Exhilarating experimental film Microcassette is set atop a fantasy island garbage heap | Film of the Week
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Mixing animation and archive, Chris the Swiss investigates the death of a journalist in the Yugoslav Wars | Film of the Week
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Online festival of Russian-language films is a spine-tingling treat for horror lovers
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Your Covid-19 stories have made this animated Russian fairytale
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        A moving animation pays homage to Britain’s migrant medical staff
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        How Marcell Jankovics’ psychedelic animation lights a path for artists in an age of rising authoritarianism
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        How one artist is turning lockdown anecdotes into animated Russian fairytales
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Gogol’s nose and accidental luxury: Eastern European animations at the upcoming online Annecy Film Festival
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        6 legendary Soviet cartoons that you can watch at home
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        This Oscar-nominated Czech animation tells a moving story about a troubled father-daughter relationship
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        What does a lake dream about? This year, London’s off-beat Short Film Festival takes a mythical excursion
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        70 years on, a new animation revisits the painful history of Stalin’s deportation of Moldovans 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        A Ukrainian animation series takes Barbie on a horror trip across a garbage wasteland created by her plastic world
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        This Russian arthouse remake of The Simpsons is the most depressing thing you’ll see today
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Watch the one minute short films proving less is definitely more
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        These Russian cartoons are going global after being picked up by Netflix
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Cyclists: Watch the award-winnng film inspired by Croatian artist Vasko Lipovac
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Ugly: the nightmare-inducing animation that just became eligible for an Oscar