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The Finnish visual artist Riita Nelimarkka & Claude Louis Michel offer an adaptation of an old folk tale in feature length format. Read the review.
A stop-motion short film by the South Korean Kangmin Kin features at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Anima 2012 festival in Brussells presents its selection of feature-length animated films.
11 feature films figure in the official competition section. The Czech existential thriller Alois Nebel [review], the Spanish drama Wrinkles (Arrugas) [review], but also the Singapure manga-themed Tatsumi figure in the programme.
- Aloïs Nebel, Tomas Lunak (CZ)
- Arrugas, Ignacio Ferreras (E)
- Emilie Jolie, Francis Nielsen, Philippe Chatel (F)
- La Colline aux coquelicots, (From up on Poppy Hill), Goro Miyasaki (J)
- Colorful, Keiichi Hara (J)
- George the Hedgehog, Wojtek Wawszczyk (PL)
- Green Days - Dinosaur and I, Jae-hoon An, Hye-jin Han (ROK)
- JIB / The House, Mi Sun Park, Eun Young Park, Joo Young Ban, Jae Ho Lee, Hyun Jin Lee (ROK)
- Orla de Kikkerslikker, Peter Dodd (DK)
- Tatsumi, Eric Khoo (SGP)
- The Tibetan Dog, Masayuki Kojima (Chine-PRR)
- Midori Ko, Keita Kurosaka (J)
- Olentzero, Gorka Vázquez (E)
- One Piece: Strong World, Munehisa Sakai (J)
- Taevalaul/Sky Song, Mati Kütt (EST)
In the light of the recent SOPA - PIPA incentives regarding illegal downloading, watch Nina Paley's Copying is not theft.
The 11th Anifest in Teplice presents a tribute to Jiri Trnka and the magic of puppet animation.
The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences announced more flexible opportunities regarding screening of nominated shorts to its members.
The Portuguese animator and multiply acclaimed for her Tragic History with a Happy Ending, Regina Pessoa, presents her new work, Kali the Little Vampire. View the first stills and watch the trailer.
Pedro Rivera & Alberto Vásquez present an unusual tale of a boy who could survive human suffering. Watch the film.
The Italian Gabriele Zucchelli and Caravel Animation present a documentary on the mystery of the first (and now extinct) animated feature film, El Apostol, made in Argentina.
A stop-motion film that revisits Greece's urbanism and almost prophetic isolation, The Village by Stelios Polychronakis is an elegy of the human spirit. Watch the film in HD.
The top 5 animated films of 2011 (and not all of them from the US) by Zippy Frames.
Paul Cabon and Canal J à l'Ecole de la Poudrière offer a short tale of talking and disappearing heads. Watch below:
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.
The Spanish film Wrinkles (Arrugas) has secured 11 nomatinations (including one for the best animated film) in 2012 Goya awards.
A short Spanish film by Javier Ara, Dreaming with a normal life, reveals the pain of being different. Watch the short:
