Festivalul Internațional de Film de Animație Animest
Animest 2026: Nature takes over the big screen!
Between October 2 and 11, the Animest International Animation Film Festival returns to the big screens of Bucharest with its 21st edition. This year's festival theme invites you to explore the profound connections between humans and the environment, bringing NATURE to the forefront—from the mysteries of ancient forests to the fragile balance of ecosystems and the green invasion of urban space.
What does it mean to truly look at the natural world? To let yourself be overwhelmed by its force, to understand its hidden rhythms, or to take responsibility for its protection? In the age of digital and virtual realities, do we still know how to listen to the organic pulse of the planet that hosts us? These are just a few of the perspectives that Animest.21 proposes for exploration through a vast program of screenings, special events, meetings with guests from all over the world, and programs dedicated to the artists. You will discover spectacular feature films, multi-award-winning movies from major international festivals, as well as numerous short-films that explore nature from unexpected angles, featuring vibrant landscapes, fantastic creatures, and an important ecological message.
Don't miss Animest.21! The Ten Stops and Full Trip passes are available now, offering unlimited access to the festival experience.
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The Animest International Animation Film Festival is the largest and longest-running festival in Romania dedicated exclusively to animated film. Founded in 2006, the festival brings hundreds of films from all over the world to the big screen, across multiple competition categories, retrospectives, and programs dedicated to famous animation schools, animation festivals, and major industry names. Every year in October, Bucharest hosts film directors, producers, students, curators, and journalists, who take part in discussions with the audience, hold workshops and masterclasses, and present their new animated film projects.
The winners of the Animest Trophy and the Romanian competition automatically become eligible for the Academy Awards®, with Animest being the only festival in Romania holding this status.
Program Festivalul Internațional de Film de Animație Animest
calendar_month
6 Oct 2026
schedule
23:00
calendar_month 6 Oct 2026 schedule 23:00
EROTICA Night of Erotic Animation 18+
Animest.21
În ultimele ceasuri de marți, prejudecățile sunt lăsate la intrare pentru cea mai nonconformistă proiecție a toamnei. Curatoriată de Jakub Spevák (Slovacia), selecția aduce proiecții nocturne explicite despre corp, dorință și fluiditatea identității....See more details
location_on Cinema Muzeul Țăranului - Studioul Horia Bernea, București info
EROTICA Night of Erotic Animation 18+
Animest.21
location_on Cinema Muzeul Țăranului - Studioul Horia Bernea, București info
price: 50 lei
EROTICA Night of Erotic Animation
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
12:00
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 12:00
Animest VR Experience 16+
Animest.21
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’
location_on CINETic, București info
Animest VR Experience
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
13:30
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 13:30
Animest VR Experience 16+
Animest.21
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’
location_on CINETic, București info
Animest VR Experience
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
15:00
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 15:00
Animest VR Experience 16+
Animest.21
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’
location_on CINETic, București info
Animest VR Experience
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
16:30
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 16:30
Animest VR Experience 16+
Animest.21
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’
location_on CINETic, București info
Animest VR Experience
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
17:00
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 17:00
Spacetime Chronicles 14+
Animest.21
volume_up ITO călătorie vizuală prin mintea unui bărbat pierdut în zona crepusculară, îndrumat de o pisică ce îi servește drept conștiință. O poveste suprarealistă, onirică, ce urmărește călătoria interioară a lui Fred, suspendat între realitate, vis și zona crepusculară....See more details
location_on Cinemateca Eforie, București info
Spacetime Chronicles
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
18:30
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 18:30
Blaise 14+
Animest.21
volume_up FRTot ce-și dorește familia Sauvage este să fie iubită. Carole știe că angajații o urăsc. Soțul ei, Jacques, se simte subestimat, iar fiul lor, Blaise, este un adolescent introvertit de 16 ani, lipsit de convingere, care nu știe să zică nu. La fel se comportă și cu Joséphine....See more details
location_on Cinema Muzeul Țăranului - Studioul Horia Bernea, București info
Blaise 14+
Animest.21
location_on Cinema Muzeul Țăranului - Studioul Horia Bernea, București info
price: 28 lei
Blaise
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
18:30
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 18:30
PANIC - Prix Ars Electronica 12+
Animest.21
Smoke and Mirrors - United Kingdom 2024, 4'20, dir. Beatie Wolfe Unknown Quantum Objects - Italy 2024, 13', dir. Alessandro Bavari Stained - United States 2023, 2'11, dir. Jeremy Kamal Bye Bear - Germany 2023, 10'40, dir. Jan Bitzer Thank You for Your Souvenir, UK! - China 2023, 3', dir....See more details
location_on Instituto Cervantes, București info
PANIC - Prix Ars Electronica 12+
Animest.21
location_on Instituto Cervantes, București info
price: 28 lei
PANIC - Prix Ars Electronica
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
19:00
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 19:00
Minuscule. Valley of Lost Ants 6+
Animest.21
volume_up FRUndeva în pădure, o buburuză rătăcită își unește forțele cu o trupă de furnici negre ca să ducă la mușuroi o cutie de tablă plină cu delicioase cuburi de zahăr. Un batalion de furnici roșii feroce a pus deja ochii pe pradă....See more details
location_on Cinemateca Eforie, București info
Minuscule. Valley of Lost Ants 6+
Animest.21
location_on Cinemateca Eforie, București info
price: 28 lei
Minuscule. Valley of Lost Ants
calendar_month
7 Oct 2026
schedule
19:30
calendar_month 7 Oct 2026 schedule 19:30
Animest VR Experience 16+
Animest.21
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’
location_on CINETic, București info
Animest VR Experience