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‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’ review: Artistic animation takes a plant’s eye-view of the apocalypse
Dir: Momoko Seto. France/Belgium. 2025. 76 minutes
4 dandelion seeds – or ‘achenes’ to provide them their scientific title – embark on a outstanding journey...
‘Animal Farm’ review: Director Andy Serkis softens George Orwell classic for family animation
Dir: Andy Serkis. Canada/UK/USA. 2025. 96mins
Initially conceived by George Orwell as a satirical allegory for the Russian Revolution and the following struggles of the...
‘Stitch Head’ review: Burtonesque animation is adapted from Guy Bass children’s books
Dir/scr: Steve Hudson. Germany/Luxembourg. 2025. 91mins
Excessive in his mountain lair, the Fort Grotteskew, a mad professor (voiced by Rob Brydon) is obsessive about designing...
‘Arco’ review: Natalie Portman produces appealing French time-travel animation
Dir: Ugo Bienvenu. France. 2025. 82mins
A boy in a rainbow go well with falls from the sky, forsaking him a looping ribbon of color. He...
‘Olivia And The Invisible Earthquake’ review: Empathetic Spanish stop-motion captures life on the poverty line
Dir: Irene Iborra Rizo. Spain/France/Belgium/Chile/Switzerland. 2025. 71mins
Twelve-year-old Olivia (Celia Sol), her struggling actress mom Ingrid (Silvia Vilarrasa) and her seven-year-old brother Tim (Hug Mont) don’t...
’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai
Dir: Yasuhiro Aoki. Japan. 2025. 90mins
A lowly worker at a delivery firm in a fantasy near-future Shanghai finds himself married to a mermaid princess...
‘Endless Cookie’ review: Annecy’s Contrechamp winner is an inventive portrait of Canadian half-brothers
Dirs: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver. Canada. 2025. 97mins
The riffing, noodling conversations between two Canadian half-brothers – one Indigenous and one white – are the...
Natalie Portman-produced ‘Arco’ wins Cristal top prize at Annecy 2025
Ugo Bienvenu’s French function Arco received the Cristal award for greatest function movie on the 2025 Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition.
Produced by Felix de...