Anima Brussels

Britt Raes, Theo Ushev, Your Name among the other winners of the Brussels animation fest.

Oscar-nominated Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow took home the Anima 2016 Grand Prix. All winners of the Brussels fest.

Early highlights of the 35th edition of Anima, Brussels.

The 35th edition of Anima, the international Brussels animation film festival, has been scheduled February 5 to 14, 2016.
 
The 2016 programme will include a variety of awaited novelties, previously unreleased short films and features for young and less young audiences, initiation workshops for children, training sessions for adolescents, exhibitions on the art of animation, signings as well as encounters and talks with animation filmmakers from all across the globe.
 
During Futuranima (scheduled February 10 to 13), renowned domestic and international professionals will examine and discuss the latest developments and trends in animation. Focus:sound, storyboard, imagery and more,Work in Progress presentations, Making of sessions and lectures.
 
Two countries are honoured during Anima’s 2016 edition: the United Kingdom and Japan, two countries incredibly prolific in animation.
 
 Anima’s 2016 visual has been designed by Dutch visual artist Sue Doeksen She plunges spectators into her sympathetic and uplifting universe with bright colours and simple shapes.  Doeksen, who attended Anima’s 2015 edition, animated a cut-out animation workshop, the result of which was used as VJ-ing during the 2015 Animated Night.The 2016 Anima festival takes place 5-14 February 2016 in Flagey, Brusssels. Part of the festival programme will be presented simultaneously at various cities throughout Flanders and Wallonia.

Its full programme will be available onlineas of 13 January 2016. 

 

The Swedish satire Simhall by Niki Lindroth won the Grand Prix of the 2015 Anima festival. See all winners.

An Aardman premiere, a Spanish feature, a Signe Baumane retrospective are among the early highlights of Anima Festival 2015.

View some preliminary highlights of the Anima (Brussels) fest.

See the selection results of the Anima festival 2014, Brussels.

Isabel Herguera has designed the poster for the upcoming Anima festival in Brussels-Flagey.

12 feature films have been selected for the 2013 edition of Anima, Brussels. See the lineup, and watch the festival trailer.

Asia wins bigs at the 2012 Anima Festival, Brussels.

The Anima 2012 festival in Brussells presents its selection of feature-length animated films.

 

11 feature films figure in the official competition section. The Czech existential thriller Alois Nebel [review], the Spanish drama Wrinkles (Arrugas) [review],  but also the Singapure manga-themed Tatsumi figure in the programme.

  • Aloïs Nebel, Tomas Lunak (CZ)
  • Arrugas, Ignacio Ferreras (E)
  • Emilie Jolie, Francis Nielsen, Philippe Chatel (F)
  • La Colline aux coquelicots, (From up on Poppy Hill), Goro Miyasaki (J)
  • Colorful, Keiichi Hara (J)
  • George the Hedgehog, Wojtek Wawszczyk (PL)
  • Green Days - Dinosaur and I, Jae-hoon An, Hye-jin Han (ROK)
  • JIB / The House, Mi Sun Park, Eun Young Park, Joo Young Ban, Jae Ho Lee, Hyun Jin Lee (ROK)
  • Orla de Kikkerslikker, Peter Dodd (DK)
  • Tatsumi, Eric Khoo (SGP)
  • The Tibetan Dog, Masayuki Kojima (Chine-PRR)
The Panorama section includes 4 films:
 
  • Midori Ko, Keita Kurosaka (J)
  • Olentzero, Gorka Vázquez (E)
  • One Piece: Strong World, Munehisa Sakai (J)
  • Taevalaul/Sky Song, Mati Kütt (EST)
The Anima festival takes place from 17 - 26/2/2012, and is esteemed to be one of the most important animation festivals in Europe. Visit their official page
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