Fest Anča International Animation Festival – the only Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival in Slovakia – has just opened its 2026 call for entries. Only short animated films and music videos – completed after 1st January 2024 and submitted with English subtitles – are accepted into the Festival’s competition program. A total of €6,000 will be awarded in the Festival’s competition program.

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival – the only Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival in Slovakia – has just opened its 2025 call for entries. Only short animated films and music videos – completed after 1st January 2023 and submitted with English subtitles – are accepted into the Festival’s competition program. A total of €6,000 will be awarded in the Festival’s competition program.

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival – the only Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival in Slovakia – has just opened its 2024 call for entries. Only short animated films and music videos – completed after 1st January 2022 and submitted with English subtitles – are accepted into the Festival’s competition program. A total of €5,500 will be awarded in the Festival’s competition program.

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival has recently launched the call for entries for its 16th (2023) edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories. Only short animated films and music videos – completed after 1 January 2021 and submitted with English subtitles – are accepted into the Festival’s competition program.

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival has recently launched the call for entries for its 15th (2022) edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories. Only short animated films (under 30 minutes) – completed after 1 January 2020 and submitted with English subtitles – are accepted into the Festival’s competition program.

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched the call for entries for its 14th (2021) edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories. Only short animated films (under 30 minutes) – completed after 1 January 2019 and submitted with English subtitles – are accepted into the Festival’s competition program.

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Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched call for entries for its 10th (2017) edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories. Only those submitters whose digital copies are sent before 26 February 2017 will be considered for the festival. The submission is free and winners are awarded with a cash prize.

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The 9th International Animation Festival Fest Anča has opened the call for entries for 2016 and is currently accepting new animated films from around the world. Eligible for submission in the competition program are animated films under 30 minutes, completed after 1st January 2014. A total of 2,600 Euro in prize money will be awarded in 2016, of which 800 Euro are reserved for the Anča Award winner.

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The Call for Entries of the Fest Anča 2015 International Animation Festival has recently been opened for new animated films under 30 minutes, created between 2013 and 2015. The Festival program is competitive and six (6) competition awards – of more than 2,500 Euro – will be announced for the 2015 edition. Fest Anča aims to contribute to the development and promotion of animation and the animated film industry.

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The organizers of Fest Anča International animation festival have opened the Call for Entry for 2014, for the festival’s seventh edition, scheduled for 18th through 22nd June 2014. Animated films made after 1 January 2012 no longer than 30 minutes, from any part of the world are eligible for submission. The Festival is competitive and includes five (5) competition categories for 2014. The competition categories of Fest Anča 2014 are: Anča AwardAnča Student Award (student films)Anča Music Video Award (music videos)Anča Kids Film Award (films for kids)Anča Slovak Film Award (Slovak films)Fest Anča brings the top animated films, side by side with antiquarian, foreign and ever interesting animated bitts and pieces to Slovakia, since 2008. The program is also devoted to lectures, workshops, discussions with film directors, concerts and exhibitions.

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