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Desire and sacrifice: The existential need for a seed ball, as caricatured in the warm Robin short. Watch the film.

When the writer's block becomes imprisoned. Watch the inventive Writer's Block by Tom Gran and Martin Wooley.

Family films are not the exclusive territory of US studios. Watch the teaser for the new Dutch film, Trippel Trappel.
Paul Wells will give a keynote lecture in the one-day academic symposium held at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 2014 (24 April). See the complete programme.

Jules Verne adapted into a Greek animated feature. Review for Angelos Spartalis' collage animation film, From the Earth to the Moon.

The Argentinian Juan José Campanella and the French Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar shared awards at the 2014 New York International Children's Film Festival. View all the winners.
The premiere European pitching forum for TV animation projects, Cartoon Forum, facilitates its submission procedure for its next Toulouse edition. See the changes made.

Lewis Carroll and Hieronymus Bosch meet animation: The Boy Within by Damien Stein, a new short in the making, has now its own crowdsourcing campaign.

Without being passionate enough, it is militant, beautiful and engrossing. The film by Luiz Bolognesi, Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury.
The results for the short films, tv films, commissioned and graduation films for the 2014 Annecy film festival have been announced.
2 French films won top prizes at the 9th edition of Athens Animfest. See all the winners.
4 animated features in progress will be presented during the 21st Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.
See the awards of the 2014 Anima festival.
See all the winners at the European Cartoon Tributes at Cartoon Movie pitching forum, Lyon.