Program Festivalul Internațional de Film de Animație Animest

Animest 2025: Celebrating 20 Years in the World of Animation

During October 3-12, 2025 in Bucharest, Animest International Animation Film Festival celebrates two decades of existence as the largest animation film festival in Romania. This year’s official theme of travel is an open invitation: explore new horizons and (re)discover the many pathways leading to destinations both outside and within yourself. 

How do we define travel? Exploring unknown shores or discovering the people and stories that impact you? Where does a journey start? Where does it end? On a map, screen, photo album, or within? These are just some of the questions that the theme of the 20th edition of the Animest International Animation Film Festival is putting forward to audiences through a diverse array of screenings, special events, meetings with international guests, and artist highlights. Join us to enjoy animated classics, the latest internationally acclaimed films, and many animated shorts that will take you to oniric universes, on cultural sagas, and everywhere in between.

Animest.20 is a must! Ten Stops (access to ten screenings, not including Opening Night and special events) and Full Trip Passes (access to all screenings, concerts, special events), offering more comprehensive access to the festival, are already available.

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Animest International Animation Film Festival is the only event in Romania that is dedicated exclusively to animated films. Since its first edition in 2006, every year Animest brings to local silver screens hundreds of international animations organized into six competition sections, retrospectives, and showcases of top animation schools, festivals, and industry leaders. Every October, Bucharest becomes the meeting point for animation directors, producers, students, curators, and journalists, all taking part in Q&As, premieres, workshops and masterclasses, and concerts highlighting animation classics alongside new projects.