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Old friends, new frames: Japanese animator Kohei Kadowaki turns a decades-long silence into Annecy gold
Some stories need no Hollywood budget. Kohei Kadowaki’s animated short We Are Aliens, selected for the…
Fur, fear and a French title: the stoats taking animation festivals by storm
Survival rarely came with a script. Animals didn’t get to explain their terror, narrate their grief…
India’s animation ambitions go global
Bollywood long hogged India’s cultural export story. Now a quieter revolution was underway, one drawn in…
Prince charming can wait
Every girl grows up with an idea of what her ideal man should look like. When…
‘Baahubali: The Eternal War’ draws packed house at Annecy as S.S Rajamouli, Ishan Shukla and team share WIP glimpses
The sight of attendees reserving seats, standing in long queues without registrations, and patiently waiting outside…
Digitoonz heads to Annecy with a pack of ‘Tiny Terrors’
Forget cuddly mascots. India’s Digitoonz marched into Annecy 2026 with a gang of small, mischievous creatures…
Mahishmati Marches To Annecy
From the thunderous battlefields of Mahishmati to the grand stages of global animation, the Baahubali franchise…
The horror of impossible choices
Some ideas will not leave you alone. They sit in the dark and wait. Imanol Ortiz…
A fire, a prison and a story that refuses to stay quiet
Some stories arrived with sirens. Others arrived in a letter, smuggled out between the lines of…
When silence speaks louder than words
Blaise did not ask for much. He simply wanted to avoid upsetting anyone. In doing so,…
From sketchbooks to Pixar: How a rat in a kitchen changed one Indian animator’s life
Ravindra Dwivedi was the sort of child who filled sketchbooks rather than emptied them. While classmates…
