Exclusive: Award-Winning Feature ‘Chicken for Linda!’ Now Streaming on The Animation Showcase

The visually striking and emotionally impactful 2D animated feature Chicken for Linda! — winner of prestigious honors including the Annecy Cristal (2023) and César Award  (2024) — is now available to stream for motion picture industry members on The Animation Showcase platform. In addition to the critically acclaimed movie (97% on Rotten Tomatoes), users can delve into Linda’s adventure with behind-the-scenes extras.

Directed by Chiara Malta (Simple Women) and Sébastien Laudenbach (The Girl without Hands), and produced by Marc Irmer, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron, Chicken for Linda! follows Linda and her mother Paulette on a quest to cook her late father’s chicken-with-peppers recipe in the middle of a mass strike. Produced by French studios Dolce Vita Films and Miyu Productions, the film was released in North American theaters earlier this year by GKIDS.

Chicken for Linda! has been honored by a number of high-profile awards and festivals. The film made its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, in the ACID selection, and went on to screen at the Annecy Festival — where it won the Cristal for Best Feature and the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution. It premiered in the U.S. at the Animation Is Film festival in October 2023, where it won both the Audience and Jury Awards. The film’s list of international honors also includes the César Award for Best Animated Film and the Lumière Award for Best Animated Film.

You can read more about the making of Chicken for Linda! in Animation Magazine‘s interview with Malta and Laudenbach here.

The Animation Showcase streaming platform is a film industry-only hub curating animated shorts and feature films from filmmakers around the world, giving the opportunity to the animation and motion pictures community to discover or rewatch feature films for a limited time.

The platform has previously hosted the three-time Oscar-nominated animated documentary Flee, as well as A24’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion feature Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and the Oscar-winning animated shorts WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko (winner in 2024) and The Windshield Wiper (2022). Since its launch, the Animation Showcase has become a must-watch stop during the awards season, featuring the most critically acclaimed animated creations of the year.

The platform is accessible via the internet on any browser, as well as on Apple TV devices and Roku. To continue to ensure the best screening experience of animated gems, The Animation Showcase invested in new home cinema native apps and will launch a new app for Fire Stick (Amazon) this week.

Animation & motion picture industry members and students can easily join the platform via the online portal, following the three-step instruction below and providing a valid proof of work:

1. Click on the ANIMATION MAGAZINE SIGN UP PORTAL to request a membership to the streaming platform.
2. Add your email address and work proof (IMDb, LinkedIn, Vimeo or other)
3. After the information verification, you will receive an email with the instructions to connect to the streaming platform and begin watching.