Fifth Anim'est brimming with European titles
The fifth edition of Anim’est, Romania's sole animation festival and also the most popular film festival in Bucharest, kicked off last week with Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist [+see also:
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film profile]. Fifty-five titles in six different competitions are vying for this year’s trophies, to be announced on October 16.
Of the five features in the main competition, three are from Europe: Serbian director Aleksa Gajic's Edit and I, Eleanor's Secret [+see also:
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In the short film competition, over 40 titles have hopes for a prize, while the student film competition also includes a large number of shorts. A Romanian competition of 13 films by young Romanian directors, and a Balkanimation competition, with 11 Balkan titles, will screen the newest shorts in the region. Last, but not least, the festival's fifth edition also showcases a generous Video & Advertising competition, with dozens of very short animated clips.
The 2010 guest country is Hungary, with several animated features and short films made over the last three decades. As is the guest film school: the renowned Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design from Budapest. The guest film company is the Netherlands’ Il Luster Productions, creator of dozens of shorts and commercials in the last decade.
A sidebar for children (Minimest), one on anime films by Japan's Studio 54 and the screening of several US blockbusters such as Up, Monsters and Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon and Despicable Me round out the festival.
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