Home > Creative Content > Movies Cannes 2026: This remarkably crafted, deeply painful, coming-of-age portrait is the animation discovery of the festival thus far A frequently stunning work of animation that’s also a haunting portrait of isolation, the destructive insidiousness of bullying and our own capacity for cruelty, Kohei Kadowaki’s formidable feature debut “We Are Aliens” is a film of fascinating layers. On a narrative level, it tells what, at first glance, may seem like a simple coming-