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Anja Resman’s exhibition tour and workshop

On 12 December, the artist Anja Resman will take us behind the scenes of the making of the animation and show us a puppet from the film, which we will be able to bring to life ourselves. Registration is required for the workshop.

Join us at Best of The Elephant programme

On Sunday, 8.12.2024, at 17:15, the Children’s Jury will present a selection of their favourite films of the Elephant Competition, Best of The Elephant programme.

Rise & Shine awards!

The second edition of the Rise & Shine Animation Lab for young talents and their short films hosted 11 amazing projects. Among them four awards were given out.

The winners of 21st Animateka!

We reveal the winners of this year’s Animateka Awards in all four competition programmes. Who won the Grand, Student and Elephant Jury prizes and which films impressed the audience the most?

Rise & Shine competition of projects in development at AnimatekaPRO

Rise & Shine is a project development and pitching lab for first and second-time professional filmmakers with their short films (up to 20 minutes), organized by Animafest Zagreb and Animateka in collaboration with CEE Animation in three modules: focus on script, project follow-up, focus on pitch.

Recommendations for the young at Animateka

Animateka offers a range of exciting content for young people, including Kinotrip’s Best of teh World, the feature films Flow and Memoir of a Snail as well as our VR programme.

Support for children animation workshops in Gaza

The 21st edition of Animateka will officially open with a program that, among other things, voices support for Palestinians with a screening of a film made recently in a workshop in a refugee camp in Gaza. You can help Haneen Koraz’s project Empower Voices Through Art for children animation workshops in Gaza with a donation.

We kick off the 21st edition of Animateka today!

Today we open the festival with the Elephant programme for families at 5PM at Kinodvor and with the Opening ceremony and a Special Opening Screening at 8.30 PM in Kinodvor as well. Browse the programme, join us at screenings and other events!

Program for families at 21st Animateka

Presenting a selection of programs at the 21st Animateka, recommended by our Family Program Selectors for the youngest viewers and those a little older.

Introducing the 21st Animateka Children’s Jury!

The Children’s Jury is the one who decides on The Elephant Children Jury Award, for films in the Elephant in Competition programme. A monetary award in the amount of €1,000.

Pre-event of 21st Animateka: experimental animation by Square Eyes distribution

On the eve of the opening of the 21st Animateka, we will be warming up at the Slovenian Cinematheque with a programme of short experimental animated films from the Square Eyes distribution company, led by one of animateka’s international jurors, Wouter Jansen.

AnimatekaPRO invites you to listen to talks, lectures and presentations!

Our festival platform AnimatekaPRO is running alongside the film programme at the Old Power Station in the mornings from 3 till 7 December. AnimatekaPRO is a festival platform that takes you behind the scenes of animated filmmaking through a series of masterclasses and conversations with filmmakers.

VR program at 21st Animateka

This year’s VR competition presents a collection of immersive experiences that push the boundaries of animation, narrative, and the role of the viewer. On display of +MSUM, from December 2 to 8 (between 10am and 6pm). Free entry.

Free bus rides!

With a ticket for the Animateka festival, you can enjoy a free bus ride on all the regular lines of the Ljubljana City Public Transport. You show your ticket to the bus driver and keep it until the end of the trip.

Kinotrip’s Best of the World for youth

Kinotrip’s Best of the World brings a youthfully offbeat, feistily engaged, and stylistically diverse set of eight films that take us into varied emotional landscapes.

Exhibition BAD LOVE IS EASY TO DO by Chintis Lundgren

Between November 30 and December 8, the exhibition by Animateka 2024 artist-in-residence, Chintis Lundgren will be on display at Kinodvor Gallery. The exhibition will include original drawings from the animations Life with Herman H. Rott (2015), Manivald (2017), and Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves (2019).

Keep Festive! x Animateka – a safe space for everyone

Animateka is part of Keep Festive – a collective initiative that stands against any sort of harassment and helps festival organizers create a safer space for everyone involved in the event.

