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The 8th ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival<\/strong>, held from September 3\u20137, 2025, in Baku at the Nizami Cinema Center, the Palace of the Shirvanshahs Complex, and other venues, has successfully concluded its program.<\/p>\n

The 8th ANIMAFILM Festival was organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan<\/strong>, the<\/strong> Cinema Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan <\/strong>(<\/strong>ARKA<\/strong>)<\/strong>, the Azerbaijan Animation Association<\/strong>, and \u201cPERI FILM\u201d LLC<\/strong>. The festival\u2019s main media partner was Ictimayi<\/strong> TV<\/strong>. Festival partners included the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Azerbaijan, KYNO, Nizami Cinema Center, Baobab, YUVA, Pet Care, Dynamic Box Studio, Skwigly Animation Magazine, the Union of Filmmakers of Azerbaijan, Handicraft, and CorpoPlus. Ticket sales partner: Iticket.az.<\/p>\n

The International Festival, with its main theme \u201cCats\u201d<\/strong>, brought together over 1000 viewers who watched more than 60 films from 25 countries. Dedicated to the union of creativity and compassion, a portion of ticket sales revenue will be donated to local initiatives supporting the welfare of cats. The festival featured four programs: Competition, Non-Competition, Accompanying and Professional Programs. The full program was presented in the official festival catalog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This year, 317 films from 62 countries were submitted for the competition section across four international and one local category. A selection committee of seven members reviewed all submissions and selected 39 films from 20 countries for the competition. Among them, 10 films were in the local category, while 29 competed internationally. Films were judged both by a five-member international jury and by audience votes, with the winners announced at the festival\u2019s closing ceremony.<\/p>\n

The festival opened on September 3 at the Palace of the Shirvanshahs Complex. The highlight of the opening ceremony was the screening of Tales from the Magic Garden<\/em><\/strong>, an animated film co-produced by the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and France, which premiered earlier this year at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The ceremony also featured the official festival trailer Where Are These Cats Going?<\/a><\/em><\/strong> produced by ANIMAFILM Studio and ANIMAFILM School students, and the trailer for the short animated film Boom-Boom<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, produced by the Azerbaijan Animation Association with support from the Agency for State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations of the republic of Azerbaijan. The film is based on the children\u2019s poem of the same name by the national poet Vagif Samadoghlu.<\/p>\n

Over the following days, more than 30 events took place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The competition program at the Nizami Cinema Center featured screenings in the following categories:<\/strong><\/p>\n