Konstantinos Tasoulas President of the Hellenic Parliament
hellenicparliament.gr
In 2024, ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival will be back as a cultural institution for the 17th time! This year, artists and works from Africa will be honoured, highlighting their cultural relationship with animation and giving the participants and the audience, who faithfully follow the Festival the opportunity to "wander" through the African continent through three particularly interesting pillars.
The artistic programme, the Agora and the animation media literacy workshops are the best way to accompany this unique animation experience. We look forward to it every year in Syros!
On the very first day of the festival, the European Animation Emiles Awards Ceremony will take place, while during the whole festival there will be seven competition screening programmes. The rich programme of ANIMASYROS also includes a tribute to Slovakia, which further broadens the interest and highlights the European dimension of audiovisual creation.
My best wishes for a succesful edition to the organisers and the festival team!
Dr. Lina Mendoni Minister of Culture
It is with great pleasure that I welcome the 17th ANIMASYROS 2024 International Animation Festival. It is the event that was launched in 2008 in the capital of Cyclades and that has become, as it should be every year, one of the leading European celebrations of animation, animated films and their artistic applications.
This year's edition demonstrates the Festival's reputation and its consolidation as an international benchmark for the sector. It is more multidimensional than ever. With its seven competition sections, specialized tributes, educational workshops, regional activities and a dense network of new national and international collaborations, it promises to be an extremely rich event, not only an irreplaceable meeting place for enthusiasts and professionals of the genre, but also one that is constantly attracting a wider audience, introducing them to the extremely interesting and demanding art of animation.
The thematic core of ΑΝΙΜΑSYROS 2024, entitled "Africa: an animated continent", runs through the festival's programme and highlights the largely unknown thematic and cultural relationship between the African continent and the global animation production. We tend to think of Africa as an exotic and untouched place. There is an irresistible fascination and attraction to discovering this place. ΑΝΙΜΑSYROS 2024 will reintroduce it to us as the place of origin of important creators and bring us into contact with their works. In addition to the presentation of films or works with an African theme, it will reveal the place and its people, contributing to the broadening of our knowledge of other countries and their people, to the breaking down of stereotypes and ultimately to mutual understanding. All this through the ideal medium of animation, which is a universal language shared by young and old people alike.
ANIMASYROS 2024 is faithful to the solid tradition it has created, which is also renewed and it is structured around three pillars. The artistic programme itself, with animated films shown in seven competitive sections, the aforementioned Thematic Tribute and tributes to the international animation scene and its esteemed representatives. The Agora, which brings together and networks artists and professionals of the genre, and also highlights the financial aspect of this art and the need to support it. Finally, animation media literacy workshops are organised for a wide range of audience, such as children and teenagers, people with disabilities and seniors. A new feature is the European Animation Emiles Awards ceremony, which will take place on the first day of the festival.
The extensive and original tributes, as well as the artistic and educational programmes, confirm the radiance and justify the impact of ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival. Syros is gradually regaining its rightful title: that of the fertile and restless cultural centre of contemporary Greece, in a field of creativity that appeals to a worldwide audience of all ages. The island's reborn extroversion is reflected in the professionalism and youthful spirit of the festival's participants and collaborators. I take the success of the festival for granted and look forward to many more Festivals to come.
Sofia Zacharaki Minister of Social Cohesion and Family
It is with great pleasure that I welcome the 17th Edition of ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival 2024.
Since its inception in 2008 in the heart of Cyclades, ANIMASYROS has become a significant institution, establishing Syros as a global meeting point and a hub of artistic exchange.
This year, the Festival’s central theme is dedicated to Africa, exploring the rich and ever-evolving animation scene of the continent. At the same time, the festival’s diverse program will feature artistic works by Greek filmmakers as well as tributes to Central Europe and Mexico.
Recognising that artistic expression is a universal concern, ANIMASYROS continues its media literacy workshops for yet another year, offering opportunities to children, teenagers, young professionals, people with disabilities and seniors to collaborate and create.
Having the Aegean colors as our background, we, once again, let the Festival take us to imaginary worlds, to other continents and to challenge, teach and ultimately remind us of the immediate expressive potential of artistic innovation.
George Leontaritis
Vice Governor of Cyclades
pnai.gov.gr
It is with great pleasure that we welcome the prestigious ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival to Hermoupolis for the seventeenth year.
This great celebration of animation opens its doors to welcome us into its spectacular world.
It is an internationally renowned institution that every year gives the artists of moving image the opportunity to communicate with the audience in a way that has made a breakthrough in national and international artistic events, and at the same time, it is an opportunity for animation fans to enjoy quality films, new productions and special tributes.
ANIMASYROS 2024 is dedicated to Africa and explores the cultural relationship of this continent with the global animation community, once again contributing to the arts and culture in its own unique way.
I would like to congratulate the organisers for this year's unique programme of events, which, in addition to the rest of the festival's activities, will include the European Animation Emile Awards for the first time.
Once again, the Region of South Aegean actively supports the International Animation Festival, recognising its brilliant course and the great contribution of this prestigious institution in Greece and Europe.
syros-ermoupolis.gr syrosisland.gr
ANIMASYROS 2024, International Animation Festival, opens its doors in September in the Cycladic capital, our beloved Syros.
Seventeen years of creative course, artistic searching and wonderful wandering in the magical and special world of animated films.
With seven competition sections, special tributes, educational workshops for the whole family, children, teenagers, young professionals, people with disabilities and senior citizens, a rich programme of parallel activities, new international and national collaborations, this year is sure to leave the best impressions.
In particular, the Agora, one of the most dynamic parts of the Festival, which has become a reference point for the industry in the Eastern Mediterranean, is celebrating its tenth anniversary with the launch of a new strategic partnership with Annecy International Animation Festival, the largest animation festival in the world. This will take place as part of the Pitching Forum and with the support of the French Institute in Greece.
This year's ANIMASYROS theme is of great interest as it is dedicated to Africa under the title "Africa: An animated continent" to highlight contemporary African animation, creation and production.
We look forward to seeing you all at ANIMASYROS 2024, which is sure to surprise us once again!
We would like to thank PLATFORMA-Urban Culture Co, the Region of South Aegean, the participating artists and all those involved in the organisation of this unique event.
Good luck ANIMASYROS!
Alexandros Athanasiou Mayor of Syros - Hermoupolis
Giannis Roussos President of the Cyclades Chamber of Commerce
We are particularly pleased that one of the most important international animation festivals, ANIMASYROS, is once again being organized in Syros, contributing over the years to the promotion of the island to a very wide audience in Greece and abroad.
The Cyclades Chamber of Commerce, a firm supporter of actions that enhance the promotion and development of the island, is honored to be this year's co-organizer of ANIMASYROS 2024, recognizing its importance and role in supporting the local economy and the cultural identity of the island. In this context, the Cyclades Chamber of Commerce provides its conference hall in Syros, fully equipped with high-end technology equipment, for the needs of the festival's screenings.
Furthermore, in a joint initiative with ANIMASYROS, it will, for the first time, make available its halls in Andros, Milos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Santorini and Tinos, so that the magic of the moving image can reach as many residents and visitors of the Cyclades as possible.
Congratulations to the organizers and all the volunteers for this great effort. Good luck with the special and unique programme of this year's event.
Andreas Fiorentinos
Secretary General of the Greek National Tourism Organisation (EOT)
Undoubtedly, from 2008 until today, ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival stands out for its dynamics, the innovative ideas of the organizers, its sustainable philosophy and its substantial contribution to the promotion of Syros, the Cyclades and all of Greece, internationally.
It is aimed at a vast audience and offers, through high-quality animation films by renowned artists, “food for thought” on all the important social issues recorded in contemporary society.
The philosophy of ANIMASYROS is anthropocentric and perfectly aligned with the specific guidelines of the National Strategic Plan for Tourism, emphasizing on the qualitative development of Greek tourism, in terms of sustainability.
The Greek National Tourism Organization supports and cooperates with the ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival, recognizing its quality and its exceptional personality.
From the position of the General Secretary of the GNTO-EOT, I would like to wish the organizers good luck for this year's event!
Manolis Koutoulakis
Secretary General for the Aegean and Islands Policy
It is with great pleasure that I welcome ANIMASYROS 2024, a festival that has become a symbol of contemporary artistic creation and innovation in the field of animation. ANIMASYROS is not only a meeting point for artists and creators from all over the world. It is also a platform that promotes culture and artistic expression in the island regions of our country.
Syros, with its historical and cultural vitality, is the ideal place for this important festival. The Secretariat General for the Aegean and Island Policy, recognising the importance of cultural development in our islands, is proud to support ANIMASYROS 2024. Supporting cultural activities on the islands is a priority for us. It contributes to preserving and promoting the cultural identity of our islands, while inspiring new generations of artists.
I wish all participants and visitors a truly unique experience filled with creativity and imagination.
The University of the Aegean has been a supporter of the educational activities of ANIMASYROS since its first edition in 2008, and in recent years the festival has become a valuable partner in the design of educational and development programmes in collaboration with the University of the Aegean.
This year University of the Aegean’s Future Lab of Syros, housed together with the Library Annex in the historic Kornilakis building, donated by the Municipality of Syros-Hermoupolis and the Industrial Museum of Hermoupolis, is the focal point of the Researchers' Night. There, it will present the research project Imagine MoCap, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, on the design of media characters, an initiative of the Interactive Systems Design Laboratory of the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering (PDSD), in collaboration with the Ionian University and the University of the Peloponnese.
Directors and members of the ASIFA HELLAS will use motion capture techniques to bring animated characters to life in front of the audience.
Collaboration with the Onassis Foundation is presented for postgraduate studies in media production design and development, but also for the organization of summer schools of art and technology and incubators for animation professionals, always in collaboration with ANIMASYROS and ASIFA HELLAS, but also with leading partners from the global university map, such as NYU, ENSAD, the Sorbonne School of Arts and the Athens University of Economics and Business, which are among the first to support this initiative.
Finally, the Kornilakis building will host works by first-year students on the theme of Africa and animation. This is the central theme of this year's ANIMASYROS.
The contribution of ANIMASYROS to the development of international cooperation should also be highlighted. This year's examples are the increased cooperation with the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market and the revival of the European Animation Emiles Awards, which aim to be the equivalent of the Oscars for European animation. Good luck with the festival and best of strength for continued creativity.
Dimitris Papageorgiou Rector of the University of the Aegean
Constantinos Tsoutsoplides
Head of the European Parliament
Liaison Office in Greece
europarl.europa.eu/greece
For another year, we embark on a beautiful journey into the world of animation, in a festival platform for dialogue and creativity. Inspired this time by Africa, "an animated continent", we embrace the common values that unite us and celebrate the art that brings us together.
Guided by the pillars of European culture, equality, democracy and solidarity, we broaden our horizons through the work of creators, producers and artists from European and African countries.
In these times of recurring crises, cooperation between nations, embracing multiculturalism, respecting all cultures, and safeguarding cultural heritage are more important than ever.
This year's ANIMASYROS reminds us of the power of art to unite and inspire. The stories and works in the festival's rich, international programme represent the voices of a continent full of vibrancy and diversity, inviting us to discover new ways of thinking and expressing ourselves through shared cultural experiences.
As a continent founded on the principles of democracy, Europe respects human rights and cultural diversity, supports and promotes artistic expression and mutual understanding between nations. Through initiatives such as ANIMASYROS festival, we strengthen our links with other continents. We promote artistic creation as a means of dialogue and cooperation.
Animated art, with its power to transcend borders and languages, reflects and spreads European values, strengthens our shared identity, and promotes a more just and peaceful world.
On behalf of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Greece, I extend my best wishes for the success of the Festival and thank all the participants for their outstanding work. May you all enjoy a creative, inspiring, and memorable festival.
Nicolas Eybalin
(IFG)
Cooperation and Educational Action Advisor of the Embassy of France in Greece/ Director of the French Institute of Greece
Aimé Besson
Audiovisual attaché at the Embassy of France in Greece
The French Institute of Greece has supported ANIMASYROS Festival since its inception and since its first edition.
This year, the 17th edition of the festival stands out for the strong presence of France and the countries of the French-speaking world, both in the screening programme and in the parallel activities for the general audience (Tribute to French-speaking Africa), as well as in the Agora professional forum (MIFA Campus Workshop, an incubator for the artistic development of animated films from the Mediterranean region) and on the Animapride jury, where the French Institute is honored to have representation this year.
The world of animation is vast and multifaceted, with French animation—and films inspired by it—holding a prominent position. ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival has become a well-established gathering for film enthusiasts and animation professionals alike.
We will once again have the chance to explore a world filled with magic, rich with imagery, ideas, values, and emotions. Enjoy the festival!
The Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center - Creative Greece, a strategic supporter of ΑΝΙΜΑSYROS, stands by every effort to establish the Greek animation on the global map and supports the Festival's actions aiming at a constructive dialogue between professionals, market representatives and the educational community.
This year ΑΝΙΜΑSYROS, hosts the the European Animation Emile Awards, which are being revived after six years, proving that the Festival is a reference point for creators and professionals from the European area. At the same time, with its tribute to contemporary African creation, ΑΝΙΜΑSYROS, opens a window to a thriving industry.
Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center - Creative Greece consistently supports Greek creation, which is constantly evolving and establishes partnerships that contribute substantially to the extroversion of Greek production, the training of young professionals and the strengthening of the audiovisual sector.
Leonidas Christopoulos
CEO Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center -
International Animation Festival, 23 - 29.09.2024, Syros island, Cyclades, Greece
ERT, loyal to its commitment to the most important cultural events in our country, is once again supporting the 17th edition of ANIMASYROS, contributing both to the strengthening of the position of Greek animation production in the international environment and to the promotion of Greek artists to the general public.
ERT's support for animation artists and the promotion of their work is one of the main objectives of public television. As part of the development of cutting edge programming, ERT is steadily integrating animation into its range. This is being done through the ERTFLIX platform and the new ERT Kids channel.
Furthermore, this year ERT is expanding its partnership with ANIMASYROS. In addition to providing communication support through its channels from the festival's opening day, ERT will also be awarding three prizes — in the Greek Competition, the Student Competition, and the Agora Pitching Forum — each accompanied by cash awards.
We will continue to stand by the animation community and the trailblazers of ANIMASYROS, and we wish this year's edition great success.
Sofia Dimtsa
PPC Group Chief Corporate Affairs & Communications Officer dei.gr
It is with great pleasure and pride that PPC supports for another year the international festival ANIMASYROS 2024 powered by PPC, which has become an institution for culture and moving image in Greece. ANIMASYROS 2024 powered by PPC is not just a festival of moving image; it is an important pillar of cultural expression and creativity, which supports the meeting of art with technology, and of imagination with reality.
Our commitment remains firm: we continue to invest in actions that promote the economic, environmental, and social value, always respecting the principles of sustainability and social responsibility. By supporting ANIMASYROS 2024 powered by PPC, we support art that inspires and empowers our society.
PPC, as an integral part of the socio-economic fabric of the country, moves ahead with its energy transformation and is becoming a strategic clean energy player in Southeast Europe, implementing its green transition.
Energy and the moving image are two concepts that are inextricably linked, because both are driven by the same internal force: the desire to create and renew. Sustainable development, which is a key pillar of our strategy, is closely linked to culture, which is the soul of our society. Through the ANIMASYROS 2024 festival powered by PPC, we can strengthen this connection, promoting creativity, innovation, and sustainability.
We therefore invite you to experience the magic of the festival, discover new stories and be inspired by the moving image that bridges the world of fantasy and reality.
President ASIFA HELLAS / Hellenic Animation Association asifahellas.eu
ASIFA HELLAS, the Hellenic Animation Association, has always been close to ΑNIMASYROS. The festival has become a hallmark of Greek animation.
The creative ecosystem that is presented in Greece in the field of animation is beginning to attract investments in Greek animation projects through national and international institutions and funding programmes.
Through festivals such as ANIMASYROS, ASIFA HELLAS aims to increase the visibility of the Greek animation market, which is a reflection of the positive and promising growth of the Greek animation market. This is reflected in the growing number of projects produced each year and the increasing number of Greek animation productions currently in development.
We are delighted to see that ANIMASYROS has become a vital hub of creativity, collaboration, and outward engagement for the Greek animation industry.
ASIFA HELLAS is actively participating this year and fully supports any initiative that positions our country as an emerging hub for the development of animation productions and co-productions on a global scale.
We wish you good luck and a successful festival!
Konstantinos P. Kakarountas
Vassilis C. Karamitsanis
President of ANIMASYROS
President of CIFEJ -
of Films for Children & Young People
animasyros.gr cifej.com
It’s incredible to think that 16 years have passed since we launched ANIMASYROS. Despite the successes, changes, and challenges along the way, we believe the Festival has successfully established itself as a key reference point for animated film in both Greece and Europe.
This year, we are celebrating the African continent with a broad thematic tribute, showcasing a unique world of animation that we are eager to explore further. From neighboring Egypt to distant Uganda and South Africa, animation, culture, artists, and communities from Africa are coming to Syros to captivate us.
ANIMASYROS and Greece welcome for the first time the European Animation Awards, the Emile Awards, named after the pioneering European artists Émile Reynaud and Émile Cohle.
Cohle.
We are proud to present, in collaboration with the French Institute of Paris and the renowned Annecy International Festival & Market, a longstanding Franco-Greek partnership aimed at advancing animation in the Mediterranean region.
We invite you to enjoy this festival week in any way and as much as you wish. Your personal experience on Syros, the island of animation, will once again be a valuable part of this year's ANIMASYROS!
Τhe mascot
AnimaSpiros 2024: The Cycladic figure, known for its distinctive intellectual glasses, takes on an African flair this year, donning a traditional mask to introduce us to the vibrant and colorful animation of this remarkable continent.
But this isn't the first time it has taken on different characters...
Over the years, we’ve dressed him in ancient Greek columns and draped him with ivy for an animaGreen festival. He became a groom at the famous Syros Carnival, wore a COVID mask, and even donned a red fez to stand alongside the Greek fighters of 1821. Two years ago, we knighted him as a noble ambassador of solidarity for war-torn Ukraine.
Well what about a throwback to 2008 and see how we came up with AnimaSpiros. Αnimasyros festival consists of the words “anima” (from “animation”) and “Syros”, the capital of Cyclades, who has embraced the festival from the beginning, 16 years ago. When character designer Petros Christoulias (who also created this year’s African version) sought inspiration for the festival's mascot, he journeyed back to the 3rd millennium BC, to the Aegean islands, and naturally found himself drawn to the iconic Cycladic figurine. The concept was based on this globally recognized figure, but since its face only has one feature — the nose — Christoulias added a big, quirky pair of glasses to give it "vision." This transformed the triangular head into something reminiscent of a caricature of Woody Allen, whose face has been sketched countless times and has become an archetype for the director. By giving it two simple legs, our character evolved into a symbol.
It was named “AnimaSpiros” by combining the words “animation” and -the Greek male name- “Spiros” (also an alliteration with the word Syros). Godfathers were a group of festival volunteers, students of the University of Corfu, an island literally full of men named “Spiros” after the St. Spiridon.
AnimaSpiros was developed in 3D by Konstantinos Petrou, so that he could reach the port of Syros and start filming the colorful Hermoupolis!
