by Pavla Baštanová

Mukumů is an animated film that illustrates the peculiar Scandinavian nature and people who live there and fight with both the nature and their own existence.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Carl Burton

An epic secret world is revealed within an attic during a rainstorm.

by Kristian Pedersen

In this touching presentation, Pedersen describes the creative and visual processes behind three of his films produced by Mikrofilm.

• Film about animation

by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

One movie – one train journey in a second-class compartment between two stations: the first and the last. In the second-class compartment, the traveler meets many people, many characters, many destinies, but he does not find a friend. Alone, just as he had entered the train, with a suitcase that no longer has a desire, he gets off at his little station and does not stop at the cloud.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in this interview with visual effects supervisor, Danielle Feinberg.

• Making of

by Tóth Luca, Luca Tóth

Looking at an X-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man’s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born…

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Hrvoje Wächter

One take, first person, animated horror short film about woman trapped in room that is hiding from some creature…

by Natasha Tonkin

A young woman visits her family. Over the weekend tensions flare, whilst technology provides an easy respite. As Kerri’s gaze shifts from the screen, she discovers a deeper kind of connection.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Experimental

by Molly Schwartz, Elyse Kelly

I wasn’t a bad kid. I just made bad decisions.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragedy

Oscar-winning animation director and writer Adam Elliot speaks candidly about his stop motion animation processes, the making of Mary and Max and, more importantly, about why he makes films.

• Making of

by Dávid Štumpf

This is my submission for Loop de Loop. Theme is BREAKFAST.

by Candy Guard

Five 7 second ads I made for Target Breast Cancer

• No genre

by Moustapha Alassane

In this colorful stop-motion animation with a satirical edge, a carnival of animals—including a frog, a chameleon, and a bird—compete in a wild wrestling match.

• Action
• Comedy

by Paul-Louis Aeberhardt

In the world where dinosaurs have survived and have evolved even to the point of taking their first steps on the moon, a giant asteroid heads towards Earth. The JASA (Jurassic Aeronautics and Space Administration) is active to avoid disaster.

• Comedy
• Sci-Fi
• Making of

by Li Qiwei, Huang Zishan, Fu Yin & others

In a mountain village in southwest China, Nan returns home with his wife and children to visit his relatives. However, his son Xiaowen suddenly finds a strange ‘monster’ while playing in the village. When Nan is unaware of what is happening, Nan’s father reveals a story about Nan’s childhood. It turns out that Nan, who grew up in the mountains as a child, had a predestined relationship with the ‘monster’ in the mountains, so Nan began to tell this part of his childhood story…

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Fantasy

Interview with directors Kata Gugic and Cliona Noonan referncing their works: Cockpera by Kata Gugic (2020) and Wet & Soppy by Cliona Noonan (2020).

• Making of

by Tariq Rimawi

The surprise waiting for the clown doll when he discovers his unique hat is not on his head when he went out of the surprises box!

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Experimental

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in our interview with the production designer, Rona Liu.

• Making of

by Margrethe Danielsen

Three couples are facing different challenges: a hedgehog falls in love with a balloon, but finds it difficult to maintain his grooming routine. A couple of arctic/antarctic lovers are experiencing a coldness between them, and two naive oysters are impatiently waiting to be on the same schedule.

• Romance

AnimatekaPRO is the Animateka festival platform for animation professionals and students. It was conceived as a place where one can learn about the latest trends, be updated on the latest developments, and meet exciting film professionals while exploring the fantastic world of animated film. As a part of AnimatekaPRO, for the fourth consecutive year, the AnimatekaPRO Pitch competition for projects in development will give an insight into the state of animation in ex-Yugoslav countries.

• Making of

by Gerry Chiniquy

Pink ends up in hospital.

• Comedy

by Miha Reja

A boy entering adolescence runs away from home in search of a local carnival.

An interview with artist-in-residence Gianluigi Toccafondo, who we were extremely happy to host in Ljubljana for the 20th edition of Animateka, since he was the winner of the 1st Grand Prix of Animateka back in 2004.

• Making of

Interview with several of the “Cars on the Road” Filmmakers and the voice of Mater, Larry the Cable Guy. Listen in as we talk with Writer/Director, Steve Purcell (who had the initial pitch for Cars on the Road), Bobby Podesta (Director), Brian Fee (Director), and Marc Sondheimer (Producer).

• Comedy
• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

by PANAMA

An incredible stop-motion animation made from paper cutouts for Tulipa Ruiz’s track “Tu” by São Paulo-based studio PANAMA.

