New animation feature in the making from the producers of 'No Dogs or Italians Allowed', here based on a Lithuanian graphic novel 'Siberian Haiku' www.zippyframes.com/news/lithuan...

Surrealism-inspired animation. Discover the world of Raymond Roussel in The Angst and the Bliss 2D animation short by the Mangoosta team. Watch the full film premiering online www.zippyframes.com/shorts/anima...

How collective animation practices shape production and distribution in the hugely underrepresented area of Central Asia (Guest Article) www.zippyframes.com/news/product...

Premiering in a few days at Berlinale Shorts: The new queer animation film 'Cosmonauts' by Leo Černic, with three characters in a transgalactic trip. He talks to Zippy Frames. www.zippyframes.com/interviews/l...

An international hub for indie animation, the Swiss Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art is now open for its MA in Animation. Programme coordinator Tina Ohnmacht explains all the particulars (deadline to apply: 5 March) www.zippyframes.com/news/academi...

The Oscar-nominated animation short 'The Three Sisters' by the Russian Konstantin Bronzit appropriated a different country (Cyprus) and won an award in an exclusively Greek/Cypriot film competition. www.zippyframes.com/news/we-can-...

The Oscar animation nominations for 2026 are here in both short and feature categories www.zippyframes.com/news/awards/...

Three animation films (out of the final 21 short films) will compete for the Golden Bear for a Short Film (and other prizes) at the 2026 Berlinale Shorts www.zippyframes.com/festivals/an...

The Annecy Cristal winner and Oscar-shortlisted animation short 'The Night Boots' is now online. Discover the adventures of a child and his encounters with creatures. Our review and the film www.zippyframes.com/shorts/the-n...

The 2D/stop-motion animation short 'Sulaimani' by Vinnie Ann Bose has been Cesar-shortlisted for Best French animation short. Our film review www.zippyframes.com/shorts/sulai...

'Inside, The Valley Sings' works as a powerful testament of humanity gone haywire. Our review for the animation documentary 'Inside, the Valley Sings' by Nathan Fagan (animation director: Natasza Cetner), now online. www.zippyframes.com/shorts/insid...

Check all the animation festivals with upcoming deadlines to submit your films www.zippyframes.com/festivals/ne...

The full list of 15 animation shorts shortlisted for an Academy Award. www.zippyframes.com/news/awards/...

A new dark comedy Polish animation feature project is in the making. Learn more about 'Until Death Unites Us' CEE-awarded project www.zippyframes.com/shorts/until...

176 animation shorts were selected for the celebrated Anima Festival (20 February - 1 March 2026). The list: www.zippyframes.com/festivals/an...

"This is an animadoc, based on 4 hours of interviews with Kirill and Dasha. Almost everything was like that in real life". Natalia Mirzoyan, the director of the Oscar-qualifying 'Winter in March' puppet animation film, talks to Zippy Frames www.zippyframes.com/shorts/fligh...

5 animation features in the European Film Awards nominations www.zippyframes.com/news/awards/...

3 European Animation Awards for Gintz Zilbalodis, 'Flow'. All the winners of the 2025 European Animation Awards ceremony (Tallinn, 16 November 2025). www.zippyframes.com/news/awards/...

Inspired by the seminal 1972 work of Heino Pars 'Nail, the 2025 European Animation Awards will give their respective 'Nail' trophies to 10 animation categories -including a lifetime during the PÖFF Shorts festival (16 November 2025). All info www.zippyframes.com/festivals/ne...

ASIFA, the international association for animation, has elected its new executive board for the 2025-2028 period. Story: www.zippyframes.com/news/asifa-e...

'Little Amelie or the character of the rain' and the 16-minute animation thriller 'God is shy' by Jocelyn Charles won at the Bucheon International Animation Festival. All festival winners www.zippyframes.com/festivals/bi...

The 32nd Etiuda & Anima Festival (Krakow, 14-19 November 2025) handed out its animation prizes, with stories about immigrants and family relationships gone wrong. Here are all the awards www.zippyframes.com/festivals/et...

Online premiere of the restored queer animation film 'Portrait of D.' (2003/2025) by María Lorenzo Hernández, which combines literary stories with an impressive painting mix. www.zippyframes.com/shorts/portr...

Oscar-nominated animation director Michaela Pavlátová talks about her career, indie animation in the Czech Republic and her new animation feature film in development, 'Night Tram' www.zippyframes.com/festivals/mi...

Olivia Popp reviews (from San Sebastian Film Festival) the animation feature 'Little Amelie or the Character of the Rain'. Our full review www.zippyframes.com/feature-anim...

Check all the animation winners of the 23rd Fantoche International Animation Film Festival (2-7 September 2025) www.zippyframes.com/festivals/fa...

A small but persistently growing animation festival in the heart of the Balkans. Our report from the Anibar Animation Festival (14-20 July 2025) #zippyframes www.zippyframes.com/festivals/th...

