Zippy Frames — Online Journal for European & Independent Animation

Max Andersson & Helena Ahonen direct a road movie on the Balkans, and mix stylistically animation with live-action. Read the film review of Tito on Ice.

The adult animated feature The Art of Happiness presents successfully a dramatic family story and its aftermath in the background of a world gone astray.

A sensitive Chinese animated feature on the Holocaust: A Jewish Girl in Shanghai.

An animated Russian feature and a satire of the modern world in Ku! Kin-Dza-Dza. Read the film review.

The South Korean animated film King of Pigs is a fascinating study of violence destroying humanity.

The Indian feature film on the Mahabharata hero Arjun is a welcome, if incomplete portrayal of a nation and its own, distinctive codes.

A documentary on the ill-fated feature project of Academy Award-winning animator Richard Williams illuminated aspects of the animation business that are usually left untold.

The Suicide Shop (Le magasin des sucides) by Patrice Leconte is an anomaly: a film that is so warm that belies its subject-matter, but also contrived and stereotyped.

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki by Mamoru Hosoda is a well-studied but lifeless experiment on identity and the motive of the feral child.

Approved for Adoption (Couleur de peau: miel / Skin color: honey) by Jung and Laurent Boileau  is a welcome study of a neglected area in child development, but minimizes all the harsh edges of the adoption predicament it describes.

A new documentary film on the French pioneer illustrator and animator, Benjamin Rabier, the man behind the laughing cow. Read the film review.

The stop-motion feature film Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe, by the Uruguayan director Walter Tournier is short of flashy adventures, but full of character motivation.