Olivér Hegyi is a Budapest based animation director. He graduated in MOME in 2017, his graduation film ‚Take me please‘ was premiered in Annecy. His first professional animated short was ‚Garden of heart‘ premiered in Zagreb Animafest. It won the prize for the best animated short at PÖFF, Tallinn. He is currently developing an online animated series.
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.
10-year-old Nina has always filled her imagination with her dad’s hedgehog diverting stories. But when he loses his job, Nina starts to worry about the future of her family. After hearing rumors of a treasure hidden by the old factory’s boss, Nina and her best friend Mehdi decide to organize a risky hold-up, to share the swag between her father and his fellow co-workers. A crazy adventure begins…
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Screening of student’s films followed by a discussion.
About The Animation and Film Studio at UMPRUM: The Animation and Film Studio offers students a platform for experimentation and pushing the boundaries of animation. The Academy’s fundamental principle is an individual approach to students. The aim is to support talent and develop creative skills, while emphasizing original independent thinking about society and nurturing collective responsibility for our environment. According to the QS World University Rankings, UMPRUM is the only college from a post-communist country that is ranked among Europe’s most prestigious art schools.
The Department of Graphic Design (where the Animation and Film Studio is based) provides an open learning system. Its high-quality tutorial staff and technical facilities make the studios unique laboratories and meeting places where students can develop their creative skills.
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.
Best of Fest Anča 2023 is a collection of award-winning short animated films from the previous edition of the Fest Anča International Animation Festival. The jury of international guests awarded prizes in four categories. The section includes the best of short animation, student films, music videos and films for children.
Slovak subtitles
One small herring finds itself stranded in a tidal pool. With the help of the sea creatures there, he stands up to a hungry seagull.
Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse. He takes it home after finding out that the calf would become a schnitzel.
Doubt is a short animated essay, which through voices of four different authors from various fields of art, the film describes all stages of creative process.
It is a story of a little girl, who wakes up on 24 February 2022 because of the air alert and tries to find someone living in the burning city. The main character is based on the story of Alice, a 4-year-old girl, who stayed in the blocked Mariupol during the first months of Russian invasion.
A girl tries to go back home with her little brother while she protects him from this wild imagination.
Bernie Krause's niche theory is that an animal's voice evolved in a way to occupy its own little, unique acoustic slot within a whole soundscape, a puzzle piece in the whole puzzle, to be distinguishable in the mess.
Kind of an illegal sleepover, a clumsy burglary, two best friends and sharp nails.
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.
Elodie tries to find out more about her family’s Armenian origins. She interviews her father, her uncle, her great aunt, and discovers a harsh history where violence and the inability to express love are passed down from generation to generation.
In "Unicorn Wars," a teddy bear army trains young soldiers to fight against unicorns endangering their existence. Brothers Bluey and Tubby lead inexperienced recruits on a perilous mission to protect their forest home. Drawing from "Apocalypse Now" and "Bambi," this antiwar, eco-friendly fable explores the ancestral conflict between teddy bears and unicorns.
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.
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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.
Don’t miss the first section of the international competition if you’re curious about a dolphin in an open relationship with fifteen inflatable animals or an elephant that all adults avoid. As well as those two characters, the first section dives into an underwater world where you’ll be captivated by the sweet, enchanting voices of sirens. And a mouse lurking in your home’s dusty shadows is ready to haunt you like a nightmare.
Slovak and English subtitles
Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays.But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels elsewhere?
A dolphin in free relationship with fifteen inflatable animals, a fox crazy in love with a cereal mascot, a band of animals adept at firearms… Different portraits, existing, of members of the Furry community, lovers and enthusiasts of anthropomorphic animals.
A documentary puppet animation about Iiti’s moving in day. Like a sign from the universe for her poor life choices, there seems to be a nightmarish mouse lurking in the shadows of her new home.
There was an elephant living in my house, but all the adults were avoiding it. The elephant kept changing its shape and grew up with me.
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In a colorful chaos of ambivalence and brushstrokes, the protagonist embarks on her journey in search of reliable truths. When she encounters her alter-ego, she realizes that she cannot even trust her own reflection – in fact – especially not her.
From nabbing the smallest slice of cake in grade school to guiding lost strangers in the city, Tony's kindness knows no bounds. He also shares a flat with a giant Angel.
In the heart of the seabed, between rocks and corals primitive seaweed ripples, cradled by the muffled sound of roiling currents. Up there, on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice.
Screening of student’s films followed by a discussion.
The Animation and Interactivity (AI) department at UNATC, Bucharest, established in 2019, pioneers artistic education in theatre and film. It trains professionals in cinematic narrative and new technologies, emphasizing teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Animation BA: This three-year programme covers 2D and 3D animation, AR, and VR. Students learn animation techniques, character/world-building, and storytelling. They create three-to-five minute animated short films for their thesis. The department has nine students per year, expanding to 12.
Animation Film MA: This two-year programme focuses on author film directing. Students explore original concepts and master animated film production. Each year, three students complete a theoretical paper and a five-to-seven minute short film, emphasizing visual impact and emotion.
The department collaborates with ANIMEST IAFF, offering residency programmes and workshops. Our English study programmes include Master Interactive Technologies and Art of Game Design.
AI adapts teaching to meet students' needs in cultural industries. The faculty’s specialists guide students to cultivate their artistic creations for successful careers.
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The International Competition of Music Videos returns with lots of must-see animated and musical highlights. In the first section, you’ll find yourself in places like Prezident Lourajder’s amusement park or a Berlin neighbourhood where five friends navigate the surreal twists and turns of growing up. The journey continues with a music video about conjuring a malevolent giant worm, and a story drawing inspiration from a mythical tale from Dorset.
Hand painted animated music video for Cosmo Sheldrake's song Stop The Music.
This song was created during Covid era when a human was trapped in his home, with no inputs to add to his creativity. Animation is about this person who during his depressive episode creates a lot of mess around him.
This song seemed to us something primal, something that arose from the earth. We listen to it over and over again. So, we came up with a story inspired by a Dorset tale: a mythical story, raw and brutal, but also soft and kind.
A tired docker heading home after a hard night’s work comes across a postcard which rekindles his passion for the US. Guided by three sprightly birds he embarks on a once in a lifetime road trip and journey of self-discovery across the States.
During a performance in the Moscow underground, the group IC3PEAK invoked an evil entity: Kim Dracula, in the form of a giant worm.
The streets of Harajuku in Japan are overflowing with “Kawaii”, a chaotic yet pure and unadulterated youthfulness, and as I walked the streets of Harajuku several times for making this music video, I wondered what the "love" in this “Harajuku” would look like visually.
Five friends, growing up in Berlin Spandau, experience the surreality of adolesence, with all its magic, emotion and adventure.
Music video for Tiburona.
Music video for Rick Flair - I Gotta Cry (prod. Klaus Layer) "Two thieves steal the flying mushrooms and run through the desert, riding a giant camel"
Atómica starts a journey to discover the origin of the deterioration that affects the great tree in which she lives. After traveling through diverse landscapes of a fictitious world, she finds a group of beings, the anthropomorphs, who are consuming wildly everything in their path.
Music video for Prezident Lourajder.
As the night comes, the journey begins. Running rushing, racing. Unbound from time and swept away by the night’s surreal cascade of lights, we leave day-life behind.