The exhibition Shadow Tamers, which presents a unique animation technique for bringing shadows and engravings to life, invented in 1931 by Alexandre Alexeïeff and Claire Parker, has been extended until the end of December.

This year’s edition of the Rise & Shine workshop for young talents and their short films hosted 11 amazing projects. The awards were given out tonight!

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

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.

Ligia Soare, a cultural manager specializing in accessible film screenings, will present tools that filmmakers, festivals, and cinemas can use to ensure an inclusive audiovisual experience for people of all generations and abilities.

Join the Elephant Marathon and see all the Elephant films in competition. Along with other members of the audience, you can cast your vote and choose your favourite to receive the Elephant Audience Award. The Elephant in Competition II and III programmes are followed by Q&A’s with the filmmakers—an excellent opportunity to learn how animated adventures are made!

At AnimatekaPRO, during Breakfast with the Authors, moderators Igor Prassel and Chris Robinson, together with the authors from the Main Competition Program, discuss the creation of their films, their approaches, techniques, and everything in between.

Because we want Animateka to remain a safe space for everyone, we have a zero-tolerance policy against any sort of physical or psychological aggression and discriminatory or inappropriate behaviour of any kind.

Today’s screening of Tales from the Magic Garden in Kinodvor is accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing, and the blind and partially-sighted. In collaboration with House of Culture Cerknica as part of the project ‘Cinema without Barriers’.