News
What To Expect From Czech Animation In 2019
An overview of the Czech animation production that will hit festivals and screens during 2019. Zippy Frames starts its 2019 country news coverage with the Czech Republic. Both CEE Animation and...
Festivals
Louis & Luca - MIssion To The Moon Stops At 2019 Berlinale
The Norwegian stop-motion feature will have its international premiere at the Generation Kplus section of the 69th Berlin Film Festival. This is the third film in the Norwegian stop-motion trilogy...
Shorts
Catherine by Britt Raes
Having a pet is not the easiest thing in the world. But Britt Raes makes it easy-going and humane as well. Catherine tells the bittersweet life story of a sweet young girl, who grows up to be a...
Awards & Prizes
Elizabeth Hobbs, Gary & Myles McLeod, Jonathan Hodgson at EEBAFTA 2019...
All the nominations in the animated categories for the 2019 EEBAFTA awards. BAFTA has announced the nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2019. This is a BAFTA year where no student...
Shorts
Projection On Sofa by Violette Delvoye
An intimate stop-motion film on travel, exotic places, identity and its affect on relationships. Movie night at home. At the end of the film, Lucie and Manu start a conversation about the idea of...
Latest News
1st Bauhaus and 3rd Boddinale Stop Motion...
January 16
A series of informative stop-motion training seminars with professionals from Poland, UK and The...
What To Expect From Czech Animation In 2019
January 15
An overview of the Czech animation production that will hit festivals and screens during 2019....
Louis & Luca - MIssion To The Moon Stops At 2019...
January 12
The Norwegian stop-motion feature will have its international premiere at the Generation Kplus...
Elizabeth Hobbs, Gary & Myles McLeod, Jonathan...
January 09
All the nominations in the animated categories for the 2019 EEBAFTA awards. BAFTA has announced...
Glas Animation Festival 2019 Hosts Koji Yamamura
January 08
A retrospective of his work is being planned at the Berkeley fest. The first guest of Glas...
Denis Do To Create BIAF 2019 Poster and Trailer
January 04
The Funan director will participate in the feature film competition jury. The 21st Bucheon...
The Wolf House Tops MUBI Best of 2018 Films
January 02
The stop-motion Chilean feature is the on top of MUBI users' list for 2018. The top 50 films of...
2017: Caroline Leaf Receives the Winsor McCay...
December 31
View the video from the Canadian animator's award ceremony during the 2017 Annie Awards. Caroline...
Most Read: Our Top10 Articles for 2018
December 30
Find out the top choices our readers made for 2018. We gathered (for the first time) the top...
Shorts
Catherine by Britt Raes
January 10
Having a pet is not the easiest thing in the world. But Britt Raes makes it easy-going and humane...
Projection On Sofa by Violette Delvoye
January 07
An intimate stop-motion film on travel, exotic places, identity and its affect on relationships....
Nighthawk by Špela Čadež
December 29
One of the standout films of the last 5 years now online. Watch Nighthawk by Slovenian animation...
Smashing Holidays and A Happy New Year by Nadja...
December 25
Here's how a little girl gets her Xmas present by Dutch animator Nanda van Dijk. A girl is a bit...
Strawberry Eaters by Mattias Mälk
December 21
Snail horror and acceptance in the Estonian animation short by Mattias Mälk. A fantasy film about...
Ooze by Kilian Vilim
December 11
An elevator boy has his own worries to face. Watch the essentially dark parable of working...
J'Attends La Nuit / I Wait For The Night by...
December 08
A discussion between two boys on the shores of an abandoned lake will force one of them to face...
Ostrich Politic by Mohammad HouHou
December 02
Environmental destruction and uncalled for obedience are the subject of wonderfully unfolding...
An Island by Rory Byrne
November 29
A solitary man sets out to conquer an isolated island. Watch the Irish animation short An Island...
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Training - Pitching
1st Bauhaus and 3rd Boddinale Stop Motion...
January 16
A series of informative stop-motion training seminars with professionals from Poland, UK and The...
12 Animation Projects To Participate in CEE...
November 29
The first edition of CEE Animation Workshop kicks off with the content development module in...
CEE Animation Forum 2019: Open for Projects
November 12
See all the details about the 2019 Central Eastern European Forum (former Visegrad Animation Forum)
Joshua Hogan Gets Boulder Media Internship at...
November 09
Plus all the winners of the 2018 Dublin Animation Film Festival. The winner of the Boulder Media...
Animarkt 2018 Stop Motion Forum Part I: Pitching...
October 14
Polish director Michał Łubiński and his project Astra won the main prize of the ANIMARKT PITCHING,...
Péter Lichter & Bori Máté Primanima Workshop:...
September 29
An experimental film workshop during the Hungarian Primanima festival (22-24 Oct 2018). The aim of...
Animarkt Talks 2018: Oettinger, Randall,...
September 27
A highly selective case of key speakers during the one-day conference of Animarkt Stop-Motion...
CEE Animation Workshop, Dec18-May19
September 27
Find all the details of the upcoming Central Eastern European Animation Workshop (December 2018 -...
Cartoon Forum 2018: Watch the Project Trailers
September 25
The trailers for the 86 TV projects during the latest edition of the prermiere European pitching...
