Canada may seem far away, but it isn’t really. It lies roughly halfway between Croatia and France. Or, to be more precise, halfway between Zagreb and Annecy. At least, according to Chris Robinson, Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), which will soon be celebrating its 50th edition (23–27 September 2026). Since becoming […]
Life can get extremely rushed. Stop by with this collection! Stop-motion animation is arguably one of the most time-consuming animation techniques. But the result is worth it. A single second…
In the 1980s, Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton starred in the children’s television program Wander to Wonder. They are left alone in the studio after the show’s originator passed away.
Animest.21 Explores the Connection between Humans and the Environment during October 2-11 Plus: you can still enter the TOON SCRIPTS and PITCH, PLEASE! competitions until September 7 After last year’s anniversary edition reaffirmed the unique strength of our community, the Animest International Animation Film Festival returns to the big screens of Bucharest for its 21st […]
Luis is the second short film in the Lucía, Luis y el lobo (Lucia, Luis and the Wolf) series. Luis speaks about his life in the forest and his relationship with Lucía while appearing as a charcoal drawing on the walls of a room filled with broken objects that gradually return to their proper places.
Yuck. Couples kissing on the mouth are gross. And the worst is, you can’t miss them: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo laughs at them, just like all the kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won’t tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.
A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.
This film is for my Father who gambled with love.
A man is followed around by a blob as he goes about his daily life.
As a birthday treat, housewife Beryl is taken to see a male stripper and shows her true colours.
I’m being serious now, Betty. Where is the butter?
Explore the heartwarming journey of a little British orphan with Mummy Joe, filled with resilience and hope in this charming animation.
Spot Fest Anča 2021.
An official spot for the 18th International Animation Festival 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒄̌𝒂, which took place from 26th to 29th June 2025 in Žilina, Slovakia.
An official spot for the 17th International Animation Festival 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒄̌𝒂, which took place from 25th to 30th June 2024 in Žilina, Slovakia.
We all have those days where we ask the universe for love answers.
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A playful animated commercial celebrating the joy of fashion and self-expression through vibrant illustrations, whimsical characters, and colorful visual storytelling inspired by the Tory Burch brand.
The filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, best known for the documentaries Generation Wealth (2018) and The Queen of Versailles (2012), has been poking at the ugly underbelly of consumerism for more than 25 years. Through her unsparing lens, the latest incarnation of the American dream has been revealed in all its blingy, exploitative glory, particularly when it comes to its toll on women and girls. In an interview with Topic recorded in late November of 2018, Greenfield talks about the major themes running through her work, and what she calls "the ultimate cost, and degradation, of capitalism."
Zeise Kino- Animated trailer. Zeise Kino organizes outdoor cinema screenings in the summertime. Or, as we say in Hamburg, "summertime". This animation combines tropical flow with cinema projection machinery
This is my final 4-week assignment for 3D Character Animation professional course in The Animation Workshop. Inspired by Jacques Tati’s „Playtime“, I decided to create a character who acts in a more subtle manner. For the second part of the film, I wanted to go all out on physical movements of the whole body to get experience in animating a character running, trying to hold balance and tackle with some object.
This video serves as a beginner’s guide to the very famous and influential Czech animator Jiří Trnka. His films include The Hand, The Czech Year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Old Czech Legends, and Cybernetic Grandma.
Why is green filming the future of the film industry? What are the rules of green puppet making? Using their knowledge and expertise, we will talk about practical advice that can allow planning and practicing solutions neutralising the film industry's impact on the environment. The key point is a discussion about a unique green guide prepared as part of StopMoLab by MOMAKIN. Speakers: Paulina Zacharek (MOMAKIN / StopMoLab), Arturo Tornero Aceves, Birgit Heidsiek (European Center for Sustainability)
Interview with Boris Labbé.
We are glad that we could screen an extraordinary stop-motion piece, Antipolis by Kaspar Jancis in our Masters Competition Programme at the 11th Primanima. The Estonian filmmaker's clay figures are telling the story of an incompatible conspiracy theory about the shape of planet Earth. He worked on many audible and visual details of Antipolis with artists and friends from Hungary. At the 11th of Primanima Kaspar and Mattia Sinigaglia also gifted our audience with a surprise at the Award Ceremony.
