Anibar International Animation Festival 2025
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.
2025 Call for Entries
The upcoming 16th edition of the festival will take place from July 14–20, 2025.
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, 2024 can participate, films completed prior to the stated date cannot participate.
The duration of the films must be less than 30 minutes (including credits) for all categories.
Competition Categories
- International Competition
- Student Competition
- Balkan Competition
- Human Rights Competition
- Animated Music Videos Competition
- Kids and Teen Competition
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
- Deadline: 31 March 2025
- Full regulations and submission form via FilmFreeway
2023 Festival Coverage
Trailer:
2022 Festival Coverage
2021 Festival Coverage
2020 Festival Coverage
Winners:
International Competition
Winner:All Those Sensations in my Belly
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 Coverage
- Anibar 2019 Winners
- Anibar Festival Collaborates With Central Eastern European Partners
- Anibar Festival Declares ARTivism for its 2019 Edition
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:
- International Competition: Winner: Carlotta's Face / Special Mention: Intimity
- Student Competition: Winner: Flower Found! / Special Mention: Augenblicke - a blink of an eye / Special Mention: Enough
- Balkan Competition: Winner: Untravel / Special Mention: The Monk
- Animated Music Video Competition: Winner: Happy / Special Mention: F I N K E L : w / o / Special Mention: Engine of Progress
- Feature Film Competition: Winner: Chris the Swiss
- Public Award Winner: iRony
- Anibar Workshops and Masterclasses
- The full festival programme
- Anibar Goes 50/50 in its 9th Edition
- 9th Anibar Festival Showcases Edvin Susuri
2017 Festival Coverage
- Anibar Reclaims the City
- Competition Programme
- Anibar Talks: Q&A with the new director Petrit Gora
- Georges Schwizgebel Retrospective
2016 Festival Coverage
Best International: A Coat Made Dark – Ireland (Jack O’shea )
Best Student Sea Child – United Kingdom (Minha Kim)
Best Environmental October 2050 – Czech Republic (Alzbeta Gobelova)
Best Balkan Of Slaves and Robots – Serbia (Miloc Tomic)
Best Animated Music Video Quack Fat – Opiuo – Australia (Jonathan Chong)
Audience Award He who has two souls – France (Fabrice Luang-Vija)
Special Mentions:
Shell All – France (Zaver Najjar), Velodrool – Estonia (Sander Joon), The More I know – Czech Republic (Marek Naprstek), RRRING RRRING – Germany (Thomas Kneffel)
D 729 – Belgium (Levi Stoops), Ivan’s Need – Switzerland (Veronika L. Montanom Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter)
2015 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
Event Dates
- From 14 July 2025 to 20 July 2025
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