Some creators still want audiences to focus on what they see and hear on screen, not what their characters say. Here are a ...

For clarity, these are the essential animated feature-length films without dialogue, so classics like Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed, while technically silent, are not included.

Instead it’s dialogue-free, capturing the behaviors ... were personal for Zilbalodis, whose 2019 animated breakout Away was a short film about a cat’s fear of water. “I wanted to tell ...