Exhibition Three Birds by Zarja Menart

On November 29th at 7PM, at DLUL Gallery, we will open the exhibition Three Birds by Zarja Menart, at which you will be able to see original drawings and paintings that the artist has made by layering translucent papers and using oil paints and drypoint in order to construct her animated film Three Birds.

Presenting this year’s Student Jury

We present to you this year’s Student Jury that will give out Young talent: Student Jury Award, awarded for the best film in the European Young Talents Competition Programme, worth €1,500.

Exhibition by Anja Resman: Beyond The Face

As part of the accompanying events of this year’s Animateka, we are opening an exhibition in the Glass Atrium of the Ljubljana City Hall on 26 November at 18:00, which will take us behind the scenes of the making of Anja Resman’s film Beyond the Face.

Presenting the members of this year’s Grand Jury!

Here are the members of this year’s Grand Jury, which awards the Jury Grand Prix to the films in the Main Competition section.

Retrospective Never Like the First Time!

A historical retrospective of debut films by some of the biggest names of animation. From the pioneers, including the first animated feature The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926), to names that have shaped, or continue to shape, the world of animation. The pioneers’ programmes will be accompanied with live music by Polona Janežič and Andrej Goričar.

Animateka’s workshops for youth and children

Join us for three unforgettable workshops where we will bring works of art to life with stop-motion animation, explore the mysteries of optical toys and create in the imaginative world of clay!

The programme of 21st Animateka is out!

Our program teams have worked hard to prepare this year’s film program, from the competition sections to animated documentaries, special screenings, feature films and animations for the youngest.

Applications for pre-production workshop with Leo Černic are open

Until 22. 11. or until places are full, you can apply for the 5-day workshop, during which you will delve deeper into the creation of animated stories and learn about the tools needed to pre-visualise and deliver them.

Trailer for the Elephant family programme at the 21st Animateka

Under the keen eye of Urszula Domanska, the Elephant Association mentors have created a beautiful trailer for the Elephant family programme at the 21st Animateka!

We present this year’s festival trailer!

With Animateka just one month away, we’re sharing with you this year’s festival trailer, which will greet you on cinemas’ screens between 2nd and 8th December!

Presenting Chintis Lundgren, the artist behind this year’s Animateka visual identity

Meet the Estonian artist who has created this year’s festival visual identity. As she told us, this year’s look was inspired by the mysterious creatures she met during her many visits to Animateka.

GoCritic! workshops applications are now open!

Ten participants will be selected for workshops of film journalism and criticism, which now also include a video component. Between December 2024 and October 2025, each GoCritic! participant will have the opportunity to professionally develop at two or more of the following festivals: Animafest Zagreb, Fest Anča, Anifilm, Animest and Animateka.

Animateka 2024 competition programmes revealed!

The Animateka programme team has carefully selected the best animated shorts from the 798 entries and ranked them in the four Animateka 2024 competition programmes.

Summer Animateka 2024!

Summer Animateka is back on the streets of Ljubljana! Three summer evenings, three free screenings of short animation programmes! At Ljubljana’s Mestni trg, 8-10 July.

Applications for 21st Animateka festival are now open!

The 21st edition of International Animated Film Festival Animateka is inviting authors of short animations to submit their films for the Main Competition Programme, The Elephant in Competition Programme, European Young Talents Competition Programme and VR@ANIMATEKA Competition Programme!

Rise & Shine awards!

The second edition of the Rise & Shine Animation Lab for young talents and their short films hosted 11 amazing projects. Among them, two prizes were awarded yesterday: the Rise & Shine 2023 winning project and the CEE Animation Forum 2024 prize.

The winners of 20th Animateka!

We reveal the winners of this year’s 20th Animateka Awards in all four competition programmes. Who won the Grand, Student and Elephant Jury prizes and which films impressed the audience the most?