This year the festival’s main theme for screening sections, guests, concerts and events is identity. For the first time in history, Fest Anča will have a Competition of Slovak Films, which together with an inaugural non-competitive Slovak Panorama will showcase Slovak animation from the last two years. Over 30 animated shorts and music videos by Slovak directors were registered for the 2019 competition, but the festival also spotlights older local productions. The focus on Slovak production is also reflected in the Industry Days programme. The section includes a workshop on copyright for animators by the LITA, Society of authors.
Film focus is this year curated by Czech film critic Eliška Děcká. The festival’s special guests in 2019 include British animators Candy Guard, Vera Neubauer and Tim Webb, the director of multi award-winning short A is for Autism. A special part of the programme will be dedicated to the retrospective of the Dutch animator Rosto, who passed away in March aged 50. Rosto is known mostly for The Monster of Nix, which will be screened along with his earlier work.
Game Days, which used to be part of the festival, has spun off into a separate event this year. The first edition of Game Days Trnava took place between 30 May and 2 June 2019.
Fest Anča, as the only animation festival that targets a mainly mature audience in Slovakia, is financially supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and LITA. The programme and most screenings will be held at the New Synagogue and Puppet Theatre in Žilina.
International Competition and International Student Film Competition
Bloeistraat 11 / Bloomstreet 11 (Belgium, Netherland)
Directed by Nienke Deutz
III / Impossible Figures and Other Stories III (Poland)
Directed by Marta Pajek
Don’t Know What (Austria)
Directed by Thomas Renoldner
Sweet Sweat (Estonia)
Directed by Jung Hyun Kim
Solar Walk (Denmark)
Directed by Réka Bucsi
Days Off (Czech Republic)
Directed by Filip Blažek
Cat Days (Germany, Japan)
Directed by Jon Frickey
Dancing Frog (South Korea)
Directed by KIM Jin-man
Per tutta la vita / For life (France, Italy)
Directed by Roberto CATANI
Fest (Germany)
Directed by Nikita Diakur
Mr. Mare (Hungary, France)
Directed by Luca Tóth
The Hunt (Poland)
Directed by Mateusz Jarmulski
The Fall (France)
Directed by Boris Labbé
Sounds Good (Denmark, Estonia)
Directed by Sander Joon
Wicked Girl (France, Turkey)
Directed by Ayce Kartal
Our House (Hungary)
Directed by Fábián Balogh
Parsley Girl (South Korea)
Directed by Youngmee Roh
Inny / The Other (Poland)
Directed by Marta Magnuska
Under the Rib Cage (Belgium)
Directed by Bruno Tondeur
Cold Pudding Settles Love (Poland)
Directed by Urszula Palusińska
Still Lives (Finland)
Directed by Elli Vuorinen
Hide N Seek (Czech Repulic)
Directed by Barbora Halířová
Acid Rain (Poland)
Directed by Tomek Popakul
Slug Life (UK)
Directed by Sophie Koko Gate
Julia (UK)
Directed by Julian Gallese
300 g/m2 (Estonia, Slovakia)
Directed by Kamila Kučíková
My Little Goat (Japan)
Directed by Tomoki Misato
Slovak Award Competition
300 g/m2 (Estonia, Slovakia)
Directed by Kamila Kučíková
Fifi Fatale (Slovakia)
Directed by Mária Kralovič
I Am Not Playing Anymore (Slovakia)
Directed by Matej Babic
A date (Slovakia)
Directed by Michaela Mihalyi
Poetika Anima (Slovakia)
Directed by Kriss Sagan
Avalanche (Slovakia)
Directed by Veronika Kocourková
Flush It Out (Slovakia)
Directed by Marian Vredík a Jana Vredík Hirnerová
The Kite (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)
Directed by Martin Smatana
Kid´s Award Competition
Kuap (Switzerland)
Directed by Nils Hedinger
Sloth (Germany)
Directed by Julia Ocker
Quiet Willow (China)
Directed by Shiyii Xiong
The Man with the Birds (France)
Directed by Quentin Marcault
Avalanche (Slovakia)
Directed by Veronika Kocourková
Flipped (UK)
Directed by Hend Esmat and Lamiaa Diab
The Kite (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)
Directed by Martin Smatana
Last Day of Autumn (Switzerland, France, Belgium)
Directed by Marjolaine Perreten