International Animation Festival, 23 - 29.09.2024, Syros island, Cyclades, Greece
Georgianna Dalara georgiannadalara.com
"Some continents, some times, some colors, some selves. Them, all. Together as one. Here. Now. For a while. Forever. Together, one earth."
This is the message Georgianna Dalara aims to convey as the creator of the visual identity for the 17th edition of ANIMASYROS. Inspired by African cultures, this year’s design is filled with vibrant patterns and colors, blending traditional African forms with Cycladic shapes in a beautifully harmonious way. Psychedelic motifs and bold colors are a constant source of inspiration for the creator.
Georgianna Dalara studied Theatre and Literature in the USA (BA in Theatre and Literature), as well as in England (MA in Text and Performance), and Yoga in Greece (certified Yoga instructor by the World Yoga Organization). She works as an actor, visual artist, and Yoga teacher, offering group and private classes both indoors and outdoors.
Eleni Vakondiou Design Lab
zeyelo.com elenivakondioudesighlab.com
When Zeyelo eyewear introduced its renowned wooden sunglasses and eyeglasses from Syros to the market, collaborating with Eleni Vakondiou became the obvious choice. Now, for the fourth consecutive year, her "Eleni Vakondiou Design Lab" proudly puts its signature on the ANIMASYROS, also creating the European Animation Emile Awards.
Crafted from 100% vegan materials, Vakondiou’s creations— ranging from exquisite jewelry to the festival's awards—are made using spent coffee grounds collected from select Syros' cafes and leftover wood from Zeyelo's eyewear frames, an idea born from Eleni Vakondiou and Pericles Therrios.
As Vakondiou explains, "In the future, we plan to expand beyond jewelry to include practical and decorative objects made from reclaimed wood from old boats and wine barrels. Our goal is to create raw materials from so-called waste, giving them new life and promoting Greek design."
Eleni emphasizes the urgency of sustainability, seeing it as the only viable path forward. Her approach ensures that no material goes to waste, even using the wood dust from production to help aerate Syros' notoriously tough soil. "The planet has warned us repeatedly," she says, highlighting the importance of environmental empathy, which is now embodied in our very own festival awards.
Castelfranco (1745)
(1755).
Teatro della
Syros - Hermoupolis - Apollon Theatre
Ηermoupolis, named after Hermes, the ancient God of commerce, is the capital of Syros island and the best-preserved neoclassical city in Greece. With a population of 13.000 people, it is the largest dwelling of Cyclades. Syros is inhabited from the Neolithic era and played an important role in the development of the pre-historic Cycladic civilisation, 3.000 B.C. In the 13th century A.D., the Venetians built the island’s medieval city, Ano Syros, while the island was populated by Catholics. The medieval settlement inside the castle, on the left hill above Hermoupolis protected the inhabitants when Syros was hit by piracy.
Its whitewashed walls with the colorful bougainvilleas and the typical Cycladic architecture make up the ultimate island image of the Aegean, with the Catholic church of San Giorgio, built in 1834, dominating the top of the hill. The opposite hill is crowned by the Orthodox church of the Resurrection, built in 1909 and at its feet unfolds Vrontados, the folksy neighborhood with its countless marble steps leading down to Vaporia, the most majestic area of Hermoupolis, which was filled with impressive neoclassical villas by the rich refugees from Mikra Asia (Asia Minor).
The Apollon Theatre, constructed between 1862 and 1864 by Italian architect Pietro Sampo, became a symbol of Hermoupolis’ economic and cultural flourishing in the mid-19th century. This remarkable building incorporates elements from at least four Italian architectural styles, including the Teatro alla Scala (1776) in Milan, Teatro San Carlo (1816) in Naples, Teatro Academico (1745) in Castelfranco, and Teatro della Pergola (1755) in Florence. The first performance at the Theatre was Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto. You can explore the iconic theatre digitally through the HERMes platform (www.3dheritage.gr), which features an exact 3D replica of the Apollon Theatre, created by students of the “Digital Cultural Heritage” course in the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering at the University of the Aegean, under the supervision of Dr. Pavlos Hatzigrigoriou.
Festival Juries
Odd Bleat
Odd Bleat
(Γιάννης
Awards,
Digital Awards.
Odd Bleat (Yannis Zoumakis, Manos Gerogiannis)
Αnimation & Motion Design Studio
Jury Presidents
oddbleat.com
Odd Bleat is an award-winning animation and motion design studio Odd Bleat founded in 2015 by Yannis Zoumakis and Manos Gerogiannis.
Odd Bleat has undertaken commercial projects for Dior, Ebay, Google, Revolut, Dow Jones as well as many cultural projects through their long-term collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
Working with clients from Greece, England, Canada, Lebanon, New Zealand, the United States, and Singapore, Odd Bleat specializes in writing, designing, and creating primarily promotional videos. Many of these projects have earned recognition in competitions such as the Greek Visual Communication Design Awards (EBGE), Ermis Awards, Muse Awards, and Vega Digital Awards.
Moreover they have created two short films which have travelled and won several awards at festivals in London, Los Angeles and New York.
Mbanga
Minno.
El Ojo Cojo
João Gonzalez (1996)
2023.
Rita Mbanga has over 20 years of experience working in animated and live-action feature films, commercials, short films, and TV series. She has been part of the production team on the popular “Jungle Beat” animated brand since the inception of the brand in 2004 - across all eight seasons and both feature films - the first of which was in the feature film competition in Annecy and released by Netflix. The “Jungle Beat” Youtube channel has over 11.6 million subscribers.
Rita has recently produced the “Young David” animated series which has been released by Angel Studios and Minno.
She has also been a mentor in the “Women in Animation” mentorship program and was a member of the Jury at the Annecy Film Festival in 2022 and the El Ojo Cojo Film Festival in 2022 and 2023.
João Gonzalez (1996) is a Portuguese film director, animator, illustrator and a musician with classical training in piano. He did a Masters at the Royal College Art (UK), after finishing his BA at ESMAD (PT). In these institutions he made 2 award winning films, “Nestor” and “The Voyager”. In 2022 he premiered his third film “Ice Merchants” at Festival de Cannes, winning the Prize for Best Short film in competition from the Semaine de La Critique jury, which later would became the first ever Portuguese film to be nominated for an Oscar and the second to win an Annie Award. He has a big interest in combining his musical background with his practice in authorial animation, always taking the role of composer and sometimes instrumentalist in the films he directs, occasionally setting them to a live performance.
Schlesische
Anna Routsi Cultural manager, Lawyer Jury President
Anna Routsi is a lawyer, a cultural manager and a columnist. She studied Law in Athens and Hannover and has a master degree on Culture and Media Management from Berlin Freie Universitaet. She has worked for the publicity of renowned cultural organisations, such as Athens and Epidaurus Festival. She collaborated for the programme planning and she was the head of the national and international publicityof Athens World Book Capital UNESCO 2018. She is a founding member of UNESCO’s World Book Capital Network and PEN Greece, she writes for cultural magazines, such as monopoli.gr and ecogreennet.gr and she is the chief editor for documentary programmes in cinema and television. Since 2003 she is a senior investigator in the Children’s Rights Department, she coordinates the Youth Advisory Council of the Greek Ombudsman.
Markéta Pášmová
Kαλλιτεχνική
Artistic Director,
Markéta Pášmová started working at the Zlín Film Festival in 1999 and became its artistic director in 2013. She focuses on European cinema for young audiences and is actively involved in educational programs for children and youth. She also serves on the board of directors for the FILM TALENT ZLÍN foundation, which supports young filmmakers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In addition, Markéta Pášmová leads the Zlín Industry Days, a program designed for film professionals.
Britt Raes
Director, Illustrator, Scriptwriter
«Catherine» (2016)
«Luce and the Rock» (2022)
Berlinale, Cinequest, Ottawa, Cinanima,
Prize, Indie Lisboa
Britt is a Belgian director, illustrator and scriptwriter.
She creates cute characters and dark stories, for kids and adults.
Her debut short film “Catherine” (2016) and second short “Luce and the Rock” (2022) travelled to over 200 festivals each, and together collected more than 80 prizes at Berlinale, Cinequest, Ottawa, Cinanima, Japan Prize, Indie Lisboa etc. The films are included in several educational folders and shown on international television and theatres.
Britt is currently writing a series for kids and developing a short for adults.
She likes (dark) chocolate, hugs, sketching animals at the zoo. When travelling, she collects rocks to paint eyes on. If she’s reincarnated, she hopes to come back as a cat named Fluffy.
Eleni Androutsopoulou
Head of the Greek Department
Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF)
Jury President
Eleni Androutsopoulou is Programmer, Head of the Greek Department of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) while she also coordinates the implementation of the EU programmes that the Festival undertakes. Having joined TIFF in 2005 and becoming Head of the Greek Program in 2010, part of her current role is to overview all films, which are eligible for the Greek programs of TIFF & TDF, to liaise with the local film community and to support the film selection process. Eleni holds a B.A. in Business Management from University of Patras and an M.A. in Cultural Policy, Management and Communication from Panteion University.
Olivier Catherin
(Emile
Olivier Catherin is an ethnologist by training.
He was a board member and employee of the French Animation Film Association (AFCA), where he was responsible for the Resource Centre and created the International Animation Film Day Celebration.
In 2008 he created the production company "Les Trois Ours". He produced, among more than 40 projects, including “Kiki of Montparnasse” which won a César for best short animation film.
He is one of the co-founders and administrators of the European Animation Awards (Emile Awards). Today he is a freelance producer on international co-production projects, producing for instance “Steakhouse” (Jury Prize at Annecy), “Granny’s Sexual Life” (Best short European Films Awards, César for best short animation film) or “Electra” (best short film at Toronto International Film Festival), consultant for various entities as CITIA, CEE Animation, he was in charge of Annecy 2020’s African focus or a study of the animation eco-system in Nigeria for the French Development Agency.
He’s also teaching animation production and film history. He has conducted project development and pitching workshops in Georgia for the past 10 years, and also in Ecuador, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Austria.
Amit Russell Gicelter is an Academy Award® nominated producer, a content creator, and the founder and CEO of The Hive Studio, a leading animation studio in Israel.
He specializes in international co-productions.
With 20 years of experience, Amit has produced multiple award-winning short films, including the Oscar® nominee “Letter to a Pig” and the shortlisted Black Slide, as well as series for major broadcasters and high-end commercial content, employing various animation and live-action techniques.
Yorgos Kapoutzidis Screenwriter, Actor Jury President
Born in Serres in 1972, he studied law in Thessaloniki before continuing his education at the Drama School of Athens. As a screenwriter and actor, he has written and starred in four successful Greek television series. For the theatre, he has adapted three musicals and written two original plays, with his third currently in rehearsals for a performance at the Greek National Theatre.
As an entertainer, he has hosted various television shows and programs. In recent years, as an openly gay and active advocate, he has been a prominent voice in public debates on LGBTQ rights. He presented Athens Pride in 2022 and 2023, and Thessaloniki Europride in 2024. He has been a strong advocate for LGBTQ rights, including playing a key role in the successful passing of the Marriage Equality Law in the Greek Parliament in February 2024.
(2021)
Goldsmiths,
Queering Animation.
From Pussy Willow»
Kate Jessop is regarded as a pioneer of Queer Animation, creating ground breaking films showcasing the queer perspective through animation, such as Little Elephant and Queer Heroes. She has enjoyed two international retrospectives on her work in USA (2019) and Czech Republic (2021) and was written about in the first ever book on Queer Animation On LGBT2S Animation (Canada 2020). She has spoken at numerous conferences on the subject including Goldsmiths, RCA and Queering Animation. Her multi award winning series “Tales From Pussy Willow” was picked up for distribution by REVRY, the first global queer streaming service and has won a multitude of awards. She was selected both as writer-director and with the series for the 2019 Berlinale Talent Lab. She is also the director of the Brighton International Animation Festival which showcases the annual Queer as F++k programme.
After studying political science and cinema, Aimé Besson worked for several years in mainland France, overseas (Martinique) and in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico) in the field of cultural policies and, in particular, in the cinema and audiovisual sectors. Since September 2023, he is audiovisual attaché at the French Institute in Greece and, as such, he coordinates the Festival du Film Francophone in Greece.
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El sueño de la Sultana
Sultana’s Dream | Το
86’ 00’’ | 2023 | ES/DE/EU
| Direction: Isabel Herguera
| Screenplay: Isabel Herguera, Gianmarco Serra /
Based on the science fiction story “Sultana’ s Dream” by Rokeya Hossain
Inspired by a feminist science fiction story written in 1905 in Bengal, Inés, an artist fron San Sebastián embarks on a journey through India searching for the traces of Ladyland, an utopian country for women.
Like the creator herself, Inés is an animation director in search of inspiration when she suddenly stumbles upon “Sultana's Dream” in a bookshop in India. Fascinated by her discovery of this transgressive tale, Inés embarks on a journey across the country to learn more about Hossain and the place of women in the world of yesterday and today.
Isabel Herguera’s Sultana’s Dream, a co-production of Spain and Germany, awarded in some of the most important festivals in the world and opens the curtain of this year's Animasyros (2024). The screening will take place in the presence of the film director and scriptwriter.
*The film participates in the Audience Prize - Feature Competition Section
With the support
“Sultana’s Dream” της Rokeya Hossain
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Ana María Sabater Araújo, Nelson Cabrera, Troyvasanth Chandrakanth, Sergio Pereira del Castillo, María Manero Muro, Francisco Muñoz, Izibene Oñederra, Rajesh Thakare, María José Alfonso Torrescusa, Paula Valiño, Begoñia Vicario
Μουσική | Music: Alex Debicki
Παραγωγή | Production: El Gatoverde Producciones / Goya Sultana Films / Abano Producions / UniKo estudio / Fabian&Fred
Isabel Herguera
Director
Isabel Herguera studied Fine Arts at the Universidad del País Vasco, and at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Also, she received her master’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts. For several years she worked in Los Angeles as an animator in film making, music videos for famous artists and produced and directed work for commercial industries. She was the Director of Animac, the International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia, and coordinated the moving image laboratory at Arteleku in San Sebastian where she made several short films. Today, she teach experimental animation at foreign Universities. Sultana’s Dream is her first full-length film.
Τhe patriarchic Begal society in the early 20th century / The script
“Sultana’s dream” is a multifaceted exploration of womanhood and feminism as Inés travels to several destinations. Inspired by Bengali writer Rokeya Hossain's fiction and life, director Isabel Herguera spent a decade making her feature debut, a fascinating labor of love that celebrates a cultural legacy, but also serves as an intriguing gateway into the framework of feminist theory and discourse.
Feature Competition Section - Audience Prize
Mariposas Negras
Black Butterflies
83’00’’ | 2024| ES/EU, PA
Η Tanit, η Valeria
Shaila
Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from different parts of the world, who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of global warming effects and they and they will be forced to emigrate, in order to survive.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: David Baute
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Yaiza Berrocal, David Baute
Μουσική | Music: Rubén Blades, Diego Navarro
Παραγωγή | Production: David Baute, Edmon Roch, Marc Sabé, Cesar Zelada, 3CAT
The Boy and the Heron
124’00’’ | 2023 | JP
Mahito,
Natsuko,
Mahito,
Natsuko.
Shoichi,
Natsuko,
2023
During the Pacific War in Tokyo, Mahito Maki loses his mother Hisako in a hospital fire. Mahito's father Shoichi, an air munitions factory owner, marries his late wife's sister, Natsuko, and they evacuate to her rural estate. Mahito, distant to the pregnant Natsuko, encounters a peculiar grey heron leading him to a sealed tower, the last known location of Natsuko's architect granduncle. The heron, now speaking, entices Mahito with promises of finding his mother.
> Academy Award for Best Animated Feature 2023
> The film is distributed in Greece by Feelgood Entertainment Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
| Animation: Hayao Miyazaki Μουσική | Music: Joe Hisaishi Παραγωγή | Production: Toshio Suzuki, Studio Ghibli
With the support
Chłopi
The Sloth Lane
The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colourful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.
Σενάριο | Screenplay: DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman / Based on “The Peasants” By Władysław Reymont (Nobel Prize, 1924)
Μουσική | Music: Łukasz "L.U.C." Rostkowski Παραγωγή | Production: Hugh Welchman, Sean M. Bobbitt / BreakThru Films,DigitalKraft, Art Shot
After a terrifying storm destroys their home, a speedy sloth named Laura and her kooky family move to the big city in their rusted old food truck hoping to make their business a success.
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Ryan Greaves, Erica Harrison, Tania Vincent
Μουσική | Music: Ack Kinmonth
Παραγωγή | Production: Julia Adams, Nadine Bates, Ryan Greaves, Solveig Langeland, Steven Matusko, Kristen Souvlis, Brett Thornquest, Gabbrielle Warren, Sarra Watts
With
White Plastic Sky
111’00’’ | 2023 | HU, SK/EU
2123.
2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó
Παραγωγή | Production: József Fülöp, Orsolya Sipos, Juraj Krasnohorsky / SALTO Films, Artichoke
THE AMAZING MAURICE
Inside Out 2
Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la Princesse
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
| 2023 | FR, BE/EU
Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is disrupted by something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety and friends show up.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Kelsey Mann
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Meg LeFauve, Dave Holstein (Story by Kelsey Mann, Meg LeFauve)
Μουσική | Music: Andrea Datzman
Παραγωγή | Production: Mark Nielsen / Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures
Three tales, three ages, three worlds:
At the time of Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to deserve the hand of his loved one.
During the French Middle Ages, a mysterious wild boy steals from the rich to give to the poor.
In the 18th century Turkey, a prince of pastries and a princess of roses escape the palace to live their love.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
| Screenplay: Michel Ocelot
| Music: Pascal Le Pennec
Παραγωγή | Production: Nord-Ouest Films, Studio O, Artemis Productions, Les Productions du Ch'Timi
The Amazing Maurice
90’
| 2022 | DE/EU, UK, US, CA
The
Day the Earth Blew Up | A Looney Tunes Movie
Looney Tunes:
91’00’’ | 2024 | US
O
Malicia
A streetwise ginger cat and a gang of self-taught talking rats come up with the perfect money making scam. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down the drain.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Toby Genkel (co-directed by Florian Westermann)
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Terry Rossio (βασισμένο
Μουσική | Music: Tom Howe
Παραγωγή | Production: Emely Christians, Andrew Baker, Robert Chandler, Rob Wilkins / Ulysses Filmproduktion, Studio Rakete, Cantilever Media, Narrativia, Sky, Moonshot Films, Red Star 3D, Squeeze Animation Studio
Feelgood.
Porky pig and Daffy Duck, the classic animated odd couple, turn into unlikely heroes when their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot to take over the Earth. Against all odds, the two are determined to save their town and the world, while trying to avoid driving each other insane.
> The film is screened in a nationwide Avant Premiere
> The film will be released in theaters on 31.10. 2024, by Feelgood.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Pete Browngardt
| Screenplay: Eric Bauza, Candi Milo & Peter MacNicol
| Music: Joshua Moshier
| Production: Warner Bros.
With the support
The Magic Time Trap
The Princess and the Frog
Flame.
Pandora and Plato are the most in love creatures on Earth. After 300 years of love, Pandora announces to Plato that she no longer loves him and never wants to see him again. Why? Because she has remembered a prophecy she was told 300 years ago. That on their 300th anniversary, Plato would die. Unless she never sees him again in her life! And the anniversary of the two Magic Birds in love is coming up in a few hours!
