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The Brussels International Animation Film Festival

28 FEBRUARY - 9 MARCH 2025

ANIMA 2025 ⋯ CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN

The next edition of Anima will take place in Flagey and Marni (Brussels) and in a dozen other venues in Belgium from 28 February to 9 March 2025, the same holiday week for French-speaking and Flemish-speaking children! The Festival will feature over 250 films in more than 100 screenings for everyone.
Submit your films now! We look forward to discovering them!

Anima is a qualifying festival for the ACADEMY AWARD® for Best Animated Short Film and awards a wide range of international animated films. 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.

RAMAN DJAFARI WILL DESIGN THE ANIMA 2025 POSTER

This visual ‘appetizer’ will give you a taste of the visual identity artist Raman Djafari is cooking up for the 2025 edition. It will be revealed in full in September!

Berlin-based illustrator and animator Raman Djafari explores emotion and fragility through colourful images and fragmented narratives, creating worlds and characters that are both real and imaginary. They have directed music videos for artists including Elton John, Dua Lipa and Ashnikko, and collaborated with Adult Swim and The New Yorker.

IF, the Illustration Festival

At the second edition of the already iconic IF, the Illustration Festival in Lyon from September 27-29, enjoy a selection of short films showcasing Belgian illustration talent, presented by Dominique Seutin.

Festival International du Court Métrage in Lille

For a night dedicated entirely to animation, head to La Nuit de l’Animation on September 28 at the Festival International du Court Métrage in Lille. A 100% Anima program, presented by Karin Vandenrydt, awaits you where the animation will keep you captivated until the break of dawn!