The Slovene Film Fund has drastically cut support of our 5th anniversary edition. Whereas last year the Film Fund co-financed the festival with an amount of 19.800 Euros, they have now decided to reduce their support to 3.250 Euros. This does not only mean a serious cut of Slovene public funding, this implies that we have much smaller chances of obtaining the much needed European matching funds. Consequently the future of the festival is in serious danger.
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The experience of the 4th Animateka Festival, events, atmosphere and comments caught in a twenty minutes long documentary, filmed and edited by Jasenka Lojović and Mirjam Hlastan. Moments from the children program Elephant, working breakfasts, artist in residence Koji Yamamura film retrospective and exhibition, Steven Woloshen's workshop of engraving, scratching and drawing on film, Moveknowledgement concert with live animation in cooperation with visual artists Small but Dangers and much more.

On the blog of Krešimir Zimonić, programme director of the Animafest, we found his video memories from Ljubljana. Worth seeing until the very last shot...

The jury (Koji Yamamura, Japan; Marco de Blois, Canada; Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Austria; Duscha Kistler, Switzerland; and Fernando Galrito, Portugal) and the audience of Animateka 2007 have revealed the winners. More ...

At today's Working breakfast the artist in residence Koji Yamamura, will give a lecture accompanied with screenings of animated commercials. At 16.10 the last part of the "Made in Yugoslavia" retrospective will be shown, at 21.10 the jury will will present this years award-winners at the Closing of the Festival.

Today on Animateka: the premiere of The Christies, tomorrow the selection of Phil Mulloy’s shorts.

As any good satirist — and Mulloy doubtlessly belongs to the noble Anglo-Saxon tradition of social satire — the author is first and foremost a sort of demiurge, creating and destroying worlds, perhaps to knock at least a fragment of sense into humanity. More...