More and more innovative and stylistically complex, those 12 movie short included in Romanian competition at the one of19th Edition Animest paints an overall urban picture of contemporary autochthonous animation. The short films in this year’s selection are a mix of productions signed by students at the beginning of their journey in this field and films created by artists already established in animation. Between 4 and October 13 the films from the Romanian Competition will compete for the section trophy, worth 5000 leioffered by the Romanian Cultural Institute.
This year they entered the Romanian Animest Competition 32 moviesa very large number that demonstrates the continued development of this field, as a result of constant support over the past 19 years. Animest’s impact on the animation industry in Romania can be seen directly on the big screens in this year’s selection, full of brave approaches and original stories that focus mostly on relationships and relating – as a couple, in the family or in the community.
Alina Gheorghe returns to the Romanian Animest Competition with a new school film, Dirty paradisea metaphor about rejecting one’s self and idealizing perfection. Dirty paradise was one of the participating projects last year in the framework Sisterhood of Young Animation Auteurs (SYAA)Animest’s intensive study program dedicated to female filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe, where she received support from several industry specialists during the development stage. Alina conquered the Animest audience again in 2022 with the extremely intimate and sensitive story from Glass fingersselected last year also in the Annecy student competition, the most important international animation festival.
A bold comeback in the Romanian Competition is also Tudor Omwhose new animation, TIBIdirected with Serghei Chiviriga and dedicated to the youngest viewers, is a completely different story from the one with which he was also part of the international competition last year, The Boy and the Crow.
It also comes with a new and original metaphor The Corethe urban artist’s short film Robert OBERTabout a shared consciousness where feminine and masculine energy intertwine to create a single core in symbiosis. Robert OBERT is the creator of the comics universe „The Urban Prophecy”from which derives numerous other street works that he signs.
The section also includes the productions of two domestic directors who no longer live in Romania, but continue to create independent animation. Thus, the audience will discover what happens when one of the inhabitants of a fictional village in the sky causes the end of the world in the delicate Broken al Lavinia Petrachebut also how much myth or truth is hidden in the technique of counting to ten to calm yourself down, in the playful Count to Ten directed by Andreia Dobrota.
Pitch, please! – record enrollment at the animation workshop
On September 10, the registrations for Pitch, please!the animation workshop that has been actively supporting the development of animated projects in Romania and the Republic of Moldova for 5 years. This year 20 directors and producers entered their projectsbeing a record number for the 6 editions of the program, a fact that reconfirms the importance and necessity of supporting animation film creators.
All projects selected in the final stage will receive feedback and recommendations from the jury, consisting of three members, screenwriters, directors or international producers with extensive experience in the field of animation, and the best of them are eligible to win one or more of the prizes up for grabs for the 2024 edition. The list of finalists will be published next week on site-ul Animest.
The Animest Festival is a project of the Animest Association, co-financed by the MEDIA Program of the European Union and the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
Institutional partners: Romanian Cultural Institute, French Institute and French Embassy, Instituto Cervantes, Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest, Austrian Cultural Forum, Listz Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center, Czech Center, National University of Theater and Cinematography “IL Caragiale”, Animation Festival Network
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