Interview with the director Pablo Ballarin, interviewer Amin Abbasi. In this interview, you can get the answers to the following questions: Was there a personal experience or event that prompted the creation of this film? What was the biggest challenge with this film?
In this touching presentation, Pedersen describes the creative and visual processes behind three of his films produced by Mikrofilm.
Interview with Boris Labbe.
Nikita Diakur got a special jury award for his film "UGLY" at Animafest 2017., and then a year later he came back with "FEST“ and won The Golden Zagreb Award for creativity and innovative artistic achievement: the jury praised his film for bringing fresh perspective, digital innovation and creative use of contemporary technology while referencing modern subcultures.
This video serves as beginner’s guide to the world of Bulgarian animation.
Joanna Quinn completed a foundation course in art at Goldsmiths College, University of London before studying for a BA in Graphic Design at Middlesex University. There she first discovered the magic of animation, quickly adapting her unique drawing abilities to produce beautifully fluid and dynamic animated passages. In 1985 she founded Beryl Productions with her partner, producer/writer Les Mills, and the couple have collaborated ever since. Joanna is now a highly acclaimed figure in world animation, having won over 90 international awards, including Emmys, Baftas and Jury prizes at all the major animation festivals. Two of her films have received Oscar© nominations. She has been honoured with retrospectives of her work in all over the world including Rome, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Toronto, Montreal, Gothenburg, Bradford, Cordoba, Tampere, Ottawa, Valencia and Taiwan.
Meet Priit & Olga Pärn, directors of 'Life Without Gabriela Ferri' (2008), 'Divers in the Rain' (2009) and 'Pilots on the Way Home' (2014). Interview in English.
Go behind the scenes with the real people that voiced your favourite Creature Comforts characters. Nick Park’s Creature Comforts took the classic documentary style and applied it to the lives of wild animals and pets, matching a cast of clay characters with human voices to charming effect. Originating from Nick’s 1989 Academy Award®-winning short film, Creature Comforts was unique for using unscripted vox-pop interviews with the British public in a stop motion series that has become an Aardman classic.
The Primanima International First-Film Animation Festival returns, marking its 10th edition in Budaörs this year.
In this presentation, experimental animator and educator Amy Kravitz discussed the process of creating, embracing, fragmenting, abandoning, shattering, and obscuring narratives to find what feels genuine and truthful.
Simon Bogojević Narath was born in 1968 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in Zagreb. He has been working on experimental film/video and video-installations since 1990. In 1993 he started working with 2D and 3D computer animation. His short experimental and animated films were screened and awarded at many international festivals. He teaches animation at the Arts Academy in Split, at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka and Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (Animation Department).
The Primanima International First-Film Animation Festival returns, marking its 10th edition in Budaörs this year. This year, the animated short films arrive earlier than usual—running from October 5 to 8—at the Jókai Mór Cultural Center and BABtér, with Saturday events also taking place at the Municipal Youth Club. In addition to screenings for adults, teens, and children, the festival will once again feature workshops, discussions, and, of course, parties. Professional programs are taking on a new format, and Primanima Jumpstart—a hybrid talent development program—is launching as well.
Aardman mainstays Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham visit BFI Southbank to talk about their work, including the new Wallace & Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. Four-time Oscar-winner Nick Park created the characters Wallace and Gromit at film school. He would go on to direct Creature Comforts, Early Man and, with Peter Lord, Chicken Run. He is a director of Aardman Animations and one the world’s leading stop-motion animators and filmmakers. The multi-talented Merlin Crossingham has worked on many of Aardman’s greatest films and is Creative Director of Wallace and Gromit at Aardman. He is also the director, with Nick Park, of the forthcoming Wallace and Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. They will discuss their careers at Aardman and share their insights into this glorious form of animation.
Marta Gennari and Giulia Martinelli about their friendship, creative process, prihodnosti and their film Merlot.
A lonely young woman adopts a cat on a rainy day.
Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.
Once upon a time I bought a bicycle.
For Rene Fustercluck, life was bad, the Apocalypse was awful and then Gordon arrived. ‘After the End’ explores the possibility that the only thing worse than being the last man on earth, is being the second to last man on earth.
A cartoon history of the evolving urban landscape on the West Side of Manhattan, from colonial times to postmodern gentrification, all to a jazz beat. Commission animation for the New York Times.
