Anima: Brussels Animation Film Festival
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Over one hundred and fifty films in the international competition (shorts and features, commercials, music videos), retrospectives, exhibitions, lessons, workshops, the professional days, round-table discussions, numerous guests and film concerts make Brussels an international appointment not to be ignored. It's also the place to find out about Belgian with a national competitionand screenings in panorama. Anima easily confirms itself a "must" for its yearly thirty thousand spectators.
28th edition
2009 | 20 - 28 February
Grand Prize - Jury Award
France | 2008
Director: Jérémy Clapin
16
Special Jury Mention
United States | Feb 2008 | 5:50
Director: Bill Plympton
3
Special Jury Mention
Sweden | 2008 | 13:00
Director: Jonas Odell
3
Best Student Short Film - Jury Award
United Kingdom | Jul 2007 | 6:06
Director: Felix Massie
2
Best Short Children's Film - Jury Award
United Kingdom | 2008
Director: Nick Park
6
Best Short Film - Audience Award
France | 2008
Director: Jérémy Clapin
16
Best Short Children's Film - Audience Award
United Kingdom | 2008
Director: Nick Park
6
United Kingdom | 2005
Director: Kim Noce
The emotional journey of three people as they journey from isolation and despair to discover a newfound hope in their lives.
1
United Kingdom | 2005 | 7:00
Director: Sharon Colman
A pair of pesky crows disrupts a grumpy badger's quest for sleep.
2
Australia | Oct 2007 | 8:45
Directors: Gareth Cowen, Dave Edwardz
A young tetra fish, one of a million in her school, just wants some attention. Feeling lonely and bored, she is attracted by the manic antics of a gan...
United Kingdom | 2004 | 5:58
Director: Gaëlle Denis
When Tomoko arrives in London, she has no idea that soon she will discover a mysterious secret hidden beneath the city.
28
The Cable Car
Switzerland | Jan 2008 | 7:00
Directors: Frank Braun, Claudius Gentinetta
While travelling by a cable car to a place somewhere in the mountains, an old man treats himself to some snuff tobacco. Et voilà! With every sneeze th...
6
France | 2008 | 8:15
Director: Fabrice O. Joubert
In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman is about to pay the check when he finds out that he's lost his wallet. To save time he decides to ord...
14
United States | Feb 2008 | 5:50
Director: Bill Plympton
This is the third film in the DOG series. In this episode our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affec...
3
United Kingdom | Jul 2007 | 6:06
Director: Felix Massie
Keith Reynolds leaves his hat in his car. This isn’t the only mistake he makes today.
2
Sweden | 2008 | 13:00
Director: Jonas Odell
Three perfectly true stories about lying.
3
France | Jan 2008 | 9:45
Director: Franck Dion
Mister Cok owns a large bomb factory. In the name of efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers with sophisticated robots. But one brave...
7
Keith Reynolds Can't Make It Tonight
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death
Simon Vagyok (I am Simon)
Short film types screened

Fiction / Live action

Animation

Documentary

Experimental

Music video
Competition and rewards

International competition

National/regional competition

No cash awards

No screening fees