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REVIEWS
A Man is Dead (Un Homme Est Mort) Review: Cinematic Solidarity
August 21
The 1950 Brest bloodied strike gets a cinematic, animated treatment by Oliiver Cossu and Les Armateurs. Post-war French history and geography are boned up in the refreshingly solid and inviting A...
On Happiness Road Review: Decisions Are Not Forever
August 11
An engrossing autobiographical family drama, with an eye towards adults, even though it details a young girl's story in Taiwan. Review for Hsin-Yin Sung' film, On Happiness Road. It is quite a...
Mirai by Mamoru Hosoda: Lessons To Be Learned
June 15
The latest feature film by Summer Wars director Mamoru Hosoda is a gentle family comedy of manners, which really takes off at the film's final reels. This may not be one of Hosoda's more...
Seder-Masochism Review: Let's Dance
June 13
US independent animation director Nina Paley makes the story of Exodus an overwhelming musical extravaganza, which still finds time to register its gender-based raison d' être. In the beginning,...
Dilili In Paris (Dilili à Paris) Review: Defending Modernism
June 12
The new feature film by Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur and Asmar) has the art and science aligned to save the world from gender-based catastrophe. It would be easy to tell that...
This Magnificent Cake! Review: To Have Your Cake and Let It Go
June 09
Personal journeys of lost cause mingle with vestiges of colonial power in the stand-out stop-motion animation feature by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels. This is a feature animation film that has...
Production
Away by Gints Zilbalodis
October 31
A one-man feature animation project. Details about the upcoming feature Away by Gints Zilbalodis....
Animation Film Funding at Lodz: Facts and...
October 25
A short guideline to animation filmmaking in Lodz, Poland. Let's start from the very beginning....
Nimuendaju by Tania Anaya
September 27
Eliane Gordeeff interviews Tania Anaya for her new feature animation in production, Nimuendaju....
Where is Anne Frank? by Ari Folman
August 10
Production has now begun on the 2D animation feature by Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman,...
4 Animation Projects Funded by Polish Film...
July 28
New Marta Pajek project, and projects from Paulina Ziółkowska, Robert Jaszczurowski, and Michalina...
5 Animation Projects Supported by Film Fund...
July 20
The Summit of the Gods (Le sommet des dieux), Allah is Not Obliged among the feature film projects...
Steven Woloshen Premieres The Dead Sea Scrolls...
July 17
Woloshen: I am incorporating every aspect of handmade manipulation into one film. For experimental...
Ruben Brandt, Collector: Ηungarian Feature on...
July 13
A new Hungarian animated feature from the awarded animator Milorad Krstic premieres at the 2018...
Preview: Agouro (Augure) by David Doutel and...
June 06
Another family in trouble. Here's the trailer for the upcoming short animation Agouro (Augure) by...
INTERVIEWS
Change In Hungary Starts From Women In Animation: Interview with Anna Ida Orosz
December 21
Kropka talks to the co-founder and program director of Primanima festival. The change in Hungary starts from women in animation In our days, Hungary has become the leader of the Eastern countries...
The Development Doesn't Move on Its Own: It Is Pushed by People
December 11
Olga Bobrowska interviews Mr. Zhang Chi 张驰 from ASIFA China. In Xiamen, Fujian province, the city famous for pearls, seafood and nature sites, we talked to Mr. Zhang Chi from ASIFA-China, attempting...
Beyond The Animation And The Real Image: An Interview with Raúl De La Fuente
December 04
Eliane Gordeeff talks to Raúl De La Fuente, co-director of Another Day of Life. Now that History seems to repeat itself, it is interesting to observe the story of the war correspondent Ryszard...
Retain A Clear Ambition and Motivation: Interview with Koji Yamamura
August 05
Oscar-nominated animation director Koji Yamamura talks to Zippy Frames. Japanese animation filmmaker Koji Yamamura has already become a source of inspiration to independent animation students and...
A Glimpse of Colombian Animation: Interview with HIERROanimación
July 31
Sofia Papatsimpa talks to Carlos Smith and Hierro Animation Production team about their new feature film project, The Other Shape . A visit in HIERRO animation productions in Bogota where we found...
4 States of Matter: Interview with Miguel Pires de Matos
July 27
Our Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff meets Portuguese architect and animation director Miguel Pires de Matos; they talk about the experimental short 4 States of Matter . Magnets, metal-cut...
Need to Take People Out of Their Comfort Zones: Interview with Guy Charnaux
July 20
The director of The Poet of Horrible Things talks to Zippy Frames about common taste, poetry and blood. Brazilian Guy Charnaux first came to the international attention with his graduation film A...
There's a Tiny Border Between Utopia and Dystopia: Interview with Ana Nedelković and Nikola Majdak Jr.
July 13
Two talented people talk about their politically-conscious animation work. Our interview with Serbian animation directors Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr. They were first heard internationally...
Painting and Other Delights: Q&A With Juan Ibañez
July 13
Spanish animation artist Juan Ibañez works and invents on El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch works. How to combine painting, animation and pedagogy? Seville-based Spanish animation artist Juan Ibañez works...
