The adult animated feature The Art of Happiness presents successfully a dramatic family story and its aftermath in the background of a world gone astray.

A sensitive Chinese animated feature on the Holocaust: A Jewish Girl in Shanghai.

An animated Russian feature and a satire of the modern world in Ku! Kin-Dza-Dza. Read the film review.

The South Korean animated film King of Pigs is a fascinating study of violence destroying humanity.

The Indian feature film on the Mahabharata hero Arjun is a welcome, if incomplete portrayal of a nation and its own, distinctive codes.

A documentary on the ill-fated feature project of the Academy Award-winning animator, Richard Williams, illuminated aspects of the animation business usually left untold.

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.

Approved for Adoption (Couleur de peau: miel / Skin color: honey) by Jung and Laurent Boileau  is a welcome study of a neglected area in child development, but minimizes all the harsh edges of the adoption predicament it describes.