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"Someone has to shoulder the fate of mankind." GKids has unveiled the full-length official US trailer for the Japanese anime feature film Promare, from animation filmmaker Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill). We featured the first teasers...

"Is a sticky substance usually spread on branches or feeding areas to trap wild birds intended for export or trade?" Yet another wonderful stop-motion animated short film to watch now that it's available online. This one is titled Birdlime, and it fi...

"My friends are different from other kids. They've got stains." Another uplifting short film to watch. The Stained Club is an award-winning animated film made by a group of students from the renowned French animation school Supinfocom Rubika. "Dealin...

"These people are monsters! They'll ruin the neighborhood!" MGM has revealed the first full-length official trailer for the new animated The Addams Family movie, which is co-directed by Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon, the same two filmmakers behind Sau...

What secrets are you hiding under the covers? There's always room for more stop-motion animated short films! Under Covers is film made by a "hand-made animation" studio in NYC called Mighty Oak, and it's written & directed by animator / filmmaker Mic...

"We started when I was little... I'd roll up socks. Then, he'd put me in the suitcase." We always enjoy stop-motion films. Negative Space is stop-motion animated short that was one of the five nominees for Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 2018. The...

It all starts with a cube. A person pushing a cube in the desert. Then what? What is this cube? Where are they pushing it? M52 is a creative, innovative short film experiment made by filmmaker Yves Paradis. He spent one full year making this improvis...

A long weekend day, built more or less around the short film program, though it started off with a Chinese animated movie, and it was the first time I can recall seeing a Warner Brothers logo in front of a mainland film. I hadn't realized that Warne...

Another day with no guests, and a break taken for dinner because it looked like Jessica Forever would bump right up against Human Lost, and when you're here for the duration, you can choose which time you watch certain movies in DeSeve. Not that the...

The Zappin Party is usually a couple days earlier, but putting it at roughly the two-thirds mark isn't a bad idea. You've made it more than halfway! And got to one of the few documentaries in the festival. Looking at the program, apparently there...

Not a whole lot of guests in the movies I went to on Sunday, but as the halfway mark, it's another good chance to do some counting: 35 features, 26 shorts, 9 attached and 17 as part of two programs. That actually gets my feature pace down a bit, to...

Is there a place near Concordia that does a nice, simple omurice? It was all that the little girl in It Comes wanted and apparently the comfort food of choice for the couple in Ride Your Wave. A dish shows up twice in less than 48 hours at a film f...

"You are the sentence begun, but never ended..." Ohhhh my this is gorgeous. Passion Paris produced this 2D animated short film Paroles d'Amour, which translates to simply "Words of Love" in French. Made by artist / filmmaker Chiara Luber, the 2-minut...

"There's no chance or danger, or anything, right?" STX Entertainment has debuted a new full US trailer for Playmobil: The Movie, based on the line of mini-figure toys from Europe (that aren't Lego but look a lot like Lego). We've already featured a f...

"I didn't know there were so many people longing for the blue sky." GKids has just released a brand new, official US trailer (with English subtitles) for the Japanese animation film titled Weathering With You, the highly anticipated next film from wr...