2D Animation Shorts

From music and astronomy to animation. Watch the animated short 'Music of the Spheres' by Jeniffer Linton. 

Cosmic horror in a train. Our film review of the Oscar-qualifying animated short 'God Is Shy' by Jocelyn Charles.

Vassilis Kroustallis reviews the Cristal Annecy winner for a short film, the animation short 'Paper Trail' by US animation director Don Hertzfeldt.

Kaspar Jancis returns with his new animated short 'Penguin', premiering at Annecy.

Amanda Barbour reviews Georges Schwizgebel's 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray', presented at the 2026 Animafest Zagreb Festival.

Amanda Barbour explores the psychiatric dimensions of cinema in Jelena Milunović’s ‘Floating’.

Lucia Malerba and Niccolò Manzolini present their animation short, 'The Angst And The Bliss', to Zippy Frames.

Hasan Pastacı presents his queer-themed animation short, 'Sphere Supreme', to Zippy Frames.

An appendicitis goes wrong and the relationship between a daughter and her mother is tested in the wonderfully punky animation short 'Bunnyhood' by Mansi Maheshwari.