Makoto Shinkai, visionary director of Your Name. and Weathering with You is back with a new film, Suzume, a coming-of-age story set in various disaster-stricken locations across Japan, where 17-year-old Suzume, must close the doors causing devastation.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On won Best Independent Feature at the 50th Annie Awards along with Best Voice Acting, Feature (Jenny Slate as the voice of Marcel) and Best Writing, Feature (Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm).
Portuguese director, animator, and illustrator João Gonzalez’s Cannes winner Ice Merchant is the year’s most award-winning animated short film. The film is nominated at 95th Academy Awards® for Best Animated Short Film for João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano and is also nominated for Best Short Subject at 50th Annie Awards.
Directed by Liu Jian, a professor at China Academy of Art’s School of Animation and Games, and produced by a team of teachers and students over a span of five years, the Chinese animated film Art College 1994 will world premiere in Competition section in the 73rd Berlinale.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Wendell & Wild are among the animated films receiving nominations for the 50th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. This year’s ceremony is scheduled to return Live on Saturday, February 25, 2023 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
GKids revelaed the offficial trailer for New Gods: Yang Jian, the adventure animation film featuring one of China’s legendary mythic figures, and starring Kai Wang, Guanlin Ji, Lihong Li, Lanling Li.
The family-oriented Syrian refugee tale Lamya’s Poem will be available on DVD and to rent/own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms on February 21, 2023 through Freestyle Digital Media.
Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have partnered up to release the animated feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. The feature debut of composer Pierre Földes, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman will open theatrically at Film Forum in New York in April 2023 before expanding nationwide.
Apple TV+ released the trailer for The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse, the animated short film based on the internationally best-selling book of the same name by author Charlie Mackesy.
Ahead of the screening at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, GKIDS released the theatrical trailer for Inu-Oh, the musical animated feature film from director Masaaki Yuasa (Ride Your Wave, Keep Your Hands Off Of Eizokuen!).
Shudder and IFC Midnight released the official trailer for the sci-animated horror film Mad God, set to open in theaters beginning Friday, June 10, followed by the streaming debut on Thursday, June 16. A national rollout will follow beginning Friday, June 17.