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Kaoru Furuko

An experimental interpretation and visualization of Nimway’s music. An audiovisual trip through the mechanisms of an unexplored organic world.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Tom Brown, Daniel Gray, Sarina Nihei

A music video for Nevermen who consists of TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Faith No More’s Mike Patton and Doseone.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Jamie Hewlett

Gorillaz present Song Machine | Season One Episode Three: Aries ft. Peter Hook & Georgia

• Music video

by Raman Djafari

The Brain Friends are an imaginary group of characters that live inside Yellow Guy’s brain.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Musical
• Experimental

by Laura Martinović

Soba is a music video for the Polaridi band, a melancholy pop ballad about loneliness and transience of time, the thoughts we all harbour when we’re alone in the dark. On time, darkness, thoughts and emotions inspired by Višeslav Šošić’s text, Laura Martinović spontaneously creates and combines elements of a tree, person, dream, excitement, inner flame, sorrow, loneliness, claustrophobia, isolation, inspiration, alienation, search, creation, individual, community, city.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Roxane Lumeret & Jocelyn Charles

The “Hématome” video is an animated surreal narrative following a gorilla-like nurse attempting to heal a strange patient whose body undergoes fantastical transformations morphing into animals, warriors, insects, and objects in a dreamlike, metamorphic journey.

• Music video

by Kamal Khan

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Sci-Fi
• Action

by Jocelyn Charles

Official music video for The Weeknd “How Do I Make You Love Me”, available everywhere now.

• Music video

by Hoku Uchiyama

This was my first music video and to this day probably the hardest film I’ve ever made. I’m surprised and delighted that people still feature this in series and festivals. It’s dear to me, and I’m glad some folks get a kick out of it.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Musical

by Kalle Kotila

A music video.

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Abstract

by Miloslav Frič

Clip for the opening song of Lenka Dusilová’s latest album called “River”. The listener in “River” travels through time, space, bloodstream, structure, own history. The river cleans the ballast, eats the bottom so that everything can sink again and one can see things in new contexts. Water becomes the agent of all processes. It opens, cleans, until finally it shows everything.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

The topic of this lecture is to provoke the audience into being more sensitive to their everyday surroundings and to take note of precious material for their work (in any form) in small, rarely noticed phenomena, situations, objects, and movements. Ideas are not far from us. We often just need to change the angle from which we are looking at apparently mundane things. In addition, I will suggest a few games that could become ways of turning the slow and sometimes overwhelming process of animation (frame by frame by frame after one more frame…) into something more playful, even adventurous.

• Making of

Aardman Animations is a legendary animation studio that has created classics like ‘Wallace & Gromit’ and ‘Chicken Run.’ See how they put together their latest move, ‘Early Man.’

• Documentary
• Comedy
• Family
• Making of

Interview with Tomek Popakul who took both the Grand Prix and the ;DSAF Audience Award with Acid Rain at 16th Animateka.

• Making of
• Experimental
• Drama
• Music Videos

by Tom Fisher

An animated documentary exploring neurodiversities such as dyslexia, following the journey of an ant as a metaphor for functioning outside of a system. The film is a self reflection on my own journey through life and of feeling out of place in the world.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Making of

The Moomins are back, just like you remember them! The third season is all about adventures and obstacles won with curiosity, enthusiasm and a great dollop of humour. Watch this behind the scenes video.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Family
• Making of

The new Netflix film, “Robin Robin, ” pushes the envelope of what’s possible with stop-motion animation. The film’s directors, Dan Ojari and Mikey Please, sit down with WIRED to go over the some of the techniques that went into the making of “Robin Robin.”

• Making of

Behind the scenes of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. A behind-the-scenes look at how the animators at Aardman created the latest Wallace & Gromit adventure.

• Comedy
• Making of
• Family

In this webinar producer Martin Jůza from the Czech animation studio Krutart will tell you the story of the animated series Kosmix and what steps they had to take to produce 2 seasons of their home-grown IP. How they had to change their mindset, what they lost the most money on and what mistakes they made so that you don’t have to repeat them.

• Making of

Interview with Marta Pajek at Animateka Festival.

• Making of

In this presentation, experimental animator Jon Gillie will discue his early work in moving image, using analogue and digital mediums. Illustrating with examples, he discussed some influences in his work, approaches to abstraction, and the importance of sketching.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Abstract
• Experimental

Interview with Thomas Renoldner at Animateka Festival.

• Making of

by Daniel Beňovič

Daniel Beňovič is a 3D Animator & Technical Artist based in Slovakia, with background in motion graphics and animation, having created ads for major brands and television. His experience in animation has transitioned into the gaming industry, where he now focuses on enhancing rigging and animation at Nine Rocks Games. Utilizing skills in Autodesk Maya and scripting, Daniel contributes to the game Way of the Hunter.

