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The stop-motion animation film ' The Girl Who Cried Pearls', which won the Oscar for Best Animation Short, is now available in its entirety to watch via @thenfb site (some European territories excluded). zippyframes.com/news/awards/th…

'The Girl Who Cried Pearls', 'K-Pop Demon Hunters' win in the animation categories at the 98th Academy Awards zippyframes.com/news/awards/th…

New animation feature in the making from the producers of 'No Dogs or Italians Allowed', here based on a Lithuanian graphic novel 'Siberian Haiku'.zippyframes.com/news/lithuania…

Surrealism-inspired animation. Discover the world of Raymond Roussel in The Angst and the Bliss 2D animation short by the Mangoosta team. Watch the full film premiering online zippyframes.com/shorts/animati…

How collective animation practices shape production and distribution in the hugely underrepresented area of Central Asia (Guest Article) zippyframes.com/news/productio…

Premiering in a few days at Berlinale Shorts: The new queer animation film 'Cosmonauts' by Leo Černic, with three characters in a transgalactic trip. He talks to Zippy Frames. zippyframes.com/interviews/leo…

An international hub for indie animation, Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art is now open for its MA in Animation. Programme coordinator Tina Ohnmacht explains all the particulars (deadline to apply: 5 March) zippyframes.com/news/academic/…

The Oscar-nominated animation short 'The Three Sisters' by the Russian Konstantin Bronzit appropriated a different country (Cyprus) and won an award in an exclusively Greek/Cypriot film competition zippyframes.com/news/we-can-li…

The Oscar animation nominations for 2026 are here in both short and feature categories zippyframes.com/news/awards/os…

The 2025 Annecy Cristal winner 'Arco' by Ugo Bienvenu was also the winner in the European Animated Feature Film at the 38th European Film Awards. zippyframes.com/news/awards/ar…

Three animation films (out of the final 21 short films) will compete for the Golden Bear for a Short Film (and other prizes) at the 2026 Berlinale Shorts, zippyframes.com/festivals/anim…

The Annecy Cristal winner @annecyfestival and Oscar-shortlisted animation short 'The Night Boots' is now online. Discover the adventures of a child and his creature encounters. Our review and the film zippyframes.com/shorts/the-nig…

The 2D/stop-motion animation short 'Sulaimani' by Vinnie Ann Bose has been Cesar-shortlisted for Best French animation short. Our film review zippyframes.com/shorts/sulaima…

"'Inside, The Valley Sings' works as a powerful testament of humanity gone haywire. Our review for the animation documentary 'Inside, the Valley Sings' by Nathan Fagan (animation director: Natasza Cetner), now online. zippyframes.com/shorts/inside-…

Check all the animation festivals with upcoming deadlines to submit your films zippyframes.com/festivals/next…

A new dark comedy Polish animation feature project in the making. Learn more about 'Until Death Unite Us' CEE-awarded project zippyframes.com/shorts/until-d…

176 animation shorts were selected for the celebrated Anima Festival (20 February - 1 March 2026), with some animation gems included. The complete list

"Almost everything was like that in real life, but the most important part is the inner feelings, which I totally share with my characters". The director of the Oscar-qualifying puppet animation short 'Winter in March' ttalks to Zippy Frames. zippyframes.com/shorts/flight-…

5 animation features in the European Film Awards nominations @EuroFilmAcademy zippyframes.com/news/awards/eu…

3 European Animation Awards for Gintz Zilbalodis, 'Flow'. All the winners of the 2025 European Animation Awards ceremony (Tallinn, 16 November 2025). zippyframes.com/news/awards/eu…