When conflict becomes a spectacle, the lines between destruction and entertainment get blurred…
What happens when the dream takes control over reality?
Two burglars discover a mysterious treasure in the pocket of a woman’s fuchsia coat. Anybody who wears the coat is given access to an infinite source of wealth. The only drawback is that they are not allowed to show the coat to anybody else. This is why the more cunning of the two crooks forces his assistant to wear the coat in disguise, so that he can spend the riches.
Mercurio is a kid who loves cycling. One day he is stopped by members of the Fascist regime and incarcerated in a transit camp, ready to be sent to a concentration camp.
The boy hesitates, but he isn’t strong enough to break up. Finally the girl calls it quits, and when they meet again, the girl is with her new boyfriend.The boy is shocked, he wants to escape, so he tries to hitchhike. The surrealistic journey reflects his mood swings.
About the hardships and joys of motherhood.
Marta Gennari and Giulia Martinelli about their friendship, creative process, prihodnosti and their film Merlot.
A small, plump man lives on the top floor of a skyscraper. During the day, he’s a garbage man, but in the evening, he watches Tarzan-movies and dreams of in his lush roof jungle.
Visual trip through the distorting perception of the protagonist. Obsessive physicist in a world full of backpackers, observes a distant Nucleus emitting impulses. Rubbed up by the constant noise of the his neighbor’s cat, which keeps him from his work, he glides slowly to madness. In a surreal desert, he is confronted with the connections between his the neighbors, the cat and the nucleus.
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Victoria Musci represents herself and her film Giggino 'o Bello.
Sprout who always compare herself to her friend that grows much faster than her. Where she realized her growth are not as fast as her friend. She would do what her friend does hoping that she could grow as fast, not knowing that different people would need different necessities and care.
Through the eyes of a macaque mother, a group of snow monkeys has to face the strict rules which govern their community.
A rhythmic animation of 3, 475 individual masks from all over the world.
An ambitious owl physicist is determined to follow in the footsteps of his renowned scientific ancestors by solving a tough equation. But the owl’s endeavor gets disrupted when a woodpecker moves into the neighborhood.
Adventures of a little boy Hugo and a taxi driver Peppino on their journey through dangerous universe. One meter faster than light they flee from the furious monsters of Aldebaran. Animated short for children based on the fairy tale by famous Gianni Rodari.
The story takes place in an unnamed American metropolis of the 1960s, where a criminal gang led by Prehlađeni Joe (Runny Nose Joe) carries out various criminal acts, but is thwarted by police inspector Maska, using various disguises to track them and catch them in the end.
Part of an animated series in which wild animals practice sports designed for humans, resulting in funny offbeat situations.
Guillaume Guérin stopped believing in the images he sees and the representations they convey. To him, they have lost their objectivity and thus, he decided to focus on the abstract aspect of the Image.
Fatima takes great care of her late grandfather’s walking cane – so much so that it decides to transform into a magic wand and grant her family’s wishes. Made by a group of children from the Amal Refugee Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
EPISODES: Mosquito-Bite / Leo snores / Hide and Seek / Concert / Tragedy / The Snowlion / Silence / The Painting / Love / The Skandal / The Tooth of Elephant / The Gala Dinner / The Slimming Diet
Camera is following the events that happened after two kids find a box of matches and decide to boil an egg.
Experimental video by Sander Joon.
Official music video for The Weeknd “How Do I Make You Love Me”, available everywhere now.
Music video.
The official animated music video for Dua Lipa – Levitating
An incredible stop-motion animation made from paper cutouts for Tulipa Ruiz’s track “Tu” by São Paulo-based studio PANAMA.
The 360° music video immerses viewers inside the haunted “Spirit House”.
Two friends, lovers, soulmates, a pair of two, searching and ultimately finding each other. This pair traveling between worlds and changing forms, expressed through 15 styles of animation, by 15 animators from across the world.
How would it be if you had one last song to sing before the world collapsed?
Don’t do your gig at some cheap joint!
A music video.
Accompanied by a familiar melody, the Argentinian video clip draws us into the vortex of a world whose animation is based on the magic of the zoopraxinoscope. Combined with other animation techniques, the result is an unusual work using not only a fascination with primordial animation devices, but also hand-drawn or stop-motion animation.
