{"id":8153,"date":"2025-03-18T16:14:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anima.az\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2025-03-18T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:05:15","slug":"submit-your-film-to-the-8th-animafilm-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/2025\/03\/submit-your-film-to-the-8th-animafilm-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Submit Your Film to the 8th ANIMAFILM Festival!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='epvc-post-count' style='padding-bottom: 20px;'><span class='epvc-label'> Bax\u0131\u015f say\u0131:<\/span> <span class=\"epvc-count\"> 802<\/span><\/div><p>The 8th ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival is Accepting Submissions!<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Azerbaijan Animation Association<\/strong>\u00a0will host the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animafilm.az\/en\">8th ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival<\/a> <\/strong>from September 3 to 7, 2025, in Baku. Animation professionals, enthusiasts, and studios are invited to participate in the competition program.<\/p>\n<p>Animated films can be submitted via the festival\u2019s online platform, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway.com\/ANIMAFILM-International_Animation_Festival\">FilmFreeway<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Films must meet the following requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can be submitted in local or international categories.<\/li>\n<li>Must be produced after January 1, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Must be animated for at least 50% of their length. There are no restrictions on the animation techniques and themes used in the film.<\/li>\n<li>The deadline for entries is <strong>June 15, 2024<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival is the first and only animation festival in Azerbaijan. Since 2018, the festival has brought together children and young people, directors, and animation studios; introduced them to international experiences; connected them with professional local and foreign animation masters; showcased hundreds of animated films; and held master classes, conferences, concerts, performances, and exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>Regional animation festivals have become a tradition to encourage the development of animation cinema and industry in different regions. In 2021, <strong>\u201cANIMAFILM in Sheki\u201d<\/strong>, in 2023, <strong>\u201cANIMAFILM in Nakhchivan\u201d<\/strong>, in 2024, <strong>\u201cANIMAFILM in Lankaran\u201d<\/strong>, and in 2025, <strong>\u201cANIMAFILM in Ganja\u201d<\/strong> were organised.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival was included in the \u201cBAFTA Festivals List\u201d by the <strong>British Academy of Film and Television Arts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7452\" src=\"https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large-1024x704.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large-768x528.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large-212x146.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large-50x34.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A0175-Large-109x75.jpeg 109w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7460\" src=\"https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large-300x162.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large-1024x554.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large-768x415.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large-260x141.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large-50x27.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/anima.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/P47A9726-Large-139x75.jpeg 139w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-animafilm-en","category-maliyy-furstlri-musabiqlr-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8184,"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions\/8184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anima.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}