Moving Otherwise

an Animation film festival by W.I.P Labs

Date: 4 to 6 Dec 2026.

Opening: Fri 4 Dec, 7:30 PM

Venue: W.I.P Adda, Lado Sarai, New Delhi 110030

About Moving Otherwise

Moving Otherwise is the first edition of an independent, curated animation film festival in Delhi, by W.I.P Labs, running 4-6 December 2026 at W.I.P Adda, Lado Sarai. Programmed by hand rather than by open call, it brings together three days of hand-drawn, stop-motion and experimental work from India and around the world.

We love animation, as a medium and as a form of storytelling. There is something particular to it: the physicality of stop-motion, the line and gesture of hand-drawn work, the way frame-by-frame can hold a feeling that other forms can’t quite reach. Delhi doesn’t yet have an independent festival built around that love, and we wanted to build one.

This is not a single, narrow curation. The program moves across styles and scales, hand-drawn, stop-motion and whatever else pushes the form. Student and early-career filmmakers screen alongside established names, in languages from Chhattisgarhi and Gujarati to Afrikaans, Japanese and Portuguese, with both regional Indian and international work in the mix. The idea is range, not a showcase of one aesthetic.

The lineup (subject to change and more films to be added)

• Maatitel (Winner, Lotte Reiniger Award, Annecy 2024) | Directed by Govinda Sao | India
• What’s your caste? (Tame Keva?) | Directed by Jignesh Chavda | India
• Box Cutters | Directed by Naomi van Niekerk | France | 18+
• Da Mor Ghag | Directed by Ijlal Ahmad | Pakistan
• Bootstrapping for the Boobied | Directed by Stella Chen | USA | 18+
• Girlfriends of Father | Directed by Xi Chen | China | 18+
• On-Gaku: Our Sound | Directed by Kenji Iwaisawa | Japan |18+
• Pakhandi | Directed by Dhruv | India
• Rasmalai | Directed by Debopom Chakraborty | India