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Check the full list of selected animation short films for the 2022 Animafest Zagreb festival.

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The Latvian animation director Gints Zilbalodis embarks on a second animation feature. Here's the first teaser for the dreamy 3D animation 'Flow'.

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Sometimes a quack may indeed go too far. Here's the sparkling animation short A Quack Too Far by Irish animation director Melissa Culhane.

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Check the list of all animation winners of the Belgian animation festival Anima Brussels

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A big number of independent Korean animation artists unite and oppose the war in Ukraine.

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Eliane Gordeeff reviews the animation feature 'Bob Split, We Do Not Like People!' by Cesar Cabral, 2021.

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How does it feel to have one second left to live? Austrian filmmaker Sebastian Doringer presents the animation short One Left.

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An animation festival dedicated to women animation directresses and artists and their work. Check the highlights of the Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2022 festival.

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The Ukrainian Linoleum Animation Festival is seeking 10-second animation films about the war.

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An ongoing campaign and an impressive number of currently 658 Russian animation artists unite against the war in Ukraine.

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The complete list of selected films for the International Animated Film Festival Animocje 2022.

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Eliane Gordeeff attended the opening of My Grandfather's Demons Exhibition, the new animation stop-motion feature film by Nuno Beato. Check her photo coverage

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Michaela Pavlátová, Jiří Barta, and a whole generation of Czech animation directors will be present at the Czech focus of the 2022 Anima Festival in Brussels. Discover the programme.

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Kropka talks to stop-motion animator Thiago Calçado, now working on the Pinocchio stop-motion project by Guillermo del Toro.

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Japanese animation director wins Special Mention for a short film at the Berlin Film Festival. Britt Raes (Belgium) also wins for her short film 'Luce and the Rock'.

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