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Fish offer a shield of solace and isolation and help a lonesome fishmonger deal with her social discomfort in Yousif Al-Khalifa’s award-winning short Sleeping with the fishes.

Pavel Horáček, programme director of International Festival of Animated Films Anifilm explores the contemporary animation scene in Czech Republic.

Airport and family issues get a superb treatment in Tal Kantor's In Other Words. Watch the film and read the director's interview to Zippy Frames.

Zippy Frames talks to Giannalberto Bendazzi about his new book in English, Twice the First: Quirino Cristiani and the Animated Feature Film.

6 students from MOPA school campaign for an Oscar with a bunch of frogs. Watch (limited time only) Garden Party.

A welcome change of pace from Dadomani studio. Watch the stop-motion short World of Feedback: Chapter I.

The festival welcomes its newest edition (from the 9th till the 12th of November) with a strongly competitive program, Samantha Moore and Nathan Jurevicius as its distinguishing seminar guests.

Manchester Animation Festival (MAF) will be held between 14-16 November. Here's a glimpse of this year's programme.

Two distinct, but highly creative projects from the independent world of animation in social mediajd: The Flipbooks of Marie Paccou and Kim Noce's Your Mothers Are Mind Instagram project.

Latest production news from the short independent sector. This issue: Rory Byrne, Paulo Patricio, Bad Stache Studio.