• Making of

Adam Elliot an Oscar winning and multi AFI (ACCTA) award winning filmmaker. Full length interview that didn’t air on television.

• Making of

Joanna Quinn, whose acclaimed body of work includes the Oscar-nominated shorts Famous Fred, The Wife of Bath and her most recent film Affairs of the Art, speaks with Ben Mitchell of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine in an exclusive talk as part of the Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival. Having achieved major success at the very beginning of her career with her multi-award-winning debut film Girls Night Out, Joanna has since become an inspirational figurehead to many in the animation world through the work of her studio Beryl Productions. In this talk Joanna will offer unique insight into the highs and lows of industry success and how she has navigated the emotional pitfalls that come with it, from grappling with feelings of failure against high expectations, balancing personal projects and professional commissions, to dealing with imposter syndrome, burnout, staying motivated when life gets in the way and the challenges the younger generation face in the current social media climate and the pressures to succeed that come with it.

• Documentary
• Making of

Priit Pärn introduces his film for a special London Animation Club event called Perils Of Perestroika Part 2 on 19th July 2021. The video was made especially by Olga Pärn.

• Making of

A dis­pro­por­tion­ately low number of women are working behind the camera in film and TV, and the same can be said of the tech and gaming industries. Now that we have identified the problem, what is being done to effect change? These innovators will discuss pioneering efforts that are designed to level the playing field.

• Making of

Pixar has been at the forefront of 3D animation innovations for nearly 30 years, developing new methods and technologies with nearly every new project. With their newest feature film “Elemental” hitting theaters, we take a look back at the ways Disney/Pixar has evolved over time. The studio has made advancements in how characters move, going from robotic motion in 1995’s “Toy Story” to characters who can intricately play music in “Coco” and “Soul.” In the early Pixar days, human characters were hidden in the shadows, but breakthroughs in movies like “The Incredibles” and “Brave” paved the way for more believable human characters. And clothes, which were once stiff, took center stage in “Onward” thanks to innovations from movies like “Monsters Inc.”

• Documentary
• Making of

by Sander Joon

• Making of

Masterclass of Lea Vidakovic at ESAD.

• Making of

Interview with the director Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, interviewer Johanna Kristina Artjušin.

• Making of

Interview with juror of Animateka 2014 Andreas Hykade.

• Making of

MASTERCLASS – ARCHITECTURAL FRACTALS by JULIUS HORSTHUIS (NL). “I’ll take the audience through some of the fractal landscapes. We will look at some of the characteristic features of those fractals, almost like we’re watching architectural facets. What creates those features? What is it about fractal math that makes it so engaging? What else is there to explore?” – Julius Horsthuis

• Making of

Q&A for the Cannes Award-winning animated film and Latvia’s selection for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards, Flow with Director/Co-Writer GintsZilbalodis (Moderated by Marshall Shaffer) at the Angelika Film Center & Cafe in New York City on 10/17/2024.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Making of

This clip is taken from a 1938 short called “How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made”.

• Documentary
• Making of

Interview with Suzie Templeton – Academy Award winner for Peter and the Wolf(2006).

• Making of
• Documentary
• Drama

by Lei Lei

he cut-out patterns are from my father’s book Book cover collection in the West, which was published in 1988, when China’s leaders launched their great reform and opening up to embrace the world. Many leading concepts of book cover design were introduced in the book and this book had an eye-opening influence on the younger generation of Chinese designers since then.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Making of

In this talk, Paul Prudence talked about his performance work, which focuses on ways in which sound and generative video can be cross-wired to create live visual-music experiences. He unravelled his process looking at the use of generative graphics combined with sound collage and field recordings to create narrative fictions from the materials of pure abstraction. He touched on his use of expanded projections systems, such as planetarium domes and large screen configurations, to create hypnotic and immersive live experiences.

• Making of

• Family
• Fantasy
• Making of

This lecture by Professor Maura McDonnell will give a light introduction to the emergence of visual music from early beginnings, through various technologies and mediums to present day practices.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Abstract
• Non-narrative

Craig Kausen, grandson of the legendary animation filmmaker, Chuck Jones, spoke in a special guest speaker event for NYFA students and faculty. Kausen discussed the work and career of Chuck Jones, whose name is synonymous with characters from Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Merrie Melodies. Event was moderated by Paul Laverack.

• Making of

by Pavel Koutský

A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

• Comedy
• Experimental

by Candy Guard

Dolly’s therapist, Ruth, fancies her but Dolly fancies osteopath Ken.

