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The 20th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film conferred its awards. See all the winners.

The new track by Hiatus and its stop-motion video made by animator Tom Jobbins

See the winners of the Animated Com Award (field of applied animation) at the 20th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.

The premiere convention for animation, Aka-con, takes place in Dublin.

The Oscar-awarded British animator Daniel Greaves prepares the stop-motion drama Mr. Plastimime.

Chris Landreth's comeback with Subconscious Password. 

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.

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki by Mamoru Hosoda is a well-studied, but lifeless experiment on identity and the motive of the feral child.

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.

4 animated student films from Europe have been selected and feature in the programme of Cinéfondation at Cannes Film Festival.

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 the German Drawn Animation Film 1930-1950 takes place in Dresden, Germany, from 21 April – 29 September 2013.

The Pixar prequel to Monsters, Inc will be the opening film at the celebrated animation festival in France.

Some of the highlights of one of the most relevant European animation festival at Stuttgart, which celebrates its 20th edition in April 2013.

The 3rd Be there! Corfu Animation Festival revealed its prizes, which included two US wins.

An original project by the Japanese independent animator, Mirai Mizue, initiates a Kickstarter campaign. Watch the trailer and learn more about Wonder.

A Finnish film about an unusual habit. Watch The Tongueling.

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