Festivalul Internațional de Film de Animație Animest

In the small village of Veredas, stands Casa Rosa, a famous brothel run by Ismael’s mother. Because of this, he is known as the “Son of a Bitch”. Trying to leave that reality behind, Ismael leaves his mother in pursuit of the two things he has never met: his dad and the ocean. Carrying the only memory he has of his father, a copy of the book Moby Dick, he's going to cross the arid backlands of Brazil alongside his three-legged dog Bacalhau, in a journey that will show him that he cannot escape himself or his destiny.

Victor, a widowed father, and his young daughter Julia leave Spain when Barcelona falls to Franco's forces in 1939. In France, camps and hardship await them. Hope appears when they board the Winnipeg, a freighter chartered by Neruda to take them to Valparaíso, Chile, where a new life may begin.

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’

Livonia, 1692. Drenched in autumn rain and darkness, a small village becomes the stage for disturbed events. As a relic is stolen from Priest Bukholcs' quarters, he accuses the enigmatic tavern maid, Neze, of the robbery. A trial is set by Klods, a baron struggling with infertility, who discovers the aphrodisiac properties of an otherworldly plant brought to him from Africa....See more details

POPPY FLOWERS - Cyprus, 2024, 4’25, dir. Evridiki Papaiakovou 2000 MILES AND THIRTEEN YEARS - Cyprus, 1997, 7’38, dir. Yiannos Economou NYCHTOPAPPAROS - Cyprus, 2024, 4’22, dir. Eleni Chandriotou  THE TORNADO OUTSIDE - Cyprus, 2023, 8’15, dir. Maria Tomazou TO YOUR HANDS - Cyprus, 2025, 11’11, dir....See more details

THE LAST SPRING – France 2026, 15:00, dir. Mathilde Bédouet ORANGE BLOSSOMS – France 2025, 7:13, dir. Mathilde Nicolas, Emilien Blancquaert, Timothée Adens, Raphaël Debroize WHO KILLED NARIN G****? – France, Turkey 2025, 4:42, dir. Ayce Kartal TEXT ME WHEN YOU ARRIVE – Greece 2026, 4:24, dir....See more details

Horror fans, your time is come: on the festival's second Friday, join our nocturnal marathon within fear's darkest territories. This year's selection brings to the screen Danse Macabre, acclaimed Dutch director Hisko Hulsing’s latest apocalyptic nightmare, set to the music of Shostakovich, as well as Frankenstein's Dream (directed by Simon Pummell), a disturbing parable about technological parasites in the age of artificial intelligence....See more details

Short Film Competititon TINY FOX AND GREAT BOAR, Poland 2026 - Michal Sledziu Sledzinski - 7’ A VERY SPECIAL MEAL, Germany, Croatia 2025 - Elena Walf - 5’13 ATLANTE, Italy 2025 - Massimo Vagliviello, Filippo Biasiotto, Gabriele Carollo - 7’7 I FOUND A BOX, France 2025 - Eric Montchaud - 9’ NOELLE'S BARN, France, Belgium 20205 - Pascale Hecquet - 6’29 THE GREAT DREAMSCAPE,  France, Belgium 2025 - Rémi Durin - 28’37

Ce s-ar întâmpla dacă plantele din jurul tău ar avea, de fapt, propriul lor dans? La acest atelier, copiii vor descoperi lumea plantelor și vor construi propriile plăntuțe din plastilină și materiale textile, pe care le vor transforma în eroine ale unei povești animate. Folosind tehnica stop-motion, cei mici vor învăța pas cu pas cum prinde viață o animație, descoperind totodată câteva secrete despre cum cresc și se mișcă plantele....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’