ROBOT DREAMS director/screenwriter/producer Pablo Berger discusses the film at the AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 3, 2024. Video shot live on location, organized, assembled, written (via editing), & edited by TheMovieReport.com
Interview with director Yelyzaveta Pysmak referncing her works: My Fat Arse and I (2020).
Interview with Olga Pärn, illustrator, animator, and director from Belarus who currently lives in Estonia.
Behind the scenes of short film SIERRA.
Interview with Michaela Pavlatova at Animateka Festival.
Director interview with Shoko Hara. Film referenced in this interview: Shoko Hara – Just A Guy (2020).
A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.
Pixar provides their LIVE review of Pixar’s first teaser trailer for “Inside Out 2” on November 9, 2023.
On her Masterclass “Unsung Women Heros of Animation”, the well known Animation Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps reflects why there is so few women in the animation industry, even though almost 65% of all animation students are female and why we all know the Fleisher Brothers and Walt Disney, but with a few exceptions, the women who blazed the animation trail are almost unknown to us. Denney-Phelps is a distinguished animation journalist and a well-known guest in many Animation Festivals. She writes an animation blog to the Animation World Network – AWN.
The cast of of the Toy Story 4 providing insights and offering samples of recording in the vocal booth.
Polish filmmaker Marta Pajek discusses the creative process for her award-winning trilogy, Impossible Figures and other stories, following the online release of the final film, a mysterious and haunting portrait of personal and societal self-destruction.
Behind the scenes film about making of the film Zootopia.
Bill Plympton at LINOLEUM 2014.
The Moomins are back, just like you remember them! The third season is all about adventures and obstacles won with curiosity, enthusiasm and a great dollop of humour. Watch this behind the scenes video.
Júlia Farkas is the first Hungarian artist who made a short for Adult Swim Smalls, a series dedicated to young artists who can realize their own vision. Júlia is an animation film director who is also an accomplished art teacher and active in the field of new media, her popular gifs have reached more than 2 billion views on her Giphy’s site. In this masterclass Juli will tell us about how to create an auteur animation even if it is a commissioned work. She will tell us how she came up with the initial idea, how to experiment during the production and let new ideas be born even in the later stages and how can you fit these into the original concept. Afterwards, she will examine why the extra short films and animation go well together and why it is interesting to work in this format and how a strange surreal humor feeds her work. She will also tell about the new challenge she faced, when she started to explore the relationship between the visuals and creative sound design.
The beloved Coraline – fearless, independent, curious – had nine different outfits, all of which gave animators unique opportunities to bring her to life. Explore Coraline’s closet in this behind-the-scenes featurette for LAIKA’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion classic.
This lecture will take us in space and time through the main contemporary art forum, the Venice Biennale. Every two years guest curators treat the international audiences to their own “cross-section of the world.” On the example of prominent projects starting from 2011 and up to now, we will explore the human image and its current ranking in the work of curators and in the imagination of artists. We will also try to establish why it is worth setting your “outlook clock” against the major arts exhibitions.
‘Kiki de Montparnasse’ was the unwary muse of major avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. Memorable witness of a flamboyant Montparnasse, she emancipated from her status as a simple model and became a Queen of the Night, a painter, a press cartoonist, a writer and a cabaret singer.
Katariina Lillqvist is well known of her puppet animations. Her latest short animation Last Matador (2021) has just been released and will be seen in Animatricks 2021! In this masterclass Katariina will present her career, talk about puppet animation and about her study and work experience in Czech Republic.
Generative art uses code and algorithms in a creative and artisanal manner to generate infinite animations that never repeat. But how? In her masterclass, Anna Carreras will introduce us to the peculiarities and characteristics of this medium, illustrating it with her personal research and body of work. The talk offers an exploration of how algorithms and code, used in an artisanal and creative way, can generate unique and infinite abstract animated pieces.The presentation concludes with a Q&A session open to audience participation.
Pixar has been at the forefront of 3D animation innovations for nearly 30 years, developing new methods and technologies with nearly every new project. With their newest feature film “Elemental” hitting theaters, we take a look back at the ways Disney/Pixar has evolved over time. The studio has made advancements in how characters move, going from robotic motion in 1995’s “Toy Story” to characters who can intricately play music in “Coco” and “Soul.” In the early Pixar days, human characters were hidden in the shadows, but breakthroughs in movies like “The Incredibles” and “Brave” paved the way for more believable human characters. And clothes, which were once stiff, took center stage in “Onward” thanks to innovations from movies like “Monsters Inc.”
