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An inescapably brokenhearted 2D feature animation 'We Are Aliens' by Kohei Kadowaki (premiered at Cannes' Directors Fortnight) #Cannes2026 Our film review zippyframes.com/feature-animat…

(EXCLUSIVE):The full poster for the 28th Bucheon International Animation Festival by Oscar-nominated Maïlys Vallade (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain) is now revealed @Eugene_KIM0460 zippyframes.com/festivals/biaf…

The German/French animation short 'With Tapes and Toasts in the Car' by Kiana Naghshine was the winner atthe 33rd Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. All winners: zippyframes.com/festivals/itfs…

How to make a richly flavored, deeply political, and existential animated 'Kyiv Cake'. We spoke with Ukrainian Mykyta Lyskov on the occasion of his ITFS competition participation. zippyframes.com/interviews/myk…

Psychologists, influencers, kids separated and a gay hairdresser. The full list of animation feature selection for the 2026 Annecy Festival zippyframes.com/festivals/anim…

A queer kid, a Botany researcher and mother, and a carrot. Watch the textually explicit, stop-motion animation 'Carrotica' by Daniel Sterlin-Altman and read his interview at Zippy Frames zippyframes.com/shorts/queer-a…

Oscar-nominated, EMMY & BAFTA-winning animation artist Joanna Quinn gets the Animafest Zagreb 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award zippyframes.com/festivals/joan…

'Perfect Blue' by Satoshi Kon Comes in a Limited Edition Steelbook (4K UHD) zippyframes.com/news/perfect-b…

Animation Report from Bergamo Film Meeting 2026: Pinscreen Animation and More zippyframes.com/festivals/anim…

The full list of Annecy Festival-selected short films (short official selection, graduation films, TV & Commissioned films) is here. zippyframes.com/festivals/anne…

The Italian animated feature classic 'Allegro non Troppo' gets its restored (2K) US premiere this week in New York (27 March). zippyframes.com/news/bozzettos…

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…