Anibar International Animation Festival 2024

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Category
ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
Deadline | Event Dates (period)
31/03/2024
City
Peja, Kosovo
Email
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Edition
15
Final submission deadline
2024-03-31
Submission/Registration Fee
Yes

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

  • International Competition
  • Student Competition
  • Balkan Competition
  • Human Rights Competition
  • Animated Music Videos Competition
  • Young Audience 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

 

 

2023 Festival Coverage

Trailer:

2022 Festival Coverage

2021 Festival Coverage

2020 Festival Coverage

Winners:

International Competition

Winner: Acid Rain
Special Mention: Flesh /  Just a Guy / Average Happiness
Balkan Competition
Winner:All Those Sensations in my Belly
Special Mention: Arka
Human Rights Competition
Winner: Umbilical
Special Mention: Migrante
Animated Music Video: Kishi Bashi - Violin Tsunami
Special Mentions: Christmas MorningThe Turning Point

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

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.

2018 Festival Coverage:

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

2017 Festival Coverage

2016 Festival Coverage

2016 Anibar Winners:
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 15/07/2024 to 21/07/2024
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