Turku Animated Film Festival (TAFF) 2025

Festival Description
Turku Animated Film Festival is an international film festival that celebrates the creative mind and the art of animation. TAFF seeks to promote animated film culture both in Finland and internationally
2025 Call for Entries
The Competition is open for short animated films with the following qualifications:
- Films should not exceed length of 30 minutes
- Films must have been completed after 1st of January 2024
- Film has not been submitted to TAFF before
- Industrial, educational or commercial films are not accepted. Also animated TV-series and their episodes are not accepted into the competition.
- Minimum 70% of the film duration must be animation
Awards:
- Grand Prix
- Tough Eye Award
- Best Professional Film
- Best Student Film
- Audience Award
- Best Finnish Film
- Taff Junior Award
- Festival Regulations and submission via FilmFreeway
- Deadline: 31 March 2025
2024 Festival Coverage
2023 Festival Coverage
2022 Festival Coverage
2021 Coverage
2020 Coverage
The festival did not take place. TAFF Pro, a smaller event mainly for professionals of animation, was held instead.
TAFF Pro (26-28 August 2020)
The first TAFF Pro – an event for animation professionals – takes place in a beautifully restored old factory milieu by the River Aura in Turku, Finland, Aug 26 - 28, 2020.2019 Festival Coverage
2018 Festival Coverage
2017 Festival Coverage
2016 Festival Coverage
Event Dates
- From 20/08/2025 to 24/08/2025