Festivalul Internațional de Film de Animație Animest

Full Trip Pass: guarantees a comprehensive festival experience, allowing access to any and all screenings, concerts, and special events during Animest.20. Pass and badge owners may reserve seats for festival events on the Eventbook platform, using the barcode on their document. Reserving a seat is not compulsory, but recommended, as seats are limited....See more details

Ten Stops Pass: provides access to  screenings during Animest.20 (not including Opening Night and special events). Perfect for animation lovers who might be busy, but wouldn’t miss animation’s crème de la crème for the world. Pass and badge owners may reserve seats for festival events on the Eventbook platform, using the barcode on their document....See more details

The Family Pass turns the joy of watching a great animation into a shared experience! Valid for three people at any screening in the Minimest selection, the pass is designed to bring people together.  To clarify, "family" can mean whatever you want it to – parents and kids, grandparents and grandchildren, cousins, close friends, or even coworkers....See more details

An industry presentation, focused on the animation production experience and case studies from the Lithuanian production company Art Shot. The talk explores how maintaining strategic and creative consistency helps independent animation projects successfully scale, secure international co-productions, and navigate the festival circuit.  

The ticket guarantees one hour of VR experiences from the festival's selection, chosen at the venue. A LONG GOODBYE, Belgium 2025 - Kate Voet, Victor Maes - 25’ FALLAX, Iceland, United Kingdom 2025 - Owen Hindley - 23’ IF YOU SEE A CAT, Japan 2026- Atsushi Wada - 37’ LESBIAN SIMULATOR, The Netherlands 2025- Iris van der Meule - 40’ LESS THAN 5GR OF SAFFRON, France 2025 - Négar Motevalymeidanshah - 7’ RETSU (THE LINE), Japan 2026 - Naho Kamimura - 30’ SENSE OF NOWHERE, Taiwan 2025 - Hsin Hsuan Yeh - 30’ THE BIG CUBE, Finland, China, Belgium, Portugal 2025 - Menghui Huang - 6’45 THE SAD STORY OF THE LITTLE MOUSE WHO WANTED TO BECOME SOMEBODY, France, Germany, Belgium 2025 - Nicolas Bourniquel - 29’

”Animation interests me from the moment it deals with profoundly human sensations, even though it is a profoundly artificial process.”  Mathieu Labaye’s films naturally echo this quote from Sébastien Laudenbach. How can a sense of reality be instilled in animation? How can the continuous experience of life be translated into a mode of expression that is discontinuous by definition? Mathieu Labaye’s films, often described as animated documentaries, attempt to answer these questions.

The ticket guarantees one hour of VR experiences from the festival's selection, chosen at the venue. A LONG GOODBYE, Belgium 2025 - Kate Voet, Victor Maes - 25’ FALLAX, Iceland, United Kingdom 2025 - Owen Hindley - 23’ IF YOU SEE A CAT, Japan 2026- Atsushi Wada - 37’ LESBIAN SIMULATOR, The Netherlands 2025- Iris van der Meule - 40’ LESS THAN 5GR OF SAFFRON, France 2025 - Négar Motevalymeidanshah - 7’ RETSU (THE LINE), Japan 2026 - Naho Kamimura - 30’ SENSE OF NOWHERE, Taiwan 2025 - Hsin Hsuan Yeh - 30’ THE BIG CUBE, Finland, China, Belgium, Portugal 2025 - Menghui Huang - 6’45 THE SAD STORY OF THE LITTLE MOUSE WHO WANTED TO BECOME SOMEBODY, France, Germany, Belgium 2025 - Nicolas Bourniquel - 29’

"Here, There Was a Park" is a collaborative project aimed at showing how diverse perspectives can come together to stand up against a corrupted environment. The film is presented in the form of an exquisite corpse, where each artist continues the story in their own style. From 2D to 3D to stop motion, each director interprets what happened as it was told by those affected by the park's destruction....See more details

The ticket guarantees one hour of VR experiences from the festival's selection, chosen at the venue. A LONG GOODBYE, Belgium 2025 - Kate Voet, Victor Maes - 25’ FALLAX, Iceland, United Kingdom 2025 - Owen Hindley - 23’ IF YOU SEE A CAT, Japan 2026- Atsushi Wada - 37’ LESBIAN SIMULATOR, The Netherlands 2025- Iris van der Meule - 40’ LESS THAN 5GR OF SAFFRON, France 2025 - Négar Motevalymeidanshah - 7’ RETSU (THE LINE), Japan 2026 - Naho Kamimura - 30’ SENSE OF NOWHERE, Taiwan 2025 - Hsin Hsuan Yeh - 30’ THE BIG CUBE, Finland, China, Belgium, Portugal 2025 - Menghui Huang - 6’45 THE SAD STORY OF THE LITTLE MOUSE WHO WANTED TO BECOME SOMEBODY, France, Germany, Belgium 2025 - Nicolas Bourniquel - 29’

We invite you to meet the artists with films selected in the short and student film competition. Q&A session about the films screened at the festival the previous day. Free access.