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 Black Sea Animation Workshop 2024 participants

Discover the new animation shorts in development from the Black Sea region, as presented in the premiere Black Sea Animation pitching (26-30 November 2024).

Oscar shortlisted Animation Shorts 2025 (& 'Flow film still)

Discover the 15 animation shorts advancing for the 97th Academy Awards (Best Short Animation Category).

Chintis Lundgren at Animateka Festival 2024

Arsène Rosenmann reports on the Estonian animation director Chintis Lundgren and her Animateka 2024 masterclass, in the latest of our GoCritic! reviews.

Andrea Martignoni still from Animateka Festival 2024

Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik reports from Andrea Martignoni's Animateka Festival 2024 masterclass, in our series of GoCritic! reviews.

'Memoir of A Snail' to Open Anima Festival 2025

The stop-motion animation feature 'Memoir of a Snail' will be the opening film of the 2025 Anima Festival (Brussels).

Collage: Interview with Vicente Nirō

Eliane Gordeeff talks to Vincente Nirō, director of the animation short T-zero, a film about the feverish housing issue.

'Made for Duty Overseas' animation still by Katie King

‘It’s one bullet rather than a thousand knives’. Interview with Katie King about her new film, 'Made for Duty Overseas'.

'Sierra' (2022) by Sander Joon: Film Review

Olivia Popp reviews the Oscar-shortlisted film 'Sierra' by Estonian animator Sander Joon, now available online.

La Perra animation short / Still

A focus on the Colombian animation short 'La Perra' by Carla Melo Gampert, one of this year's Oscar animation short contenders.

Flow wins at the European Film Awards 2024

'Flow' by Gints Zilbalodis wins Best Animation Feature at the 2024 European Film Awards.

In thousand petals animation still

Check out the animation line-up of Anima Festival Brussels 2025.

Animation short 'Drizzle in Johnson' (2023) by Canadian director Ivan Li is available to watch on YouTube now for a limited time

Still from 3.14 Portuguese animation film

Eliane Gordeeff shares her impressions of the 2024 Cinanima Festival.

The Queen's Flowers animation short collage

A new Hawaiian-themed animation short running for the 2025 Oscars. Read our interview with Daniel Sousa, animation director for 'The Queen's Flowers' (directed by Ciara Lacy).

 The Banquet, dir. Zofia Oraczewska  animation still

The project that aims to bring Polish animation under a new focus continues. Here are the Polish School of Animation's recent festival appearances and programmes.

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