6th ANIMAFILM Festival Announces the Participants of the Competition Program
Organised by Azerbaijan Animation Association and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the 6th ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival will be held in Baku at the Nizami Cinema Center from September 6th to 10th, 2023.
The festival’s selection committee has announced the list of films included in the competition program.
The members of the selection committee are as follows: Demetrios Poursanidis (Greece), Carlos Douglas (USA), Nicolas Fattouh (Lebanon), Nəzrin Ağamalıyeva, Firəngiz Bağırova, Ülviyyə Məmmədova (Azerbaijan).
The films will be evaluated by international and children’s jury, and the winners will be announced at the closing ceremony of the 6th ANIMAFILM festival. The members of the international jury will be announced soon.
A total of 174 films from 46 countries have been submitted to the festival. The selection committee has accepted 39 films from 13 countries for the competition. These films will compete in two international and two local categories.
The following awards will be offered to the winners:
- The international competition’s prize in the nomination “Best Short Animation Film – Grand Prix” — 1000 US dollars.
- The international competition’s prize in the nomination “The Best Short Animated Film for Children” — 500 US dollars.
- Local competition prize for “Best Azerbaijani Short Animated Film” — 500 US dollars.
- Local competition prize for “Best Azerbaijani Student Short Animated Film” — 300 US dollars.
- The Audience Award Prize.
- Special Awards of Partners.
The following films have been selected for the competition program of the 6th ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival:
Best Short Animated Film – Grand Prix
| Project Title | Director | Country of Origin | Year | |
| 1 | ChaCha | Chenghua Yang, Shang Zhang | China | 2022 |
| 2 | Hidari | Masashi Kawamura | Japan | 2023 |
| 3 | Under This Luminous Sky | Emily Xu | Canada | 2022 |
| 4 | Fiziks | Yuelin Huang, Yi Xing | China | 2022 |
| 5 | Love Bubbles | Marcel Hobi | Switzerland | 2023 |
| 6 | 27 | Flóra Anna Buda | France | 2023 |
| 7 | A Tiny Man | Aude David, Mikaël Gaudin | France | 2022 |
| 8 | La Notte | Martina Generali, Simone Pratola, Francesca Sofia Rosso | Italy | 2023 |
| 9 | Crab | Piotr Chmielewski | Poland | 2022 |
| 10 | Eeva | Lucija Mrzljak, Morten Tšinakov | Estonia | 2022 |
| 11 | The End of War | Lei Chen | China | 2022 |
The Best Short Animated Film for Children
| Project Title | Director | Country of Origin | Year | |
| 1 | Everywhere | Step Cheung, Kai Chung Ng | Hong Kong | 2022 |
| 2 | I’m not Afraid! | Marita Mayer | Norway | 2022 |
| 3 | Globby the Dragon | Yun Li, Xin Sun | Hong Kong | 2023 |
| 4 | Corvine | Sean McCarron | Canada | 2022 |
| 5 | Caramelle | Matteo Panebarco | Italy | 2022 |
| 6 | Inventing Father | Hui Zhu | Hong Kong | 2023 |
| 7 | A Tiny Voyage | Emily Worms | France | 2022 |
| 8 | Afterimage | Robyn MacIntosh, Serin Chun | Canada | 2023 |
| 9 | To Be Sisters | Anne-Sophie Gousset, Clément Céard | France | 2022 |
| 10 | A Journey With My Dad | Mor Israeli | Israel | 2022 |
Best Azerbaijani Short Animated Film
| Project Title | Director | Country of Origin | Year | |
| 1 | Karabakh Tale | Firəngiz Qurbanova | Azerbaijan | 2022 |
| 2 | Timid and the Woodpecker | Toğrul Məstəlizadə | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 3 | Stolen Spring | Aleksandra Şirinova | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 4 | The Half – Birdən Ölsək | Rəvan Muradov | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 5 | The Fox Goes on Hajj Pilgrimage | Seyla Əliyeva | Azerbaijan | 2021 |
| 6 | Gavaldash | Oqtay Ağamalıyev | Azerbaijan | 2022 |
| 7 | Right to Education | Ruslan İbrahimli | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 8 | Disbalance | Amin Quliyev | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
Best Azerbaijani Student Short Animated Film
| Project Title | Director | Country of Origin | Year | |
| 1 | Hocus-Pokus | Leyla Novruzova | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 2 | Mysterious Forest | Əsli Yunusova | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 3 | Mavi | Aylin Ələkbərli | Azerbaijan, United States | 2023 |
| 4 | The Trap | Ayla Qasımova | Azerbaijan, United States | 2023 |
| 5 | Empty Spaces | Ayan Novruzlu | Azerbaijan, United Kingdom | 2023 |
| 6 | The Dreamer | Mehriban Əliyeva | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 7 | The Voice of the Book | İbrahim Baxşıyev | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 8 | The Seasons were Passing… | İnci Qurban | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 9 | Two Ways | Şahid İsmayılov, Gülşad Quliyeva | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 10 | Window | Kövsər Qurban | Azerbaijan | 2023 |