The 33^rdedition of Anima, Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival, will take place in Brussels, Belgium from 28 February to 9 March 2014. 36 films were selected at the international competition (shorts category), and 28 student short animated films compete at the corresponding category

 Anima Festival has now been included into a list of Oscar®-quallfying festivals. That entails that the short which wins the Anima Grand Prix is eligible for an Academy Award (short animated feature) the following year.

See the selection results:

 International Competition:

•  Astigmatismo, Nicolai Troshinsky (E)
• Boles, Spela Cadez (SLO/D)
• Braise, Hugo Frassetto (F/B)
• Cargo Cult, Bastien Dubois (F)
• Choir Tour, Edmunds Janssons (LV)
• Compositio III, Miguel Pires de Matos, Sandra Ramos, Bernardo Sarmento, Silvia Namorado, Miguel Simas (P)
• Le Courant faible de la rivière, Joël Vaudreuil (CDN)
• Det var ikke jeg, det var fiskmåsen, Julie Engaas (N)
• Double Fikret, Haiyang Wang (PRR)
• Drunker Than a Skunk, Bill Plympton (USA)
• Everything I Can See From Here, Sam Taylor, Bjorn Aschim (GB)
• Futon, Yoriko Mizushiri (J)
• A Girl Named Elastika, Guillaume Blanchet (CDN)
• Gloria Victoria, Theodore Ushev (CDN)
• La Grosse Bête, Pierre-Luc Granjon (F)
• Hollow Land, Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot (F/DK/CDN)
• Hotzanak, For Your Own Safety, Izibene Oñederra (E)
• Impromptu, Bruce Alcock (CDN)
• In The Air Is Christopher Gray, Felix Massie (GB)
• Joda, Théodore Ushev (CDN)
• Laznia, Tomek Ducki (PL)
• Lettres de femmes, Augusto Zanovello (F)
• Liebling, Izabela Plucinska (PL/D)
• Lonely Bones, Rosto (F/NL)
• Marcel, King of Tervuren, Tom Schroeder (USA)
• Moya Mama Samolet, Julia Aronova (RUS)
• Mr Hublot, Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigales (L)
• Padre, Santiago 'Bou' Grasso (F/AR)
• Premier Automne, Carlos De Carvalho, Aude Danset (F)
• Subconscious Password, Chris Landreth (CDN)
• Virtuos Virtuell, Thomas Stellmach, Maja Oschmann (D)
• A Wolf in the Tree, JiaXing Lin (PRR)
• Wonder, Mirai Mizue (J)
• X, Maw Hattler (GB)
• Ziegenort, Tomasz Popakul (PL)
• Zmysly Prysly, Marcin Wasilewski (PL)

International Competition - Student Films:

• Ab ovo, Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi (PL)
• Abdullah, Jakob Besuch (D)
• Ascension, Thomas Bourdis, Martin de Coudenhove, Caroline Domergue, Colin Laubry, Florian Vecchione (F)
• Beyond The Lines, Chloé Bonnet, Elodie Houard, Seraphin Guery, Baptiste Lebouc, Pierre Tarsiguel (F)
• Byul Ju-Bu, Suggwon Kim (ROK)
• Le Chêne et le Roseau, Arthur Sotto (F)
• Destiny, Fabien Weibel (F)
• L’Etrange Disparition de M. Walter Werner, Caroline Murrell (F)
• Forward, March!, Pierrick Barbin, Rimelle Khayat, Loïc Le Goff, Guillaume Lenoel, Garrick Rawlingson (F)
• Frenki, Sandin Puce (D)
• Goutte d’Or, Christophe Peladan (DK)
• Habitat, Georgieva Ina (BG)
• Hominid, Brian Andrews (USA)
• The Hours of Three, Jeong Dahee (ROK)
• Insolation, Morgane Le Péchon (F)
• Mishum Makom, Isca Mayo, Maayan Tzuriel (IL)
• Miss Todd, Kristina Yee (GB)
• Monkey Symphony, Maxime Baudin, Mélanie Fumey, Julien Gauthier, Samuel Gonon (F)
• Papirvilag, David Ringeisen, Laszlo Ruska (H)
• Passer Passer, Louis Morton (USA)
• Recruit Rhapsody, Mayo Yoshida (J)
• Le Scénariste, Fanny Brotot, Loic Degeneve, Marion Walle, Nicolas Joly, Emilie Zamiri (F)
• The Shirley Temple, Daniela Sherer (GB)
• Somewhere, Nicolas Ménard (GB)
• Stefan i Zuczek, Piotr Loc Hoang Ngoc (PL)
• Under the Fold, Bo Juhl Nielsen (DK)
• Wedding Cake, Viola Baier (D)
• Wind, Robert Löbel (D)

International Competition: "The Animation Night"

