Paris-based sales company Charades has closed a raft of Asian deals on Kohei Kadowaki’s animated feature ‘We Are Aliens’ ahead of its Annecy International Animation Film Festival premiere in

Rob Brydon, Diane Morgan and Jamie Demetriou are to play aliens in an upcoming animated comedy film from the studio behind Despicable Me and The Super Mario Bros movie. Brett Goldstein also features in Not Alone, which stars Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez and counts Richard Curtis among its executive producers.

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.