2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘The Car That Came Back From The Sea’ Director Jadwiga Kowalska
In this Oscar-qualified short, a group of friends go on a roadtrip as their car – and their country – falls apart.
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Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Georges Schwizgebel
Schwizgebel’s work bursts with inviting colors, sounds, and imagery. Each frame is a work of art, intricately timed, painted, edited, and scored.
‘A Kind Of Testament,’ ‘Greylands,’ ‘Pirate And A Cello’ Top Fantoche 2023 Awards
Other award winners include ‘Our Uniform,’ ‘Armat,’ and ‘Pebble Hill.’
2024 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Armat’ Director Élodie Dermange
Dermange’s autobiographical documentary tells a larger story of generational trauma suffered by many Armenian families.
YK Animation’s ‘Salmon Men’ Offers A New Spin On Fish Reproduction
Anthropomorphized male salmon race upstream towards a group of seductive would-be fish mothers in the award-winning Swiss short.
Battle Has Never Looked As Hypnotic As In Georges Schwizgebel’s ‘The Battle Of San Romano’
An animated take on Paolo Uccello’s Renaissance painting “The Battle of San Romano.”
These Supermarket Christmas Ads Are Starting To Look Like CG Features
Meet Percy Pig, Robin the Christmas drone, and others …
For The First Time, An Iranian Short Tops Fantoche Festival
Mahboobeh Kalaee’s experimental mixed-media short “The Fourth Wall” won Fantoche’s international competition for best film.
Watch Trailers For Masaaki Yuasa’s ‘Inu-Oh’ And Phil Tippett’s ‘Mad God’
“Inu-Oh” will premiere at Venice in September, “Mad God” at Locarno in August.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Kids’ By Michael Frei
How do we define ourselves when we are all equal? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the wrong direction?
‘Frozen’ May Have Helped Solve A Mystery Surrounding 9 Dead Soviet Hikers
More than 60 years after the deaths, there has been a breakthrough in the case — and Disney was involved.
Europe’s Animation Festivals Are Planning In-Person Editions Throughout The Summer
Here are details on six upcoming festivals, only one of which has committed to going fully virtual.
Adult Animation Is Having A Moment. Here Are 6 Essential Features To Start With.
War, gangsters, a drug-dealing piglet, and the gentle progress of an English couple’s marriage. Pixar this ain’t.
Scooby-Doo Is Heading To The Big Screen After All — Just Not In The U.S.
France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland are among the countries that will see the Great Dane on the big screen.
The Best Animation Instagrams Of The Week
A look at animators on Instagram.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Analysis Paralysis’ by Anete Melece
Anton is lost in his own head until one day a yellow boot brings him to an exit.
Here Are Six Indie Animated Features That Deserve An Oscar Nomination This Year
It isn’t all about Disney and Pixar in this awards race. These smaller-scale films from abroad also warrant attention from the Academy.
Netflix Oscar-Contender ‘I Lost My Body’ Wins Grand Prize at Animation Is Film
Three other animated features also won awards at the 2019 edition of Animation is Film.
European Film Awards 2019: Four Animated Features Nominated
Here are the contending animated features for this year’s European Film Awards, set to be presented on December 7 in Berlin, Germany.
The Stories Behind 3 Animated Documentaries: ‘Carlotta’s Face,’ ‘Egg,’ ‘Travelogue Tel Aviv’
We speak to the filmmakers of three short animated documentaries from the current festival circuit and learn how they came to be made.
Michael Frei’s ‘KIDS’ Is A Short Film, Game, And Installation Rolled Into One
“From the start, I wanted to create a film that uses code,” says Frei, whose film will screen next week at Annecy.
First English Trailer: See The Incredible Hand-Drawn Animation In Cannes-Bound ‘The Swallows of Kabul’
Here’s the first look at the emotionally-charged adult animated feature “The Swallows of Kabul.”
Cartoon Movie: 66 Entries Animated Features To Be Presented At 2019 Edition
This major animation event is where deals gets made for European animated features.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘In A Nutshell’ by Fabio Friedli
From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell.
