FESTIVALS: Record Submissions for 13th Fest Anča International Animation Festival

30-07-2020

FESTIVALS: Record Submissions for 13th Fest Anča International Animation Festival

By FNE Staff

Sh_T Happens by Michaela Mihalyi, David Štumpf

ZILINA: A total of 1,650 films from 65 countries have been submitted for the competitive sections of the 13^th edition of the Fest Anča International Animation Festival, set to take place in Žilina from 27 to 30 August 2020 and the best 250 titles have been selected for the programme. The theme of this edition is The Day After.

The 13^th edition of Fest Anča International Animation Festival will showcase the best Slovak and international animation. The Day After dominates this year’s programme selection, with six sections about the main festival theme curated by the Czech film theorist Eliška Děcká.

This year the festival will focus on the Slovak production, welcoming one main guest - Ové Pictures, which will showcase its 10 years of work.

The festival will also host two special collaborations– the European platform A.L.I.C.E. (Animation League for Increased Cooperation in Europe) which, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, aims to develop and support animation, and the Polish O!PLA Animation Festival, which will present the winners of its 8th year to the Slovak viewers.

Films competing for Anča Award + Anča Student Award:

Sh_T Happens (Czech Republic)
Directed by Michaela Mihalyi, David Štumpf

Zorg II (Estonia)
Directed by Auden Lincoln-Vogel

Castle (Japan)
Directed by Ryotaro Miyajima

Winter in the Rainforest (Estonia)
Directed by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

The Little Soul (Poland)
Directed by Barbara Rupik

Freeze Frame (Belgium)
Directed by Soetkin Verstegen

Edokko Bar Training (Japan)
Directed by Mikio Saito

Wood Child & Hidden Forest Mother (UK)
Directed by Stephen Irwin

Why Slugs Have No Legs (Switzerland)
Directed by Aline Höchli

Hedge (USA)
Directed by Amanda Bonaiuto

Average Happiness (Switzerland)
Directed by Maja Gehrig