We met Berat Ilk, successful Turkish animation director and producer, and president of ASIFA-Turkey, during Animasyros 9.0, and had a fine chat about Turkish animation, festivals and education.

The 2016 Student Academy Awards were given. See all animation winners.

Write your animation short or feature script in  Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, France within he NEF Animation residency programme.

The essential highlights of the Greek Animasyros fest.

Discover the jury members of the Segovia fest as well.

The Swedish-Estonian animation becomes a short film nominee for the European Film Awards at the 73th Venice Film Festival.

The Kosovo fest has transcended its local constraints and has been established as a fine new player in the animation festival list.  Interview with the new Anibar festival director, Petrit Gora.

Where environment and human culture are brought together. The new 2D short Wade from the Ghost collective is in production. Discover the film.

Window Horses, Psiconautas are among the Greek festival's 2016 selections.

The twice Oscar-nominee Russian aniimation director  Konstantin Bronzit will be one of the guests of the Norway fest.

Psiconautas, Ma vie de courgette, Window Horses but also films in world premiere compete at the 2016 Bucheon International Animation Festival, Korea.

AniDox:Residency is a programme for the production of animated documentary short films in Viborg, Denmark.

Peripheria, Under your finger,  Yul and the Snake are 3 out of 5 short animated films nominated for the European Cartoon D'or award.

The documentary by Marco Bonfanti about the celebratory Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto will have its world premiere at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.

A  film that claims to feature "Bruno Bozzetto's animals and friends" certainly needs to be seen.

 
The Milan-born Marco Bonfanti,director of The Words of Stockhausen, Ordeal (Inside Me), and the 2011 docufiction The Last Shepherd, undertakes to portray the world of the Oscar-nominated Italian artist, Bruno Bozzetto.

Bozzetto's fame (over 300 feature films, shorts, and commissioned films) lies in his caricature, parody and his sense of restlessly examining otherwise uninteresting surroundings.

 Bozzetto Non Troppo (a pun on the 1977 Bozzetto feature, Allegro non-troppo) promises to be a film about what's inside, behind, before, beneath and in the pockets of Italian animation legend Bruno Bozzetto.

Using both contemporary footage and archival material and, of course, the 79-year-old animation artist as its host, it promises a rather authoritative and interesting cartoon journey.

Bozzetto Non Troppo

Nature, humour, the absurdity of war and the power of ideas are some of the film themes unfolded like a game between the host, director and the audience. The film has been selected to open in the 73rd Venice Film Festival(Venice Classics).

Screenings:  Friday 9 Sep – 5:00 pm – SALA CASINÒ / Saturday 10 September – 11:30 am – Sala Volpi

 Watch the rather nostalgic trailer, with Bruno Bozzetto going home in the rain, with a Signor Rossi umbrella:

Bozzetto Non Troppo is a Zagora and Istituto Luce-Cinecittàproduction, with the support of Sky Arte HD and Studio Bozzetto & Co.

And Portugal will be the guest country in the the Segovia major animation and transmedia event.