I Lost My Body, Mémorable, Daughter Win at Annecy 2019

All the winners of the 2019 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. With 12,300 badgeholders in its 2019 edition, the juries awarded 20 prizes at Annecy Festival (Saturday 15th June). A rare...

Festivals

Annecy 2019 Commissioned Films: Our Top Picks

Discover our top picks for commissioned films (festival trailers, music videos etc.) competing at the 2019 Annecy Festival. 35 films compete for this year's Commissioned Films category at Annecy...

Awards & Prizes

One More Short Film Category for the European Animation Awards

One more category for short films introduced at European Animation Awards, Nora Twomey live facebook event to come up. Check all announcements for EAA during Annecy Festival. It will be the third...

Festivals

Acid Rain, Kids, Ruben Brandt Get 2019 Animafest Zagreb Awards

Find all the winners of the 29th World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb The 29th World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb2019 closed Saturday 8 June 2019, with an award...

News

Reviews Come In for Buñuel In the Labyrinth of the Turtles

Reviews are overwhelmingly positive for the new Spanish animation feature, Buñuel In the Labyrinth of the Turtles by Salvador Simo. Based o n the graphic novel by Fermin Solis , and his filming Land...

Animation Shorts

The Kite by Martin Smatana

June 09

Slovakian director Martin Smatana talks about The Kite. Sometimes you can capture the hearts and...

Daughter by Daria Kashcheeva

June 03

Here's our review for puppet film Daughter by Daria Kashcheeva. Daughter is the graduation...

Albatross Soup by Winnie Cheung

May 30

What do you get when you order albatross soup? Here's Winnie Cheung on an animation documentary...

Manivald by Chintis Lundgren

May 28

Here's an excellently executed story of finally growing up by Estonian filmmaker Chintis Lundgren....

Welder by Roos Mattaar

May 18

Here's Welder by Roos Mttaar short animation music video for the experimental rock band My Octopus...

The Witch's Mask by Laura Nasir-Tamara

May 06

A son and his mother. Director Laura N-Tamara talks to Zippy Frames about her animation short The...

Voting In the EU by Anna Eijsbouts

April 12

Dutch animation director Anna Eijsbouts and Constitutional European Law & History Professor, Tom...

Heatwave by Fokion Xenos

April 08

Stop-motion animation and clay summer from Greece. Here's trailer for the Annecy-selected Heatwave...

Eddie & Frankie by Katherine Hearst

April 06

Social realism in animation. Learn more about the upcoming Eddie and Frankie animation short from...

Animation Festivals News

I Lost My Body, Mémorable, Daughter Win at...

June 16

All the winners of the 2019 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. With 12,300 badgeholders...

Daughter, The Kite, Mémorable Take Home 2019...

June 15

Discover the winners of the 14 Special Prizes Awarded at the 2019 Annecy Festival. The Annecy...

Anibar Festival Declares ARTivism for 2019 Edition

June 13

The tenth edition of Anibar Animation Festival in Kosovo is devoted to challenges and efforts to...

Annecy 2019 Commissioned Films: Our Top Picks

June 12

Discover our top picks for commissioned films (festival trailers, music videos etc.) competing at...

Studio Ponoc to Release Animation Short On the...

June 11

The announcement by Studio Ponoc was made during the Annecy Festival. Watch the video report by...

Acid Rain, Kids, Ruben Brandt Get 2019 Animafest...

June 09

Find all the winners of the 29th World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb The 29th World...

Next Animation Deadlines

Jun

Cartoon Forum, 16-19/9/2019

Toulouse, France

The next edition of CARTOON Forum takes place 16-19 September 2019 in Toulouse, France.

Jun

KAFF Kecskemét Animation Film Festival, 19-23/6/19

Kecskemét, Hungary

Both the 14th edition of Hungarian KAFF and the 11th edition of European Animated Feature & TV films call for entries.

Jun

14th Animest Festival, 4-13/10/2019

Bucharest, Romania

The Anim’est International Animation Film Festival, established in 2006, has become Bucharest’s recognized event on the international animation scene.

Jun

ReAnimania International Animation Film Festival, 28/10-2/11/19

Yerevan, Armenia

ReAnimania Int. Animation Film & Comics Art Festival of Yerevan is open for submissions for the 11th edition of the festival.

Next Animation Festivals

Jun

Edinburgh Int'nl Film Festival, 19-30/6/2019

Edinburgh, UK

The 73rd edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival takes place 19-30 June 2019.

Jun

Animofest, 20/6/19

Bratislava, Slovakia

The mission and goal of Animofest is the presentation of contemporary world of animated film.

Jun

Animation Block Party Alumni Screening, 21/6/2019

New York City, USA

Animation Block Party Alumni Screening full programme for 21 June 2019.

Jun

Animation Block Party, 20-22/9/19

New York City, USA

Animation Block Party is open for submissions.

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REVIEWS

Love, Death and Robots Review

May 21

Our Zippy Frames contributor Kropka reviews and takes a critical stance on the Love, Death and Robots Netflix series. The Netflix’s series carried out by the directors Tim Miller (Deadpool) and...

Ruben Brandt, Collector Review: Artistic Obsession in Action

March 09

It's a post-modern heist film, full of references and short of surprises. Our review for Ruben Brandt, Collector by Milorad Krstic. Premiered at the71st Locarno Film Festival, a fit place for a...

Funan Review: Patience Makes Heroes

February 02

Denis Do portrays a piece in Cambodian history through the eyes of a mother looking for her child. Starting as early as 2013, the Funan project by French/Cambodian filmmaker Denis Do , it has always...

Breathless Animals Review: What You Can Reconstruct Won't Kill You

January 23

Film review for experimental feature Breathless Animals by US/Chinese artist Lei Lei, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival. In animation, it usually helps to have animals (instead of...

Tito and The Birds Review: Joining Hands, Fly Over Walls

January 20

A welcome entry into the string of recent Brazilian animation successes. Film review for Gustavo Steinberg's Tito and The Birds. What if the inmate of Dr. Caligari suddenly met the Woman who feeds...

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...

INTERVIEWS

Transgender Anti-Heroes: Interview With Anais Caura

May 17

Amanda Barbour (aka Rogue Kangaroo) talks to Anais Caura about her medium-length film debut, The Man Woman Case (2017). After making its rounds on the European, Latin American and North American...

Caroline Leaf Talks Animation Education, 3D and Hybrid Films

May 12

A one-to-one interview with the much acclaimed maverick of sand animation, Caroline Leaf. She talks to Eliane Gordeeff. During this year's Monstra Festiva l , Eliane Gordeeff spoke with Caroline...

Video: Piotr Kardas Interview

April 14

Piotr Kardas, director of O!PLA and Rising of Lusitania: Animadoc Film Festival talks to our contributor Mr. Kropka. Jean-Paul Sartre, independent festival programming and animation babies are in...

My Grandfather Used To Say He Saw Demons by Nuno Beato

March 14

Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff talked to Nuno Beato about the new Portuguese animation feature in production. During the 2018 edition of 3DWire , the director of My Grandfather Used To...

José Miguel Ribeiro Talks about Nayola

February 18

Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff meets Portuguese animation director José Miguel Ribeiro at 3DWire to talk about his first animated feature film. Nayola was written by Virgílio Almeida and...

Davide Freitas Talks About The 7 Boxes: Critical And Playful

January 17

Zippy Frames Correspondent Eliane Gordeeff talks to Davide Freitas (Animais AVPL) about the highly interesting upcoming TV series The 7 Boxes . In the last 3D Wire edition, I attended the...

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...

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