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Moon Man is the adaptation of Tomi Ungerer's 1966 eponymous book, which has been translated into 12 languages since its publication in 1966.

The Ancestor is a video clip by Darlingside, and features animation by Crazy Lake Pictures. Watch the video clip.

BFI London Film Festival will screen the latest Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars) film, Wolf Children.Watch the English trailer below.
The Animasyros 5.0 festival in Syros, Greece handed out its awards to US, French and German films. See the award recipients.
The 2012 Ottawa International Animation Festival has announced its winners.
The Animated Encounters (part of the 18th Encounters Short Festival, Bristol) announced the winners of its 2012 edition

The French directors Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin investigate what happens in a society that revolves around the letter R. Watch the film
The stop-motion film Oh, Willy! by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels won the Cartoon D'Or for the best European short animated film.

The manager of the Incubus group, Steve Rennie, responds to Gerrit van Dijk's claim that the Drive music video was based on van Dijk's "I Move, So I Am" film.

Alois Nebel, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Daddy I'm a Zobbie, Selkirk and Fat, Bald, Short Man are the 5 choices of the 7th Anim'est.
The first excerpt for the Italian version of Pinocchio by Enzo D'Alo has now hit the web.
Encounters Short Film Festival and Animated Encounters, Bristol, unveils a special tribute to the almost unknown (and long forgotten) Soviet Animation.

From Up on Poppy Hill is deeply rooted in Japanese traditions -in fact, so deeply that it almost suffocates.

The US independent, experimental film Glitch In The Grid uses the stop-motion animation technique to guide through current age worries.
What happens when Hitler learns his commissioned work won't be paid? See one more parody of the Downfall film.

The Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk claims that the music video for the Incubus hit Drive is based on his own animated film "I move, so I am" - and permission to use the film was neither asked nor given.
The 2012 Hiroshima International Animation Festival announced its winners. See the awards.