An experimental playing with Pablo Neruda. Watch The Me Bird by 18bis studio, Brasil.

The European Association of Animation Film, has announced the finalists for Cartoon Movie Tributes 2013,  Prominent European directors and production companies are nominated.

The Dutch feature film in development Hieronymus, based on the life and art of the celebrated painter Hieronymus Bosch is now in pre-production stage.

Pixar scored  a victory with the Scottish-themed Brave, and the Disney animator John Kahrs won the best animated short for the retro-looking Paperman in the 2013 award ceremony.

 The charming feature film Ernest and Celestine by Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier won the French César for the best animated film.

The short animated film Fresh Guacamole by the LA director, PES, is the shortest film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Approved for Adoption (Couleur de peau: miel / Skin color: honey) by Jung and Laurent Boileau  is a welcome study of a neglected area in child development, but minimizes all the harsh edges of the adoption predicament it describes.

A Serbian allegorical animated film wins the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (Generation 14Plus).

A tender film about our relationship with the past from the Croatian director Veljko Popović. Watch Dove sei, amor mio.

Pixar's Brave and the documentary animation The Making of Longbird (Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson) won the BAFTA award at the feature and short animated film respectively.

The Oscar®-nominated short Adam and dog by Minkyu Lee is online. Watch the film.

 The Oscar-nominated, stop-motion film Head over Heels  by Tim Reckart is now online.

16 works were selected to design the MSU media facade at Animafest, Zagreb.

The US premiere for the French Ernest and Celestine, a North American premiere for Enzo D' Alo's Pinocchio and a new Kirikou film are among the features highlighted at the NYICFF 2013 programme.

It could have been sugary, but is also sweet. Watch the black-and-white short melodrama of Daniela Sherer, He was a sweet man.