The festival takes place in a hybrid form with the live event running 1 to 4 July and the online portion running until 11 July at online.festanca.sk. Fest Anča’s streamed version offers almost the whole film programme, including all competitive sections and winning films, feature films, and special screening sections for kids.

The Fest Anča International Animation Festival 2021 is financially supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and the LITA Fund. Traditions, Fest Anča’s 2021 thematic focus is an implementation of the Student Forum Fest Anča.

The Student Forum Fest Anča benefits from a 120,609 EUR grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants. The project has been co-financed from the State Budget of the Slovak Republic in the amount of 18,091 EUR. The aim of the project is better approaches towards training in animation and multicultural European cooperation.

Anča Award 2021 Winners:

Best Animated Short
Polka-Dot Boy (France)
Directed by Sarina Nihei

Special Mention
Dream (South Korea)
Directed by Kangmin Kim

Best Student Animated Short:
Naked (Russia)
Directed by Kirill Khachaturov

Special Mention
Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty Miles a Day (Belgium)
Mathieu Georis

Best Animated Music Video
Prezident Lourajder – Osud (Slovakia)
Matej Mihályi

Special Mention
Devours – Garnet Graves (Canada)
Directed by Flavourcel

Best Slovak Animated Short
Sanctuary (Czech Republic)
Eva Matejovičová

Special Mention
Home Sweet Home (Czech Republic)
Directed by David Štumpf

Best Animated Short for Children
Om Nom Nom... (Japan)
Directed by Minato Matsuda, Haruna Ueno, Tomoko Taiga