Mamoru Hosoda told Insider that he didn't want to shy away from depicting child abuse in "Belle." The director said it's "important to depict and express these themes and ideas inside of movies." His ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pic marks the director’s return to Cannes following Mirai, which screened in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar in 2018. This ...

Cannes, the world’s most prestigious film festival, is back after a break (no event was held last year, as Covid spread). Animation is never abundant in its program, but the festival does tend to host ...

After a one-year hiatus due to Covid, Animation Is Film returns to L.A. for another showcase of animated features. The festival will take place on October 22–24 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatre in ...

One of the best animated films of the past few years, Belle tells a roaring, tragic, uplifting new spin on Beauty and the Beast for the Extremely Online generation. The film follows a young girl who ...

Ahead of raising the curtain on its 74th edition on Tuesday (July 6), Cannes has made a late addition to its program in the form of Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda’s feature animation Belle. The pic ...