The Italian Gabriele Zucchelli and Caravel Animation present a documentary on the mystery of the first (and now extinct) animated feature film, El Apostol, made in Argentina.

A stop-motion film that revisits Greece's urbanism and almost prophetic isolation, The Village by Stelios Polychronakis is an elegy of the human spirit. Watch the film in HD.

 The top 5 animated films of 2011 (and not all of them from the US) by Zippy Frames.

Paul Cabon and Canal J à l'Ecole de la Poudrière offer a short tale of talking and disappearing heads. Watch below:

Carlos Osuna directs Fat, Bold and Short, an animated  feature film from Colombia that presents a strong portrait of human personality in need of friendship and love.

The Spanish film Wrinkles (Arrugas) has secured 11 nominations (including one for the best animated film) in the 2012 Goya awards.

A short Spanish film by Javier Ara, Dreaming with a normal life, reveals the pain of being different. Watch the short:

The international animation festival Animasyros welcomes its guests in an all-animation day in Athens, 17/12.

The Argentinean feast of Expotoons 2011 ended with the award announcement. See the full list of winners.

The Spanish musical melodrama Chico and Rita wins the Animated Feature Film from the European Academy.

4 European studios from France, Luxembourg, Italy, and Belgium bring forward a new animated version of the classic Pinocchio story (and no lie in this story).

45 qualified short animated films were screened yesterday in a special screening to choose the eventual nominees for the Academy Award 2012.

The creepy film The Renter won the grand prize at the 35th Cinanima Festival. See the full award list.

Anca Damian scripts and directs an inventive documentary-animation film about a Romanian prisoner in 2007 Krakow, who goes on a hunger strike.

Ignacio Ferreras' Wrinkles is a disarmingly humane, 2D elegy of old people in need.