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Virginia Mori’s dialogue-free 2D short uses pastel amusement park imagery and dark humor to explore childhood’s first encounter with violence.
The deeply personal short, set in a 1990s water park, draws on Lotan’s own loss, pairing stylized CG with impressive lighting and VFX.
The BAFTA and Annie-winning dark comedy short follows three TV miniature actors who keep performing after their creator dies and their food runs out.
Britt Raes and Mathilde Prévost expand the acclaimed short into a 35-episode series built around friendship, curiosity, and kindness.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter return with a stop-motion short about childhood, loss, and wonder.
Topaz joined us to discuss creating the film’s upside-down, gravity-defying world, telling a full story in just one shot, and returning to his indie roots.
Stellan Skarsgård lends his voice to Mantzaris’ new felt-textured stop-motion short premiering at Animafest before heading to Annecy.
Three brothers embark on an awkward medical journey that blends dry humor, fragile masculinity, and handcrafted animation into a moving viewing experience.
The surreal sci-fi musical’s first trailer reveals Atallah’s hallucinatory blend of stop-motion, mixed-media animation, and cosmic sonic unrest.
Szkiłądź’s ‘Autokar’ turns a child’s unaccompanied 1990s migration by bus from Poland to Belgium into a magical-realist journey of self-discovery.
‘Gigi’ follows a transgender woman’s poetic journey of self-discovery through metaphors of water, mermaids, and transformation.
Director Tomás Pichardo Espaillat speaks about his bigscreen accomplishment and how he turned limitations, like a lack of animators in his country, into an opportunity to experiment creatively.
On this week’s livestream, we’re joined by Luce Grosjean, co-founder and CEO of French company Miyu Distribution.
Kantor mixes live-action footage with 2d computer animation, acrylic on paper, photography, and rotoscope to examine how we perceive memory.
Run by Miyu Distribution, the channel features dozens of striking festival films, including award winners and Oscar nominees.
Bonus: You get an all-expenses-paid trip to the south of France.
Events include a recruitment session for Oregon’s Laika studio and individual consultations with industry experts.
Dinosaurs collide with cavemen, Adam with aliens, in this zany send-up of creation myths.
The spread of the coronavirus has raised a fundamental question: What makes a festival a festival?
On Friday at Animateka festival, distributor Luce Grosjean called on festival directors to crack down on sexual harassment. Watch her speech here.
The film, by students from France’s École des Nouvelles Images, beat two other nominees in the awards’ third edition.