Festival Animanie
international film & game competition for creators under 26 years of age
14-17 November, 2024 at Moving Station, Pilsen
competition for prizes, cinema, animation workshops, interesting guests, educational programme
29.10.2024
Pre-sale just started
At the GoOut portal you can already find paid events of our program. The full entry fee is 130 CZK. Entry fee for students or disabled persons is 100 CZK. Family admission is also possible - it is 280 CZK.
For children up to 4 years old, the entire program is free.
The complete programme can be found in the Programme tab here on the website.
30.09.2024
The list of accepted films is here!
Dear competitors,
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's film competition and congratulations to those whose film will be in the festival's showcase of 127 best films.
The list of accepted films can be found here.
Stay tuned and we look forward to seeing you where else but in the cinema.
Contest
The international Festival Animánie is the largest and oldest competitive showcase of audiovisual works by children and young people up to 26 years of age. The competition traditionally attracts short animated films from all around the world, and the dramaturgical board has selected a total of 120 films from several hundreds of entries.
The selected animated films will compete in three categories according to the age of their creators: the MINI ( under 13 years old), MIDI (14-19 years old) and MAXI (20-26 years old). The winners will be decided by an international jury, which will award the festival's Animánička Award in each category.
Starting this year, we have also decided to award the extraordinary Honza Příhoda Award as a tribute to the former long-time festival director.
Relatively newly, Festival Animanie also organizes a showcase of games made by young creators.
Jury
Michaela Režová
A filmmaker and director. Her work focuses on animated documentary. She graduated in animation in Pilsen under the guidance of Jiří Barta and at the UMPRUM in Prague. In 2013, she was on an internship at the French school La Poudrière. Her diploma film Štvanice (2017) won the Main Award at the Marienbad Film Festival and was included in the Best Czech Shorts 2018 selection. Recently, she has worked as Creative Director on 360° film projection projects for the History of the 20th Century exhibition at the National Museum, or films for the Design and Transformation: Stories of Czech Design 1900-2020 exhibition. She is behind the research and preparation of an exhibition and publication on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the animation studio at UMPRUM. In 2024, she realized the multimedia documentary exhibition The Art of Movement: Sport - Politics - Culture in the work of Zdeněk Němeček at the UM Gallery in Prague. She is the founder of the f-a-t.cz platform, which brings content from the world of animated film under the motto "From animators to animators". She is currently completing her PhD studies at UMPRUM, lecturing on the theory and history of animation and co-directing the Animation and Film Studio.
Pavel Horáček
He graduated in Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture at Masaryk University in Brno. He works as a programme director and member of the Programme Board at the Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films in Liberec. He prepares animated film programmes for Czech and foreign institutions. He publishes on film and animation, cooperates with the Czech Film Centre on the selection of Czech short films, and is a member of juries of international festivals.
Agnieszka Krajewska
A cultural studies graduate, animator, author and producer of numerous national and international artistic and educational projects for children, youth and adults. A coordinator of 9 editions of the National Review of Animated Films Created by Children, “Oko Kaleidoskopu”. A curator of several editions of international workshops for children “Animator of Tomorrow” at The ANIMATOR International Animated Film Festival. She organized the Teachers’ Film Forum as part of The International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! She coordinated several international interdisciplinary artistic projects for children, together with “The Wandering Ale Kino!” animation workshops, taking place in several dozens of small towns. Other projects she organized include a series of animation workshops carried out in primary schools as part of the “Great Adventure with Film” project, or the project ”Stop! Don’t rule it out! Help! – How to make an animated film on an important topic”. She is a perennial visitor of Festival Animánie, where she has also participated with her charges countless times as a competitor.