The Green Animation Guide was released at this year’s MIFA and is the first international reference guide for sustainable practices in animation. It provides peer-driven actionable recommendations tailored to the specific needs of studios, producers and artists, enabling them to implement meaningful changes adapted to their realities. The guide is a collaborative effort led by Ecoprod, Green Film and Cine Regio with the support of several regional film funds.
Joanna Quinn, whose acclaimed body of work includes the Oscar-nominated shorts Famous Fred, The Wife of Bath and her most recent film Affairs of the Art, speaks with Ben Mitchell of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine in an exclusive talk as part of the Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival. Having achieved major success at the very beginning of her career with her multi-award-winning debut film Girls Night Out, Joanna has since become an inspirational figurehead to many in the animation world through the work of her studio Beryl Productions. In this talk Joanna will offer unique insight into the highs and lows of industry success and how she has navigated the emotional pitfalls that come with it, from grappling with feelings of failure against high expectations, balancing personal projects and professional commissions, to dealing with imposter syndrome, burnout, staying motivated when life gets in the way and the challenges the younger generation face in the current social media climate and the pressures to succeed that come with it.
The interview with the directors Ala Nunu Leszynska & Nadja Andrasev.
Inspired by Desert Island Comics, the iconic Brooklyn shop now indefinitely closed, this cut paper animation speaks to the connective power of comic books.
Behind the scenes on Move Mountain.
Interview with Andrej Goričar at Animateka 2011.
Seven people living with aphasia through hand-drawn rotoscope and digital animation.
Adam Elliot an Oscar winning and multi AFI (ACCTA) award winning filmmaker. Full length interview that didn’t air on television.
Interview with director Alexandra Májová.
Dolly is stressed out so best friend Belle organises a relaxing day. However, racing in the pool, fighting with the masseuse and plotting during meditation is surely missing the point.
In this episode, a rambunctious gang of ants forms a chaotic army, marching across the garden with a single-minded goal: to claim territory and resources. Their determined advance soon encounters rival insects, natural obstacles, and hilarious miscalculations that turn their mission into a series of comedic skirmishes.
Pink has hidden in a department store, and spends the night trying to hide from the caretaker.
DIETS! The cloak and dagger antics of a girl alone at home on a diet – weighing raisins, fiddling the scales, changing the definition of ‘fruit’ and blaming it all on her boyfriend.
Follow Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Green Duck as they learn about family, electricity, and death. Beware the strange and dangerous twists that come their way as their seemingly-safe house reveals that they live in an actual nightmare.
Dolly decides to throw a party but her exciting, interesting guests all turn up just as her family decide to try their hand at dancing and a few practical jokes.
Dolly Pond’s relationships are like no other…
Dolly enters a poetry competition – for children.
A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.
One of two commercials I made for Ski Yoghurt.
A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.
A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.
FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS.
A cinematic visualisation of George Antheil's 1952 revision of "Ballet Mecanique", painted and animated by Suzan Pitt.
To promote their book BOSNIAN FLAT DOG, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummyfied Marshal Tito in a refrigerator. Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.
Little Shiva has nowhere to go until she’s taken in by a mysterious being who calls himself “Teacher.” The curse of the Outsiders will spread by the slightest touch, yet the two grow closer every day as they search for the people they once knew.
On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
This brash, inventive cartoon musical—a landmark of independent animation—satirizes Eurocentric beauty standards while celebrating the natural beauty of Black hair.
A down-on-his-luck magician meets a young girl who is convinced his magic is reel.
Three kids spend the night at their grandpa’s house. To fill the silence after losing their grandma, the family’s storyteller, they begin to create their own stories and discover the power of imagination. This uplifting stop-motion film celebrates creativity and its healing magic.
A woman enjoys an erotic interlude with her very well endowed lover, while various amusing objects are tossed out a window above them.
A sly political satire realized through charming hand-drawn animation, BON VOYAGE SIM features one of director Moustapha Alassane’s many beloved cartoon frogs as Monsieur Sim, the president of the Republic of Toads, who faces a crisis when he returns home from a “diplomatic” trip abroad.
Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.
Cambodia, 1975. The survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime.
