With The Wild Robot flying into theaters via DreamWorks, Kambole Campbell sits down with director Chris Sanders to explore the film’s breathtaking hand-painted visuals and evolutionary vocal performance from Lupita Nyong’o.

From lone cats to sad snails, the 2024 Annecy Film Festival offered up an embarrassment of animated riches—Kambole Campbell picks ten new features to add to your watchlists.

From Fantastic Mr. Fox to Isle of Dogs, animation has long followed Wes Anderson. As the festival’s Guest of Honor, the filmmaker opens up about his love affair with the medium at Annecy 2024.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes animated chicken, Iranian wrestling, Indigenous astronomy and girl-centric documentaries about American activism.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Pablo Berger tells Kambole Campbell about his first-time adventure in the world of animation with Robot Dreams, featuring ’80s New York, endless storyboarding and wordless connection.

With this year’s Academy Awards right around the corner, animation correspondent Kambole Campbell sifts through the last year (and the one to come!) of releases for animated gems to add to your watchlist to accompany the 2024 Oscar nominees.

Our festival correspondents have brought back a little something for everyone this year: the music of Maestro, high-octane Hindi-language action, “squelchy” stop-motion and so much more in their twenty best.

In an already stacked year for animated excellence, Kambole Campbell recaps the highlights of 2023’s enlivened edition of the best animation film festival in the world—paper airplanes, big feelings, rabbits and all. 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem director Jeff Rowe and production designer Yashar Kassai on mining inspiration from high school sketchbooks, their favorite anime series and, oui oui, the French New Wave.

The creators of the new Disney+ sci-fi animated anthology Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire share their ambition and pan-African scope at Annecy.

At Annecy 2023, animation correspondent Kambole Campbell chats with directors Nick Bruno and Troy Quane and graphic novelist ND Stevenson about bringing their titular shape-shifting heroine to the big screen with Nimona.

Intersectionality, internationality and 100 years of Disney are embraced at the opening of the 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, as Kambole Campbell reports.