Meanwhile Alba, the Computer of a flying Alien University, detects a Hole in Time, and sends to Earth the University's worst but most powerful student, Flame. How will they meet and who can save Earth? Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Nikos Vergitsis
| Animation: Artoon International team
| Music: George Gershwin
| Production: Giorgos Nikoloulias, Greek Film Centre
A modern twist on a classic tale from Walt Disney Animation Studios features a beautiful girl named Tiana who dreams of owning her own restaurant. When she meets a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, a fateful kiss leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: John Musker, Ron Clements
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Ron Clements, John Musker, Rob Edwards - Story by Ron Clements John Musker, Greg Erb, Jason Oremland - Based on “The Frog Princess” by E. D. Baker & "The Frog Prince" by Brothers Grimm
Μουσική | Music: Randy Newman
Παραγωγή | Production: Peter Del Vecho / Walt Disney Animation Studios
With the support
International Competition Section
Aquatic
Υδρόβια πλάσματα
5’00’’ | 2023 | IR
A woman's ability to give birth to marine creatures, is exploited for commercial purposes.
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hairtransplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Nicolas Keppens
Μουσική | Music: Nicolas Snyder
Παραγωγή | Production: Animal Tank, MIYU, Ka-ching Cartoons, NEF animation
Family Portrait
A woman who is escaping an abusive situation stumbles and finds herself eye to eye with a hen who is in the same situation. Even though they are separated by a fence as well as by species, they develop a mutual understanding based on the outward shared symptoms of their pain: sore skin. In the moment of their connection we see flashbacks to the origin of their pain. As the woman smokes a cigarette to calm her nerves, she and the chicken come up with a plan: to set the world on fire to match their burning skin. The fire may be imaginary but nevertheless it soothes and provides catharsis. Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
| Animation,
| Screenplay,
| Production: Anna Benner
| Music: Raphael Tschernuth
As Austro-Hungary teeters on collapse, Andras and his daughter are taken aback by the visit from Andras' brother, Zoltan, who comes accompanied by his large family.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Marion Le Guillou, Bilitis Levillain, Viollete Delvoye
Μουσική | Music: Miroslav Jovancic
Παραγωγή | Production: Drasko Ivezic, Jean Francois Le Corre, Nikolina Vucetic Zecevic
Flower Show
Έκθεση
8’31’’ | 2024 | FI/EU
The opening of an annual flower show sets the stage for this hand-drawn animation that explores the underlying fabric of our society. While little girls are dressed up for the occasion, the older women are dealing with a completely different set of expectations. Seemingly stuck between sensual plays and discomforting gazes, will any of these girls ever find an escape from this ritual?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
| Animation: Elli Vuorinen
Μουσική | Music: Jani Lehto
Παραγωγή | Production: Böhle Studios / Kimmo Sillanmikko & Jani Lehto
I died in Irpin
Πέθανα στο Iρπίν
11’22’’ | 2024 | CZ/EU
On February 2022 my boyfriend and I fled from Kyiv to Irpin. We spent 10 days in blockaded city and managed to escape with the last evacuation convoy. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Anastasiia Falileieva
Μουσική | Music: Petr Marek
Παραγωγή | Production: Alena Vandasová, Martin Vandas, Juraj Krásnohorský, Anastasiia Falileieva
La Voix des Sirènes
The Voices of the Sirens |
19’42’’ | 2024 | IT/FR/EU Στο
Le Loup
The Wolf | Ο Λύκος
10’00’’ | 2024 | CA, BG/EU
At the bottom of the sea, between the rocks and corals, primitive seaweed gently sways, lulled by the muffled sound of rolling currents. High above on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice.
In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price.
Inspired by the poems and drawings of Henri Michaux about his experience with mescaline, Miserable Miracle explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, shapes and movement.
Παραγωγή | Production: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Jelena Popović, Nobuaki Doi
Papillon
Butterfly | Πεταλούδα
15’00’’ | 2024 | FR/EU
Percebes
Goose Barnacles | Χηνόμυδα
11’30’’ | 2024 | PT/EU
Καθώς
In the sea, a man swims. As he does, memories come to the surface. From his early childhood to his life as a man, all his memories are linked to water. Some are happy, some glorious, some traumatic. This story will be that of his last swim. It will take us from the source to the river - from the waters of childhood pools to those of swimming pools - from a North African country to the shores of the Mediterranean - from Olympic stadiums to water retention basins - from concentration camp to the dream beaches of Reunion.
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle. From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Αlexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, Regina Guimarães
Παραγωγή | Production: David Doutel, Vasco Sá, Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago
With the support
Shoes and Hooves
Παπούτσια και οπλές
14’53’’ | 2024 | HU/EU
A pedicurist in a small-town, Paula the centaur-girl longs to have human feet. When she meets Arnold the crocodile-man, it is love at first sight. Can Paula take the first steps in her search for identity? What will be the price of her attempts to fit in and deny her true self?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Viktória Traub
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Zsuzsanna Bak, Viktória Traub, Polett Dus
Μουσική | Music: Csaba Kalotás
Παραγωγή | Production: Polett Dus
Swimming with wings
Κολυμπώντας με φτερά
10’00’’ | 2023 | NL, ΙL/EU
A short animated documentary exploring the immigration experience through the eyes of children learning how to swim with clothes on in the Netherlands.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Daphna Awadish Golan
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Gal Kinan, Yali Herbet, Amit Cohen, Daphna Awadish Golan
Μουσική | Music: Ady Cohen
Παραγωγή | Production: Richard Valk -Valk Productions, Amit Gicelter, The Hive Studio
The Meatseller
The One Who Knows
The true story of Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman who dreams of becoming a meatseller like her mom. In order to achieve her dream, she begins her voyage towards Italy, an experience full of atrocity and inhumanity. This animated journey, led by Selinna’s own voice, guides us through the quest for identity that characterizes every human being.
An incorporeal Shadow takes up a dangerous adventure through a mystical forest, fancy castle and dream world to save her frivolous owner from a cursed Beast.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Olga Stalev
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Olga Stalev, Ida Lepparu
Μουσική | Music: Mari Kalkun
Παραγωγή | Production: Edina Csüllog
This is a love story full of encounters and mismatches, in which resides a constant presence of an incessant search for the relationships of happiness and self- esteem between the two characters.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Maria Hespanhol
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Rita Sampaio
Μουσική | Music: Pedro Marques
Παραγωγή | Production: Ricardo Almeida
With the support
To bird or not to bird
Volcelest
House of Broken Hearts
To bird or not to bird, that is the question. A critical and kaleidoscopic view of the current world told through the tragicomic and grotesque experiences of some birds.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Martín Romero
Εμψύχωση | Animation:
Pamela Poltronieri, Beñat Etxaburu
Μουσική | Music: Joseba Beristain
Παραγωγή | Production:
Iván Miñambres, UniKo, Abano Producións
Winter is here. To survive, Fuseline, the little ermine, forced by the lack of food, flees her wild environment and settles near an isolated farm and its chickens. Her arrival threatens the precarious existence of the man who lives there.
Μουσική | Music: Manuel & Yann Mοrvant, Romain Berthet
Παραγωγή | Production: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal & Pierre Baussaron, Miyu Productions
18-year-old Anna trustfully follows her beating heart, opening the door to her first romantic relationship – with a clingy couch. As that relationship comes to an end, followed by several other dramatic breakups, Anna and her heart grapple with the intense heartache that failed love has caused them.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Aisha Madu
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Aisha Madu, Yara Henning
Μουσική | Music: Bram Meindersma, Jeremy Coubrough Παραγωγή | Production: Tünde Vollenbroek, Studio Pupil
TV & Commissioned Films | Competition Section
Trailer Anima Festival 2024
0’20’’ | 2024 | BE/EU
29th Athens International Film Festival trailer
0’25’’ | 2023 | GR/EU
Το
The trailer of the 43th edition of The Brussels International Animation Film Festival.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Εμψύχωση | Animation: Nicolas Fong Μουσική | Music: Thomas Giry
Scenes and faces..The history of cinema passing before our eyes like ink blots...
Movies we watched as children, movies we grew up with.
Short films are like pasta! They come in many forms, each culture has its own specialties, everyone likes them. This year's INTERFILM trailer celebrates a high-carb short film diet. Bon appétit!
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Παραγωγή | Production: Anne Isensee
Μουσική | Music: Artur Sommerfeld
| LT/EU Search Culture 1’00’’ | 2024 | GR/EU
Flight of Fancy
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Artefacts and historical figures narrate a journey through Greek Heritage as it becomes archived through the portal of Search Culture, the aggregator of digital cultural and contemporary artistic production of Greece.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: George Kontos
Παραγωγή | Production: George Kontos, Elena Lagoudi
Flight of Fancy: How airlines greenwash the climate impact of flying. This educational film delves into the behind the scenes of airline industry.
Jo the farmer, gets the Fruit & Vegetable Market dates mixed up and ends up setting up his kiosk at the wrong day. Luckily, his daughter Mia brings a fresh solution at the table!
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Effie Pappa
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Kark Toomey, Effie Pappa
Παραγωγή | Production: Ben Parkin, Alex Bedford, Jeremy Lyman, Kostas Mylonas, Irida Zhonga
Gypsy Tales / Fecska Tells the Future
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7’45’’ | 2023 | HU/EU
Fecska
The story takes us into the world of a traditional Gypsy craft: fortune telling. The famous fortune teller Biszerka has a cross-eyed daughter named Fecska. Foolish Fecska thinks she has learned everything there is to know about her mother’s gift. Without telling her mother, she tries to read the cards too, and suddenly, the world turns a somersault…
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Roland Toth-Pocs, Laszlo Balajthy
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Gyula Boszormenyi
Παραγωγή | Production: Ferenc Mikulas
Pompon Ours - L’ Arbre Totem
Pompon Ours - The dream of the Totem Tree
Pompon
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| FR/EU
A Bear Named Wojtek
Wojtek
| 2023 | UK
Pompon
This morning, Pompon is all shaken and excited: he had the dream of the Totem Tree! He has to go through the forest on his own and find the way to his very own tree. Eager to grow up, Pompon prepares for this enchanting initiatory journey.
Παραγωγή | Production: Valentine de Blignières, Julien Bagnol-Roy
Wojtek, the bear, tells the fantastic journey of an orphaned Syrian brown bear who was adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II, becoming a beacon of hope and an emblem of their fate.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Iain Gardner
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Wojciech Lepianka
Μουσική | Music: Normand Roger
Παραγωγή | Production: Iain Harvey, Wlodzimierz Matuszewski
The Alligator
2’17’’ | 2024 | GR/EU
Μουσικό
"The Alligator" της Rita Moss
"Ζοο of Radakaka" (2025).
Animated Music Video for Rita Moss's 'The Alligator' from their upcoming album 'Zoo of Radakaka' (2025).
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Dimitris Armenakis
A toi
To you |
2’48’’ | 2023 | FR/EU
We follow the growth of two characters, a red boy symbolizing masculinity and reality, and a blue girl embodying the feminine ideal and dreams. Each builds their own identity and cultivates their differences, only to meet again in adulthood to create a common work and merge their colors into a new one.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Stéphane Berla
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Phuong Nguyen, Daniel Callaby, Ialy Domenichini
Μουσική | Music: Matthieu Chedid, Gail Ann Dorsey
Παραγωγή | Production: Julie Paturle
AJR - Maybe Man
3’39’’ | 2023 | US
Lågtid
Downtime | Αργία
3’27’’ | 2023 | SE/EU
Μουσικό
“Maybe Man”.
Animated music video for the band AJR from their album "Maybe Man".
Παραγωγή | Production: Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic
The film examines the space between existences in the visual artist Ellisif Hals dry-needle printed world. What happens when life gets flooded with low tide? What happens between the layers of work in off-season? What are we doing with our downtime?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Yuvia Maini
Μουσική | Music: Casius Lambert
Παραγωγή | Production: Blobb.Tv
Mitja Lluna i l’Estel
Half Moon and the Star
Μια
Α captivating short film based on a poem from al-Andalus. It is inspired by the Andalusian era and is filled with symbolism from Al-Andalus. The story unfolds in the magnificent setting of the Alhambra in Granada.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Queralt Antú Serrano
Μουσική | Music: Alfons Olmo, Carmen París
Παραγωγή | Production: Queralt Antú Serrano
The Fenestas
Οι Fenestas
5’42’’ | 2024 | IL
A dysfunctional family has to vote its own members off their grandfather’s will, as part of a twisted competition for his amusement before he dies.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Shalev Ben Elya, Anan Gibson, Nadav Sheffer
Παραγωγή | Production: The Hive Studio
Με
With the support
The Science of Laughter
Isn’t it odd that, when something’s funny, you might show your teeth, change your breathing, become weak and achy in some places, and maybe even cry? Explore the common scientific theories about why humans laugh, and how this universal behavior evolved.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Hanna Rybak
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Sasha Winkler
Παραγωγή | Production: Gerta Xhelo, Sazia Afrin
Student Competition Section
Apád
Your Dad | Ο Μπαμπάς
14’15’ | 2023 | HU/EU
The violinist Miklós's perpetual compulsion to conform turns into anxiety, and it seals his life. Following an accident, he finds himself in purgatory, where his father, who had died earlier, is waiting to accompany him to God. With a father of bad temper, the journey is a real torment. Along the way, Miklós discovers why he has become an anxious man who blames himself and constantly seeks answers to his fate. And for those answers, he must walk through purgatory.
| Direction: Anita Kühnel Szabó
| Production: József Fülöp
Cambio corrente
Change the stream | Αλλάζοντας
6’38’’ | 2023 | IT/EU
Rob and Anya live in a lighthouse in the middle of the sea in a dystopian world surrounded by rubbish. One day Rob goes out in a boat in search of sea creatures; the capture of one of them will bring him to terms with his conscience, life and death.
Echoes is a contemplative adventure into the depths of a noisy world. Guided by a distant melody echoing through concrete and rock, we follow a character wandering in the dark.
A woman is sad and regretful for not wanting her child and aborting his/her. To compensate for cutting the umbilical cord of the small fetus, the woman cuts the rope that connects her to the mountain or life. She throws herself off the mountain, but the fetus protects her with his/her big hands.
Μουσική | Music: Mehran Badakhshan, Mohammad-Hadi Majidi
Fishbone of time
To
10’ 10’’ | 2023 | PL/EU
A short film about being late and fear of passing the time.
| Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Zuzanna Szor
Παραγωγή | Production: Polish national filmschool in lodz
Humanity
Ανθρωπότητα
7’46’’ | 2024 | CZ/EU
Dark comedy about something we all do - we hate other people for trivial reasons. Life is hard even without having to tolerate other people's annoying habits. The problem is you can't kill somebody just because they chew too loudly. But in this animated world, you can make all your dark visions of fatal revenge a reality.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Tereza Kovandová
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Lukáš Hrdý
Παραγωγή | Production: Kristina Škodová
In the deep countryside of Latvia, relatives and neighbors, near and distant, come together to celebrate the last important ritual of human life. A series of events and details reveal a picture where two different eras overlap.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Linda Stūre
Παραγωγή | Production: Sabīne Andersone
She knew this day would come and the choice she’d have to make. But as it finally comes, Maya cannot wrap her head around it. A mole - it’s so small, so insignificant, just a mark... How can it be so hard to part from it? Can Maya ever feel whole again when a bit of her is taken away?
Darkness haunts the young girl, Raja. Overwhelmed by the weight of her shadows, she collapses. A light appears and her journey begins. In search for the end, Raja stumbles through a wondrous in-between world. There, she finds something she thought she had lost forever.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Franziska von Holst, Louisa Maria Würden
Μουσική | Music: Sebastian Hohberg
Παραγωγή | Production: Franziska von Holst, Louisa Maria Würden
Recordari
Θυμάμαι
10’00’’ | 2024 | CL, DE/EU
Santiago, Chile, 1985. Camila and Paula, both 7 years old, are neighbors and best friends. Living amidst sweetness and bitterness, their lives, along with those of their families and their neighborhood, are shaped by the horrors of Pinochet's military dictatorship.
Παραγωγή | Production: Nicolai Otteni, Paul Lux Mikulicz-Radecki
Sin Alas Without Wings |
3’46’’ | 2023 | CO H
Leda
Strokes
| 2023 | UK
Mrs. Leda tells the visitor about the advice she gives to the women in her house, her daughters, her granddaughter, to study and to fly high. Taliana doesn't understand the idea of flying if she doesn't have wings like birds or butterflies. But a natural phenomenon while doing chores will be a revelation for her and for the whole town.
Strokes tells the story of a father and son through painting and what they might paint based on their broken relationship.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: David Colin William Crump
Orkenen Sur
Τhe Bitter Dessert | H Πικρή Έρημος
15’00’’ | 2023 | NO/EU
Ένας
A young explorer travels across the sea in search of glory. Legend has it the land of opportunity can be restored, if one is to unite the sacred tree Trollheggen with the tower of Mara.
A story of my Greek grandfather during the Nazi occupation of Athens.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Kimon Papadatos Παραγωγή | Production: Ecole Emile Cohl, Antoine RIVIÈRE
Ser Semilla
Ugh, listen!!
In a small town, women are disappearing, vanishing into dust. Through a poetic narrative we accompany a group of women/ witches, their relationship with the earth and nature, and their freedom which allows them to turn into birds and fly. However, the increasing violence is drying οut their lands and killing the women.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Julia Granillo Tostado
A group of young woman sends a countless number of voice messages to one busy friend. While they complain to her about anything you can imagine- she tries to figure out how to be there for all of them.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Alma Keni, Aviv Gafni
Μουσική | Music: Tomy Rotem
Παραγωγή | Production: Alma Keni, Aviv Gafni
Uma Casa Portuguesa
Ένα
3’59’’ | 2024 | FR/EU
1974,
1974, a Portuguese family in France discovers the liberation of Portugal through the television news. Deeply moved, the father remember his own arrival in France. This moment awakens poignant memories and opens an intergenerational dialogue.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Hortense Prouheze
Plevel
Weeds | Αγριόχορτα
13’41’’ | 2024 | CZ/EU
Far, far away, there are endless fields overgrown with weeds. Amidst these fields, there is a hidden garden full of beautiful cultivated flowers. One day a mighty storm will come. The gardener rips out an unknown intruder: however, the thistle weed starts growing all over the garden and the gardener is losing patience. In a frenzy, she not only cuts down all the weeds around her, but also all her flowers.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Pola Kazak
Μουσική | Music: Sergey Cheremisinov
Παραγωγή | Production: Marcela Vrátilová, Mária Môťovská, Jiří Pecinovský, Martin Vandas
Windows from the South Παράθυρα
4’59’’ | 2024 | HR/EU
Votre attention s’ il -vous- plait
attention please |
| 2024 | FR/EU
Αρχίζει
It’s show time. Everyone takes a sit, is silent, and pays attention. Well, almost everyone…
A movie about a breakup. The narrative develops through the author’s conversations with his long-time partner, and follows the contemplation of the end of a nine-year romantic relationship.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Eugen Bilankov
A pecuniary prize for the best animation film from Greece, Cyprus and the Diaspora is presented by Greek Film Centre and an award for Outstanding Debut Greek Film supported by ERT
66 Days
3’25’’ | 2023 | GR/EU 74
16’00’’ | 2024 | CY/EU
Tade lives alone in an apartment in the middle of Athens, in the middle of the world, in the middle of nowhere. She loves simple things, like a cup of coffee, a hot morning meal, and the greenery that peeks out of her windows. I wonder if Tade will ever understand that her life in the apartment isn't the only thing keeping her alive.
