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After producing numerous impressive titles in recent years, adult animation from Catalonia shows no signs of slowing down.

Frida Kahlo speaks from beyond her grave about the institutionalization of art and culture and the dangers posed by intellectuals warming their precious asses. 

The French cartoonist known as Aurel animates the life of the Catalan illustrator Josep Bartolí, who lived in French internment camps and loved Frida Kahlo.

A humorous take on a murder-mystery and an insight into a cartoonist’s experiences in concentration camps feature in the final week of a film festival at a Derbyshire arts centre.

Young French Cinema Program to Unspool Virtually in the U.S. Elsa Keslassy, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Caroline Vignal’s “My Donkey, My Lover and I,” Chloé Mazlo’s “Skies of Lebanon” and Aurel’s “Josep” are among the nine French features that will play in the U.S. as part of the 7th edition of the Young French Cinema Program. Seven shorts have also been selected. The initiative, which is organized by the French Embassy in the U.S. and the promotion org UniFrance, aims at showcasing films and shorts from rising French filmmakers, which have played at major film festiv...