement. See the full list of winners.

Anca Damian scripts and directs an inventive documentary-animation film about a Romanian prisoner in 2007 Krakow, who goes on a hunger strike.

Ignacio Ferreras' Wrinkles is a disarmingly humane, 2D elegy of old people in need.

Tomáš Luňák presents a shameful episode in recent Czech history in rotoscope with his Alois Nebel, and gives a depressingly moody yet almost too hard to infer reality

Michel Ocelot prepares an enchanting panel of animated silhouettes in his Tales of the Night.

An almost gravity-free hand-drawn film proves to be a suspenseful police thriller.

Ireland will be in the spotlight of the 52nd Annecy Animation Festival.

The Estonian short Body Memory (Ülo Pikkov) was the winner of the 6th Anim'est (Bucharest,Romania), while  Ugly Duckling (Garri Bardin, Russia) took the top prize in feature films.

The troubled story of a goat, its milking lady and the well that causes the final ending. Ben Cady from Newport University (UK) directs this festival-awarded comic short.

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.

The Hungarian Emil Goodman presents his mesmerizing concept trailer for the upcoming feature film, Henry Waltz.

 Cassidy Curtis (supervising animator, How to Train Your Dragon) and Jim Capobianco (writer, Ratatouille) raised the bar of the 4th Animasyros festival in Greece.