A mute, vague character seems to swirl almost as if lost in an abstract space, in which images, figures and landscapes are projected in succession, as he decides to confront with the memory of the 1974 Turkish army invasion in Cyprus and its aftermath.
A film based on Plato's "Allegory of the Cave”. The story takes place in a small village full of lambs, whose only care in the world is playing around, having one real goal: being accepted in a most popular club in the village. The protagonist, Lana, accidentally unearthed the secret hidden behind her village’s weird ways.
University of West Attica School Of Applied Arts & Culture Department Of Graphic Design And Visual Communication.
Cut the Tie
4’13’’| 2024 | GR/EU Dawn
7’21’’ | 2024 | GR/EU
H
The story of a young girl's struggle with her eating disorder, expressed through the art of dance.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Anna Oikonomou
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Anna Oikonomou, Dimitra Chasiaki, Dimitra Dakaki
Μουσική | Music: Myron Phoebus Ampatzis
Παραγωγή | Production:
University of West Attica School Of Applied Arts & Culture Department Of Graphic Design And Visual Communication
"Dawn" is an animated music video created for Manolis Christodoulou's music album. It is about the need to look for hope in the dark times of war. A child's tears and a paper boat will travel until the dawn will come again.
A year after the plane crash, a grieving father completes the construction of a time machine with the aim of preventing the fatal event that took his son's life. However, its activation leads him to a groundbreaking realization. A story about loss and paternal love.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Malvina Arakelian
| Production:
In this film, Stavros learns the value of fair competition. A satirical portrayal of modern Greece through the eyes of a cartoonist.
The importance of the war's final line. It primarily focuses on the roles of children and the experiences of those who are confronted with war. It calls on the audience to consider their role in mitigating and addressing the terrors of war.
Μουσική | Music: Petros Niamonitakis, Stelios Magalios
Παραγωγή | Production: Petros Niamonitakis, Correct Creative Productions
The last shovelful plunges the shot into darkness. “Undergound” is a stop-motion film that seems to be talking about death, yet does the exact opposite.
Αs part of ANIMASYROS initiatives to strengthen the Greek animation scene, the highly successful Greek Animation Talks will be held again this year. Greek creators will talk about their work, the challenges of the creative process, and share good practices. This initiative comprises engaging talk series where Greek artists participating in the Festival's Greek competition section have the unique chance to showcase their work, exchange insights about their experiences within both the Greek and international animation communities, and seek guidance in their artistic journeys. These unexpected encounters are designed to inspire and uplift Greek creativity.
The host of the Greek Animation Talks will be the screenwriter, actor and presenter Yorgos Kapoutzidis
Διαγωνιστικό
K.ID.S
K.ID.S Competition Section
Beurk!
Yuck! | Μπλιάχ!
13’10’’ | 2024 | FR/EU
Yuck. Couples kissing on the mouth are gross. And the worst is, you can't miss them: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo laughs at them, just like all the kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won't tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Emma Carré, Simon Duong van Huyen, Anne-Louise Erambert,Laure Escadafals, Loïc Espuche, Shruti Lal, Elie Martens, Léo Schweitzer
Μουσική | Music: Aliénor Doublet Παραγωγή | Production: Juliette Marquet, Manon Messiant
Carmen y la Cuchara de Palo
Carmen and the Wooden Spoon
H Carmen
20’00’’ | 2024 | ES/EU
Carmen's a 7 year old girl raised by her Italian Nonna. Her greatest gift to Carmen is a magic spoon which, thanks to a centuries-old spell, when savoring new dishes she can travel back to her memories and relive the anecdotes and adventures of her grandmother's life and above all, learn vital lessons that will help her in her own life.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Carlos Gómez-Mira Sagrado
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Rossana Giacomelli
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Aiton Romeo Sanmiquel, German Ruiz Segura, Sergi Planas Armangue, Marta Navarro Llorente, Carlos Gómez-Mira Sagrado
Μουσική | Music: Ivan Palomares de la Encina
Παραγωγή | Production: Rossana Giacomelli, Carlos Gómez-Mira Sagrado Thinkwild Studios
H Carmen,
Coot
Μαυρόκοτα
2’15’’ | 2023 | NL/EU Μια
Cubosee - The Secret Garden
Cubosee -
4’00’’ | 2023 | HR/EU
A coot and a ferry skipper peacefully coexist along a city river. Their harmony is disrupted when a new bridge emerges, causing the skipper to lose all his passengers overnight. Fortunately, the bird, typically engrossed in nest-building, unexpectedly becomes the link that revitalizes the ferry’s purpose.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Marlies van der Wel
Παραγωγή | Production: Gijs Kerbosch, Guusje van Deuren, Ingmar Conjarts
When a paper dragon escapes from his little friends, cow Moo, bear Bee and rabbit Doo have no idea that in searching for it they'll discover a secret garden. What lies behind the closed doors?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Filip Gašparović Melis
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Sonja Pavlina, Dino Mileta
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Pavao Stanojević, Karlo Pavičić Ravlić
Μουσική | Music: Leandro Havliček
Παραγωγή | Production: Dino Mileta
Fur immer Sieben
Forever Seven |
9’26’’ | 2024 | DE/EU
Ένα
A box is a box. Sometimes though it's just a matter of perspective to discover something completely different behind it.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Antje Heyn, Alexander Isert
A young hopefull knight reports for duty at the kings court. Little does he know that slaying dragons might not be his biggest challenge.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego, Magnus Møller, Peter Smith
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Jesper Andkgaer, Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego, Peter Smith, Marion Strunk
Μουσική | Music: Amir Marcus, Ziggy
Παραγωγή | Production: Peter Smith, Tumblehead
Head in the Clouds
| 2023 | FR/EU
Alfonso,
Hello Summer
| 2024 | SK/EU
Alfonso, a young squirrel, always has his head in the clouds. He loves watching them and sometimes takes snapshots of them. His parents and friends find it hard to take his hobby seriously. But cloud-gazing is not always easy – Alfonso sometimes has to be as brave as some of the great explorers of our times.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Morgane Simon, Pierre Mousquet, Adèle Fisch
Μουσική | Music: Yan Volsy
Παραγωγή | Production: Arnaud Demuynck
Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels elsewhere?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová
Μουσική | Music: Aleksandr Yasinski
Παραγωγή | Production: Martin Smatana, Martin Vandas, Kamila Dohnalová, Jean-François Le Corre
La Boulangerie de Boris
Baking with Boris | Ο φούρνος του Boris
18’15’’ | 2023 | FR/EU
Κάθε
Every morning, Boris the village baker makes a fresh batch of crusty bread and pastries for all his neighbors until… Achoo! He can’t stop sneezing. He has become allergic to flour. How will he manage to keep baking for everyone in the village?
Παραγωγή | Production: Reginald de Guillebon (Folimage), Nicolas Burlet (Nadasdy Film),
Draško Ivezić (Adriatic Animation), Pierre Meloni
Lizzie
and the Sea
H Lizzie και η Θάλασσα
7’35’’ | 2023 | IT/EU
Η Lizzie,
Lizzie, a young girl with a tremendous fear of the sea, wakes up in her worst nightmare: the deep, dark abyss. Her struggle to resurface will turn into her most incredible adventure.
Μουσική | Music: Vincenzo Foniciello, Edizioni Musicali Mad Entertainment
Παραγωγή | Production: Maria Carolina Terzi, Lorenza Stella, Luciano Stella, Carlo Stella
Rainboy
To
4’51’’ | 2024 | DE/EU
5’23’’ | 2023 | CH
A monster, desperate to fit in among humans, hides behind a human disguise but is forced to confront the truth about himself when a visit to an indoor pool leads to a dramatic unravelling of his identity.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Piers Goffart, Eric Giessmann
Μουσική | Music: Vault 49
Παραγωγή | Production: Eric Giessmann
Rainboy isn't a common gardener. He plants drops and grows clouds. While working he injures the vain sun. Revenge! The prognosis for the boy is bleak, but he teams up with the clouds and thus manages to brighten the sun's spirits again.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Barbara Brunner
Μουσική | Music: “Magic” Martin Waespe
Παραγωγή | Production: Franziska Meyer
Scrubby
6’33’’ | 2023 | DE/EU
O Scrubby
Scrubby wants to live in his mother's thick fur forever, but she's starting to lose hair. When he brings back a strand of hair that flew away, all he finds is a pile of hair and a trail in the snow. In search of his mother, Scrubby encounters a naked, freezing creature. Is his fur enough to warm both of them?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Paul Vollet
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Vanessa Schneider, Lilli-Luisa Heckmann, Marius Magracia, Felicitas Schmelz, Deborah Callenberg, Müge Bulazar, Christian Kaufmann, Elias Weber
Μουσική | Music: Julian Erhardt, Victoria Hillestad
Παραγωγή | Production: Paulina Larson, Johannes Lübke
The adventure of the little water drop – Dirfis
Δίρφυς
5’00’’ | 2024 | GR/EU
The little water drop goes on an adventure when she loses her friend, Nefeli.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Kleopatra Kοrai
Σενάριο | Screenplay: George Karayiannis
Παραγωγή | Production: 2yolk
The Carp and the Child
The Girl With The Occupied Eyes
A child goes carp fishing. But he has the bad idea of bringing his little dog with him. Between the puppy, a frog and a duck, it's not easy to catch a fish.
A girl wanders through the city, countryside, beach, always clutching a phone from which she never takes her eyes off. Along the way, she comes across a group of characters that include a bear, dolphins, pirates, an alien. Everyone tries to captivate her and draw her attention, but she is indifferent to everything around her.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: André Carrilho
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Luis Vital, Joao Silva, André Carrilho
Μουσική | Music: Nuno Costa
Παραγωγή | Production: Hemi Fortes, Filipe Araújo
Three Trees
Τρία Δέντρα
4’30’’ | 2023 | CA
Καθώς
As the seasons change, three little trees learn about themselves, friendship and their place in the world.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Mathias Richard Horhager, Aaron Hong
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Mathias Richard Horhager
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Ricky Silva
Μουσική | Music: Tyler Fitzmaurice
Παραγωγή | Production: Emily Paige, Mathias Richard Horhager
Tuu Tuu Til
4’32’’ | 2024 | DE/EU
For little children, the world is full of mystery and unknown. They need the help of a wise companion to navigate the challenges of every-day life. Or maybe it’s their awe and wonder at everything new that fills the everyday life with magic (and nonsense) for the adults around them?
Elisa likes Martin, but Martin doesn't seem to realise it. All the advice Elisa receives to make Martin fall in love with her is to change not only her appearance, but also who she really is. Will she give up being herself to get it? Will that be a good thing?
A story about a pilot, a captain, a machinist, a driver, a mailman, a girl... and a giant box. What's in the box? The giant box the pilot brought with him from a country far, far away? Probably an elephant, the captain thinks, and very carefully he loads the box onto his ship. The ship hobbles and wobbles on the high seas. A strong gust breaks open the walls of the box creakingly. And what’s in the box? Another box!
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Eno Swinnen, Jeroen Ceulebrouck, William Lebrun
Μουσική | Music: Boris Zeebroek
Παραγωγή | Production: Brecht van Elslande
Α stray dog
Αδέσποτο
3’ 36’’ | 2024 | GR/EU
The blind child, the independent citizen of tomorrow
1’26’’ | 2024 | GR/EU
Hard Days
Δύσκολες
3’57’’ | 2023 | EG
A stray dog tries to overcome life's difficulties and find friends. A story about friendship, love and solidarity.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Margarita Simopoulou, Maria Leonida
An informative video about blind children and how the public should interact with them. The main characters are the personification of society (represented by a pair of impersonal legs) and a young blind girl. The video highlights how blind individuals often experience feelings of despair due to the way people around them behave.
| Direction,
Screenplay,
| Animation: Vasiliki Katsanaki
Academical supervisors: Sofia Mouri, Stilianos Skourlis
With the support of Panhellenic Association of the Blind
This film is one of the outputs of a storytelling and drawing workshop to teach Sudanese children in Cairo to make animated films to express their ideas, dreams, and vision of their world and what surrounds them.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Marwa Ali
Παραγωγή | Production: Elnoon foundation for family care, Gang Academy for Knowledge, Training and Consultation
Διαγωνιστικό
Animapride Αnimapride Competition Section
Cherry, Passion Fruit
Κεράσι, Φρούτο
4’50’’ | 2024 | PT/EU
Nature contains both the raging fire and the flowing waterfall.
Inside a mysterious rainforest, lust takes shape between love and pain. Would you face your haunting desire?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Renato José Duque
Μουσική | Music: Afonso Gaspar
Παραγωγή | Production: RE:Anima - European Joint Master in Animation - Lusófona University/ AALTO University / LUCA School of Arts
Recorte
Clipping | Ψαλίδισμα
3’17’’ | 2022 | GT
A young man must trim his life in order to live as who he truly is.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Beatriz Castañón
Παραγωγή | Production: Universidad Panamericana de Guatemala
Gigi
13’55’’ | 2023 | FR/EU
Gilipollas
Ηλίθιοι | Dickheads
7’20’’ | 2023 | ES/EU
Από
From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, Gigi tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity.
Lolo and Dick meet again after a long time in a friendly bar and they catch up. To the surprise of both, feelings that they thought were forgotten arise again.
In the queer collective we are also not exempt from prejudices, restrictions, phobias and philias that undermine our freedom of expression, celebration and feeling.
How much does internalized LGTBI-phobia and social pressures affect our most intimate environment?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Joan Bentallé, Pol Diggler
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Carlos Be, Joan Bentallé
Παραγωγή | Production: Joan Bentallé
Grand Dandy (For Ezra)
O Μεγάλος Δανδής (Για τον Erza)
4’15’’ | 2024 | UK
Το Grand Dandy
Libro
Grand Dandy is a special film based on the poem “For Ezra” about the real life experience of non-binary author Libro Levi Bridgeman and their love letter to their grandson, Ezra. The film follows the playful and tender moments of their daily routines as a queer grandparent with their grandson.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: The Campbells (Jen and Crystal Campbell)
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Libro Levi Bridgeman
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Jen Campbell
Μουσική | Music: Andrew Hockey
Παραγωγή | Production: Libro Levi Bridgeman, Crystal Campbell
Turmspringer
High Diver | Κορυφαίος Δύτης
4’58’’ | 2024 | DE/EU
Since early childhood, Tuan and Felix have been inseparable. As they train to become Olympic high divers, however, their budding love for each other suffers under the weight of the competition. Professional sport is a harsh business, and Tuan will sacrifice everything for it... or will he?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Oscar Bittner
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Benjamin Wahl
Μουσική | Music: Peter Albrecht, Philippa Kinsky, Tim Fröhlich
Liam is a lonely farmer who lives an isolated life in the country. But he has a secret… He dreams of being a beautiful drag queen, and as he goes about his daily chores he slips into moments of fantasy and transforms into the beautiful Bovina. How will that ever be possible in his small country village?
Σκηνοθεσία
Is this the mansion I will live in? Αυτή
5’40’’ | 2024 | BE/EU
This animated short tries to shed light on the incomprehension of queer identities within migration systems and the abuse of power by its frontline workers. It depicts only the first few hours of a lengthy, 18-24 months long asylum process, where queer asylum seekers are met with mistreatment, hunger, and homelessness instead of the promised equality and safe space.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Rafaelle Fillastre
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Soraya Candido
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Rafaelle Fillastre
Μουσική | Music: Stonzze @ Kzbue
Παραγωγή | Production: Queer on the move
Ili - Ili
Little One | Μικρό
9’12’’ | 2023 | PH
Tino,
In the heart of Manila, "Ili-Ili'' follows Joy, a pregnant mother unsure of how to raise a child. Seeking guidance, she arranges a meeting with her two gay dads, Iko and Tino, but fate intervenes when Iko suffers a heart attack.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Εμψύχωση | Animation: John Clister Santos
Μουσική | Music: Divino Letada Dayacap
Παραγωγή | Production: CIIT College of Arts & Technology
Love on the Edge
2’19’’ | 2023 | NL/EU
Mirror, Mirror
| 2023 | ZA
When Gina suspects that her lover is seeing someone else, she draws attention with a very risky climb with which she not only puts herself in danger. For a moment, it looks as if this will help her win her lover back. But love will not be forced...
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Marleen van Dun, Anselm Oettel, Patty Stenger
Μουσική | Music: Rens Machielse, Willem Schneider
Παραγωγή | Production: Peter Lindhout
Jackie is startled to find a boy in her mirror instead of her reflection. She finds him intriguing and is amused by his antics, but desperately tries to suppress him whenever she fears that her mom will see him. This reaches its climax when Jackie is caught wearing a shirt and tie after being encouraged by Jack. Jackie and her mother share a tense moment at dinner, but when her mother tries to reach out, Jackie flees…
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Grayson Bellingham
Μουσική | Music: Wayne Simpson
Παραγωγή | Production: The Animation School (PTY) Ltd
Outside the Lines
4’48’’ | 2023 | NL/EU
Young queer people share their experiences on what it's like to deviate from the straight-, cis- norm and how this makes them feel. Not meeting certain expectations is often complicated, but it also offers many advantages.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Alexandre Sousa, Ana Luísa Farinha, Cristina Neto
Μουσική | Music: André Aires, Fernando C. Lapa
Παραγωγή | Production: Jonas César, Seja Como For, Tom Knight
Our Ashes are Alive
| 2024 | GR/EU
| Direction,
| Screenplay,
| Production: Vanessa Ferle
#ThisIsEU - European Values Award
The #ThisisEU Award - European Values is being presented for the sixth time this year by the Representation of the European Commission in Greece, as supporter of the Festival, to a film selected by the Festival Juries among preselected films screened at different sections of ANIMASYROS 2024 and which promotes the fundamental values of the European Union.
Eligible for the #ThisisEU award are films originating from any country in the world - not necessarily an EU production or coproduction - as long as they reflect the fundamental values of the European Union and specifically: respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights (Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union).
8-M
8
4’55’’ | 2023 | ES/EU
Asiunia
20’00’’ | 2023 | PL/EU
Cafunè
8’00’’ | 2024 | ES/EU
8-M is a date on the calendar that celebrates "International Women's Day", a historical milestone resulting from the fight and effort of many women throughout history.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Vicky Calavia
Παραγωγή | Production: CalaDoc Producciones
A story about war, love for family, a shaken sense of security and preserving memory.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Tomek Ducki
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Rafal Skarzycki
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Maciej Batory, Oleksandr Buliuk,Tomek Ducki, Dominik Litwiniak, Anna Siwon, Przemyslaw Swida
Μουσική | Music: Jacaszek
Παραγωγή | Production: Ewelina Gordziejuk, Lukasz Handzel
Alma, a solitary refugee child, is thrust back into her traumatic past when her doll falls into the swimming pool, mirroring the shipwreck of the refugee boat where she was the lone survivor.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction:
Carlos F. De Vigo & Lorena Ares
Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Lorena Ares Lago,
Carlos Fernández De Vigo
Παραγωγή | Production:
Carlos Fernández de Vigo, Sergy Moreno, Mintxo Díaz, Damián Perea
Flight of Fancy
Grand Dandy (For Ezra)
How airlines greenwash the climate impact of flying. This film delves into the behind the scenes of airline industry.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction:
Emilija Juzeliūnaitė, Emilė Maigytė
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Khaled Diab
Παραγωγή | Production: Emilemilija Το Grand Dandy
Libro Levi Bridgeman
Ezra.
