Animation Feature Reviews

Denis Do portrays a piece in Cambodian history through the eyes of a mother looking for her child.

Film review for experimental feature Breathless Animals by  US/Chinese artist Lei Lei, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival.

A welcome entry into the string of recent Brazilian animation successes. Film review for Gustavo Steinberg's Tito and the Birds.

The 1950 Brest bloodied strike gets a cinematic, animated treatment by Oliiver Cossu and Les Armateurs.

An engrossing autobiographical family drama, aimed at adults, even though it tells the story of a young girl in Taiwan. Review for  Hsin-Yin Sung' film, On Happiness Road.

The latest feature film by Summer Wars director Mamoru Hosoda is a gentle family comedy of manners, which really takes off at the film's final reels.

US independent animation director Nina Paley makes the story of Exodus an overwhelming musical extravaganza, which still finds time to register its gender-based raison d' être.

The new feature film by Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur and Asmar) has the art and science aligned to save the world from gender-based catastrophe.

Personal journeys of lost cause mingle with vestiges of colonial power in the stand-out stop-motion animation feature by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels.