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Animafest Scanner

03/06/2027 - 04/06/2027

City

Zagreb

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Website

http://www.animafest.hr/en

Edition

Final submission deadline

2025-03-05

Submission/Registration Fee

Event Description

The 2025 symposium Animafest Scanner XII is once more at the frontline of the discourse in animation studies. By focusing on topics of Current Technological Developments in Animation, Exploring Animation in Ephemeral Films, Achievements of the Line and Violence in Animated Film. Animafest Scanner invites international scholars to present and discuss new theoretical approaches and practical applications.

Animafest Scanner Call for Abstracts

Festival call for entries - Currently not open. Submission details will be reported here when announced by the festival.

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TOPICS FOR ANIMAFEST SCANNER XII
TOPIC 1: CURRENT TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ANIMATION
TOPIC 2: EXPLORING ANIMATION IN EPHEMERAL FILMS
TOPIC 3: ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE LINE
TOPIC 4: VIOLENCE IN ANIMATED FILM

This year´s keynote speaker is the recipient of 2025 Animafest Zagreb Award for Outstanding Contributions to Animation Studies, an author, teacher and scholar whose work unites the complexity and idiosyncrasy of ‘the eighth art’, Georges Sifianos.

Submission requirements:
Submit an abstract in English for twenty-minute academic presentations. All presentations must be thematically related to this year’s symposium topics. For each proposal, the applicant is required to fill out a separate online entry form.

Full regulations
Entry Form
Deadline: 5 March 17 March 2025

NB: 2027 Dates are tentative

Event Dates

From 03/06/2027 to 04/06/2027

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