Estonian animator and scholar Ülo Pikkov successfully defended his PhD thesis on Eastern European Animation.

Olga Bobrowska reports on the latest 2018 edition of Animafest Zagreb and the feature films line-up.

A new network of Nordic countries' animation is born, to help with the info and structure of co-production opportunities.

The latest feature film by Summer Wars director Mamoru Hosoda is a gentle family comedy of manners, which really takes off at the film's final reels.

The French film Stockholm and the Swiss/Israeli film Travelogue were also standouts of the second student competition programme of Annecy Festival 2018.

Jean-Luc Slock, Élise Labbé will join Schwizgebel in the Cyprus festival jury.

US independent animation director Nina Paley makes the story of Exodus an overwhelming musical extravaganza, which still finds time to register its gender-based raison d' être.

The new feature film by Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur and Asmar) has the art and science aligned to save the world from gender-based catastrophe.

Personal journeys of lost cause mingle with vestiges of colonial power in the stand-out stop-motion animation feature by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels.

A film easy to like and harder to cherish. Review for the stop-motion Estonian feature film, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen.

 Two talented artists and a fantasy behind the 2018 Animateka festival poster.

Another family in trouble. Here's the trailer for the upcoming short animation Agouro (Augure) by Portuguese animation directors David Doutel and Vasco Sá.

Film critic Arman Fatić reviews the latest film (and Cannes 2018 short film contender) III by Marta Pajek.

A puppet with a soul to lose. Cannes-awarded Italian director Lucia Bulgheroni talks to Zippy Frames about her stop-motion short, Inanimate.

The Illusionist director is in mid-negotiations to adapt and animate renowned Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong’s Familiar Things for the big screen.