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Olga Bobrowska reports on the latest 2018 edition of Animafest Zagreb and the feature films line-up.
A new network of Nordic countries' animation is born, to help with the info and structure of co-production opportunities.
Lucia Bulgheroni, Nienke Deutz, Vincent Paronnaud, Boris Labbé, This Magnificent Cake! get special prizes at the 2018 Annecy Festival. All winners.
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.
The French film Stockholm and the Swiss/Israeli film Travelogue were also standouts of the second student competition programme of Annecy Festival 2018.
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.



