From a Joker anime (?) to a Donkey origin story (???), it's been a busy week at the world's biggest animation festival. This story originally ran in the newsletter “ Sketch to Screen .” Subscribe here to receive it in your inbox. I was unable to spend this week in Southeast France for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the premier film festival celebrating the medium of animation. Instead, I experienced the festival as most observers do: as a sudden influx of new animated project