Anima, The Brussels Animation Film Festival 2024

Anima, The Brussels Animation Film Festival, seeks to promote animated films from all over the world and encourage dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public. The festival presents an official selection with a national and international competition for short and feature films, an information category with retrospective and themed programs, and a series of conferences. Anima is also recognized as an Oscar qualifying event.

Anima 2024 will showcase science fiction, a genre which is once more gaining public attention. Anima will also highlight Hungary’s bustling film industry and will feature a host of new feature films for children and adults, screenings of thematic and light-hearted short films, professional meetings on sound and music, a space devoted to new experiences in animated film, and a new optical playground.

Anima has issued a call for submissions! They are currently considering all films completed after June 2022 and belonging to the following categories as eligible for competition:

• Feature Films
• Feature Films for a Young Audience
• International Professional Short Films
• International Student Films
• International Short Films for a Young Audience
• National Short Films

Submissions will be accepted until October 2, 2023. More information about the submission process is available here.

The 43^rd edition will take place February 23 to March 3, 2024, at Flagey in Brussels. For more information about the event visit the Anima website.