Grand Dandy is a special film based on the poem “For Ezra” about the real life experience of non-binary author Libro Levi Bridgeman and their love letter to their grandson, Ezra.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: The Campbells (Jen and Crystal Campbell)
Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Libro Levi Bridgeman
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Jen Campbell
Μουσική | Music: Andrew Hockey
Παραγωγή | Production: Libro Levi Bridgeman, Crystal Campbell
In a city that was once typically Portuguese, a real estate agent tries to persuade customers to rent tiny apartments, even if it means evicting the people who live there.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Alexandre Sousa, Ana Luísa Farinha, Cristina Neto
Μουσική | Music: André Aires, Fernando C. Lapa
Παραγωγή | Production: Jonas César, Seja Como For, Tom Knight
23-24-25|08|24
www.aegeanherbs.com
Cinematherapy is defined as the use of films to motivate and recognize emotions or to draw conclusions in the context of the psychotherapeutic process. Cinematherapy is associated with the ancient art of storytelling as an educational tool. Can be used to encourage the audience to understand almost any subject matter, as cinema covers an extremely wide range of subjects.
The use of cinema as a tool in the provision of prevention and treatment has increased significantly in recent years. Cinematherapy through entertainment offers a wide range of communication possibilities mainly because it helps the viewer to manage the nature of his stress, helping to normalize the experience in conditions of generalized crisis.
Africa: An animated Continent
The Meatseller
H
17’00’’ | 2023 | IT/EU
Beurk!
Yuck! | Μπλιάχ! 13’10’’ | 2024 | FR/EU
The true story of Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman who dreams of becoming a meatseller like her mom. In order to achieve her dream, she begins her voyage towards Italy, an experience full of atrocity and inhumanity. This animated journey, led by Selinna’s own voice, guides us through the quest for identity that characterizes every human being.
Yuck. Couples kissing on the mouth are gross. And the worst is, you can't miss them: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo laughs at them, just like all the kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won't tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Emma Carré, Simon Duong van Huyen, Anne-Louise Erambert,Laure Escadafals, Loïc Espuche, Shruti Lal, Elie Martens, Léo Schweitzer
Μουσική | Music: Aliénor Doublet
Παραγωγή | Production: Juliette Marquet, Manon Messiant
Pawel Pawlikowski.
Denise Nikolakou Integrative Psychotherapist
Denise Nikolakou studied Psychology at the British University of Derby and holds a master’s degree in Integrative Psychotherapy (MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy). She followed the educational program at the University of Athens in Film Therapy and she completed the Movie-Based and Cinema Therapy program of the Zur Institute where she secured her European certification as a Cinema Therapist. She has received experiential and theoretical training at the Unity Energetic International Institute (U.E.I.I) on physically focused Gestalt psychotherapy.
Since 2014 she has been involved in coordinating groups of self-knowledge, personal development, therapy, role-playing games, training in the skills of functional relationships using the art of cinema as a means of expression, psychoeducation, and therapy. Since 2020 is a head programmer of Cinematherapy at Drama International Short Film Festival where he introduced and made known for the first time to the public the Cinematherapy program with the Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski. In the school year 2021-2022, held the first Cinematherapy Programme in schools of all educational levels in 4 cities in Greece under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Education and to date the programme is being implemented for the 4th consecutive year in the schools of the Municipal Unit of Drama. Her articles are hosted in well-known scientific and informative magazines and newspapers as well as podcasts with current affairs on Spotify by LiFo.
Ebele Okoye, Raymond Malinga
The main focus of this year’s festival, entitled "Africa: An Animated Continent" is dedicated to the African contemporary animation creation and production and will run through all Festival pillars. International guests from Africa such as Ebele Okoye, Raymond Malinga,and Comfort Arthur will be present at ANIMASYROS, while a programme of 21 short and feature films will highlight the rich mosaic of storytelling and artistic innovation that comes from this region of the world. We will also have the opportunity to watch films by significant European filmmakers that pay tribute to Africa and its history, including "The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess" by the legendary Michel Ocelot. (page 90).
A Kalabanda ate my Homework
Black Barbie
The biological aspect of albinism, which is a genetic and hereditary anomaly that affects not only pigmentation, but also and above all the physical and moral conditions of people with albinism. These people are victims of discrimination, mutilation and ritual crimes in Africa.
Παραγωγή | Production: Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Ο Tendo,
Tendo
A Kalabanda is a mythical creature that is said to haunt schools in Uganda. Tendo, a pupil shows up to class one day without homework-claiming that a "Kalabanda" ate it. Who'd believe such a lame excuse?
No-one! How will Tendo prove his story?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Raymond Malinga
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Robin Malinga
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Allan Muyinga, Jemimah Atim, L Nakishero Francis
Μουσική | Music: Isaiah Mucunguzi
Παραγωγή | Production: Raymond Malinga, Robin Malinga
In a poetic animation, Comfort Arthur recollects her personal journey with skin bleaching products and questions societal ideals of beauty.
When Comfort is given a Black Barbie doll as a child by her mother, she begins to question her ideas of beauty and selfworth. Growing into an adult, she begins to bleach her skin in order to feel as though she is fitting in with society’s expectations, leading to a sudden realisation
| Direction: Comfort Arthur
By Two
Ο Malek,
Malek, a struggling painter, lose his passion due to societal pressures. Reconnecting with his inner child, he rediscovers his love for art.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Saif Yehia
A stubborn old man goes about his daily routine, struggling with every task due to his age. He hears a ring from the doorbell and finds a robot has been sent to aid him in his old age.
Each film has an African perspective, from one or more directors, on themes such as social media, duality, disability, self-reflection, shared humanity, and other topics, with stories which include time travel, extraterrestrials, and alternate universes.
> Screening of episodes 1 & 5
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction:
Raymond Malinga - Tshepo Moche
Παραγωγή | Production: Disney Television Animation & Triggerfish Animation Studios
Legacies of the rubies
Lights Out!
Ο Mfalme,
Παραγωγή | Production: Ebele Okoye Ξεκινώντας
Starting from the observation that her father -who is white- was born in Africa, and that her mother -who is black- was born in Europe, the director questions herself about being biracial and reveals the complex history of her family, from colonialism to the experience of the interracial couple in Europe in the 1950's and 60's.
Παραγωγή | Production: The Animation School Lloedolff La Villa Madjo
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Elen Sylla Grollimund
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Elen Sylla Grollimund
Παραγωγή | Production: Ellen Meiresonne
Airegin,
Obankosi
Mfalme, a young forest boy is kidnapped and brought to the strange palace of Airegin, with the claim that he is the blood son of the dying King Obankosi and the chosen successor to the throne.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
| Screenplay: Ebele Okoye Μουσική | Music: Oliver Sadie
Luna is exhausted as she works late into the night, aided by her desk-side lamp. The lamp (Laaitie) comes to life and suggests that she get some rest. Laaitie flips his switch off, runs away and Luna chases after him on a ledge, atop her apartment building.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Atiyya Mayet
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Ahmad Gierdien, Ruben
L’Ombre des Papillons
Machini
9’00’’
Σε
In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a nostalgic daydream as she observes butterflies.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Sofia El Khyari
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Sofia El Khyari,
Camille Gibut, Margaux Kuhn, Ala Nunu
Μουσική | Music: Widad Broco, Khalil Epi
Παραγωγή | Production: Bruno Caetano
By necessity and especially by the force of the machine, we have become sleepwalking beings deprived of God, the damned of the earth and test subjects over the black market of history test subjects of the machine.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay, Εμψύχωση | Animation: Frank Mukunday, Tétshim
Μουσική | Music: Francesco Nchikala
Παραγωγή | Production: Rosemary Tshawila Binene, Rosa Spaliviero and Ellen Meiresonne
Mark of Love: Celestial Burial
Mark of Love is the mighty story of a little adventurous girl who have her own mother turned into a giant maned wolf during a battle. Will the adventurous girl be able to reverse back this fatal spell condition and manage to see again her mother under the form of a human again?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Hermann Kayode
Παραγωγή | Production: Hermann Kayode
Munki and Trunk
TV Series -
Εpisode: Munki the Bee
10’00’’ | 2020 | ZA
The Meatseller
The Pyramid
Trunk
Trunk
Munki
Munki
In this episode Munki and Trunk discover some fruit that they use as paint coloures, and paint themselves like zebras, giraffes and leopards. But when Trunk paints Munki as a bee, they discover that he can successfully join the swarm.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Sam Wilson
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Kelsey Egan
Παραγωγή | Production: Matthew Brown, Jennifer Burgos, Phil Cunningham, Tim Keller, Rita Mbanga, Edelgard Slabbert
The true story of Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman who dreams of becoming a meatseller like her mom. In order to achieve her dream, she begins her voyage towards Italy, an experience full of atrocity and inhumanity. This animated journey, led by Selinna’s own voice, guides us through the quest for identity that characterizes every human being.
Μουσική | Music: Nik Phelps Παραγωγή | Production: Mohamed Ghazala
We Are All Mad Here
Rule of Thumb
Plea or Protest
Α teenage penguin follows an ambulance taking her mother to the psychiatric hospital. On the way, she reflects on her mother's condition, while wandering into a world of her own.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
| Screenplay: Bochra Triki Παραγωγή | Production: Kvinna Till Kvinna
A political leader orchestrates an evil plot to allow him rule his people forever. He deceives them and chops off their thumbs. The people fall into a cycle of hardship and helplessness.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
| Screenplay: Delanyo Sabblah
| Production: Delanyo Sabblah
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Mark of Love is the mighty story of a little adventurous girl who have her own mother turned into a giant maned wolf during a battle. Will the adventurous girl be able to reverse back this fatal spell condition and manage to see again her mother under the form of a human again?
Παραγωγή | Production: Ebele Okoye, Jolly Squid Ltd, Katarina Gulan
Yellow Daisy Butterfly
Yellow Fever
Cheri-lee.
Cheri-lee is inconsolable when her Granny Daisy dies. As Daisy ascends, she sees Cheri-lee’s grief, and returns as a little white egg that transforms into a butterfly. A metamorphosis that mirrors Cheri-lee’s stages of grief.
Once There Was a Sea... • Joanna Kozuch • 16’ • 2021
Yellow • Ivana Šebestová • 6’ • 2017
Cowboyland
David Štumpf
Pandas
Matúš Vizár
11’25”
2013
Sh_t Happens • Michaela Mihalyi & David Štumpf
13’
2019
Curated by Ivana Laučíková
Tribute to Slovak Animation
Ivana Laučíková.
Recognizing the constantly evolving and particularly active animation scene in Central Europe, ANIMASYROS will screen six animated films from Slovakia selected by Ivana Laučíková, producer, director and professor at the University of Bratislava. The screenings are supported by the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Greece.
With
Bolo raz jedno more…
Cowboyland
Pandy
The Pandas | Tα Πάντα 11’28’’ | 2013 | SK/CZ/EU
In the footsteps of the vanished Aral Sea, whose memory still haunts the inhabitants of a small Uzbek town. A film about the consequences of human decisions, and how they can affect daily life.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Marek Jasaň, Joanna Kozuch, Michaela Mašáňová, Agata Mikina, Marta Magnuska, Jolanta Dudzińska, Matej Babic, Michalina Musialik, Justyna Pazdan, Janusz Martyn
Μουσική | Music: Martin Hasák
Παραγωγή | Production: BFILM, ANIMA-POL, plackartnyj, EC1 - Lodz, Τelewizija Polska, Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska
According to the rules of the Wild West, thieves must be punished. But when the sheriff's horse breaks, there is no-one to ever-see rule-keeping.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Εμψύχωση | Animation: David Štumpf
Μουσική | Music: Boris Berlanský
Παραγωγή | Production: Academy of performing arts in Bratislava
After millions of generations they have a good chance of becoming another extinct species. But one day, an all too active primate called the human being found them and they became a pawn in man's game.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Matúš Vizár, Adrián Hnát, Dan Stanchev, Marek Pokorný, Dalibor Kristek, Martin Búřil
Μουσική | Music: Ink Midget
Παραγωγή | Production: Peter Badač, Tomáš Hrubý
Poetika Anima
Sh_t Happens
Βασισμένο
Βased on the lyrical poem "Poetika Anima", created by synthesizing the director's diary entries. A myriad of symbols and visual metaphors, together with Frederic Robinson's original atmospheric music, create an interpretatively rich story of a woman transforming her anxiety in a fluid spacetime.
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Kriss Sagan, Matej Babic, Marek Jasán
Μουσική | Music: Frederic Robinson
Παραγωγή | Production: Diana Svihlová
The caretaker is exhausted by everything including his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer, that he comes in contact with. Their mutual despair leads them to absurd events, because… sh_t happens all the time.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Michaela Mihalyi & David Štumpf
Εμψύχωση | Animation: David Štumpf
Μουσική | Music: Olivier de Palma
Παραγωγή | Production: Peter Badač
It is a story of an opera singer which is scared of everything yellow, sunny and spontaneous and separates herself from the world to be able to devote to profession. Boundaries of neatly structured world make her feel safe. But she destroys not only herself but also her music. At the peak of career, she finally opens to her life and finds happiness.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
| Animation: Ivana Šebestová Μουσική | Music: Michal Novinski
Παραγωγή | Production: Fool Moon, feel me film, Slovak Audiovisual Fund
Επιμέλεια ZlinFestival Curated by Zlin Festival
Supported by
Αφιέρωμα Check the Czechs Check the Czechs Tribute
Befriend the Wind
Μερικές
Sometimes that, what we consider our enemy, can become the means to something much better.
A tale of two lions, young and old, in a flower world not so different from ours – with the same crisis coming with old age and worries about what we leave behind.
Παραγωγή | Production: Studio Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Huge sailor gets an autumn leaf from a small girl. It reminds him of his home. How long he has not been there? He runs to meet his old parents. What will he find there?
| Direction,
| Screenplay,
| Animation: Aliona Baranova Μουσική | Music: Petr Mazoch
| Production: Lukáš Gregor Leaf
Lístek |
6’00’’| 2020 | CZ/EU
Lights
Lístek | Φώτα
6’00’’| 2020 | CZ/EU
Don’ t blow it up
8’00’’| 2022 | CZ/EU
In the Woods
V lese | Στο δάσος
5’00’’ | 2021 | CZ/EU
In the town of lightbulbs, a party for small flames is taking place. This will allow them to grow up and become a part of the system which will protect them and allow them to shine forever. But one flame likes to play with fire and it rebels against the system.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Jitka Nemikinsová
Εμψύχωση | Animation:
Jitka Nemikinsová, Vojtěch Papp,
Nadězda Mikheeva, Anna Rybecká
Μουσική | Music: Maxmilián Hruška
Παραγωγή | Production: Veronika
Kührová, Michal Kráčmer, Analog Vision
3’00’’|
Two little girls are playing with a ball. But after a petty quarrel, they get angry with each other and take offense. Their umbrage makes them inflate like balloons, they fly all the way up to the clouds. Girls get stuck up there, with no idea how to get down and save their kitten stuck in the tree.
Μουσική | Music: Magdaléna Mišejková Παραγωγή | Production: Jiří Pecinovský, (MAUR film) Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague – FAMU
While chasing a squirrel, a boy enters the woods, falls and gets hurt. When he realizes that he is not alone, he gets scared but, luckily for him, the presences he meets are not evil: they are the ancient spirits of the forest, who take care of him and show him the way back home.
Παραγωγή | Production: The Ladislav Sutnar´s Faculty of Design and Art (LSFDA) of the University of West Bohemia (UWB)
A fluffy little cloud lives happily ever after until it is blown apart by an airplane. The cloud decides to take revenge on the pilot, but soon regrets it.
| Direction,
| Screenplay,
Mr. Slumber
Ο
κ. Slumber
3’00’’ | 2023 | CZ/EU
Shoot
Πυροβολισμός
2’39’’ | 2020 | CZ/EU
The Goose
H
12’00’’| 2023 | CZ/FR/EU
Slumber
Mr. Slumber comes to town every evening to give its residents much-needed rest. But sometimes a person does not appreciate Slumbers services and would much rather spend time watching soap operas instead of sleeping?
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Zuzana Matysová
Μουσική | Music: Filip Vojtech
Παραγωγή | Production: Lukáš Gregor
Forest life is idyllic until an amateur hunter appears, but what is he to do when the deer isn’t cooperative enough to run?
Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Univerzitní 2431
A boy fantasizes about becoming a famous footballer, playing in big stadiums. But first, he has to win a match in a small backyard, against a goose.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Jan Míka
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Maxime Leclerc, Sylvain Rohart, Petr Charvát
Μουσική | Music: Viliam Béreš
Παραγωγή | Production: Autour de Minuit, Animation People, Filmofon
Λίγο Δράμα στο Animapride
Ο
A little Drama in Animapride
The prestigious director Constantinos Giannaris ("Dekapedavgustos" - On the 15th of August- “From the Edge of the City”, “Trojans”, etc.) selects some of his favorite films from the Animapride competition category over the last years of the ANIMASYROS International Animated Film Festival, which have already screened in a special screening at the 47th International Short Film Festival of Drama 2-8-9).
The Animapride competition category consists of films about the queer community.
The special feature "A little Drama in Animapride" will screen 12 films from Greece, France, Brazil, USA and Taiwan covering a wide range of queer themes. From personal stories of coming out and discrimination faced by queer people to late nights’ comic tails!
12 Views of the Dome
12
Θόλου
06’40’’ | 2023 | GR/EU
| Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
| Animation: Anna Maria Leventi
Μουσική | Music: Theodora Angelidou, Jack Coombes
Παραγωγή | Production: Middlesex University
Boundless
09’37’’ | 2022 | US
| Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
| Animation: David Chain and «and his many beautiful students whom stories is proud to share»
Παραγωγή | Production: House of Chai
Aikane
13’54’’ | 2023 | US
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Daniel Sousa, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson Σενάριο | Screenplay: Dean Hamer
| Animation: Daniel Sousa
Μουσική | Music: Dan Golden
Παραγωγή | Production:Ηinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Judith Light, Daniel Κarslake
Coming In
04’08’’ | 2022 | FR/EU
| Direction, Εμψύχωση | Animation: Louis Devignes, Alice Florent, Romane Etienne, Camille Devise, Killian Maret Σενάριο | Screenplay: Louis Devignes, Romane Etienne Παραγωγή | Production: ECV Festivals
Μουσική | Music: Esteban Umiglia, Emanuel Meshvinski
Παραγωγή | Production: Jürgen Haas, Gerd Gockell
Pussy Love
Γατίσια
4’00’’ | 2023 | DE/EU
| Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
| Animation: Linda Krauss
| Music: Philipp Lust
Παραγωγή | Production: Linda Krauss, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Um Finde
Night Out |
| 2022 | BR
| Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
| Animation: Helena Coelho, Rebeca Nigri
| Music: Felipe Mendez
Twin Flames
Δίδυμες
04’38’’ | 2022 | GR/EU
| Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
| Animation, Παραγωγή | Production: Spyros Argyris Soukeras Μουσική | Music: A day to remember – Benjamon Tissot, The cradle for your soul - Lemonmusicstudio
Wa Iza?
