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Now open for entries. The 33rd ITFS Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.Both for short films, tricks for k...
06/09/2025

Now open for entries. The 33rd ITFS Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.

Both for short films, tricks for kids and AniMovie (feature films over 60 minutes).
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All conditions below:👇

Founded in 1982, ITFS ranks among the world’s most important events for animated film in all its aspects, and with its intersections with visual effects, architecture, art, design, music, science, and games.

Some of the highlights of the always interesting StopTrik Festival, which this year celebrates our carnivalesque roots ...
05/09/2025

Some of the highlights of the always interesting StopTrik Festival, which this year celebrates our carnivalesque roots

Discover the highlights of the 15th StopTrik International Film Festival.

The full list of animation shorts for the Korean Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF), taking place 24-28 Oct...
04/09/2025

The full list of animation shorts for the Korean Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF), taking place 24-28 October 2025)

The 27th Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF2025, October 24–28) has unveiled its international competition lineup.

Submit your flipbooks (till 20 Sep) to the FLIPT! Austrian Flipbook Festival + StopTrik Festival All conditions below 👇
02/09/2025

Submit your flipbooks (till 20 Sep) to the FLIPT! Austrian Flipbook Festival + StopTrik Festival

All conditions below 👇

This year FLIPT! Austrian Flipbook Festival will be hosted at the 15. StopTrik International Film Festival 2025 in Maribor.

"Festivals that are bound to a particular place have an intense, growing charm. These are often smaller festivals where ...
29/08/2025

"Festivals that are bound to a particular place have an intense, growing charm. These are often smaller festivals where filmmaker and audience aren’t artificially separated to create distance, where the boundary between audience and filmmaker is porous, and where engagement with the works themselves is part of the experience of the piece rather than an afterthought."

Olivia Popp reports from the latest edition of Anibar Festival, in terms of present, past and animation future.



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Zippy Frames explores the role of temporality at one of the Balkans’ most unique and place-specific animation festivals

Τhe European Animation Awards nominations are here, in both the feature films and the short film categories.'Flow', 'Sul...
27/08/2025

Τhe European Animation Awards nominations are here, in both the feature films and the short film categories.

'Flow', 'Sultana's Dream', 'I Died In Irpin', 'Joko', "Zima' are some of the films nominated.

The full list below 👇

Discover the European Animation (Emile) Awards nominees for their 2025 edition.

"‘Paradaïz’ is a film about the multiplicity of place – one that is long gone, one that exists only in memory, and one t...
27/08/2025

"‘Paradaïz’ is a film about the multiplicity of place – one that is long gone, one that exists only in memory, and one that has survived but changed forever, becoming one of those eerie phantoms that strangely remain the only possible bridge between the past and the present.|

Olga Bobrowska talks with Matea Radic, the director whose first animation film 'Paradaïz' has its world premiere at Fantoche Animation Festival next week



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Olga Bobrowska interviews Matea Radic ahead of the world premiere of her animation short Paradaïz at Fantoche Festival.

Anastasiia Falileieva, Nina Gantz among the jury members of the 2025 Bucheon International Animation Festival. The full ...
26/08/2025

Anastasiia Falileieva, Nina Gantz among the jury members of the 2025 Bucheon International Animation Festival. The full lineup



BIAF2025 has announced the 11 members of its international jury for the animation festival.

The full lineup of Etiuda&Anima (its Animation selection) has now been revealed.55 animation films from both newcomers a...
25/08/2025

The full lineup of Etiuda&Anima (its Animation selection) has now been revealed.

55 animation films from both newcomers and seasoned directors are there.

The full list:

Find the results and all animation films selected for the 2025 Etiuda&Anima festival.

Better early than late: Animocje International Animated Film Festival (20-26 April 2026) invites entries for animation f...
22/08/2025

Better early than late: Animocje International Animated Film Festival (20-26 April 2026) invites entries for animation films (up to 15 November), and completed after 1st January 2024.

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International Animated Film Festival Animocje takes place in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Check your animation projects. The second BLACK SEA ANIMATION WORKSHOP — an animation development workshop — will take p...
19/08/2025

Check your animation projects.

The second BLACK SEA ANIMATION WORKSHOP — an animation development workshop — will take place November 25–29 in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is open to projects from Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey and Georgia, with Moldova joining as the guest country. ,

This call welcomes short animated film projects in development up to 20 minutes (all techniques). Deadline: 15 September

👇 Check all details below

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The Black Sea Animation Workshop (Sofia, 25-29 November 2025) is open for animation short projects in development.

Today (18 August) is the early registration deadline for the Peruvian Ajayu International Animation Festival. All detail...
18/08/2025

Today (18 August) is the early registration deadline for the Peruvian Ajayu International Animation Festival. All details to submit animation films from Latin America and internationally

Ajayu International Animation Festival is a cultural activity organized by Sapa Inti Estudios and the Ajayu Cinematographic Association in Peru.

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We started in 2011 with the aim to promote European and independent animation worldwide, a severely under-represented area in animation reporting and criticism. 6 years later and 3,000 articles in our Zippy Frames slate, we still feel there is the need to talk about animation; to review films; to cover in depth animation festivals; to host and hear the voice of people who do animation shorts ; to inform on professional opportunities and act as a liaison between providers and artists. We have certainly grown up a lot since our early start, but our mission remains the same.

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