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Nosh-up by Mafalda Salgueiro
Portuguese animation director Mafalda Salgueiro crafts a 12-minute animation short on cooking. She talks to Eliane Gordeeff and Zippy Frames.
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The Physics of Sorrow by Theodore Ushev: The Stories of A Failed Generation:
The new film by the Oscar-nominated director Theodore Ushev, The Physics of Sorrow, will be part of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Our Top Animation Shorts: Annecy Festival 2023
Vassilis Kroustallis and Olga Bobrowska pick out the top animation shorts of the 2023 Annecy Festival.
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‘We Searched for a Kind of Harmony’: Interview with Leon Vidmar and Jean-Claude Rozec (‘Tales from the Magic Garden’)
At the 75th Berlinale, Zippy Frames spoke with two directors of 'Tales from the Magic Garden', a new stop-motion animation feature film perfect for families.
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European Joint Master in Animation Re:Anima
Kropka writes about the new animation M.A. program Re:Anima.
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'Perfect Sense' by Marcus Grysczok
The animation short 'Perfect Sense' by Marcus Grysczok is a music video and a story to unfold. Watch the film.
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In Absolution of Puppets on Ideological Fronts: Review of ‘Chinese Animated Film and Ideology, 1940s-1970s: Fighting Puppets’ by Olga Bobrowska
Mikhail Gurevich reviews Olga Bobrowska's book on Chinese puppet animation, Chinese Animated Film and Ideology, 1940s-1970s: Fighting Puppets.
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Swallow Flying to the South by Mochi Lin
A story of a Chinese child in the infamous Cultural Revolution. RISD animation graduate Mochi Lin talks about her puppet animation short, 'Swallow Flying to the South'.
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Animation Is Our Subsconscious Language: Interview with Lucia Bulgheroni
A puppet with a soul to lose. Cannes-awarded Italian director Lucia Bulgheroni talks to Zippy Frames about her stop-motion short, Inanimate.
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Cinanima Festival 2025 Report: A Festival That Reinvented Itself
Eliane Gordeeff reports from the 2025 Cinanima Festival and presents her top picks from the festival.
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'On the Animation Trail - 20 Years of Animation Festival History' by Nancy-Denney Phelps (Book Review)
Eliane Gordeeff reviews the book 'On the Animation Trail - 20 Years of Animation Festival History' by animation journalist and author Nancy Denney-Phelps.
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Cornucopia by Ani Antonova and Dimiter Ovtcharov
The Bulgarian animation director Ani Antonova talks to Zippy Frames about her animation short ‘Cornucopia’, produced with mixed 2D/3D techniques.
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Annecy Festival 2023: 11+12 Animation Features Selected
Discover the official selection for feature animation films of the 2023 Annecy Festival.
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'Hide', 'Busline 35a' in the Piccolo Festival dell' Animazione 2021 Winners
The 14th edition of The Piccolo Festival dell'Animazione has come to an end, and these are the winners.
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To Live And Die With/Out 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.

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