Anima 2025 - Brussels Animation Film Festival

Anima 2025 - Brussels Animation Film Festival now is over!

Anima 2025 - Brussels Animation Film Festival: The Anima 2025 - Brussels Animation Film Festival, international annual competition organised by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently has opened its call for entries to its selection programmes for the 44th edition of the festival.

➜ Short description

Anima 2025, the Brussels Animation Film Festival, has opened the call for entries to its selection programmes for the 44th edition of the festival.

This festival is organised every year and is one of the most important festivals in Europe that seeks to promote animated films from all over the world and encourage dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public.

The Festival presents animated films exclusively, namely films created frame by frame (traditional animated cartoons or using puppets, plasticine etc. or digital films), and not shot in live action.

The Festival offers an official selection with national and international competition of short and feature films, as well as an information section (retrospectives, thematic programmes…).

Anima considers all animated films completed 18 months before the beginning of the Festival. Films can be submitted to the following competition categories:

➜ International Professional Short Films
➜ International Student Films
➜ International Short Films for a Young Audience
➜ Feature Films
➜ Feature Films for a Young Audience
➜ National Short Films

There are other non-competitive categories available as well.

The 44th edition of the Brussels Animation Film Festival will take place 28 February – 09 March, 2025. In addition to attracting professionals from all over the world, Anima is also a popular and family festival that welcomes more than 40,000 festival-goers every year.

➜ Who may enter?

The Anima 2025 - Brussels Animation Film Festival is open to all filmmakers worldwide.

➜ Prize:

Selected film will be sreened during the 44th Brussels Animation Film Festival.