Animation newcomer Matea Radic premieres her 2D hand-drawn animation short 'Paradaïz’ at Fantoche festival, a film that revisits traumatic memories of a war-torn childhood. Interview with the filmmaker www.zippyframes.com/interviews/m...

The full lineup of Etiuda&Anima (its Animation selection) has now been revealed. 55 animation films from both newcomers and seasoned directors are there. www.zippyframes.com/festivals/et...

'We Have to Do In Animation What Europe Is Strong In’: Adriatic Animation producer Draško Ivezić (Family Portrait, Life with Herman H. Rott, Manivald) talks to Zippy Frames during the 2025 edition of Anibar Festival www.zippyframes.com/interviews/i...

71 stop-motion animation films were selected for the 15th edition of StopTrik Festival, the only European festival exclusively for stop-motion films. Find them all. www.zippyframes.com/festivals/st...

Extremely short animation films on board. We report on the shortest films in competition from the Fest Anča festival. www.zippyframes.com/festivals/to...

The full list of selected animation shorts for the Fantoche festival (Baden, Switzerland, 2-7 Sep 2025), which celebrates Estonia this year as the focus country www.zippyframes.com/festivals/89...

A small tribute to UK animation iconoclast Phil Mulloy (1948-2025): Film review for the 2010 animation feature 'Goodbye Mr. Christie' www.zippyframes.com/feature-anim...

An animation documentary about Iraq, originally composed from tweets. Check our film review for 'Flavors of Iraq' in our GoCritic! review series www.zippyframes.com/feature-anim...

A closer look at the Children and Youth Competition at this year’s Animafest Zagreb. We report from the Croatian festival (in our GoCritic! series) www.zippyframes.com/festivals/ch...

Small-looking, made in pinscreen and empathetic. Our review for the Annecy Festival Cristal Winner 'The Night Boots' by Pierre-Luc Granjon @annecyfestival.bsky.social www.zippyframes.com/shorts/the-n...

Two French films won over the short and feature animation categories in the 2025 Annecy Festival., 'Arco' and The Night Boots'. The full list: www.zippyframes.com/festivals/an...

Black sulaimani tea can help negotiate identities. Our film review for the French animation short, 'Sulaimani' by Vinnie Ann Bose (in competition at #annecyfestival) www.zippyframes.com/shorts/sulai...

Based on Albert Camus' 'The Guest', an Iranian animation short on moral responsibility and duty amidst persecution. Our film review for 'Like Friend, Like Deer' presented at Animafest Zagreb www.zippyframes.com/shorts/like-...

Pride month: animated queer desires in the vivid and dazzling 20-minute short 'Christopher at Sea' by Tom CJ Brown, now available online www.zippyframes.com/shorts/chris...

Part of the Cannes Short Film competition, 'Hypersensitive' by Martine Frossard tells the troubled experiences of a sensitive young woman, who finds herself at a key crossroads in her life. We talked with the director #indieanimation #zippyframes www.zippyframes.com/shorts/hyper...

📝 We just released the teaser for *Against the Fangs*, a dialogue-free animated short about a mother rabbit protecting her child. Made by MOFP Studio (South Korea) ▶ vimeo.com/1085933698 🔗 mofpstudio.com/against/ @zippyframes.bsky.social — We’d love to share it with your readers!

20 years of animation festivals. We review the book 'On the Animation Trail' by Nancy Denney-Phelps, and travel along this animation festival road trip #zippyframes #indieanimation www.zippyframes.com/festivals/on...

The Quay Brothers win at Anifilm Festival with their 'Sanatorium', and 'The Voice of the Sirens' gets best animation short. All the winners of the Czech festival and the jury statements: buff.ly/QvZXfcJhttps...

Cutout animation and music; Marcus Grysczok presents a story of creator and creation in his 'Perfect Sense' by The Autumn Sighs #animation #cutoutanimation #zippyframes www.zippyframes.com/shorts/perfe...

Switzerland is a country in focus at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (6-11 May 2025). Claude Barras (Zucchini) masterclass, Swiss women animators, future talents, and Swiss animation projects to watch. www.zippyframes.com/festivals/sw...

They have conducted over 2,800 workshops in Brazil and other countries, and worked with 23 ethnic groups. Wilson Lazaretti and Maurício Squarisi of the 'Núcleo de Cinema de Animação de Campinas' ('Campinas Animation Cinema Center') talk to Zippy Frames www.zippyframes.com/interviews/5...

Starts in a week: all the animation highlights of the Czech Anifilm Festival, which has a special tribute to sci-fi and animation (including a restored 'Fantastic Planet'). Details #animation #indieanimation www.zippyframes.com/festivals/an...

Queerness is blurrnig the norms. Swiss animation director Milva Stutz talks about cyberfeminism, queerness, stop-motion animation at Zippy Frames #indieanimation #europeananimation #queer