Dante Rustav presents a collective animation practice developed among young authors in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Discover the 12 animation projects selected for this year's CEE Animation Workshop.

Meet Olivia Popp

Olivia Popp is a film writer, critic, and programmer based between Berlin and Brussels. Beyond her writing for Zippy Frames, her work can be found in Cineuropa, MUBI Notebook, Little White Lies, Senses of Cinema, Modern Times Review, and more. Olivia programmes for One World Slovakia International Documentary Film Festival and supports International Film Festival Rotterdam’s editorial team. She is an alumna of several film criticism workshops, including Locarno Critics Academy (2025) and Berlinale Talents (2024), and also serves as the publication coordinator for Cineuropa’s GoCritic! emerging film writers programme. Olivia is a member of the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics).

Hasan Pastacı presents his queer-themed animation short, 'Sphere Supreme', to Zippy Frames.

Mohamed Ghazala writes about the 90th anniversary of Egyptian and African Animation.

Leo Černic in an interview with Zippy Frames on his Berlinale Shorts 2026 premiere - 'Cosmonauts'.

The Swiss Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts has long been a hub for indie animation. Prof. Tina Ohnmacht, co-ordinator of the MA in Animation at HSLU, talks to Zippy Frames.

The winners of the second Black Sea Animation Workshop are here.

The story behind the Oscar-nominated film 'The Three Sisters' by the Russian director Konstantin Bronzit and its repercussions in the independent animation community.

The full animation nominations for the 2026 Academy Awards.

Our impressions from the second edition of the Black Sea Animation Workshop.

The French sci-fi 'Arco' film was the big winner in the European Animated Feature Film category at the 2026 European Film Awards.

The Northern Animation Network has scheduled a series of animation interviews with Nordic Animation talents.

An appendicitis goes wrong and the relationship between a daughter and her mother is tested in the wonderfully punky animation short 'Bunnyhood' by Mansi Maheshwari.

Discover the three animation shorts selected (world premiere) at the 2026 Berlinale Shorts programme.