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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.
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.
4 animated student films from Europe have been selected and feature in the programme of Cinéfondation at the 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 German Drawn Animation Film, 1930-1950, takes place in Dresden, Germany, from April 21 to September 29, 2013.



