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The Gore Verbinski film, Rango and the delightful UK film, A morning stroll, won at the BAFTA Awards.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits and Patrice Leconte's The suicide shop will be shown in the European pitching forum Cartoon Movie (7-9 March, Lyon).

}Watch the Oscar-nominated short film, The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.

A Brazilian student film that shows that love can be blind, but never forgiving. Watch the short below.

A highly personal, César-nominated short film.

e} A retrospective of Theodore Ushev at Clermont- Ferrand short film festival.

 The 2nd Be there! Corfu Animation Festival (Greece) announces selection results for its competitive section, with interesting names figuring in the lineup.

The 2012 edition of Cartoon Movie, the European forum for pitching animated projects, has now revealed its line-up.

 The Italian satirist animator and director Bruno Bozzetto announces his first full-length picture in 36 years.

2 Canadian films, a Pixar short, an independent US film and a chicken compete for the Academy Award for the best short animated film.

2 Canadian films, a Pixar short, an independent US film and a chicken compete for the Academy Award for the best short animated film.

Surprises in the Academy Award nomination for  the best feature animated film to compete at the 2012 Oscars®.

The Finnish visual artist Riita Nelimarkka & Claude Louis Michel offer an adaptation of an old folk tale in feature length format. Read the review.

A stop-motion short film by the South Korean Kangmin Kin features at the Sundance Film Festival.

The Anima 2012 festival in Brussells presents its selection of feature-length animated films.

 

11 feature films figure in the official competition section. The Czech existential thriller Alois Nebel [review], the Spanish drama Wrinkles (Arrugas) [review],  but also the Singapure manga-themed Tatsumi figure in the programme.

  • Aloïs Nebel, Tomas Lunak (CZ)
  • Arrugas, Ignacio Ferreras (E)
  • Emilie Jolie, Francis Nielsen, Philippe Chatel (F)
  • La Colline aux coquelicots, (From up on Poppy Hill), Goro Miyasaki (J)
  • Colorful, Keiichi Hara (J)
  • George the Hedgehog, Wojtek Wawszczyk (PL)
  • Green Days - Dinosaur and I, Jae-hoon An, Hye-jin Han (ROK)
  • JIB / The House, Mi Sun Park, Eun Young Park, Joo Young Ban, Jae Ho Lee, Hyun Jin Lee (ROK)
  • Orla de Kikkerslikker, Peter Dodd (DK)
  • Tatsumi, Eric Khoo (SGP)
  • The Tibetan Dog, Masayuki Kojima (Chine-PRR)
The Panorama section includes 4 films:
 
  • Midori Ko, Keita Kurosaka (J)
  • Olentzero, Gorka Vázquez (E)
  • One Piece: Strong World, Munehisa Sakai (J)
  • Taevalaul/Sky Song, Mati Kütt (EST)
The Anima festival takes place from 17 - 26/2/2012, and is esteemed to be one of the most important animation festivals in Europe. Visit their official page
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