European Animation Features
A film easy to like and harder to cherish. Review for the stop-motion Estonian feature film, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen.
When Kronenberg met The Fantastic Planet. Film review for the Spanish animation feature Birdboy:The Forgotten Children.
Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert play with fairytale conventions in a definitely funny, episodic animal story.
Jan Bultheel's feature film Cafard presents a sweeping, adamantly old-fashioned story of a distraught Belgian world champion boxer during WWI.
The new stop-motion film by Claude Barras presents a sweet but also poignant tale of children in need of care and respect.
Time is static, but mind keeps constantly moving in J.F.Laguionie's exemplary work on age and memory, Louise en hiver.
The French feature Mune is a revelation of what 3D computer animation can do with a children's story.
A sober detective thriller that quietly subverts the notion of a superhero from the duo of A Cat in Paris.
The premiere animation feature by powerhouse French production company Sacrebleu claims to show that 2D animation and classic movie adventure is not dead - and it does a commendable job.
It will have a hard time getting shown outside of its native country, but this adult and poignant adaptation of Andersen's The Little Mermaid must not get unnoticed.
Something has happened in the 2015 feature adaptation of Tove Jansson's hippopotamus-like creatures.
Full of magic & beauty, but without unnecessary gimmickry, the Oscar-nominated Song of the Sea has enough drama and emotion to turn a stone into a Celtic wizard.



