An interview with Alone (Seuls) director Paul Tom about telling the stories of child refugees through the creative use of animation.
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Now streaming from the National Film Board of Canada, Wall is an animated exploration of the political divides in the West Bank featuring acclaimed playwright/screenwriter David Hare.
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Terril Calder's Meneath: The Island of Hidden Ethics, now streaming from the NFB, is a darkly funny film about a baby Métis girl caught between a dance between Jesus's debilitating teachings and
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Flee documents the unfilmable. Jonas Poher Rasmussen's doc rewards repeat viewings with its animated portrait of life always on the run.
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Mamoru Hosoda pays tribute to the career of late animator Satoshi Kon, the master filmmaker behind works such as Paprika and Millennium Actress.
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Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipelago is an animated essay that navigates territories real and imagined while interrogating the mythology and history of Quebec.
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Vicenta, an Argentinian mother, desperately seeks an abortion for her mentally disabled daughter after she’s raped by her uncle and faces a biased and incompetent judicial system. Denying women their reproductive rights
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Sundance reviews for Flee ("documents the unfilmable"), Rebel Hearts ("entertaining and vivid"), and The Most Beautiful Boy in the World ("adopts an undercurrent of homophobia").
Keep ReadingThe Unseen (Iran, 62 min.) Dir. Behzad Nalbandi In Iran, people refer to the homeless as “cardboard sleepers.” Knowing this name evokes a disquieting sense of melancholia, as we gaze out a
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The most artistic animation is made as shorts. You’ve got to hand it to Ron Diamond. The veteran producer who heads up Acme Filmworks has been responsible for creating animation shorts in
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