Zippy Frames — Online Journal for European & Independent Animation

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With the current proliferation of online festival and other treats (films available for a certain amount of dates, curated online playlists), sometimes it is easy to forget cultural animation festival moments captured on video.

Academy Award-winning Russian animation artist Aleksandr (Alexander) Petrov will become the International Honorary President of Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2020.

Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) has now its online edition, 5-10 May 2020.  

Films selected in the Shorts, Student, and Croatian film competition for Animafest Zagreb have now been announced.

The Tallin PÖFF Shorts festival, which includes an Animation Competition programme,  is now an Academy Award Qualifying Festival.

Find the 39th ANIMA Brussels festival prizewinners, with a Grand Prix to Purpleboy by Alexandre Siqueira.

Jay Clarke, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, and Andrew Amondson will present a stop-motion event to guide Berlin participants in the framework of Berlinale Talents.

Find all highlights of the Catalonian Animac Lleida festival 2020.

The director of Fantastic Fox and the Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson will be at the French Annecy Festival for its 60th anniversary.

Away, The Swallows of Kabul, four Japanese features are in the lineup of this year's Anima Festival in Brussels.

Eliane Gordeeff reports from the Monstra Festival press conference and the Tim Burton exhibition in Lisbon.