Films in competition and jury

The main festival competition consists of a selection of ten feature-length and 50 short animated films from around the world. Some of the films will be shown exclusively at ANIFILM, most of them as Czech premieres. The festival also traditionally focuses on emerging domestic filmmakers by giving them the chance to participate in the Czech-Slovak competition of student films. Feature films for children and adults will be judged by Igor Prassel, programming director of the Animateka International Animated Film Festival in Slovenia, leading American curator and journalist Amid Amidi, and Portuguese director Regina Pessoa, who has received numerous international awards for her original films. The winners in the other two categories (International Competition of Animated Short Films and Czech-Slovak Student Competition) will be decided by an international jury as well. This year’s jury consists of Irish artist Stefano Scapolan, Polish theorist and pedagogue Alicja Jodko, and Petr Koliha, programming director for the planned Czech Television children’s channel. The winners receive not only the main prize, Animated World in a Bottle, but also walk away with cash prizes with a combined value of 4,000 euros. A list of the selected films in competition can be found on the ANIFILM website.