The Swiss stop-motion film has now entered the 9 foreign language films that will advance in the 89th Oscars race.

It's nice to be inventive. Watch The Lighthouse by Simon Scheiber.

Film review for the Oscar-hopeful US/Korean animated short.

Deeply unsettling but truly humane, the puppet short Canis by Marc Riba and Anna Solanas. For mature audiences only.

Support the UK independent (and brilliant) animation artist Bexie Bush in her online campaign and The Rumour Mill film.

Cut-out animation and a story of personal adventure. Watch music video Oh, My directed by Tess Martin.

US indie experimental filmmaker has a new feature film in the making, after Glitch in the Grid. Watch the trailer for Apocalypsis

For all Scottish puppet animators, the Creative Fund Award presents the opportunity to support a new production.

Clay motion at its most white: the exquisite story of a girl lost by the Estonian animation director Anu-Laura Tuttelberg.

Kasia Nalewajka knows how to play with puppets and concept roles. Watch her Pineapple Calamari.

 The Estonian puppet animator Ülo Pikkov has a new documentary animation short, Empty Space. Read his interview for Zippy Frames.

The very crafty French/US co-production of The Little Prince can be a fine film at times, but keeps retelling its message in more ways than Saint d' Exupéry's essential simplicity would permit.

One of the most penetrating shorts of the last three years. Watch Oh, Willy...

Charlie Kaufmann's stop-motion feature has a trailer.

She's talented, European and fights hard for her puppet world. The Slovenian stop-motion director Špela Čadež talks to Zippy Frames.