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4 European studios from France, Luxembourg, Italy and Belgium bring forward a new animated version of the classic Pinocchio story (and no lie in this story).
45 qualified short animated films were screened yesterday in a special screening to choose the eventual nominees for the Academy Award 2012.
The creepy film The Renter won the grand prize at the 35th Cinanima Festival. See the full award list.

Anca Damian scripts and directs an inventive documentary-animation film about a Romanian prisoner in 2007 Krakow, who goes on a hunger strike.

Tomáš Luňák presents a shameful episode in recent Czech history in rotoscope with his Alois Nebel, and gives a depressingly moody yet almost too hard to infer reality
A Jiri Barta workshop, a premiere of Chico and Rita and competitive sections for both shorts and feature films are the strong highlights of the 35th Cinanima festival in Espinho.
The spring animation festival in Corfu (Greece), Be there! has announced a new feature competitive section and set its 29 March-1 April dates
The French animator Jean-François Laguionie returns with his fourth feature film, Le Tableau. Watch the trailer.
Ireland will be at the spotlight of the 52nd Annecy Animation Festival.

The Estonian short Body Memory (Ülo Pikkov) was the winner of the 6th Anim'est (Bucharest,Romania), while Ugly Duckling (Garri Bardin, Russia) took the top prize in feature films.
Watch what happens when your home is fully plugged, and you need to clean. A modernist tale by Tom King.