Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his stop-motion animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.
Priit Pärn is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals.
Joanna Lisa Quinn is an English independent film director and animator.
Caroline Leaf is a Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, director, tutor and artist. She has produced numerous short animated films and her work has been recognized worldwide. She is best known as one of the pioneering filmmakers at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). She worked at the NFB from 1972 to 1991. During that time, she created the sand animation and paint-on-glass animation techniques. She also tried new hands-on techniques with 70mm IMAX film. Her work is often representational of Canadian culture and is narrative based. Leaf now lives in London UK and is a tutor at The National Film and Television School. She maintains a studio in London working in oils and on paper and does landscape drawing with iPad.
Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin International Film Festival. She is the only Austrian actress to win this award in history of the festival and the first Austrian actress to win best actress award at a major European film festival since 1956. She worked with several major European directors including Michael Haneke, Tom Tykwer and Jessica Hausner.
Docaviv, also known as the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, is the only film festival in Israel dedicated to documentary films, and the largest film festival in Tel Aviv. It is run by a non-profit organisation of the same name, founded in 1998. In recent years the festival has drawn an attendance of around 40,000.
Grandpa Walrus is an animated short film directed by Lucrèce Andreae and produced by Caïmans Productions. The short has been presented and won awards in a number of festivals including in Cannes Film Festival, The Annecy International Animation Film Festival where it won The Audience Award., winner of The César Award for Best Animated Short Film at the french Motion Picture César Academy, nominated at the Annie Awards and Shortlisted at the Oscars.
Lucrèce Andreae is a French director, screenwriter and animator. She directed the short film Grandpa Walrus which won the César Award for Best Short Film during The Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques in 2018 and The Audience Award during The Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary is a 2020 French-Danish animated family feature film directed by Rémi Chayé. The film is loosely based on the life of the American frontierswoman Calamity Jane.
The Delegation is a 2018 Albanian drama film directed by Bujar Alimani. It was selected as the Albanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Ruben Brandt, Collector is a 2018 Hungarian animated crime thriller film directed by Milorad Krstić. It is the first feature film of the Slovenian-born director, who previously won a Silver Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1995. The film tells the story of a psychotherapist who enlists creative thieves to steal the paintings that are haunting his dreams.
Cyclists is a 2018 Croatian-French animated short film by Veljko Popović, internationally co-produced and distributed by Bonobostudio.
Kaspar Jancis is an Estonian director of animated films, musician, composer.
Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus is an animated film by Croatian director Dalibor Barić, shortlisted for the 2021 Satellite Awards in the Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media category and submitted to the 2021 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Cafard is a 2015 French-Dutch-Belgian animated war film written and directed by Jan Bultheel. The film tells the story of a boxer, Jean Mordant, who joins the Belgian Expeditionary Corps which is sent to the Russian Empire during World War I in order to avenge the rape of his daughter by German soldiers in Occupied Belgium.
Lotte and the Lost Dragons is a 2019 Estonian-Latvian animated film directed by Janno Põldma and Heiki Ernits, in a co-production between Joonis Films and Rija Films. It is the fourth film in the Lotte film series, following the titular character.
Mum is Pouring Rain is a French animated short film produced by Laïdak Films written by Hugo de Faucompret and Lison d'Andréa and directed by Hugo de Faucompret. Released in 2021, it won the Jury Prize in the Special TV category at the Annecy international animated film festival the same year. The film was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the 94th Academy Awards.
The Staffroom is a 2021 Croatian drama film, the feature film debut of writer and director Sonja Tarokić.
The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead is a 2014 American-Romanian computer-animated independent film written, produced and directed by Elliot Cowan in his directorial debut. Based on Cowan's titular characters, Boxhead and Roundhead were initially conceived as part of a children's picture book project, but were later adapted into a series of nine short films. The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Animation Festival on 20 June 2014.
Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A Rapid Love Story is a 2013 Estonian stop motion animated romantic musical film directed by Mait Laas, from a screenplay by Kati Kovács and Peep Pedmanson. Produced by Nukufilm, Ülo Krigul composed the soundtrack. It was released in Estonian cinemas on 8 March 2013.
