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Post-apocalyptic animation

Simone Hooymans: Breed

WARNING: Can a hand-painted animated film convey the unrest of a announced climate collapse?
Ellen Lande -

A different religious history lesson

Nina Paley: Seder-Masochism

ANIMATED MUSICAL: The filmmaker behind Sita Sings the Blues has once again made an animated musical full of catchy music and feminist critique – which, like its predecessor, is available online for free.
Aleksander Huser -

In terms of communication, animation can have a high price, but can also be redeeming

Mats Grorud, Ali Soozandeh: The Tower, Tehran Taboo

: Tehran Taboo and the Tower are political animated films with many common features, yet the ability to create deep empathy is what also separates them.
Ellen Lande -

With the child's eyes

Nora Twomey / Ali Soozandeh: The Breadwinner / Tehran Taboo

: Girls dressed as boys in the underworld of Kabul and Tehran with sex, drugs and rave music are depicted through the child's gaze in the animated films The Breadwinner and Tehran Taboo.
Margareta Hruza -

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