IV ANIMAFILM ANNOUNCES THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE COMPETITION PROGRAM

08.08.2021

The selection committee of the IV ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival announces the list works that are included in the competition program.

All films and screenplays will be evaluated by an International Jury and winners will be announced at opening and closing ceremonies of the 4th ANIMAFILM Festival.

THE SELECTION COMMITTEE:

The selection committee has reviewed 370 applications from 61 different countries and accepted 128 works to the competition program.

The selection committee for animated films: Demetrios Poursanidis (Greece), Carlos Douglas (USA), Liz Manresa (France), Hasan Pastaci (Belgium), Ira Elshansky (Russia), Ramin Kuliev (Azerbaijan), Firangiz Baghirova (Azerbaijan), Kamila Mammadova (Azerbaijan), Nazrin Aghamaliyeva (Azerbaijan).

The selection committee for screenplays: Firangiz Baghirova (Azerbaijan), Ulviyye Hedarova (Azerbaijan).

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Because of coronavirus restrictions in Azerbaijan the IV ANIMAFILM Festival will be held online or in hybrid format (depending on situation). One way or another please do join our Facebook event so you don't miss any important news.

ANIMAFILM TEAM CONGRATULATES ALL THE NOMINATED AUTHORS OF THE ANIMATED FILMS AND SCREENPLAYS!

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:

Best Feature Animated Film - GRAND PRIX

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	The Knight and The Princess	Bashir Eldik, Ibrahim Musa	Saudi Arabia, Egypt
2	Blood of the Family Tree	Christine Panushka	United States
3	Benyamin	Mohsen Enayati	Iran

Best Short Animated Film - GRAND PRIX

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	Tio	Juan Medina	Mexico
2	Roach	Agustín Touriño	Argentina
3	10 000 Ugly Inkblots	Dmitry Geller	Russia
4	Unnecessary Things	Dmytro Lisenbart	Ukraine
5	The Parrot Lady	Michalis Kalopaidis	Cyprus
6	Ecorce	Samuel Patthey, Silvain Monney	Switzerland
7	Lea's Secret	Rico Gutierrez	Philippines
8	Pilar	Yngwie Boley, J.J. Epping, Diana van Houten	Netherlands
9	Dog's Field	Michalina Musialik	Poland
10	House of Memory	Sofía Rosales Arreola	Mexico
11	The Next Hole	Fatemeh Ahmadi	Iran
12	Navozande, the Musician	Reza Riahi	France
13	Cyan Eyed	Ryan Grobins	Canada
14	Elusiveness	Marija Vulic, Isidora Vulic	Serbia
15	Swipe	Arafat Mazhar	Pakistan
16	Zolemia	Nina Samanishvili	Georgia
17	Kitchen by Measure	Sólrún Ylfa Ingimarsdóttir, Atli Arnarsson	Iceland
18	Mila	Cinzia Angelini	United States
19	Song Sparrow	Farzaneh Omidvarnia	Denmark
20	Naughty	Flora Molinié, Emma Degoutte	France
21	Crab	Shiva Sadegh Asadi	Iran
22	Sky Sun, Tile Sun	Ziba Arzhang	Iran
23	Conversations with a Whale	Anna Samo	Germany
24	A Bite of Bone	Honami Yano	Japan
25	Video Letter	Yuezhu Wang	United States
26	Klingert’s Diving Suit	Artur Wyrzykowski	Poland
27	Washing Machine	Alexandra Májová	Czech Republic

Best Screenplay for a Short Animated Film - GRAND PRIX

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	Cause	Samaneh Nouri	Iran
2	Weird Witches and Fall	Lana Ra	Ukraine
3	The Adventures of Kalina Starr	Kevin Wesley Goodson	United States

Best Short Animated Film for Children

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	Tricked	Mengyuan Guo, Naicheng Liu, Suhn Young Chung	United States
2	Deep Fears	Ryan Chu	United States
3	Dad's Hibiscus	Jiamu Tao	United States
4	Mom’s Hair	Alexey Evstigneev	Russia
5	Roberto	Carmen Córdoba González	Spain
6	Splish Splash	Andra Fembriarto	Indonesia
7	Under the Clouds	Tikunova Vasilisa	Russia
8	Emsahar	Hassan Al-Jahni	Qatar
9	Vegetable Wars	Hanhui, Jiajia Li	China
10	Everything Is Going To Be Alright	Brett Jubinville	Canada
11	The Curious World of Linda	Il-Jun Koh, Tak-Hoon Kim, Soon-Joo Lee, Hun Mok	Korea
12	52 - A Tale of Loneliness	Johnny DePalma	United States
13	Tacet	Zachary Simon	United States
14	Orchestra Rehearsal	Tatiana Okruzhnova	Russia

Best Short Animated Film Made by Children

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	It Fits Short	Children of The Fabido	Germany
2	Balla Balla Pirates	Children of The Fabido	Germany
3	Negligence	Nika Meladze	Georgia
4	Heat	Nima Moradi	Iran
5	Border	Mishiko Lakobidze	Georgia
6	Alien Attack	Anton Johann Hübener, Felix Eduardo Paul	Germany
7	Kindness Creates Wonders	Zarif Gasimova	Azerbaijan
8	Monster	Koosha Yusefi	Iran