•     The Box – xxx, Studio Dadomani (I)
• Brain Divided, Josiah Haworth, Joon Shik Song, Joon Soo Song (USA)
• The Carousel Family, Te-Yu Liu (Taiwan)
• Le Cosmos sauvera le peuple, Patrick Lapierre (CDN)
• Deja-moo, Stefan Mueller (D)
• Dji. Death Fails, Dmitri Voloshin (Moldavie)
• Fight, Steven Subotnick (USA)
• Gracht, Nick Groeneveld, Koning Michaël (NL)
• Hoffili, Lotfi Mahfoudh (TN)
• The Hopper, Alex Brüel Flagstad (D/DK)
• Jammed, Yibi Hu (GB)
• Kippik, Estelle Dornic, Michal Gabrieli, Florian Scaduto, Adrien Pezé, François Godofe, Benoit Touroude (F)
• Lego Thriller, Annette Jung, John Landis (D)
• Mute, Job, Joris & Marieke (NL)
• New Tokyo Ondo, nuQ nuQ (J)
• Not Over, Toru Hayai (J)
• La Nuit américaine d’Angélique, Joris Clerté, Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet (F)
• O šunce, Eliška Chytková (CZ)
• Der Pinguin, Annette Jung (D)
• Pixel Joy, Florentine Grelier (F)
• Ransom, Dustin Rees (CH)
• Recycled, Lei Lei, Thomas Sauvin (PRR)
• The Ringer, Chris Shepherd (F/GB)
• Rob ‘n’ Ron, Peter Smith, Magnus Igland Møller (DK)
• Rollin’ Safari, Kyra Buschor, Anna Habermehl, Constantin Päplow (D)
• Ruuuun!, Liu Yicong, Sean Soong, Lionbiglion, Jasmine Cai, Yuang Sheng (PRR)
• Sandy, Joseph Mann (GB)
• Séquence Champignon, Michael Nauzin, Geoffroy Barbet Massin (F)
• Shift, Max Hattler (GB)
• Sun of a Beach, Arnaud Crillon, Alexandre Rey, Jinfeng Lin, Valentin Gasarian (F)
• Uit Huis, Joost Lieuwma (NL)
• Uspon i pad umetnosti, Aleksa Gajic (Serbie)
• Why? Factor, Ben Falk, Jordan Wood (GB)

International Competition: Children's Short Films

    Il Bruco E La Gallina, Michela Donini, Katya Rinaldi (I)
    Mille-pattes et Crapaud, Anna Khmelevskaya (F)
    Nový druh, Katerina Karhankova (CZ)
    Le Père Frimas, Youri Tcherenkov (FR)
    Snowflake, Natalia Chernysheva (RUS)

National Competition (Belgium):

• 850 meters, Joeri Christiaen
• Autour du lac, Noémie Marsily, Carl Roosens
• Bruxelles Double Sens, Gerald White
• La Carotte géante, Pascale Hecquet
• La Chair, Louise Lemoine Torres, William Henne
• Chopper, Frederik Palmaers, Lars Damoiseaux
• La Coquille, atelier collectif Caméra-Etc
• Day_6011, Raf Wathion
• Diamant, Kris Mergan
• Drift Away, Anthony Sarrus
• I-Instruments / CPE, German Herrera
• Le Labyrinthe, Mathieu Labaye
• Live // Love // Like & Share, Eno Swinnen
• Lost and Found, Antje Van Wichelen
• Mia, Wouter Bongaerts
• Mind Trip, Sander Van Kessel
• Nothing Beside Remains, Bob Thissen
• Le Parfum de la carotte, Arnaud Demuynck, Rémi Durin
• Rêves de brume, Sophie Racine
• Vol Au Vent, Isabel Bouttens

Belgium Panorama (out of competition):

•  Festival National du Film d’Animation (Bruz) Trailer 2013, Emma de Swaef, Marc-James Roels
• Antwerpen Autovrij, Toon Loenders, Bob Thissen
• Arun Tazieff « Those Visions Have No End », Nicolas Fong
• Daniel, Alexandre Vignaud
• De Lijn « Stressmannetje », Emma de Swaef, Marc-James Roels
• Dream Chips, Zoé Hardy
• Dysilexie, Sil Colson
• Er Is Geen Andere Weg, Toon Loenders
• Les Fables en délire : La Poule, l’Eléphant et le Serpent, Fabrice Luang-Vija
• Grindhouse Cult Teaser 2013, Jean-Loup Comby, Alexandre Dumont, Cédric De Muelenaere
• Jonas, Marie-Brune de Chassey
• Kassa 9, Anna Heuninck
• Métamorphoses, Anne Vejrich, Yasemin Unal
• Partie de pêche, Vivian Briac-Warnon
• Separated, Mark Borgions

You may take a look at the poster of Anima 2014 and the 2013 awards.

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