I Iove animation from everywhere. Samson and Sally, Where the Wind Blows, The Elmchanted Forest, The Triplets Of Bellville…I’m wondering if I’m missing out on some good stuff.
I Iove animation from everywhere. Samson and Sally, Where the Wind Blows, The Elmchanted Forest, The Triplets Of Bellville…I’m wondering if I’m missing out on some good stuff.
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I’ve heard Ma vie de courgette “My life as a Zucchini” was very good, gained a César and was even nominated for an Academy Award.
Scotland 🏴
“Brave” is lovely and all famous Scots voice actors but I don’t think it was locally made.
Does Grand Theft Auto count? 🤣
Felidae (1994)
A feline murder mystery. Quite noir in style, definitely not for children.
Italy is not big on animation, but the best ones I can think of are those of Bruno Bozzetto: My Super Brother Vip, West & Soda and Allegro ma non troppo. The ladder is basically the Italian version of Fantasia.
I have vague childhood memories of Lucky and Zorba as a good animated movie for kids, but I haven’t watched in ages.
Watership Down, a heart warming tale about some bunnies and their adventures.
Very suitable for children, ideally they should enjoy it without parents pre screening so as to avoid any spoilers.
Croatia 🇭🇷, won an oscar in 1962 for “Surogat” (eng. The Substitute). It was fruitful time for animation back then with: Professor Baltazar (my favorite), Inspector Mask, Čudesna šuma (eng. The Elm-Chanted Forest), etc. Later on, only “Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića” (eng. The Brave Adventures of Lapitch) from around 2000s had the same success.
I lived a while in Ireland:
The secret of kells
https://youtu.be/7UuUOXfiz9Q?si=fJX3i7ngK1HZcY3O
Same studio made: song of the sea https://youtu.be/n1Ud4M7dpLQ?si=nhaFqQ1IoKMgUjto
And: wolfwalkers https://youtu.be/d_Z_tybgPgg?feature=shared
‘Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel’ at least very popular in my childhood, based on a famous Dutch comic from the mid 20th century.
Kapitan Bomba: Zemsta Faraona, Kapitan Bomba: Kutapokalipsa (you won’t understand the elite humor if you’re not Polish, sorry, not sorry)
Poland had a lot of stop motion animation series like Miś Uszatek or Przygody misia Kolargola from Se-ma-for studio. Newer stuff is small things from Platige Image studio e.g. The Cathedral and intros for The Witcher games. Kajko i Kokosz on Netflix too.
Some other oldies are “Porwanie Baltazara Gąbki”, “Reksio” and “Bolek i Lolek”.
Tom Moores Irish Folklore trilogy. The Secretof Kells/Rún Cheanannais Mhóir, Song if the Sea/Amhrán na Farraige and Wolfwalkers/Na Conriochtaí. Both English and Irish versions of each film are brilliant. I liked them very much
Czechia has a long-time tradition of short “bed time fairy tales”, which gave birth to numerous ageless animated fairy tales for children.
My personal favorites are Jája a Pája https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CtdZjG6sI, Maxipes Fík https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-nRkI65kv8 or Potkali se u Kolína https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI9AeqtF_Fc, but there’s too many to list them all.
Perhaps the most internationally famous is Pat&Mat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMN2lRID7_U about a duo of extremely bad DIYers. And, obviously Krteček https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVBrRv8s2jQ, who also went to space.
Animation for adults never really caught on. It exists pretty much only as student projects.
Probably Macskafogó (Cat City) from 1986. A James Bond-like action-crime-scifi story featuring cats, mice, rats, and even Mexican bats.
The best is probably Valhalla (1986) about some of the stories from Norse mythology. Besides that, there are some crude 3D animation that are really popular and regularly quoted, but are not necessarily for children. The best of these are probably Terkel i Knibe (Terkel in trouble) and Rejsen til Saturn (Journey to Saturn). Others in this style could be Ronald Barbaren, Jensen & Jensen.
Recently there has been some in the same style, but more suited for younger audiences called Ternet Ninja (Checkered Ninja) and its sequels.
Others to be mentioned could be Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven (War of the Birds), as well as some of the older Asterix movies which where co-produced between Denmark and France, as well as a lot of smaller Fairy Tale features made from the works of Hans Christian Andersen.
Lithuania doesn’t have anything noteworthy so I’ll mention something from our brothers Latvians: Flow, it just won animated feature Academy Award and Latvia’s first Oscar.
It’s a wordless cat parable, apparently it’s really nice. The whole animation was made using Blender, a free animation software.
“Klaus”
It is definitely the best animation film that has come out of Spain. Instant Christmas classic.
I will also mention the stop-motion movie “O Apostolo”. It is a pretty good movie, and the creator put it for free on youtube because the distributors had scammed him by never making it available to be seen.
Probably The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975). Amazing stop-motion film! Def worth a watch even today!