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Highly symbolic and dramatic: watch Playing with Fire by Alexandra Levasseur
The filmmaker Gemma Atkinson narrates her adventure when filming British Police officers. Watch Act of Terror.
The Suicide Shop (Le magasin des sucides) by Patrice Leconte is an anomaly: a film that is so warm that belies its subject-matter, but also contrived and stereotyped.
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.
A stop-motion film by Joseph Wallace, which reminds of the fears we all face.
The International Film Festival of Annecy, France is giving a Special Cristal Award to Jerzy Kucia, a master of Polish animation.
An exhibition devoted to German Drawn Animation Film, 1930-1950, takes place in Dresden, Germany, from April 21 to September 29, 2013.
The New York International Children's Film Festival announces its winners. See the awards for animated films.
Imagine how a completely serious and grave situation can go derailed by an improvising jazz band. Watch Jazz that nobody asked for.
An experimental playing with Pablo Neruda. Watch The Me Bird by 18bis studio, Brasil.
The Dutch feature film in development Hieronymus, based on the life and art of the celebrated painter Hieronymus Bosch is now in pre-production stage.
The short animated film Fresh Guacamole by the LA director, PES, is the shortest film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Approved for Adoption (Couleur de peau: miel / Skin color: honey) by Jung and Laurent Boileau is a welcome study of a neglected area in child development, but minimizes all the harsh edges of the adoption predicament it describes.
A Serbian allegorical animated film wins the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (Generation 14Plus).
