Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, Bristol, showcases Switzerland for its September 2013 edition.

A bird with a Fear of Flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.  Watch the sweet short by Irish animator Conor Finnegan.

The Italian animator Simone Massi designs the poster of the 70th Venice Film Festival, which is a tribute to the Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos.

Ottawa International Animation Festival announced its selection results for the 2013 edition. See some of the highlights.

The first sexual experience described in this affective animated doc by Jonas Odell.

The CONFIA International Conference on Illustration and Animation publishes call for papers for its November conference in Portugal.

The 6 finalists for  the Cartoon D'Or award (Best European short animated film) have been announced.

Brazilian animator Henrique Barone contemplates a life above the ocean bed in The Man Who Saw A Boat. Watch the film.

Benoît Delaunay, Albane Hertault Lacoste, Maïwenn le Borgne, and Alexia Provoost present a dramatic tale of three cats.