Anim’est Animation Film Festival 2020 Organizer and Objectives:

Anim’est, the Bucharest International Animation Film Festival, is an international competition festival organized by ESTENEST, a non-profit cultural association submitted to the Romanian law and seeks to promote cartoons and animated films from all over the world, encouraging the production of Romanian animated films.

Anim’est Animation Film Festival 2020 Unique Event:

Starting with the festival's fourth edition (2009), anim'est has also included a unique event in the Romanian festival circuit: Creepy Animation Night – a nightful of provokative, bizarre and horror animation shorts screenings accompanied by a live musical act in the festival's main venue – Patria Cinema

Anim’est Animation Film Festival 2020 Competition categories:

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• Feature film
• Short film
• Music video
• Student film
• Romanian competition
• Minimest (shorts for children)

Number of screenings:

No film included in the sections of the festival will be shown at more than three public screenings for long feature and short films. ESTENEST undertakes to request written authorization from the producer in the case of additional screenings, either within the framework of the festival or outside it, except for screening in a different festival where Anim’est is invited to be part of a special programme, except for the ‘best of’ compilation of the award winning films and for screening in the framework of an educational programme (e.g. in schools or cinemas), with no entry fee.

Very important!! – In order to be selected for competition, the films must be at their first screening in Romania (except for the Romanian short films).

Anim’est Animation Film Festival 2020 Dates and deadlines:

• Anim’est 2020 will take place in Bucharest, Romania from October 7th to October 16th 2020.
• Entry form, DVD and documents: June 20, 2020.
• Arrival of the DCP copies or .mov H264 HD files: September 15, 2020.

Anim’est Animation Film Festival 2020 Entry fee:

• No entry fee