Animafest Zagreb

Logo of the 2010 edition
Location	Zagreb, Croatia
Founded	1972
Language	International
http://www.animafest.hr/

Animafest Zagreb, also known as World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb, is an annual festival dedicated to animated film held in Zagreb, Croatia. Initiated by the International Animated Film Association, the event was established in 1972 at the time when Croatia was part of SFR Yugoslavia). Animafest is the second oldest animation festival in Europe, after the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (established in 1960).

The idea to create the event came about because of the worldwide acclaim of animated shorts produced by authors belonging to the Zagreb School of Animated Films in the 1950s and 1960s. Zagreb’s candidacy for holding a permanent animated film festival was accepted at the 1969 ASIFA meeting in London.

Animafest has originally been held (with some interruptions) as a biennial event in every even year between 1972 and 2004 and focused on animated short films. Since 2005 the festival is held every year, with a feature film competition held in odd years.

The festival awards include prizes given in the Main Competition, Student Films Competition, Children Films, Educational Films, Commercials, Music Videos and Films Made for the Internet. Its Prize for "Best First Production Apart from Educational Institutions" is named in honour of Zlatko Grgić. The Lifetime Achievement Award, which is unique for animation film festivals, was established in 1986. An award for outstanding contribution to the theory of animation was added in 2002.

Grand Prize winners

Year	English title	Director(s)	Country
1972	The Battle of Kerzhenets	Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Yuriy Norshteyn	Soviet Union
1974	The Diary	Nedeljko Dragić	Yugoslavia
1976	Festival cancelled.
1978	Satiemania	Zdenko Gašparović	Yugoslavia
1980	Tale of Tales	Yuriy Norshteyn	Soviet Union
1982	Grand Prize was not awarded.
1984	Jumping	Osamu Tezuka	Japan
1986	Grand Prize was not awarded.
1988	Breakfast on the Grass	Priit Pärn	Soviet Union
1990	The Brooch Pin and the Sinful Clasp	Joanna Woodward AKA JoWOnder	United Kingdom
1992	Franz Kafka	Piotr Dumała	Poland
1994	The Wrong Trousers	Nick Park	United Kingdom
1996	1895	Priit Pärn and Janno Põldma	Estonia
1998	Rusalka	Aleksandr Petrov	Russia
2000	When the Day Breaks	Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbes	Canada
2002	Father and Daughter	Michaël Dudok de Wit	Netherlands
2004	Mount Head	Kōji Yamamura	Japan
2005 (F)	Terkel in Trouble	Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Thorbjørn Christoffersen and Stefan Fjeldmark	Denmark
2006	Dreams and Desires - Family Ties	Joanna Quinn	United Kingdom
2007 (F)	Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest	Michel Ocelot	France
2008	The Pearce Sisters	Luis Cook	United Kingdom
2009 (F)	Waltz with Bashir	Ari Folman	Israel
2010	Divers in the Rain	Olga Pärn and Priit Pärn	Estonia
2011 (F)	My Dog Tulip	Paul Fierlinger and Sandra Fierlinger	United States

Footnotes

A. ^ In 1976 the festival was canceled because of the earlier agreement that the three main ASIFA-sponsored festivals (at Annecy, Zagreb and Mamaia in Romania) would be held in three-year cycles, with Mamaia scheduled to take place in 1976. However, the Romanian organizers canceled the event at the very last minute. In 1977 the regular festival at Annecy was held and the usual biennial cycle resumed, with Zagreb and Annecy taking turns.

B. ^ : Although Animafest was held in 1982 and 1986, no Grand Prizes were awarded in these two editions.

External links

• Official website