Festival Description
Anibar International Animation Festival is the only animation festival in Kosova, and one of the biggest cultural events in the country. Since the beginning, the festival is organized and held in various settings in Peja.
2024 Call for Entries
Anibar is coming back with its 15th edition of the festival from the 15th until the 21st of July 2024 in the city of Peja, Kosovo
The submission is open to any audiovisual animation created frame by frame, including computer-generated animation, experimental, and combinations of live-action that are completed after January 1st, 2023 can participate, films completed before the stated date cannot participate.
The duration of the films must be less than 30 minutes (including credits) for all categories.
Anibar is on the lookout for captivating, thought-provoking, and visually stunning animated short films that push the boundaries of storytelling and animation techniques.
Competition Categories
AWARDS & RECOGNITION:
– Best International Award
– Best Balkan Award
– Best Student Award
– Best Human Rights Award
– Best Animated Music Video Award
– Best Young Audience Award
– Best Audience Award
2023 Festival Coverage
Trailer:
2022 Festival Coverage
Winners:
Programme
From 1300 films, 139 were selected by the programming team to be screened during the 7 days of the festival. The films are divided into 7 categories, where 5 of them will be in competition: International Competition, Student Competition, Balkan Competition, Animated Music VIdeo Competition, and the Human Rights Category. Whereas the other 2 categories will be out of competition: Panorama Out Of Competition, and Kids & Teen Program.
Among the films selection Anibar will screen the World Premiere of All Those Sensations in my Belly by Marko Dješka in the Balkan Category and the Human Rights Category.
Most of the programs are held through the online platform "Zoom" while the films will have a special platform on which they will be screened. Also, each activity will be broadcasted directly through the virtual platforms.
The spicy program of films that will be screened during August have been selected, nominated, or screened in a number of other festivals like: Annecy International Animation Film Festival, The Academy Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Animafest Zagreb, Kaboom, Fantoche, Anifilm, Stuttgart Trickfilm International Animated Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, and many more.
Jury: Clémence Bragard, Yves Nougarede, Joanna Priestley
Festival Trailer
2019 Festival Trailer
Hopes and Fears!
In a society which is consistently becoming indifferent towards political, social and environmental changes, in the tenth edition of Anibar, we will treat our hopes and fears to inspire action and promote civic activism through arts. Trailer, artwork, and animation by Alice Saey, music and sound by Ruben van Asselt.
Winners:
2017 Festival Coverage
2015 WINNERS
-Best International – We can’t live without cosmos, Russian Federation 15’
-Best Balkan - 100% mood, Bulgaria 4’
-Audience Award - We can’t live without cosmos, Russian Federation 15’
-Student Award – With joy and merriness, Belgium 6’
-Environmental Award – Planet ∑, France 11’
-Music Video Award – Sandro Joyeux, Romania 3’
-Best Strip - Arvan Berisha- Stripi për ambientin
2014 Festival Coverage
2013 Festival Coverage