Best Short Experimental or Abstract Animated Film

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	Whisper, Rustle	Maureen Zent	United States
2	Water, Water	Wang Junjie	China
3	Rites of Spring	Yiorgos Tsangaris	Cyprus
4	I Want to be Bored	Magda Kreps	Germany
5	Hand	Tsz Wing Ho	Hong Kong
6	Elephant in Castle	Florence Yuk Ki Lee	Hong Kong
7	Formless Form	Ben Ridgway	United States
8	Black Snot & Golden Squares	Irina Rubina	Germany
9	Angry Dogs	Shaun Clark	United Kingdom
10	François Couperin. The Alarm Clock	Natalia Ryss	Russia
11	Alarum	Cierra Jane Maach	United States
12	Fleeting: Here & There	Gilnaz Arzpeyma	Canada

Best Short Student Animated Film

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	The Red Pen	Raffaele Gabrielli	United Kingdom
2	Favorite Daughter	Susi Haaning	Denmark
3	Any Instant Whatever	Michelle Brand	United Kingdom
4	Machi	Prashanti Aswani	United Kingdom
5	C	Marion Täschler	Switzerland
6	The Edge	Zaide Kutay, Géraldine Cammisar	Switzerland
7	Our Sparkles	Catelyne Ma	Canada
8	O-BON, Anecdotes from Kyoto	Jenay Vogel	Switzerland
9	Huis Clos	Nina Winiger	Switzerland
10	Reduction	Réka Anna Szakály	Hungary
11	Nothing Is Here	Kaiyun Yang	Taiwan
12	Sisters	Andrea Szelesová	Czech Republic
13	Sanctuary	Eva Matějovičová	Czech Republic
14	Psychophonic	Aline Romero	Spain
15	The Return of the Waves	Manon Cansell, Alejandra Guevara Cervera, Edward Kurchevsky, Francisco Mountinho De Magalhaes, Hortense Mariano	France
16	To Mom	Yaou Chen	United States
17	Skeleton of a Moth	Emma Kay Smith	United Kingdom
18	Error	Lucie Vostárková	Czech Republic
19	Three Jumps to Happiness	Artur Hanaj	Poland
20	Eating in the Dark	Inari Sirola	United Kingdom
21	Dogs Smell Like the Sea	Anastasiya Lisovets	Russia
22	Chocolate	lili Zhang	China
23	Monster Detective Agency	An-Yu Cheng	Taiwan

Best Animated TV series

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	Old Folks' Tales, Gloria, Daughter of Gaitan	Carlos Smith Rovira, Marcelo Dematei	Colombia
2	My Better World - Grace's Story	Chris Morgan, Michael Clark, Johannes Scheepers	Tanzania
3	Mitch-Match Series #22.	Géza M. Tóth	Hungary
4	Embers the Dragon. Hurry up Embers!	Alex Walker	United Kingdom
5	Mush-Mush and the Mushables. Getting Truffy with It	Joeri Christiaen	Not Specified
6	Super Meow. Mysterious Seeds	Tatyana Moshkova	Russia
7	In:App. You are My Partner?	Lee Munyong, Lee Nagyeong	Korea
8	Bing. Nicky	Declan Doyle	United Kingdom
9	Zamzoom's Animal Adventures	Ari A. Cohen	Canada
10	Jungle King, My Papa	Chung Cheng	Taiwan

Best Animated Music Video

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	I don't Miss You Anymore	Diego Rotmistrovsky	Argentina
2	Agapito	Rafael Vidal Altabert, Julián Gómez Caballero	Spain
3	Mountain	Harrison Fleming	United Kingdom
4	Farah - Fountain of Youth	Sara Taigher	Italy
5	Warm Mountain	Jenny Wright	United Kingdom
6	The Air	Dilshat Rakhmatullin	Kazakhstan
7	Ten Degrees of Strange	Lynn Tomlinson	United States
8	Damage Control	Greg Doble	Canada
9	Feeling Lonely	Julian Nazario Vargas	Norway
10	Sutoloka	Dmitriy Kokorin	Russia
11	Alestrom - Shit Boat (No Fans)	Simon Norton	Australia

AZERBAIJANI COMPETITION:

Best Azerbaijani Short Animated Film

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	+65	Sevinj Qulieva	Azerbaijan
2	Our Solar System with Robot Pika	Gunay Imanzade	Azerbaijan
3	Penguins Fly, Mari	Aghamali Aliyev	Azerbaijan
4	Story of Art Love	Shahin Khalil	Azerbaijan
5	Tig-tig and Her Friends in Search of Miracles. Gobustan	Sultan Abbasbəyli	Azerbaijan
6	You are my Sunshine	Ilham Hasanov	Azerbaijan
7	Bulbul's Memories about Asaf Zeynally	Aslan Maharramli	Azerbaijan
8	Back Home	Javid Ilham	Azerbaijan
9	Skullcap	Frangiz Kurbanova	Azerbaijan
10	Moan	Ruslan Karimov	Azerbaijan
11	Balta X	Ravan Muradov	Azerbaijan
12	Brave Soldier	Ayaz Khaliqov	Azerbaijan
13	Family of Khojaly	Ruslan Ibrahimli	Azerbaijan
14	Sparrow	Gulnar Alıyeva	Azerbaijan

Best Azerbaijani Screenplay for a Short Animated Film

#	Project Title	Author	Country of Origin
1	Line	Nigar Hasanova	Azerbaijan
2	Nails	Nurlana Mammadova	Azerbaijan
3	A Bus Stop with a Hat	Nurlana Mammadova	Azerbaijan
4	Layla	Mirvari Aghakishiyeva	Azerbaijan
5	The Cat is Missing	Pari Gasimzade	Azerbaijan
6	Small Red Ball	Gunel Eminli	Azerbaijan
7	The Turn	Orkhan Behbid	Azerbaijan
8	Slope	Reyhan Yusifgizi	Azerbaijan