03’45’’ | 2022 | DE/EU
| Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
| Animation: Ali Halawi
| Production: Technische Hochschule OWL
Southern Mosaic
Yael Nudelman | Project Curator
This program consists of films from different years, made with various techniques and by filmmakers of different ages, genders, and backgrounds, all dealing with the unique landscapes of the south of Israel. This area contains deserts, sands, flowers, and wildlife, combined with cities, villages, and people from all walks of life. It is considered to be "far" (in local terms) from the center, both physically and figuratively. It's a quiet area, a periphery, where time works differently, and yes, it is also unfortunately a war zone once every few years. In the program, I tried to create a balanced mosaic of all of this and, hopefully, put it in the spotlight for the international audience.
Fledge F*ck The South
National Geoconflict
F*ck The South
National Geoconflict
In a world where you are lazy and see no other way to survive financially other than to go and do crimes, and you discover about the new Wild West called the Israeli South where there are no rules or police in sight - you're instantly going to be a criminal, but you might not come out of it fully intact.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Tom Schwartz
A folkloristic fantasy that takes place during the Russian immigration to Israel in the 90's. Elina is a young immigrant who lives with her grandma in a small desert town, trying to fit in with her peers and overcome her mother's abandonment. Until a strange genetic phenomena interrupts - her body starts to grow feathers. Elina is forced to choose between the need to belong and her own identity.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Hani Dombe, Tom Kouris
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Hani Dombe
A series that follows the wildlife residing in war zones around the world. With an unbiased voice and tone, this episode follows the lives of wild rabbits living between the western Negev in Israel and the Gaza Strip.
| Direction: Noam Locker
Out of nowhere
The shadow of the Sun
We Were a Sterile Bomb
Every morning, an old lifeguard arrives for another day of work, when in fact the swimming pool he guards has been empty for years. One day an unexpected guest appears out of nowhere, filling him with doubts about his everyday life.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction:
Isca Mayo and Maayan Tzuriel
More than 10 years ago Boaz has cut all ties with his parents, brother & sister, his friends, and his previous world. The film tracks the story of his disappearance and embarks on a surreal journey into the memories he left with his family.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction: Ido Hartmann
The coming-of-age story of Avi, living in a small Israeli town in the late 1990s. Lonely and introverted, he wanders around the city. An encounter with a young man his age shakes his numb world.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Dotan Moreno
Μουσική | Music: Amit Hai Cohen
Παραγωγή | Production: Balulu Films
Animation stories from Mexico
In this tribute of ANIMASYROS, in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute, the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) and the National Society for Culture and Arts (FONCA), the new film cycle "Animated stories from Mexico" is presented. It consists of a collection of mexican animated short films made over the last thirty years by animation designers and independent artists that showcase the richness of fantasy, but also Mexico's tradition in visual arts, literature and audiovisual media.
• The first part, called “Tú, yo y los demás” ("You, me and the rest") proposes eight outstanding mexican short films, including urban surreal stories and magical, familiar narratives showcasing individualism and digitalization in today's society.
• The second part called “La mirada femenina” (“The female look") is dedicated to the best, female animation makers in Mexico. It shows a different sensitivity to issues related to women, from a political and social point of view.
• “Un brinco pa’allá” (“A jump beyond"} is the third and final part in our mexican animated film series. The connection with ancestral stories, belief in the spirits of the house and folk Saints demonstrate respect for Mexico's narrative and visual traditions.
The curator of the cycle is Lourdes Villagomez, who included fundamental works from a historical perspective and contemporary films by more than twenty prestigious animation artists.
The production of most of these works was realized thanks to the support of the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) and the National Society for Culture and Arts (FONCA).
32-Rbit
Εl Héroe
Fonos
My grandmother was persuaded that the only animal which commits the same error more than twice is human. It is an essay regarding internet, a parallel world, where the loss of memory, the errors, the stalking and the addiction gets involved everyone and everything.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay, Μουσική | Music,
Παραγωγή | Production: Víctor Orozco
A love story that ends before it starts.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Carlos Carrera
Μουσική | Music: Gabriel Romo
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Chloe with her grandfather are sharing the same love for the sounds. However, the day that her grandfather passes away, she shuts the door to the sounds and in this way, she blocks her feelings and sadness, until a meeting wakes up her childhood memories.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Gabriela Badillo Sánchez
Μουσική | Music:
Francisco Javier Solis Oropeza
Παραγωγή | Production:
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Liber
Lluvia en los ojos
Primos
Biblioteca Vasconcelos
Who is visiting libraries in time of the internet? What comes to mind of those who are visiting them? A journey at the Biblioteca Vasconcelos if the city of México.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Gabriela Badillo Sánchez
Παραγωγή | Production: Elisa Gutiérrez
Sofia, a 7 year-old girl, remembers the day that she broke her arm in a chase in the forest: a story full of fantasy that reveals an unpleasant moment in Sofia’s life.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Rita Basulto
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Rita Basulto, León Fernández y Luis Téllez
Μουσική | Music: Manuel Velázquez González
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
A fairy tale that presents the same story in two respects. Matter and spirit come together to transform the nature of the two mammals.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Federico Gutiérrez Obeso
Εμψύχωση | Animation:
Alexandra Castellanos Solís, Alejandro García Caballero, Andrea Mondragón
García y Andreas Papacostas Quintanilla Aranza
Μουσική | Music: Manuel Velázquez González
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Un día en familia
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7’00’’
Última estación
The
A random Sunday with the family at Chapultepec Forest. For El Negro it seems that, neither the boat trip, nor the visit to the zoo makes him happy. His indifference changes with a question which leads us to the discovery that the park is an area where joy does exist, but has its price.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Μουσική | Music:
Pedro «Zulu» González
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Pedro «Zulu» González (βασισμένο
του AdriánRomán | based on Adrián Román’s poem)
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Miguel Anaya, Yibrán Asuad, Eduardo Donjuán, Adrián Parisi y Miguel Musalém
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
A man is walking in seeking of means of transport to return home. But the path will not be what he was expected.
In Atlacholoaya, a mexican prison, men and women create romantic relationships. However, what problems are created by the sexual relationships in the prison?
In the garden of pleasures a visitor from the Under World realizes that the color and madness are the ingredients in order to create his own universe.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Male García Caballero
Μουσική | Music:
Guillermo Acevedo y Miguel Hernández
Παραγωγή | Production:
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Pictures designed with points, almost faded, which dilute and gain power in the scene: moving drops which expand and contract.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction:
Andrea Robles y Adriana Bravo
Μουσική | Music: Tareke Ortíz
Παραγωγή | Production:
Andrea Robles y Adriana Bravo
La casa triste
The sad house
Η Cerulia
La última cena
The last dinner
Niño de mis ojos
My dear child
Cerulia starts a journey with the purpose to say goodbye to her childhood’s home, but the memories and the presence of her grandparents do not let her.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Sofía Carrillo
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Paola Chaurand
Μουσική | Music: Sofia Orozco, Fernando Arias y Yolihuani Curiel
Παραγωγή | Production: Nahuyaca Films y Conaculta
A note stuck to the fridge and an irrelevant piece of aluminum foil will provoke to Diana a transformation which will change her boring everyday life.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Vanessa Quintanilla Cobo
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Andreas Papacostas
Μουσική | Music: Pepe Stephens
Παραγωγή | Production:
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
What about you? What are you doing with your love and your feelings? Are you still dreaming the perfect love? Love, humor and desire: feelings which are looking for space. A story of two worlds, fictional and personal.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay:
Guadalupe Sánchez Sosa
Εμψύχωση | Animation:
María Cristina Camus y Tatiana Huezo
Μουσική | Music:
Luis Felipe Luna y Alberto Delgado
Παραγωγή | Production:
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Síndrome de línea blanca
Hasta los huesos
Martyris
Witnesses
Fictional biography of a girl who dies in a car accident and wakes up like the princesses at the fairytales, seeking her happily ever after.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Lourdes Villagómez
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Los Animantes
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Α young man arrives at the land of the dead where he is welcomed by a worm, smilling skulls and Katrina’s own skull . After some fun and flirting the man realizes that being dead is not that bad after all.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: René Castillo
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Sergio Ulloa
Μουσική | Music: Rubén Albarrán, Emmanuel del Real, Eugenia León, Enrique Rangel y Joselo Rangel
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
In a sad and declining world a young Saint takes care of people who suffer and have suicidal tendencies.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Luis Felipe Hernández Alanís
Μουσική | Music: Alejandro de Icaza y Gerardo Celada
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Mi abuela Matilde
My grandmother Matilde
Un brinco pa’llá
A jump beyond
Young Maria has stayed home to looked after by her grandmother who has managed to teach her several things which they will help her to take care of herself. There is always great tension in their relationship until the grandmother recalls a secret which had kept from her childhood.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Miguel Anaya
Μουσική | Music:Jorge Vidales
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
His first day at work, Martin, an arrogant teenager will learn about the importance of rituals and the respect for the ancestors.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Juan José Medina
Μουσική | Music: Ruy Díaz
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Mr. Ramon is travelling in search of his lack at the borders of Mexico and U.S.A. With some friends, they will cross them illegally and a surprise will take them farther away than the expected.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Dominique Jonard
Μουσική | Music: Eduardo Solís
Παραγωγή | Production: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
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The legendary Portuguese filmmaker Regina Pessoa will present four of her films at the ANIMASYROS. From her first film "The Night" (1999) that defined her artistic career to the autobiographical "Uncle Thomas - Accounting for the Days" (2019), Regina Pessoa has been innovating and always at the forefront of the global animation scene.
Espace Projets (Annecy, 1995)
A Noite.
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Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, όπου
animator.
«Tragic Story with Happy Ending»
Born in Coimbra, she lived in a village without a TV, she spent her time reading, listening to the older ones telling stories and also painting her grandmother's house doors and walls using charcoal, encouraged by her uncle.
She graduated in painting from University of Porto in 1998 and during her time as a student took part in different animation workshops, having participated in Espace Projets (Annecy, 1995) with the short “A Noite”, which she would finish in 1999.
In 1992 she started working in Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, where she collaborated as animator in various films.
Her short “Tragic Story with Happy Ending” is the most awarded Portuguese film ever.
@mereginapessoa
Regina Pessoa
A
Noite
The night
6’35’’ | 1999 | PT/FR/EU
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Εμψύχωση | Animation: Regina Pessoa
Σενάριο | Screenplay: Yann Thual, Regina Pessoa
Μουσική | Music: Tentúgal
Παραγωγή | Production: Abi Feijó, Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, Lda
Kali, O Pequeno Vampiro
Kali the Little Vampire
9’20’’ | 2012 | FR/PT/CH/EU, CA
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Regina Pessoa
Παραγωγή | Production: Georges Schwizgebel, Studio GDS, Pascal le Nôtre, Folimage, Julie Roy, René Chénier, Office National du Film du Canada, Abi Feijó, CICLOPE FILMES
História Trágica Com Final Feliz
Tragic Story With Happy Ending
7’46’’ | 2005 | PT/FR/EU, CA
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Regina Pessoa
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Sylvie Leonard, Laurent Repiton, Regina Pessoa
Μουσική | Music: Normand Roger
Παραγωγή | Production: Patrick Eveno, Marcel Jean, Office National du Film du Canada, Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Folimage, Abi Feijó, CICLOPE FILMES
Tio Tomás, A Contabilidade Dos Dias
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
13’00’’ | 2019 | PT/FR/EU, CA
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay: Regina Pessoa
Εμψύχωση | Animation: Nils Delot, Soukaïna Najjaranne, Marc Robinet, Dale Hayward, Sylvie Trouvé, Alexandre Braga, André Marques, Regina Pessoa
Μουσική | Music: Normand Roger
Παραγωγή | Production: Reginald de Guillebon, Les Armateurs, Julie Roy, ONF/NFB, Abi Feijó, CICLOPE FILMES
Regina Pessoa Tribute
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“Reclaiming the Colour”
Ovar Primary School 6
“American Dream” της Renee Shi (14 χρονών)
“Thetraveler” από τον JiahaoZhang (20
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Reclaiming the colour
49” | 2023 | PT/EU
In a country, grey, lived Sad People, people who could not say what they felt, nor do what they wanted, because there were policemen everywhere who prevented them from being free. Those who visited that country could not understand the reason for so much sadness.
Camera Zizanio presents the world of Youth Audiovisual Creation to ANIMASYROS. Three award-winning animated films from last year's (last) Camera Zizanio will participate, one from each age category. (A,4-12 / B 13-16 / C 17-20).
• From Portugal, the film "Reclaiming the Colour", by students from Ovar Primary School 6 (primary school students)
• From the USA, the film "American Dream" by Renee Shi (14 years old)
• From China the film "The traveler" by Jiahao Zhang (20 years old)
American Dream
The Traveller
O ταξιδιώτης 4’36’’ | 2023 | CN
| Production: Children from the 6 E.B. Ovar
This is a story of a young girl's day at school, bright and cheerful until the sound of gunshots rings in her ears. Her best friend dies in the shooting, and she must walk through the tainted hallways of her school once again. This animation is dedicated to the victims of school shooting tragedies.
| Screen
In the year 2769 AD, the world's population reached 10 billion for the first time. At the same time, with the depletion of natural resources, humanity ushered in an unprecedented era of great famine.
| Direction,
| Screenplay,
| Production: Jiahao Zhang
Max Hendrickson Σκηνοθέτης | Director
Animasyros.
Max Hendrickson
Ένας
There will also be a special presentation of the films of the young director Max Hendrickson from Ireland, who will attend the Animasyros festival. Max Hendrickson will present his films:
Heart
Μετά
A young man who visits an abandoned house in the mountains is haunted by its sinister pagan past.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Παραγωγή | Production: Max Hendrickson
After moving into a small apartment in a big city, a man notices strange and mysterious occurrences.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction, Σενάριο | Screenplay,
Εμψύχωση | Animation, Παραγωγή | Production: Max Hendrickson
Μουσική | Music: Olivier de Palma
Παραγωγή | Production: Peter Badač
Μια
A stop motion re-telling of the classic Edgar Allen Poe short story, in which a man is driven to insanity by the presence of his older companion's pale blue eye.
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction,
| Screenplay: Max Hendrickson
| Music: Michal Novinski
Παραγωγή | Production: Gerry Sweeney, Max Hendrickson
On the Way to the Oscars! Sharing the Oscar Race Experience
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"On the Way to the Oscars! Sharing the
Race Experience"
The discussion "On the Way to the Oscars! Sharing the Oscar Race Experience" brings together three acclaimed artists: Joanna Quinn, Joao Gonzalez, and Tal Kantor, all Academy Award nominees in the short animation film category. The conversation will delve into their unique experiences during the Oscar race, highlighting both the challenges and opportunities that arise from such recognition. They will discuss how their nomination has influenced their career trajectories, offering insights into whether the prestigious honor opened doors or presented unexpected hurdles, shedding light on the realities of being an independent artist in the world of animation. PT / EU
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Royal College Art
ESMAD (PT),
João Gonzalez (1996) is a Portuguese film director, animator, illustrator and a musician with classical training in piano. He did a Masters at the Royal College Art (UK), after finishing his BA at ESMAD (PT). In these institutions he made 2 award winning films, “Nestor” and “The Voyager”. In 2022 he premiered his third film “Ice Merchants” at Festival de Cannes, winning the Prize for Best Short film in competition from the Semaine de La Critique jury, which later would becοme the first ever Portuguese film to be nominated for an Oscar and the second to win an Annie Award. He has a big interest in combining his musical background with his practice in authorial animation, always taking the role of composer and sometimes instrumentalist in the films he directs, occasionally setting them to a live performance.
colaanimation.com
João Gonzalez
Tal Kantor
Joanna Quinn
Animator, Director
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«Ciclic Production Grant»
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Tal Kantor is an animation filmmaker, visual artist, and lecturer from Jerusalem. Graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem’, where she currently lectures, majoring in animation. Her short animated film "In Other Words" won many awards and was officially selected in more than 100 festivals worldwide. Tal was the Animation Art Director of the award-winning documentary "ADVOCATE", shortlisted for the 2020 Oscars. Her upcoming new animation film "Letter to a Pig" is an Israeli French co-production which won the ‘Ciclic Production Grant’ at the Annecy Festival - Mifa Pitches (2017).
talkantor.com
@tal.kantor
Joanna discovered animation while studying Graphic Design at Middlesex University London. Her graduation film «Girls Night Out», introduced audiences to the character of «Beryl», whitch started Joanna’s career by winning 3 awards at Annecy. Joanna’s films have won many awards including 4 BAFTA’s, 3 EMMY’s and 3 OSCAR nominations. Joanna works collaboratively with writer/ producer Les Mills and their most recent film «Affairs of the Art» was nominated for an Oscar but more importantly won the Grand Prix at Animasyros 2021.
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Behind the scences of the «The Kite»
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Martin Smatana presents behind the scenes of his short stop motion puppet film “The Kite” and the process of building scenography and animating. When he started to develop a story for children about death, many asked him if he had gone mad. Then, he was reading a lot of books and articles about how to speak about such complex issues with children with metaphors and symbols. It was important to have joy and hope in a story about death.
He decided to use only gestures and body language. To show the process of getting thinner, he decided to build puppets out of textile layers. The boy has many of these layers; he is three-dimensional and has perspective, because he has all his life in front of him. But as the grandpa gets older, he gets thinner, and at the end of his life he is as thin as a sheet of paper, so one day the wind just softly blows him and takes him up to the sky.
With the support
The Kite
Martin Smatana
Σκηνοθέτης,
Animator, Screenwriter, Director
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Martin Smatana (1991 Slovakia) is a graduate of Animation at FAMU in Prague. His debut short film “Rosso Papavero” (2015) premiered at Berlinale 2015 and won 15 international awards. His graduation film “The Kite” premiered at Berlinale 2019, was selected to the semifinals of Student Academy Awards, included in the Film Collection of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art in New York) and won over 60 international awards including Children Audience Awards in Annecy and Stuttgart. He wrote and illustrated three books “A Year of Good News” and his new animated film “Hello Summer” also won the Children Audience Award in Annecy 2024.
Grace Chimela Eze Nwoke
A discussion on the occasion of “The Afrogreeks” project by Døcumatism on the African Diaspora and the film "Red Heart" by the film team of the NGO “Kinoniko EKAB”.
Døcumatism.
Grace Chimela Eze Nwoke, Greek anthropologist and performer of Nigerian descent, is an active member of the Døcumatism group and is in charge of curating the archive and coordinating the AfroGreeks project’s live actions.
documatism.com/project/the-afrogreeks
A collective community project about the African Diaspora, “The AfroGreeks”, was initiated in Greece in 2015 by Døcumatism. It consists of video installations, interviews, social interactions, research, public actions, and an archive – laboratory. The term Afro-Greek is a self-proclamation that the protagonists of the work use in a critical way. It was first used publicly in 2019 as the title of a video installation by Døcumatism, during a public dialogue at the Kypseli Αgora.
