WATERLOO FESTIVAL FOR ANIMATED CINEMA BEGINS

Off to the west of Toronto, in the land that's home to Oktoberfest, is a film fest dedicated to animated films from around the world. The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema returns to Kitchener-Waterloo with the fifth edition of the unique animation film festival.

WFAC 2005 will be running November 17th-20th at the Princess Twin Cinemas in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
A partial film listing is: Alosha Popovich i Tugarin Zmey (Alosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent), Fragile Machine, Frank and Wendy, Kumou no Mukou, Yakusoku no Bashou (A Place Promised in Our Early Days), Mind Game, Nyócker! (The District), Strings, Terkel i Knibe(Terkel in Trouble). More info can be found online at the WFAC website at http://www.wfac.ca

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