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Screening of student’s films followed by a discussion.

About Lusófona: Lusófona University in Lisbon, Portugal, has three animation programmes in its Film and Media Arts Department:

• bachelor in Digital Animation, which focuses on learning various techniques of animation cinema and their application in fictional, documentary and experimental contexts through animation tests and films;
• master's degree in Animation Arts, which focuses on creativity and experimentation mixing animation and other forms of artistic expression, both in short films and expanded animation projects;
• Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree, Re:Anima, with the Luca School of Arts (Genk, Belgium) and Aalto University (Espoo, Finland), which explores fiction, documentary and VR in the context of animation.

The Student Forum programme is only for invited participants with the exceptions of the following events which are open to the accredited public. Please note that in order to take part in the following events, you need to stay for their whole duration. Doors will close 5 minutes before the starting time.

In solidarity with BAB festival we are exhibiting visual campaign of young graphic designer and animator Matej Mihályi at Stanica Žilina-Záriečie.

"On Monday, 25 March 2024, Zuzana Liptáková, the director of the Biennial of Animation Bratislava (BAB), was dismissed with immediate effect. The Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Martina Šimkovičová, dismissed her without giving a reason, despite her being the first-ever director of BAB and BIBIANA, the international house of art for children, who was elected through a public selection procedure.

With concern, we observe the non-transparent actions of the current government, which are already affecting the field of art for children and young people. With this insensitive action, the Ministry is threatening the long-established credibility and international reputation of BIBIANA’s projects.

The new festival team, which has been preparing the 17th Biennial of Animation Bratislava since September, distances itself from the decision of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and, for the reasons mentioned above, ends its involvement in the preparations of the festival.

The future of the festival and its content is unclear at the moment.

We would like to thank all our partners and friends, both at home and abroad, for their support."

Lucia Dubravay Trautenberger, BAB Executive Director

Andrej Kolenčík, BAB Program Director

Lívia Filusová, BAB Festival Production

Jana Vicenová, BAB Production Manager

Eleven-year-old Tony has a unique feature he was born with - he glows. He spends his days at home in his blanket bunker and dreams about having a friend. Before Christmas, a peculiar girl named Shelly moves into his house and turns his world upside down. Together, they embark on an adventurous search for the origin of the mysterious tufts of darkness which suck the sunshine out of their house.

__ // devaluated, declassified materials, the dull provides an outlet for the textual and poetic intent // the neutrality of the bleached background, the few scratches on scraps of recycled material, allow the black line to exist unhindered // texts and words that are usually only seen inside of books, or surely more noble media, are breathing in their most brutal, unadorned form // discarded words, spitted out feelings, emotional violation, these intimate reflections call out to the everyday // the pictorial vocabulary illustrates internal debates, that are as vulnerable just as they are unruly, they speak of the inner-self // these pieces are therefore in-situ, the technique of graffiti is deprived of its usual locale, the public space // a work of documentation that harvests the exterior and the self, the process takes care of mistakes// unless useless consumes the being to create the artwork //__ The artist is working as a European Solidarity Corps volunteer at the Stanica and New Synagogue cultural centres.

At the outskirts of our consciousness there is a thin line reflecting the impulses emerging from ordinary days. These are preserved in the far places of our mind by the intricate path of our nerve endings. Flashes of these millisecond stimuli are occasionally picked up by my retina. That's when I remember these images. But the impulses capturing the last four years have been drastic. Pandemics, war, polarization of society and getting lost in information overload. A complete nightmare. And all this during the "most beautiful period of woman's life" - motherhood.

An animated feature about a zoo that rescues and houses mythological creatures. As cryptozookeepers struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) they begin to question whether they should house these rare beings in the confines of a zoo, or if they should remain hidden and unknown.

Tucano Urbano, also known as Filip Smith, will present a selection of sped-up Jersey Club rhythms, UKG, and tropical-trance trap music. The intense hour and a half will be full of ups and downs that won't let you sit down.