"Swapped" (2026) and The Power of Trust
Swapped combines comedy, adventure and emotional growth while delivering one of the biggest plot twists in animation history.

Ryzyup (pronounced rih-zee-up) presents a series of unstable, shifting images that resist clear recognition. Shapes appear briefly before dissolving back into motion and texture. The film invites a mode of attention where perception softens and the viewer begins to drift inward.
Swapped combines comedy, adventure and emotional growth while delivering one of the biggest plot twists in animation history.
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
'Easy A' is emblematic of a world that liked to sarcastically pretend it was progressive but wasn’t actually ready for that change, making it pretty anti-sex.
Produced by Vanguard Animation and released on Netflix, this animated fairytale movie has a lot of ironies as the story is told by the prince himself.
Elio could be seen as fantastic piece of representation, showing lonely children who feel ostracized that they are not alone. That is, unless you look behind the curtain.
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch