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Vassilis Kroustallis reports from the Animarkt Stop Motion Forum event (6-10 October 2020). What a year! This is one of those instances that your computer screen and your eyes become entangled in all kinds of events. The 5th Animarkt Stop Motion Forum...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Production
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Olga Bobrowska talks to Signe Baumane on Signe Baumane on the occasion of 'My Love Affair with Marriage' animation feature coming out at the festival circuit. Signe Baumane’s ‘My Love Affair with Marriage’ had its European premiere at Annecy 2022; this...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Interviews
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Mikhail Gurevich reports from the latest edition of Anima Festival Brussels (17-26 February 2023). Anima Festival Brussels (17-26 February 2023) keeps to its usual timetable – however, calendars might high-handedly set the agenda of their own. Last...
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- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Festivals
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The winners of the 6th Animarkt Stop Motion Forum are here. Check them all, and find the complete list of the 15 projects pitched, plus our own top picks. Τhe breezy Slovakian 'Hello Summer' by Martin Smatana (The Kite) and Veronika Zacharova was the...
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- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Production
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Julia Lewicka speaks with the director of the Oscar-shortlisted film 'Only A Child,' Simone Giampaolo, as part of our Swiss Animation Portrait Series 2022. Simone Giampaolo is a London-based Swiss director and animator with a variety of projects under...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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Olga Bobrowska talks to Portuguese animation filmmakers Regina Pessoa and Abi Feijó during the 2019 Annecy Festival. On a humid afternoon, a day before winning the Annecy 2019 Jury Award for the film Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days, Regina Pessoa...
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- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Interviews
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Vassilis Kroustallis and Olga Bobrowska pick out the top animation shorts of the 2023 Annecy Festival. Annecy Festival is always a lake of every animation short of different varieties to be found, selected, and (sometimes) win prizes. This year was no...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Reporting on the Bergamo Film Meeting 2026 and all the key animation figures of the festival. Animation for everyone! Bergamo - Host City The first event to mention is the presentation of ‘Tales from the Magic Garden’. It is the story of a loss,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Viktor Smolkin
- Category: Festivals
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A new Hawaiian-themed animation short running for the 2025 Oscars. Read our interview with Daniel Sousa, animation director for 'The Queen's Flowers' (directed by Ciara Lacy). An EMMY-nominated filmmaker (Ciara Lacy) and Oscar-nominated filmmaker and...
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- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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US independent animation filmmaker Eric Leiser (Glitch In the Grid, Apocalypsis) talks to Zippy Frames. New York based filmmaker and artist Eric Leiser is not an unknown name to Zippy Frames (check our coverage), and a very prolific filmmaker, having...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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To Live And Die With/Out Cosmoshttps://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/to-live-and-die-without-cosmos
Mikhail Gurevich takes a few notes on both space-themed 'He Can't Live Without Cosmos' by Konstantin Bronzit and 'Cosmonaut' by Kaspar Jancis, both screened during the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. Not very often we can and take an effort to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Festivals
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Olivia Popp dives into highlights of the 44th Anima’s national competition, which included absurdist Flemish shorts, animated documentaries, films tackling colonialism, works inspired by Belgian comic strips, and more. The 44th edition of Anima, the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olivia Popp
- Category: Festivals
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What would your date with death look like if it were animated? Here's an interview with the Irish director of the Oscar-shortlisted short Coda by Alan Holly. Irish animation is on the rise, with the Academy Award nomination for Tomm Moore's The Secret...
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- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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One Left by Sebastian Doringerhttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/one-left-sebastian-doringer
How does it feel to have one second left to live? Austrian filmmaker Sebastian Doringer presents the animation short One Left. It takes courage and patience to hear bad results. But Sebastian Doringer brings this understandable uneasiness to its comic...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Olga Bobrowska talks to Marina Rosset. This talk is part of our Swiss Animation Portraits 2022 series. In 2005, ‘After a Cat’, a little, student film from the HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) made it to the programs of widely...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Interviews