It launched an artistic movement documented, doing much to stimulate a public discussion about the African diasporic communities in Athens and beyond. Initial events took place in the neighborhood of Kypseli, one of Athens’ most culturally diverse areas but one that had been marginalized for a long time. Døcumatism has created a network of collaborators within a community whose protagonists are mostly the members of the African Diaspora in Greece. Collected by Døcumatism, their stories highlight the problems of integration linked mainly to marginalised trajectories. The resulting archive that has been created represents the first attempt to document the history of African communities in Greece. It contains audiovisual research material spanning four centuries, portraying the history of the African Diaspora in the Mediterranean through artistic processes, as part of the national narrative and Greek history.
“The AfroGreeks” project is a dynamic platform of expression for the participants, as artists and as active citizens in the effort to combat all forms of racism.
The project has been presented internationally at universities, conferences, the Center of Contemporary Art in Geneva, Serpentine Cinema, the Afroeuropeans Conference, ICA Sofia etc. The presentation of the AfroGreeks at the Drama School of Athens will be accompanied by live events: concerts, workshops, open discussions, and guided tours.
Red Heart
When young George sees people from Africa for the first time, he asks his father, why they are black. Telling the story of the creation from a different point of view his father encourages him to approach same aged Ibrahim.
Ten years later the two teenagers meet again. Their memories help the creation of new relationships free of prejudice.
The film is based on a story by Ibrahim S. Barrie. The young refugees who participated in the CLAP project come from Congo, Egypt, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Syria. They were hosted in Athens by the organization Kinoniko EKAV.
The film was produced with the support of "Karpos", within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme - CLAP.1. RED HEART is based on a story by Ibrahim S. Barrie. The young refugees who participated in the CLAP project are from Congo, Egypt, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Syria. They have been hosted in Athens by the organization Kinoniko EKAV. The creator and animator of the film group is the photographer and employee of the organization Christina Vazou.
Εμψυχώτρια
Workshop facilitator, puppet construction advisor & camera/live action editing: Christina Vazou
Ηθοποιοί | Actors: Ahmed Bukari, KostisMegalis, Marios Ioannou, Chico Nseki, Ibrahim S. Barrie, Mohammed Abdullahi, Filippos Fotiadis, Alexios Papadimitriou, Iason Nikolaou
Puppet creation & scenography: Ahmed Bukari, Chico Nseki, Ibrahim S. Barrie, Mohammed Abdullahi, Sidiki Keita, Abdullah Bility, Emad, Mohammed, Saed, Saer, Bishoy, Ahmad, Ziad
Εκπαιδεύτρια, επικεφαλής animator &
Animation instructor, lead animator & animation editing: Margarita Simopoulou
Μίξη &
| Sound mix & sound design: Anastasia Frangouli
Φωτογραφίες backstage| Backstage photography: Abdullah Bility, Emad Σύμβουλος
Graphic design advisor: Isabelle Bachmann
| Music: www.purple-planet.com
Project management and tutoring by KARPOS
From Africa with Love (2018).
Born in Freiburg, Germany, she is a freelance photographer specializes in reportage and documentary photography. Based in Athens, Greece, she holds an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (London College of Communication, 2011-2012). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the National Museum of Modern Art in Athens, and she has collaborated with organizations like Doctors without Borders. She also directed the documentary From Africa with Love (2018).
www.christinavazou.com
Stella Kirimi CEO AKTO, Art & Design College
“Petros Kirimis” Scholarship
While supporting institutions that promote the arts and design, AKTO has been a constant companion of ANIMASYROS since its birth. This cooperation, which includes a multitude of actions and has now been going on for 17 years, was sealed in 2023 with the establishment of the “Petros Kirimis Scholarship”. A full undergraduate scholarship, for three years of study, in the BA (Hons) Animation & Gaming programme.
Peter Kyrimis was a champion of Technology, Animation and Multimedia Production at AKTO. For over two decades, he tirelessly supported the development of the Animation programme and, more importantly, the students who embarked on their educational journeys within it. His passion for cultivating new talent, his commitment to fostering creativity, and his belief in the power of education were evident to all who knew him.
The “Petros Kirimis Scholarship” aims to ensure that, even in his absence, Petros Kirimi's legacy of support, inspiration and positive impact continues to thrive.
Art & Design Animation & Interactive Media & Game Design
Animasyros 2023 presents a collection of student projects of all the education levels of the Art & Design Animation & Interactive Media & Game Design Course of the AKTO College, curated by Anastasia Dimitra.
Tontaveetong, Fereshteh
και Valentas Askinis,
ASIFA STUDENT AWARD 2024 SCEENING LIST
Elegy of Elephant by Lu Sijie
Vibrating by Lindsay Moore Robertson
Sewing Love by XU Yuan
Interviewing by Wang Shenzhi
Ma! Ljubav je boja! / Love is a Color by Nikolina Žabčić
Stranastrana / Foreign Side by Sara Tomas
Morning glory by Shiheng Wang
Ride on the Wind by Jiahang Li
Tasveer by Saniya Paliwal & Vatsal Bucha
Illuminated by Morana Marija Vulić
Sorry for Staring at Me by Hanieh Ali Hemmati
The Awakening of Insects by Chiung Xiaoqiong Zhang
ASIFA International Student Award
The ASA programme celebrates the art of animation among young student filmmakers, providing a platform to showcase the creative skills and innovation of emerging talent in the field.
Through this initiative, ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation) aims to recognize outstanding works with different technical and cultural influences, encouraging and inspiring the next generation of animation. Winners receive significant recognition and exposure within the animation community, helping to launch their professional careers.
The program (ASA) seeks to encourage and support student creativity, appealing to all students, regardless of their ASIFA membership.
This year's program included: Austria, Croatia, China, Croatia, Greece, India, Iran and the United States. Over 55 exciting films were submitted and after a thorough discussion by the selection committee, consisting of Ginger Tontaveetong, Fereshteh Shakib and Valentas Askinis, 12 films were selected.
The jury, Nelson Shin, Nancy Denney Phelps and JohnJill Lee, honoured the film "Love is a Color" by Nikolina Žabčić from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia with an award.
8’05’’ | 2022 Communication University of China, China
3’18’’ | 2022 Central Michigan University, USA
8’33’’ | 2023 Tama Art University, Japan
3’29’’ | 2022 Zhejiang University of Technology, China
7’52” | 2023 Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, Croatia
4’51” | 2023 Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, Croatia
9’40’’ | 2022 Communication University of China, China
9’59’’ | 2022 Beijing FilmAcademy, China
4’30’’ | 2023 National Institute of Design, Haryana, India
6’26”| 2023 Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, Croatia
4’ 25’’ | 2023 Tehran University of Art, Iran
2’ 17’’ | 2023 School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Arts, New York, USA
Love is a Color
Ninety Seconds for Arleta
ANIMASYROS International Film Festival and Melodia 99,2 radio station present the fifth film of the animated biopic series "Ninety Seconds". The lives of much-loved Greek songwriters & singers, who had left their distinct mark in the Greek music history, framed by one of their most emblematic songs become animated films from up-and-coming directors.
The fifrth film in the series, entitled "Ninety seconds for Arleta" is an animated biopic about the great composer and songwriter Arleta and maps, with the use of mixed animation techniques, her fantastic journey in her favourite neighbourhood in Athens, Exarchia, against the background of her tender and humanistic song “Ta mikra paidia” (The Little Children) in a new version by her close friend and songwriter Giorgis Christodoulou.
The film was created in collaboration with the Department of Multimedia & Graphic Arts of Cyprus University of Technology, based on a script written by Melodia 99.2 and ANIMASYROS.
The film is directed by Artemis Karamani and Katerina Kasaidou. Charalambos Margaritis has curated the film direction and animation and has edited the film.
The song “Ta mikra paidia” (The Little Children), written, composed and performed by Arleta, was released in 1967, included in the album "Arleta 2” by LYRA. This new version by Giorgis Christodoulou, was recorded on July 2024 at studio AUX and STUDIO ANIMA, by the musicians Bledy Telha (guitars) and Alfred Ruci (flute) and performed by Giorgis Christodoulou.
We are grateful to Giorgis Christodoulou for all the support and for the stories that he generously shared with us and were the inspiration for this film.
ΑNIMASYROS Productions Παραγωγές ΑNIMASYROS
Since 2016, Animasyros Productions has been successfully active in the field of animation film, documentary & TV shows production. To date, we have completed the TV series Animert, which aired on Public Television in 2016-2017 and dealt with the contemporary art of animated film. In addition, a significant number of commissioned promotional animated films and music videos have been produced for important international & Greek organization ssuch as the Greek National Tourism Organization and the composer Theodore.
On 2021, the Committee “Greece 2021”, responsible on behalf of the Greek State for organizing all events relating to the commemoration of the 200 years since the Greek Revolution, commissioned Animasyros Productions with the creation of its film “By the light of thine eyes 200 YEARS OF GREECE”. This was a 48-minute documentary, produced by the Commission “Greece 2021”, which imaginatively narrates the two centuries of contemporary Greece.
At the same time, in 2022, two animated short films went into production, “Salty” written and directed by Andreas Raptis and Charalambos Margaritis and “P” directed by Stelios Koupetoris.
“P” is the first co-production with the Hive Studio from Israel and recently had its world premiere in competition at the Drama International Short Film Festival.
EOT Salty
“Hellenic Places”
In 2021, the first animated documentary from the series under the title “Hellenic Places”, dedicated to Hermoupolis and directed by Charalambos Margaritis, was completed. The film was financed through the special Covid-19 program of the Ministry of Culture, a program implemented in collaboration with the Greek Film Centre, aiming at supporting the local film industry against the impact of the pandemic. “Hellenic Places: Hermoupolis” is under the auspices of the Syros – Hermoupolis Municipality and is now available on the subscription TV platform of COSMOTE TV.
On the creation of this film, COSMOTE TV and Animasyros Productions at the end of 2022 started their collaboration, as co-producers, for the creation of the six-episode television series, entitled "Hellenic Places". The new episodes will be broadcasted exclusively on COSMOTE TV and are dedicated to historical places with an outstanding role in the creation of the new era of the contemporary Greek State. In particular, films are being created about Hydra, Messolonghi, Psara, Kasos, Naoussa & Cyprus, and will be completed by the end of 2025.
“Hellenic Places: Hydra” directed by Dimitris Kousandas has been completed, also with the support of the Region of Attica &the Public Benefit Company of the Municipality of Hydra. Meanwhile, the third episode “Hellenic Places: Messolonghi” directed by Daphne Xourafi and animated by Agisilaos Robolas, produced also with the support of the Municipality of Missolonghi, was completed and broadcast in early 2024.
A brave mouse in a cinema packed with cats is trying to twist a repetitive film, where a cat runs in a hamster wheel, chasing a mouse running in another hamster wheel.
Written and Directed by
Stelios Koupetoris
Head of Animation
Kleopatra Korai
Lead Animator
Elena Pavlaki
Animator
Katia Korzinov
Additional Animation
Anna Economou
Liron Feigelson
Concept artist - Storyboard artist -
Character design - Art director -
Background & prop designer
Olga Mavrommati
Music – Sound Design
Stelios Koupetoris
VFX Compositor
Dan Pryor
Compositing
Kleopatra Korai
Elena Pavlaki
Nimrod Havilio
Michal Lustig
Aviv Ziv
Editing
Thodoris Armaos
Color Grading
Filipe Fernandes
Foley Artist
Louise Brown
Foley Recordist
Jamie Talbutt
Foley Recording Studio
Bang Post Production Ltd
Sound Mixed at
Tone Studio
Pre-production Animation Tests
Alexandros Apostolakis
Cinematography Advisor
Yannis Kanakis
Title Design
The Hive
Artistic Advisor
Maria Anestopoulou
Production Manager - Athens
Athena Kalkopoulou
Line Producer - Tel Aviv
Einat Keshet
Producers
Vassilis C. Karamitsanis
Amit R. Gicelter
The Hive Team:
Yuval Krol
Renen Adar
Avishai Simhovich
Hadas Gicelter
Yael Nudelman
Τόποι
Hellenic Places: Hydra
15’00' | 2023 | GR/EU
Hellenic Places: Messolonghi
15’00' | 2023 | GR/EU
The film is the second episode of the series of historical animated documentaries under the general title "Hellenic Places". From the prehistorical times to the present, the route of the Hydra through time followed all those cultural and population ferments that shaped the contemporary Greek State.
Παραγωγή | Production:
Animasyros), COSMOTE TV,
Platforma- Urban Culture Company (Animasyros Productions), COSMOTE TV, Region οf Attica, Public Benefit Company οf Hydra
Εκτέλεση Παραγωγής | Producer:
Βασίλης K. Καραμητσανης | Vassilis C. Karamitsanis
Σκηνoθεσία | Direction, Eμψύχωση | Animation:
Κουσανδας | Dimitris Kousandas
Σενάριο| Script: Μαρία Σαμπατακακη | Maria Sampatakaki
Σύμβουλος
| Script Consultant:
| Panagiotis Rappas
| Narration:
| Animation Associate: Georgia Burnell
Γεροντάκης | Aris Gerontakis
| Music, Sound Design:
| Christos Panagos
| Historical Research: Historistai
| Title Design-Poster:
| Charalambos Margaritis
| Artistic Consultant:
| Maria Anestopoulou
The film is the third episode of the series of historical animated documentaries under the general title "Hellenic Places". The narrative is based on the relationship between place and space. Four themes: mythology, antiquity, the Venetian rule and the Ottoman rule tell the story of Messolonghi's journey as a timeless "little threshing floor" (alonaki in Greek). Our guide within time is a bird, which is a permanent inhabitant of Messolonghi’s lake and a symbol found in the poems of Greece’s national poet Dionisios Solomos & the significant Greek poet Kostis Palamas.
Europe and Contemporary Artists: Joining Forces for Good
The discussion highlights the powerful synergy between artistic creativity and the contemporary European environment, where the European Parliament has a leading role in supporting artists and emerging art forms to achieve a fairer and more pluralistic Europe. In the context of an animation film festival, this conversation will focus on the ways in which artists can inspire social change and the promotion of European values. Through animation - a medium that combines art and storytelling - these collaborations address pressing societal issues such as inclusion, diversity and the call for a fairer future, fostering cultural unity and promoting innovation.
GR / EU GR / EU
Effie Pappa Director
Mailchimp,
«MynameisLulo»,
Cinekid 2024.
Effie is an Award-winning Animation Director currently based in Athens, Greece.
As a storyteller, she loves to use her creative powers for good, depicting universal themes through allegory, and creating stories that aim to inspire positive change. Highlights of her work include her short film “My Stuffed Granny” (McLaren Award at Edinburgh Film Festival, ANNECY Official selection, jury award at TOKYO Anime awards amongst others), "Wild World" by Yusuf/Cat Stevens official music video, and “The Little Elephant” by George Hadjipieris gaining more than 80 million YouTube views. During 2022 she directs Mailchimp’s Season 2 - stop motion animated series “All in a Day’s Work”, six comedic stories about the ups and downs of local businesses. Currently she develops “My Name is Lulo”, her first 2D kid’s TV series, participating in international forums and script development workshops such as Cinekid 2024.
www.effiepappa.com
Constantinos Tsoutsoplides
Head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Greece
(2006-2009)
Είναι
(2003-2004)
(2011).
(2004-2006).
Reading,
He was the Spokesperson of the EPLO in Greece since 2011 and the Coordinator of the EP institutional campaign for the May 2019 European Elections.
As an official of the Council of the EU, he worked for the Ecofin during the creation of the Euro (1994-1998), for the enlargement negotiations (1998-2003), for the financial perspectives in the Secretary General Private Office (2003-2004) and for the Foreign Affairs Council on Middle East and Northern Africa issues (2011).
He was Secretary General for the European Social Fund in the Greek Ministry of Employment (2006-2009) and Managing Director of the Hellenic Sugar Industry (2004-2006).
He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Reading, UK.
European Parliament Liaison Office in Greece
- Animegaron 2024
Animegaron 2024 Bridges
For the 7th consecutive year, the International Original Music Composition Competition for Animation film Animegaron is completed by Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall in collaboration with ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival, as part of the Bridges Cycle.
This year the competition was for the film "Kanarini” (Canary) by Chrysoula Korovesi and Marios Gambierakis, who wrote the script, directed it and did the animation. With this first film they won the first prize in the Greek Competition Section of ANIMASYROS 2022.
animator),ο Zorzes Katris (συνθέτης,
The members of this year’s jury were Dimitris Armenakis (director, animator), Zorzes Katris (composer, music producer), Dimitris Maragopoulos (composer, artistic director of the Bridges Cycle), Nikos Portokaloglou (songwriter) and Alex Sid/Alexandros Sidiropoulos (musician, TV and film music composer, songwriter).
Every year, the large number of entries from Greece and abroad indicates the intense interest of creators - young and veterans - in film music and even more so in animation films, through a wide field of freedom, imagination and music inspiration.
Νικητές | Winners
Βραβείο | First Prize
Jakub Tokarczyk FR/EU
Δεύτερο Βραβείο Second Prize
| Thanos Papadelos GR/EU
Τρίτο Βραβείο | Third Prize
| Gabriel Falikekas GR/EU
| First Distinction Eunseo Ko KR
| Second Distinction
| Yorgos Theofanous GR/EU
The three Animegaron winners will receive cash prizes and will be supported by a wide range of promotional activities. www.megaron.gr/gefures-animegaron-2/
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Formed in 2008 Vagma Media Development has been synonymous with engaging, visually arresting and innovative media. We create and innovate. It’s our open-mindedness and hunger to explore new projects that gives this company and its employess a fearless desire to innovate and continue to grow. Today Black Book Media offers the most stylized and contemporary media, designed to arouse the interest of its readers, interested by an elegant Greece.
The Emile Awards Come to Greece for the First
Time at ANIMASYROS
After a four-year hiatus, the Emile Awards are making their debut in Greece! The award ceremony, marking a new chapter for the legendary European animation awards, will be held at the historic Apollo Theatre of Hermoupolis in Syros on Monday, September 23, as part of this year's ANIMASYROS powered by PPC 2024 Festival.
Following two highly successful editions in Lille, France, in 2017 and 2018, the European Animation Awards—named after French pioneers Emile Reynaud and Emile Cohl—are being revived by a group of esteemed animation professionals from across Europe. Vassilis C. Karamitsanis, president of ANIMASYROS, also serves as the president of the Awards' organizing committee.
This grand celebration of European animation will recognize the best films of the year, honor the talent and achievements of creators and professionals from over 30 countries, and showcase the diversity and creativity of the European animation community.
