Linoleum Contemporary International Animation and Media Art Festival 2025

Category

ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS

Deadline | Event Dates (period)

01/05/2025

City

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Website

https://linoleumfest.com/

Edition

Final submission deadline

2025-05-01

Submission/Registration Fee

Festival description:

LINOLEUM Festival aims to support animation artists and promote animation worldwide. The objective of the Festival is to encourage and celebrate creativity amongst animators and media artists, promote contemporary animation and media art in Ukraine.

2025 Call for Entries

HUMAN RITES is the theme of the 12th festival edition. "War is the father of all things," said Heraclitus, believing conflict to be the source of growth and change. In life, struggle creates both order and destruction. Birth, death, power, and survival become rites that define humanity, but they also fuel the very wars that shape our history.

"Human Rites" reflects how chaos and war give rise to something new. The play on "human rights" reminds us of our aspirations for peace and justice, while "human rites" exposes the struggle and violence that persist. Peace is only a fleeting moment of rest between battles, while struggle remains the essence of human existence.

The visual concept will be created by an award-winning Ukrainian animation director, Anastasiia Falileieva (I died in Irpin).

Films made in any animation technique, including works combining animation with acting and documentaries, are eligible. The animated part should be at least 40% of the film and not exceed the running time of 20 minutes. The films must be produced after January 1, 2024. For British-produced films, please note that LINOLEUM is a BAFTA Qualifying Festival.

Short films can be submitted to the following competition categories:

- International Competition
- Ukrainian Competition (only for Ukrainian animation films)
- Commissioned Films

Out-of-competition categories:

- Experimental Animation and Video Art
- Animation for children
- Animation created for and by kids and teens (up to 16 y.o.)
- Ladies first (for female directors)