The Animasyros 5.0 festival in Syros, Greece handed out its awards to US, French and German films. See the award recipients.

The 2012 Ottawa International Animation Festival has announced its winners.

The Animated Encounters (part of the 18th Encounters Short Festival, Bristol)  announced the winners of its 2012 edition

Things are not always what they appear to be. Watch the dramatically intense The Renter by Jason Carpenter.

The French directors Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin investigate what happens in a society that revolves around the letter R.  Watch the film

The stop-motion film Oh, Willy! by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels won the Cartoon D'Or for the best European short animated film.

The manager of the Incubus group, Steve Rennie, responds to Gerrit van Dijk's claim that the Drive music video was based on van Dijk's "I Move, So I Am" film.

Alois Nebel, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Daddy I'm a Zobbie, Selkirk and Fat, Bald, Short Man are the 5 choices of the 7th Anim'est.

The first excerpt from the Italian version of Pinocchio by Enzo D'Alo has now been released online.

Encounters Short Film Festival and Animated Encounters, Bristol, unveils a special tribute to the almost unknown (and long forgotten) Soviet Animation.

From Up on Poppy Hill is deeply rooted in Japanese traditions -in fact, so deeply that it almost suffocates.

The US independent, experimental film Glitch In The Grid uses the stop-motion animation technique to guide through current age worries.

What happens when Hitler learns his commissioned work won't be paid? See one more parody of  the Downfall film.

Interested in Jean Genet? Watch the experimental Holy Water by Tunc Gencer.

The Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk claims that the music video for the Incubus hit Drive is based on his own animated film "I move, so I am" - and permission to use the film was neither asked nor given.