US independent animator Bill Plympton has his own, irreverent way to celebrate the Xmas period. Watch The Sad Village.

The 22nd International Animation Film Festival in Stuttgart announced its first highlights.

A free-falling 2D/hand-drawn music video by Lucinda Schreiber.

Ewa Borysewicz with To Thy Heart wins the Slovenian festival grand prize.

The 3th edition of the International Conference on Illustration and Animation in Braga, Portugal is now open for paper submissions, and an extended deadline.

Alex Grigg, Anna Budanova, and Natalia Chernysheva are the animators selected for the Animation Artists in Residence programme in Tokyo.

The existential animation drama won the highest honor at the 2014 European Film Awards.

Charming and gravity-free: watch My Mum is an Airplane.

A beautifully escapist video for Coldplay's Ink. Watch below.

The new Folimage (A Cat in Paris) feature opens in Annecy Festival, and GKIDS secures North American righs for the film.

LAIKA, Dreamworks, and an animation feature from Ireland dominate the 42nd Annie nominations.

View some preliminary highlights of the Anima (Brussels) fest.

The Studio Ghibli documentary will have its New York premiere on Friday, November 28 at the IFC Center.

The 8^th Fest Anča is calling for submissions.

A Hungarian experimental short  that was among the 10 Oscar-shortlisted films in 2015 is now online. Read our interview with film director Réka Bucsi.