The Bucheon International Animation Festival has revealed its 2017 selection, with world premieres in its line-up.

Watch the Sparks puppet music video from UK animation director Joseph Wallace.

Per Åhlin, the iconic Swedish film director, illustrator and animator will be this year’s honorary guest at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival, which will take place on the 9th to 12th of November in Fredrikstad, Norway.

The acclaimed Swiss filmmaker will expose his work at the Peja festival.      

The new feature by Cartoon Saloon will have its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

Selection results of the 8th Anibar International Animation Festival.

The Peja festival  (14-20 August 2017, Kosovo) endorses the overall theme of urban social consciousness.

For all women animation filmmakers, here's the next call for the Tricky Women 2017 edition, Vienna.

A very daring hedgehog is waiting for your attention. Interview with Eva Cvijanović, director of the awarded stop-motion short, Hedgehog's Home.

A new, Indonesian animation festival calls for entries.

 All winners of the celebrated Annecy International Film Animation Festival.

Ali Soozandeh's rotoscoped Iranian drama about the lives of 4 people in modern-day Tehran hits all the right notes in character development within a glib portrait of internalized, strict moral codes.

The new painted feature on Vincent Van Gogh is carefully crafted and timid at the same time. 

The Colombian director of Fat, Bald and Short comes with a new feature to be pitched at Bridging the Gap Animation Lab at Tenerife, Spain this July.

Our short, but important news items from the world of independent animation. Our first issue, 5 June 2017.