Schedule Updated!

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The final schedule for the Waterloo Festival has now been posted! Please check out the Tickets section to see a complete schedule for the Festival.

Please note the following changes:

  • The previous Saturday Midnight Madness film, Panique au Village, is now scheduled for 10:00am Sunday November 22. In its place, Metropia will be screened.
  • Technotise: Edit i ja will be screened Saturday at 10:00am.

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Final Additions to WFAC 2009 Programme Announced!

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An already strong lineup gets even stronger with the addition of two outstanding films, each by first-time directors!

Tarik Saleh’s bleak sci-fi film Metropia paints a moody, dystopic future in which Europe is increasingly owned by a single corporation, and Big Brother watches from every corner. Catch this Swedish film at the Festival before it opens in its own country!

The second film is graphics novelist Aleksa Gajic’s translation of his own novel to animation, Technotise. A beautifully-rendered film, Technotise follows the story of a young woman who gets more than she bargains for when sh...

2009 Festival lineup announced!

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The Waterloo Festival is thrilled to announce the lineup of the 2009 edition of the only film festival in the world dedicated to feature animation. The lineup includes a number of thrilling discoveries and major motion pictures from around the world making their first appearance in North America, in glorious 35mm and HD on the silver screen.

Art film lovers will be thrilled by a selection of hidden gems in the World Cinema programme, beginning with the 2009 Annecy Cristal Grand Prix-winning Mary and Max, about two unlikely penpal friends from two different continents, one blossoming into adulthood as the...