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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.

Upcoming events...

NAUSICÄA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND

AVANT-PREMIÈRE : 06/07 18:30
In partnership with Cinema Palace

LE ROI ET L'OISEAU

13/07 14:00 • 14/07 10:45 • 16/07 14:30
26/07 16:30 • 27/07 11:45 • 29/07 14:00
09/08 14:00 • 11/08 13:00 • 13/08 16:30
In partnership with Cinema Palace

ANIMA ON TOUR FOR KIDS

12•13•14/07
In partnership with La Semo Festival

MAD GOD

17/07 09:15 • 19/07 18:45 • 21/07 13:30
07/08 11:30 • 08/08 16:45 • 10/08 13:45
11/08 21:15 • 13/08 18:45
In partnership with Cinema Palace

KNIT'S ISLAND

18/07 21:10 • 27/07 17:00 • 03/08 17:30
In partnership with Cineflagey

MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO

PREMIÈRE : 24/07 19:00
In partnership with Cinema Palace

ISLE OF DOGS

03/08 19:00
In partnership with Cinema Palace

THE CAT RETURNS

AVANT-PREMIÈRE : 06/08 19:00
In partnership with Cinema Palace

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.