Επιλογή / Curated by Nancy Denney Phelps
Nancy Denney Phelps
Above the Clouds A Kind of Testament
Short Film Categories
Best Backgrounds and Characters in Short Film
A Kind of Testament (FR/EU), director Stephen Vuillemin
Above the Clouds (HU/EU), director Vivien Hárshegyi, produced by József Fülöp
Ice Merchants (PT/FR/EU,UK), director João Gonzalez, produced by Bruno Caetano and Michael Proença
Eeva (EE/HR/EU), directors Lucija Mrzljak & Morten Tšinakov, produced by Draško Ivezić and Kalev Tamm
Such Miracles Do Happen (PL/EU), director Barbara Rupik, produced by Polish National Film School in Łodz
Best Animation in Short Film
27 (FR/HU/HE), director Flóra Anna Buda, produced by Emmanuel-Alan Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Péter Benjámin Lukács and Gábor Osváth
A Kind of Testament (FR/EU), director Stephen Vuillemin
Electra (CZ/EU/FR/SK) director Daria Kashcheeva, produced by Zuzana Krivkova Martin Vandas, Tomáš Šimon, Olivier Catherin, Richard Van Den Boom, Juraj Krasnohorsky
The Family Portrait (HR/EU/RS), director Lea Vidaković, produced by Draško Ivezić
Nun or Never! (FL), director Heta Jäälinoja, produced by Jani Lehto
Above the Clouds (HU/EU), director Vivien Hárshegyi, produced by József Fülöp
Ice Merchants (PT/FR/EU/UK), director João Gonzalez, produced by Bruno Caetano and Michael Proença
Eeva (EE/HR/EU), directors Lucija Mrzljak & Morten Tšinakov, produced by Draško Ivezić and Kalev Tamm
Such Miracles Do Happen (PL/EU), director Barbara Rupik, produced by Polish National Film School in Łodz
Best Sound Design and Music in Short Film
Greylands (CH), director Charlotte Waltert, Alvaro Schoeck, produced by Saskia von Virág
Misaligned (PL/LV/EU), directed by Marta Magnuska, produced by Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek, Sabine Andersone
A Kind of Testament (FR/EU), director Stephen Vuillemin
The Family Portrait (HR/FR/EU/RS), director Lea Vidaković, produced by Draško Ivezić
Best Innovative Short Film
A Kind of Testament (FR/EU), director Stephen Vuillemin
Electra (CZ/FR/SK EU) director Daria Kashcheeva, produced by Zuzana Krivkova Martin Vandas, Tomáš Šimon, Olivier Catherin, Richard Van Den Boom, Juraj Krasnohorsky
Goodbye Jérôme (FR/EU), directors Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, produced by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image
Such Miracles Do Happen (PL/EU), director Barbara Rupik, produced by Polish National Film School in Łodz
The Miracle (FR/BE/NL/EU), director Nienke Deutz, produced by Annemie Degryse, Peter Lindhout, Koji Nelissen and Derk-Jan Warrink
Best of the Best Short Film
27 (FR/HU/EU), director Flóra Anna Buda, produced by Péter Benjámin Lukács and Gábor Osváth
Above the Clouds (HU/EU), director Vivien Hárshegyi, produced by József Fülöp
A Kind of Testament (FR/EU), director Stephen Vuillemin
The Family Portrait (HR/FR/RS/EU), director Lea Vidaković, produced by Draško Ivezić
Ice Merchants (PT/FR/EU/UK), director João Gonzalez, produced by Bruno Caetano and Michael Proença
Feature Film Categories
Best Writing in a Feature / Best Soundtrack in a Feature / Best Backgrounds and Character Design in a Feature / Best Animation in a Feature / Best οf The Best Feature
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (FR/NL/LU/EU/CA), director Pierre Földes, produced by Tom Dercourt, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron
Chicken for Linda! (FR/IT/EU), directors Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach, produced by Marc Irmer, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron
Mars Express (FR/EU), director Jeremie Perin, produced by Didier Creste
My Grandfather’s Demons (PT/ES/FR/EU), director Nuno Beato, produced by Nuno Beato, Diego Carvalho, Emmanuel Quillet, Martine Vidalenc, Carlos Juárez and Xosé Manuel Zapata Pérez
My Love Affair with Marriage (LU/LV/EU/USA), director Signe Baumane, produced by Roberts Vinovskis, Sturgis Warner, Raoul Nadalet and Signe Baumane
Nayola (PT/NL/BE/FR/EU), director José Miguel Ribeiro, produced Ana Carina, Arnoud Rijken, Michiel Snijders, Linda Sterckx, Geert Van Goethem, Serge Kestmont, Tomás Oom Martins
Rosa and the Stone Troll (DK/EU), director Karla Nor Holmbäck, produced by Marie Bro
Tender Metalheads (ES/EU), director Joan Tomas Monfort & Carlos Perez-Reche, produced by Juanjo Saez
Unicorn Wars (ES/FR/EU/UK), director Alberto Vázquez, produced by Ivan Minambres, Chelo Loureiro, Nicolas Schmerkin
Chicken for Linda
Tender Metalheads
Unicorn Wars
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Google Spotlight Stories.
Animasyros VR Lounge 2024 will present VR Paint and animation tools that allow artists to create inside a virtual or mixed reality environment, in an experience that brings together the best of painting, 3D animation and sculpture. For three days our visitors will have the opportunity to try the tools hands on and make their first VR paintings. At the same time in another VR station the audience will be seeing some of the most interesting films created with VR animation tools such as Quill. Award winning interactive immersive experiences such as the Emmy winning "The Line" will be presented alongside cinematic VR pieces such as "Lost in Time" and Google Spotlight Stories.
Dimitris Delinikolas is a film director, new media producer and professor at the University of Athens, experienced in the fields of VR, commercials, documentary and animation.
George Zestanakis is a seasoned Creative Director, Animator, Game and VR Designer with a decade of experience, split between the creative hubs of Amsterdam and Athens.
Pearl
The Line
Media Literacy Programmes
Colors of Africa
Tall spotted necks, white striped legs and golden haircrowns. These are some of the exotic heroes of this workshop.
Colors, shapes and textures give life to animals and landscapes of the African Savanna, rainforest and deserts.
&
Media.
2D animation.
stop-motion
Elena Pavlaki is an animator and educator. She graduated from Akto College, where she studied 3D Animation & Interactive Media. Elena works on short films, music videos, commercials, educational videos and more in a variety of 2D animation techniques. She leads animation workshops and has years of experience teaching stop-motion animation to persons with disabilities.
www.behance.net/elenapavlaki
Margarita Simopoulou
The journey of spices
Inspired by the vibrant patterns of beloved Africa, the skilled animators from the Elderly Care Centre of Hermoupolis will share a story about the significance of food and nourishment. Through the magic of stop-motion animation, spices will embark on a journey to our neighboring continent, transforming into colorful, captivating tales.
Media Literacy Programme for Senior Citizens
In collaboration with Elderly Care Centre of Syros –Hermoupolis
Athens Animfest 2013.
Margarita Simopoulou graduated from the Graphic Design and Visual Communication Departmentof the University of West Attica Athens University of Applied Sciences as a Graphic Desinger, with a specialization in digital 2D and 3D animation and she is a graduate of the master “Information and Communication Technologies for Education” of National and Kapodistiran University or Athens. She works as an animator and a graphic designer at the Diadrasis company and as an animation teacher at the Erasmios Greek-German School and Karpos company. As part of her master's thesis, she created an augmented reality book for learning animation entitled "Animate IT!". In 2023 she participated in the film selection jury at the ICONA animation festival. She has created four short films that have competed in notable Greek festivals. The film “Life like a pencil” has won 1st prize in the greek films category of Athens Animfest 2013.
@margarita_simopoulou
An audiovisual journey to Africa
Exploring the characteristics of Africa and immersing their senses in the world of colors and movement, the students of the Special Primary School of Ermoupolis will create a stop-motion animation film and take us on a journey to the African continent.
Anna Oikonomou is an animator/illustrator from the island of Kos, currently based in Athens. She graduated from the Graphic Design and Visual Communication Department of the University of West Attica in 2022. Since then, she has been attending the MSc programme 2D and 3D Animation at the same university, while working in the creative field of animation production in Greece. Her first film “'Looking for Joy”' has been screened at festivals in Greece and abroad, winning the Best Student Film award in 2022 at the annual “Stratos Stasinopoulos” Awards by ASIFA Hellas and the Greek Film Center.
Born in Mesolongi, he have been involved in the arts from an early age, participating in his first photography exhibition at the age of 13. He studied Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Western Macedonia. Since 2022, he has worked for Messolonghi by Locals as an educational program manager, Hub coordinator, and project manager. He participates in art exhibitions in Greece and abroad and collaborates with ANIMASYROS in educational workshops and the creation of an animated documentary about Mesolongi, as part of the "Hellenic Places" series co-produced with COSMOTE TV.
Animating Our Stories
Dimitris Armenakis
Landecker Democracy
Humanity In Action Foundation.
Drawing inspiration from the project “Our Stories”, by Sebene Eshete the participants will combine traditions with modern techniques of stop-motion and cut-out animation.. “Our Stories” is an oral history project focused on migration to Greece during the ‘70s and ‘80s. Through oral testimonies and photographic material, the aim is to raise awareness about the longstanding presence of migrant communities in the country, especially in Athens. “Our Stories” is an independent project by Sebene Eshete, implemented with the support of the Landecker Democracy Fellowship by the Humanity In Action Foundation. The discovery of people and stories was made with the contribution of the Greek Forum of Migrants. ourstories.gr
«The Synthetic Age»
Director and animator, he studied at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, where he directed his first animated short film "Absorbed" (2017). He graduated from the MA Animation course at the Royal College of Art, London in 2019. His film "All You Can Eat" was screened at more than 40 animation festivals and won dozens of awards. He is currently in production on his next film "The Synthetic Age" with the support of the National Centre for Audiovisual Media and Communication and the Hellenic Film Centre.
Media Literacy Programme for
LOU COU MES
Are you ready to change your story?
A three-day hands-on intense workshop at ANIMASYROS 2024, led by Joanna Quinn and Les Mills, on animation script writing, storytelling and storyboarding. The workshop is aimed at animation/multimedia students or young professionals who are seeking their creative path in animation storytelling whether they have completed a short film of not.
With the support
«Affairs of the Art» -
Grand Prix στο Animasyros το 2021.
Joanna discovered animation while studying Graphic Design at Middlesex University London. Her graduation film «Girls Night Out», introduced audiences to the character of «Beryl», which started Joanna’s career by winning 3 awards at Annecy. Joanna’s films have won many awards including 4 BAFTA’s, 3 EMMY’s and 3 OSCAR nominations. Joanna works collaboratively with writer/producer Les Mills and their most recent film «Affairs of the Art» was nominated for an Oscar but more importantly won the Grand Prix at ANIMASYROS 2021.
British
«Affairs of the Art».
Les studied Fine Art in Cardiff, London and USA but gradually became more interested in film, becoming Director of the Film School at the University of Wales. Les first collaborated with Joanna on her graduation film «Girls Night Out». They have worked together, forming Beryl Productions International in 1988. Les wrote & produced the next 3 award winning «Beryl» films and produced «Wife of Bath» for which he won a Bafta and an Emmy. He received the 2022 British Animation Awards Writers Award and was nominated for an Oscar for «Affairs of the Art».
Joanna Quinn
Les Mills
Animaβλέπω,
Εκπαιδευτικό
Animasee, animaplay!
Educational workshop with animation shorts inspired by Africa, where we will explore the basic thematic, aesthetic and narrative features of the films, combining the educational treatment of issues dealt with audiovisual and cinema literacy activitiesm experiential games, visual creation and theatrical and educational expression.
Papacharalambous
with the Education Center for the Environment & Sustainability of Syros – Ermoupolis & the National Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communication (EKOME)
Dimitris Papacharalambous is the supervisor of the Audiovisual Education and Research Department of the National Centre for Audiovisual Media and Communication (EKOME). He has served as a teacher and manager in Secondary Special Education and as a lecturer in the thematic fields of Film, Cultural Studies and Special Education at the Department of E-MME of the University of Athens, the European Institute of Communication of NTUA and the University of Nicosia. He has also write books and articles on Cinema, Film Education, Media Education and Cultural Representations in the Media.
Exploring the mysteries of the African Masks
Each family will receive a mask, made by our workshop, to decorate with African designs. Special ceramic paints (underglazes) will be provided, as well as samples of African patterns that traditionally adorn masks. Afterward, the masks will be fired. In the following sessions, there will be an introduction to animation, and the family will bring their masks to life using the stop-motion technique with designs created through cut-outs and collages.
Berlinale Talents.
Thomas Künstler (Rome, b. 1991) is an Italian director & stop-motion animator who currently lives & works in Athens. He received his degree in Film Production in 2015 at the UCA Farnham, UK. His recent stop-motion short film "Pink Mountain” was nominated for Best Short Animation at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards, has been invited to more than 70 film festivals. In collaboration with different festivals, he leads animation workshops. He is also a Berlinale Talents Alumni.
Manos Mastorakis studied law in Athens and worked there for 12 years. Then he fell in love with ceramics and created his own pottery studio in Syros. He works mostly on the wheel with stoneware and porcelain and gets mesmerised by glaze technology. Parallel to the workshop he runs a gallery dedicated to greek crafts with emphasis on greek ceramics.
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Unesco Chair “Creative Cities in Motion”.
ANIMASYROS as every year organized animation workshops for all ages and audiences, in Athens and other cities and islands oh Greece.
The two-day animation workshop for adults, entitled “Argyro in motion”, was organized by the Digital Culture, Smart Cities, IoT & Advanced Technologies Program of the University of Piraeus, in collaboration with the ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival, under the auspices of the Unesco Chair "Creative Cities in Motion". The workshop was held at the premises of the University of Piraeus and the Center for Business Innovation for Blue Development, Blue Lab, which we are very grateful for the concession.
11 - 12
2023 |
11 – 12th November, 2023 | University of Pireos
Εκπαιδεύτρια - Animator: Μαρία -Λoυκία
Educator - Animator: Μαρία
Animated Romaniotes
Animation and black Currant
The two-day educational animation workshop for adults, entitled Animation and black Currant was organized within the framework of the Primariolia Festival, at the premises of the University of Patras (Koukouli).
1-2 Δεκεμβρίου 2023
1-2 December 2023 / University of Patras
Εκπαιδευτής - Animator: Thomas Kunstler
Educator - Animator: Thomas Kunstler
Migrant Integration through Locally designed Experiences
(AMIF)
The two-day educational animation workshop for primary school students entitled Animated Romaniotes was organized by the Municipality of Ioannina at Kaplaneo School - 1st Primary School of Ioannina, in collaboration with the ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival.
8-9 Δεκεμβρίου 2023
8-9th December 2023 / Kaplaneio School / 1st Primary School of Ioannina
Εκπαιδευτής - Animator: Δημήτρης
Educator - Animator: Dimitris Armenakis
CAMU Animated
Το
The two-day educational animation workshop for 5th or 6th grade elementary school students, titled CAMU Animated, was organized by the Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulou Museum at the museum's premises in Plaka in collaboration with the ANIMASYROS International Festival Animations.
17-18
17-18th February 2024 / Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulou Museum Athens
- Animator:
Educator - Animator: Fokion Xenos
Arafin - A trip to the ancient history of my municipality
The two-day animation workshop for primary school students entitled “Arafin - A trip to the ancient history of my municipality” was organized by the Municipality οf Rafinas-Pikermiou at the 3rd Primary School of Rafina "Chrysostomos of Smyrna", in collaboration with the ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival.
30-31 Μαΐου 2024
30- 31th May 2024 / 3rd Primary School of Rafina "Chrysostomos of Smyrna" Rafinas-Pikermiou
Educator - Animator: AlkIstis Tsikou
Animated Tsakonia
Το
The two-day educational animation workshop for adults and high school students, entitled “Animated Tsakonia”, was organized as part of the Melitzazz Festival, at the premises of the Historical High School of Leonidio.
6-7
6 -7th July 2024 / Historical High School of Leonidio / Melitzazz Festival
- Animator:
Educator - Animator: Agilisalos Robolas
E.E.T.A.A.
How to approach disability?
The two-day educational animation workshop within the HEFAISTOS program entitled “How to approach disability?” organized by E.E.T.A.A. at the premises of E.E.T.A.A. in collaboration with ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival.
15-16 Ιουλίου 2024
E.E.T.A.A. Δεληγιώργη 55-59, Αθήνα
July 15 – 16th July 2024 / Deligiorgi 55-59, Athens
Εκπαιδεύτρια - Animator: Έλενα Παυλάκη
Educator - Animator: Elena Pavlaki
Ambassadors:
Ms. Julie LYMBERÓPULOS COSIORI, Mr. Artur LOMPART, Ms. Iseult FITZGERALD, Mr. Johan BORGSTAM, Ms. Ieva BRIEDE, Mr. Carles Maria CASAJUANA PALET, Ms. Karin RANNU, Ms. Lina SKERSTONAITE, Mr. Noam KATZ, Ms. Marcela HANUSOVA, Ms. Alison Joy DUNCAN, Ms. Laurence AUER, Mr. Rui MACIERA
Rashid Aghamaliyev, Shanti Amblard, Juraj.Balogh, Andrea Bauer, Aimé Besson, Marek Brieska, Mark Brooke, Thiago Carvalho, Antonio Crescenzi, Stephen Duffy, Véronique Encrenaz, Sebene Eshete, Nicolas Eybalin, Javier Martín Fandos, Fernando Galrito, Terje Homutov Giannikou, Shane Gleeson, Gunita Gergere, Grace Gwoke,Ιvo Pascual Herrera, Urzula Hopko, Jaroslava Hynštová, Dalibor Jakus, Lousi Kalfagian, Agata Krupa, Lucie Kuligová, Laëtitia Kulyk, Elsa Lafaye, Ivana Laucikova, Cristina Lima, Carolina Lopez Caballero, Mickaël Marin, Jitendra Mishra, Anders Narverud Moen, Ben Molina, Fabrice Mongiat, Youhana Nassif, Francesco Neri, Jacopo Noventa, Aneta Ozorek Leah Palleschi, Mioara Pitut, Marius Radžiūnas, Annegret Richter, Dominique Seutin, Lachlan Scully, Paul Sheehan, Florent Signifredi, Martin Smatana, Christina Sordina, Urzula Staikos, Lina Stasytė, Daniel Suljic, Pilar Tena, Aiga Ūdriņa, Karin Vanderydt, Mindaugas Vyskupaitis.
Θωμαή Mενδρινού | Thomai Mendrinou
Vice Mayor for Culture of Syros – Hermoupolis Municipality
Βασίλης Κ. Καραμητσάνης | Vassilis C. Karamitsanis
| President
Μαρία Ανεστοπούλου | Maria Anestopoulou Καλλιτεχνική
| Artistic Director Άρτεμις
| Artemis Doudoni
| Festival General Coordinator Μαρία
| Maria Kesidou
| President’s Αssociate
Δανάη -
| Danai - Sofia Vardali
International Relations Coordinator Γιόλα
| Yola Christoula
| Sponsorships Coordinator
| Stephen Alan Kollias
Artistic Programme Coordinator
| Dimitra Georgopoulou
Greek Competition Section Coordinator
Νancy Denney - Phelps
International Programme Consultant
| Giorgos Papadimitriou
Victoria Karaiskou
Festival Jury Coordinator
| Marineta MAK Kritikou
| Agora Coordinator
| Yanni Lolis
| Agora Associate
Sylvain Grain, Delphine Nicolini, Claire Sichez
Εκπαιδευτές Mifa Campus Pitching Workshop
Mifa Campus Pitching Workshop Coaches
Nicoletta Barbata
Media Literacy Programmes Coordinator
Αναστασία
| Anastasia Dimitra
Media Literacy Activities Consultant
Thomas Kunstler, Δημήτρης Αρμενάκης,
Thomas Kunstler, Dimitris Armenakis, Manos Mastorakis, Anna Oikonomou, Elena Pavlaki, Agisilaos Rombolas, Margarita Simopoulou, Dimitris Papacharalambous
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