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BUCHAREST: A total of 47 animated short films from 27 countries are competing for the 2021 Animest Trophy, the coveted prize that guarantees the winner’s eligibility for the Oscar for best animated short. The 16th Animest International Animated Film Festival will take place in a hybrid format in Bucharest and online from October 8 to 17, 2021.
Four titles are in the running in the competition for animated feature films. They understand The passage by Florence Miailhe, a co-production between France, the Czech Republic and Germany, produced by Les films de l’Arlequin and co-produced by Balance Film, MAUR film and ARTE France, as well as My Sunny Maad by Michaela Pavlátová, produced by Czech Negativ Film in co-production with Sacrebleu Productions in France, BFilm in Slovakia and Czech Television. Eleven films are in competition in the Romanian competition.
31 other short films are also in competition in their dedicated section. More than 1,850 international short films have been submitted for the 2021 edition.
The festival will also host the 3rd edition of Pitch, please !, a competition of pre-production animated short films from Romania and Moldova.
Animest is supported by the Romanian Film Center and the Municipality of Bucharest via ARCUB within the framework of the Bucharest – Open City 2021 program.
Short film competition:
3 GENARRATIONS (Poland)
Directed by Paulina Ziolkowska
A bite of bone (Japan)
Directed by Honami Yano
A mini trilogy (UNITED STATES)
Directed by Shannon Lee
Art Affairs (UK)
Directed by Joanna Quinn
Anxious body (France)
Directed by Yoriko Mizushiri
Bestia (Chile)
Directed by Hugo Covarrubias
Boscombe Bound (UK)
Directed by Corrianna Clarke
Camouflage (the Netherlands)
Directed by Remco Polman
To recover (Latvia)
Directed by Vladimir Leschiov
Congregation (Australia)
Directed by Nick Simpson
Conversation with a whale (Austria)
Directed by Anna Samo
Cromosoma X (Italy)
Directed by Lucia Bulgheroni
Darwin’s notebook (Switzerland)
Directed by Georges Schwitzgebel
Don’t sit down and be silent (Germany)
Directed by Marlène Binder
Easter eggs (Belgium)
Directed by Nicolas Keppens
Forever (UNITED STATES)
Directed by Mitchell McGlocklin
Have an invisible disability (UK)
Directed by Florence Burns
To hide (Hungary)
Directed by Daniel Gray
Horacio (France)
Directed by Caroline Cherrier
It was not Burgundy (France)
Directed by Mathias de Panafieu, Sonia Gerbeaud
Julian Tuwim: Everyone (Poland)
Directed by Cezary Albinski
Life is a whore (Russia)
Directed by Varya Yakovleva
Maalbeek (France)
Directed by Ismail Joffroy Chandoutis
Hourvari (France)
Directed by Félicien Bonniot, Pauline Jacquelin
It was just a rock that looks like someone (Mexico)
Directed by Matisse Gonzalez
My mother’s pain (Colombia)
Directed by Juliana Erazo
Ned (UK)
Directed by Sharon E. Sorensen
Night bus (Taiwan)
Directed by Joe Hsieh
Prince in a pastry shop (Poland)
Directed by Katarzyna Agopsowicz
Spring rites (Cyprus)
Directed by Yorgos Tsangaris
Selection process (Spain)
Directed by Carla Pereira
Sensor vessel (Canada)
Directed by Jin A. Yoon
Swallow the universe (France)
Directed by Nieto
Takano intersection (Japan)
Directed by Mizuki Ito
The Adventures of Gloria Scott: Murder in the Cathedral (Croatia)
Directed by Matija Pisasic, Tvrtko Raspolic
The fourth wall (Iran)
Directed by Mahboobeh Kalaee
The passer (Belgium)
Directed by Pieter Coudyzer
The stork (Estonia)
Directed by Lucija Mrzljak, Morten Tinakov
Visit (Singapore)
Directed by Morrie Tan
Berta Reyes’ wet socks (Russia)
Directed by Alexandra Shadrina
Under the skin, the bark (France)
Directed by Franck Dion
Vadim on a walk (Russia)
Directed by Sasha Svirsky
What resonates in the silence (France)
Directed by Marine Blin
When I am sad (Armenia)
Directed by Lilit Altunyan
Where have you been? (Spain)
Directed by Maria Trenor
To the sea she weaves a dream (Iran)
Directed by Maryam Khalilzadeh
Whisper in the alley (Saudi Arabia)
Directed by Raghad Albarqi
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