Competition &  Program of Hiroshima Animation Festival 2020:

Hiroshima Festival is a comprehensive animation festival, featuring competition programs to choose the Grand Prize, Hiroshima Prize and other prizes out of many latest animation shorts submitted from around the world. The festival also offers many special programs including retrospectives of masters and talented filmmakers, feature animations, high quality student works, animations for peace, for children, as well as seminars, symposiums, workshops, exhibitions, and educational film market. Furthermore, the festival provides free spaces, such as "Frame In" for animation students and "Nexus Point" for animation professionals, to screen their works, make presentations and exchange ideas. With its outstanding international programs and administration, the festival is highly recognized not only within animation field but also throughout the media art society.

Mission of Hiroshima Animation Festival 2020:

Hiroshima Festival continues to contribute ceaselessly as a festival respecting animation filmmakers in the first place, and also to serve as a gateway to success for world-class professionals.

Special Programs and Exhibitions:

Retrospective of various animation fimmakers as well as many other special programs such as "Best of the World", "Stars of Students", "Animation for Peace", "Animation for Children", etc., will be shown.

Also, exhibitions of artworks related to animation will be held.

Last edition of Hiroshima Animation Festival:

 the competition attracted 2,217 entries from 74 countries and regions, and 32,011 people participated during the five days of the festival.

Submission deadline:

1 April 2020

Entry fee: FREE! There is no charge for this festival