The Animation Showcase, the free streaming platform for industry members and now students the opportunity to watch acclaimed indie films from around the world, has announced the release of its 2025 Best Animated Short Film Collection. Celebrating festival favorites and awards season contenders, the collection is available to watch worldwide from now until the Oscar Shortlist Announcement on December 16.
From Paris to Los Angeles, with stops in New York, San Francisco, Portland, Montréal, London and more, The Animation Showcase travels the world every year to bring a special collection of shorts curated for some of the greatest animation studios. This collection reuniting the best of 2025 is now available online for the entire animation industry!
This year’s line-up includes frontrunners for the upcoming awards season from leading studios like Cartoon Saloon’s Éiru and animation legends such as Aaron Blaise’s Snow Bear, as well as indie animators such as this year’s Annecy Festival Cristal winner The Night Boots, along with other festival darlings including Studio Croma’s Playing God, winner of Tribeca Film Festival and Animayo International Film Festival, and SXSW Film Festival winner Retirement Plan by John Kelly.
This must-see shorts presentation during the awards season will be followed by new bonuses, making-ofs, Q&A and featurettes, as well as animated features exclusively available to stream on The Animation Showcase platform.
“We are thrilled to unveil this year’s Best Animated Short Film Collection, a truly inspiring selection of award-winning shorts from around the world,” says Benoit Berthe Siward, Curator & Founder of The Animation Showcase. “Over the past year, we’ve travelled to the best festivals and leading animation studios to uncover the most powerful and inspiring animated gems of the year. These films represent the very best of contemporary animation — powerful storytelling, artistic innovation, and deeply human perspectives. It’s an honor to share the work of such extraordinary filmmakers with the animation community, worldwide.”
The Animation Showcase streaming platform specializes in spotlighting and promoting the best creations from the animation community. In addition to streaming animated projects, the industry-only platform curates the best short films from filmmakers around the world and gives an opportunity to the animation and motion pictures community to discover or rewatch feature films for a limited time.
The platform was previously used to screen to the industry the three-time Oscars-nominated animated documentary Flee, as well as A24’s Academy Award-nominated stop-motion feature Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and IFC’s nominated feature Memoir of a Snail, and was also used to release worldwide War Is Over! and The Windshield Wiper, both Oscar winners for Best Animated Short Film. Since its launch,
The Animation Showcase has become a key destination during awards season, featuring the most critically acclaimed films each year.
The Animation Showcase also helps indie animated short and features to find their audience during awards season, bringing awareness on high-profile animated motion pictures. During the 2024/25 race, all the Oscar-nominated animated shorts were represented and accompanied by The Animation Showcase, as well as the feature film Memoir of a Snail.
All animation & motion picture industry members and students can easily join the platform by following the portal and this three-step instruction below:
1. Click on the Animation Magazine Sign Up Portal to request a membership to the streaming platform.
2. Add your email address and work proof (IMDb, Linked-in, Vimeo or other)
3. After the information verification, you will receive an email with the instructions to connect to the streaming platform and begin watching.
