 | Mafalda La Pelicula
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $3.45 Argentina: There's a brilliant, colorful, almost psychadelic feel to this highly subversive but seemingly simple cel-animated film.
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 | Everything is All Right
Armenia: The collected works -- over thirty bright, satirical films -- of a world-renowned animator.
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 | Harvie Krumpet
Buy used from: $1.93 Australia: These stop-motion films, including the titular Academy Award-winner, are melancholy, yet mesmerizing, portraits of loveable lost souls.
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 | Best Of Bulgarian Animation
Buy used from: $14.95 Bulgaria: I have a feeling that there's much better work out there from Sofia studio, but these rough-around-the-edges shorts are still worth a look-see -- particularly "The Intelligent Village."
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 | Ryan (Special Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.00 Canada: This is a masterwork, exposing the state of the animator and his subject through surreal digital animation.
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 | The Butterfly Lovers
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.89 China: Technically accomplished and fluid - a colorful marvel. But, like a lot of big-budget animations, it's missing its heart.
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 | Elpidio Valdes
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.73 Cuba: Simple, cartoonish characters and a brisk pace are the rewards of this historical, revolutionary adventure.
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 | Alice
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $17.50 Czech Rep: A good introduction to the world of Jan Svankmejer - a surreal realm where nightmares and sawdust are sculpted, rigged and conjured into life.
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 | The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear (Collector's Series Edition)
Buy used from: $4.95 Denmark: Hastrup has been making films like this for years - fanciful, thoughtful and genuinely moving.
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 | Animal Farm
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $18.79 Great Britain: A roughly drawn cautionary tale brought to you by a legendary studio known for its innovation.
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 | Kirikou and the Sorceress
Buy used from: $11.27 France: The perfect family film, with a genuine, compassionate and spiritual ethic. An African-inspired tale about power and wisdom that comes in small packages.
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 | Raining Cats and Frogs / La Prophetie des grenouilles (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
France: Another beautiful parable, with a warm pastel feel that evokes real emotion for the people and animals who struggle to survive in a floating barn during a Biblical flood.
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 | Cat Soup
Buy used from: $35.99 Japan: Surreal and unsettling - this strange short cartoony film broadens the definition of anime.
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 | Adventures of Reksio
Poland: Lovely, simple cartoon vignettes about loyalty and courage. Love those simple backdrops.
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 | The Old Man and the Sea (Animated IMAX)
Buy used from: $19.96 Russia: Imagine an oil painting that moves and flows. Incredible devotion, talent and patience in the service of a divine aesthetic. (Film was made in Montreal).
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 | The Planet - Evgeny Grishkovets / Planeta - Evgeni Grishkovets (DVD PAL)
Russia: Norstein is one of the all-time greats. He uses cut-outs on layers of glass to craft breathlessly beautiful short films. This DVD is available on NTSC from www.russiananimation.com.
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 | My Beautiful Girl Mari
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $0.50 South Korea: A sweet adolescent fantasy film -- reminiscent of Miyazaki's work, but with a unique rotoscoped style.
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 | The Legend of the Sky Kingdom
Buy used from: $22.00 Zimbabwe: The first stop-motion feature-length animated film from Africa. Junk springs to life in this somewhat heavy-handed Christian parable.
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 | The World's Greatest Animation
Buy used from: $69.95 Intl: This DVD is out of print. If you do get a hold of a copy, enjoy a trip around the world!
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 | The Animation Show Volume One
Buy used from: $8.81 Intl: Your best bet for award-winning contemporary international animation. Superb!
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 | Classic Festival Of Animation
Buy used from: $1.66 Intl: Your second-best bet for international shorts. Look for other "Classic" releases under the Spike and Mike label.
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