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Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Cristóbal León And Joaquín Cociña

Using dark, absurdist humor and nightmarish imagery, the duo has cooked up a body of work that is spellbinding, surreal, and often political.

‘A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays’ and ‘Bird in the Peninsula’ also scored multiple honors.

The GLAS Animation Festival starts today – and you can see all of it online.

These highlights of the year show that animation can tackle any subject, from sexual assault to Chile’s military dictatorship.

The festival will showcase the diversity of Chile’s fast-growing animation industry.

“We always want to do funny things, but the results are always terrifying. We seem to be bad comedians.”

War, gangsters, a drug-dealing piglet, and the gentle progress of an English couple’s marriage. Pixar this ain’t.

An experimental Chilean horror fairy tale based on a real-life child-abusing Nazi cult leader barely begins to describe “La Casa Lobo.”

Check out the winners from the closing night award ceremony at Annecy 2018.

“In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child.” The Smaller Room (Der Kleinere Raum, 2009) …