A selection of animation short that give a more indie feel in our holiday season.

Krooka talks to Slovenian animation director Zoel Kastelic, who premieres her short animation The Features That Smell of the Sea, to Zippy Frames.

Vassilis Kroustallis writes about spectatorship and the audience in Michelle & Uri Kranot's animation short, The Hangman at Home. The film is now online

Vassilis Kroustallis brings forward some of the questions raised for short animation in the recent Impossible Figures and Other Stories I animation short by Polish director Marta Pajek.

L.A. based indie animation artist Sandro Del Rosario talks to Zippy Frames on his Italian travelogue hand-painted animation film, The Italian Gaze.

A day in a life of  a young teenager boy, his fears and concerns. The new film All of Our Shadows by Ruth Beni and Daniel Greaves.

Ukrainian director Mykyta Lyskov (Nikita Lyskov) talks about all things Ukrainian and post-Soviet in Deep Love.

Acclaimed director and animation studies scholar Georges Sifianos signs his latest animation film, The Blind Writer. He talks to Zippy Frames.

Emotional and animated letting go in the short animation Lah Gah by Swiss director Cécile Brun. Watch the film.