A familiar but also original tale of social commitment in the animation short The Big Heinrich by Lars Kreyssig and Kim Collmer.

Social commitment and its lack feature in the Iranian animation short The Bystander by Sheyda Kashi.

Sometimes a quack may indeed go too far. Here's the sparkling animation short A Quack Too Far by Irish animation director Melissa Culhane.

How it feels to have one second left to live? Austrian filmmaker Sebastian Doringer presents the animation short One Left.

Joseph Norman talks with UK animation director Shaun Clark on his breezy new animation short, Wish You Were Here -also premiering the trailer for the new film.

UK animation director Shaun Clark revisits an Royston insignium, and signs a story of trepidation and acknowledgement in the short animation In the Beginning. He talks to Zippy Frames. 

Family ties and the way to get hold of them / unfold them. Here's the short animation film premiere of Ties by Russian director Dina Velikovskaya.

A feminist animation story out of an ordinary situation. Watch Blue Fear (Filles Bleues Peur Blanche) animation short by Marie Jacotey and Lola Halifa-Legrand.

A myth and a pressing social issue in the Polish animation short Horsetail by Mateusz Jarmulski.

German animation director Jonatan Schwenk talks to Zippy Frames about his new short, 'Zoon', premiering at Sundance Film Festival 2022.

A new aspect of Franz Kafka in the indie animation short 'Kafka's Doll' by Bruno Simões. Find his interview at Zippy Frames, and watch (exclusive) the trailer for the film.

Swiss veteran artist Georges Schwizgebel makes The Battle of San Romano animation short. Watch the film.

Two Vietnamese sisters get separated in the animation short by Sandra Desmazières, available to watch online till 7 February.

Joni Mitchell's River gets an animated treatment by Matvey Rezanov and Skazka studios.

A selection of animation short that give a more indie feel in our holiday season.

Krooka talks to Slovenian animation director Zoel Kastelic, who premieres her short animation The Features That Smell of the Sea, to Zippy Frames.

Vassilis Kroustallis brings forward some of the questions raised for short animation in the recent Impossible Figures and Other Stories I animation short by Polish director Marta Pajek.

L.A. based indie animation artist Sandro Del Rosario talks to Zippy Frames on his Italian travelogue hand-painted animation film, The Italian Gaze.