ROOT

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:
The international animation festival Animasyros welcomes its guests in an all-animation day in Athens, 17/12.
The Argentinean feast of Expotoons 2011 ended with the award announcement. See the full list of winners.
The Spanish musical melodrama Chico and Rita wins the Animated Feature Film from the European Academy.
4 European studios from France, Luxembourg, Italy and Belgium bring forward a new animated version of the classic Pinocchio story (and no lie in this story).
45 qualified short animated films were screened yesterday in a special screening to choose the eventual nominees for the Academy Award 2012.
The creepy film The Renter won the grand prize at the 35th Cinanima Festival. See the full award list.

Anca Damian scripts and directs an inventive documentary-animation film about a Romanian prisoner in 2007 Krakow, who goes on a hunger strike.

Tomáš Luňák presents a shameful episode in recent Czech history in rotoscope with his Alois Nebel, and gives a depressingly moody yet almost too hard to infer reality
A Jiri Barta workshop, a premiere of Chico and Rita and competitive sections for both shorts and feature films are the strong highlights of the 35th Cinanima festival in Espinho.
The spring animation festival in Corfu (Greece), Be there! has announced a new feature competitive section and set its 29 March-1 April dates