pune animation films have found a fresh lease of life at the pune international film festival piff this year around 18 animation films from all over the world are in the competition category double the number of last year besides them the organizers registered a good footfall for the featurelength animation films picked for the new category introduced this year the subjects of these films ranged from human mind man and planet modern relationships and caring for ageing parents to human psychology and man and machine the films in the competition category included a sevenminute italian film age of rust a documentary in animation form about the life cycle of specie petramosaurus cavator found in the alps the potato eaters a fourminute film from czech republic pays homage to artist vincent williem van gogh the bigger picture an eightminute film from the uk uses two giant animated characters in lifesize sets to tell a humorous tale of caring an ageing parent some interesting films chosen in the kaleidoscope section included au paysy des tetes 2009 a french film narrating a story of a vampire forced to step out of house to collect children heads paradise 2007 shot in stopmotion telling the story of an automated world and runaway a canadian animation film on the events unfolding after a train runs into a cow the film won the small golden rail at the cannes film festival in 2009 the festival organizers awarded the father of indian animation ram mohan tanvi kulkarni who curated the animation section for piff said animation filmmaking is at its nascent stage in our country so we decided to introduce film connoisseurs to the contemporary works those interested in the field can learn from them