• Comedy

by Candy Guard

Two women go to a party with high hopes for a bit of excitement, maybe they might meet someone, but end up hanging around the food.

• Drama
• Comedy

by Peter Budinský

A web miniseries about a single finger, by Tomáš Rosputinský and Peter Budinský.

• Comedy

by Lubomír Beneš

Mat is getting ready to cook a roast chicken. But the chicken is wrapped in a bag and is slippery and difficult to handle. Pat comes to help, but the situation is difficult. Luckily, they have a large supply of chickens in the refrigerator. After unwrapping it, they still need to figure out how to grill the chicken.

• Comedy

by David Lynch

Randy's friend visits after he causes a car wreck.

• Comedy

by Patricie Švadlenková

Would it have occurred to you that an invitation to a beer could be related to philosophy? Get to know the method of the veil of ignorance of the American philosopher John Rawls and see how the problem of fair distribution of resources can be matured. The concise animated series connects the ordinary human world with philosophical ideas and philosophy.

by Peter Budinský

A web miniseries about a single finger, by Tomáš Rosputinský and Peter Budinský.

• Comedy
• Non-narrative

by Kati Glaser

EPISODES: The Human Body / Felting / The Class Trip / Women’s Whim / Vitamin Bomb / Family Inheritance / Hysteria / The Best Job / Love / Those Wild Trees / Fashion Safari / About my Father / Mini Canines and Other Kinds

by Gerry Chiniquy

Pink arrives on a desert island to meet a man and his dog.

• Comedy

by Mária Horváth, Tamás Gyapai, Marianna Hajdu & others

EPISODES: The Hare and the Hedgehog / The Shepherd and the Snake / The Seven Kids / The Pink Pig / The Goat Soldiers / The Foolish Man / The Frog, the Mouse and the Sausage / The Bear and the Cat / The Poor Man’s Nine Hens and One Cockerel / The Pelican Bird / The Rich Man’s Three Sons / The Bladder, the Straw and the Hot Coal / The King’s Bread

by Candy Guard

A woman heads down to Vera Lassoo’s hair salon with a set of unrealistic expectation and ends up with an unrealistic hair-do!

• Comedy

by György Hernádi, József Gémes, Szabolcs Szabó & others

An early spring morning, Water-Spider – who is roused from his winter sleep in a snail shell takes a bath. After an argument with the cross spider, the two spiders become close friends…

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Family

by Jean-François Laguionie

In a wonderfully sweet yet poignant story, Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her.

by Jakub Kroner

A prophecy foretells the rise of Rytmaus, a rapper from a Romani settlement who becomes a national icon and runs for President of Slovakia. As Slovakia gains global power thanks to its pure water reserves, political rivalry and ancient dark forces collide. The fate of the world balances between hope and the demon Moloch.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Sci-Fi
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Mamoru Hosoda

Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters “U”, a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.

by Moustapha Alassane

A sly political satire realized through charming hand-drawn animation, BON VOYAGE SIM features one of director Moustapha Alassane’s many beloved cartoon frogs as Monsieur Sim, the president of the Republic of Toads, who faces a crisis when he returns home from a “diplomatic” trip abroad.

• Drama

by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

One of everyone’s most favourite animated films in the past decade, Persepolis is the French-Iranian adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic autobiography, depicting the life of an Iranian bourgeois family surrounded by revolutionary social changes and their daughter’s coming-of-age and emigration.

by Moustapha Alassane

The adventures of a legendary hero, Sambagana, who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess, asks her in marriage. She imposes several tests, and he wins them all, but only death will eventually bring the two together.

• Adventure

by John Hubley, Faith Hubley

Faith and John Hubley visualize the spirit of childhood imagination in this slice-of-life short set to recordings of their daughters Emily and Georgia at play.

• Family

by Yeon Sangho

The animated prequel to the box office record-breaker “Train to Busan” and the latest from director Yeon Sang-ho, “Seoul Station” follows a man sleeping in a train station who becomes a catalyst for the pandemonium in downtown Seoul: a zombie apocalypse. The rapidly-spreading infection propels an authentic family drama, drawing mordant parallels to real-world social horrors.

by Viktor Kubal

Hansel and Gretel meet the witch from the gingerbread house.

by Ignacio Ferreras

Martin Sheen (The West Wing) and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises) rebel against authority at their retirement home in this poignant comedy for adults. Using hand-drawn animation, Wrinkles leaves room for both tears and laughter as it pokes fun at society’s attitudes towards the elderly.

by Alberto Vázquez

For ages, teddy bears have been locked in a war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will usher in a new era. A beautifully animated journey from the humiliations of teddy bear bootcamp to the psychedelic horrors of the Magic Forest.