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About

Animated Dreams, the oldest and biggest animation festival in the Baltic countries, offers Estonian animators a chance to display the state of their art as well as promotes high-quality international animation culture. From its beginnings as an offshoot of Black Nights Film Festival back in 1999, the event has evolved into a small independent festival. The festival consists of the short animation competitive programme and several special programmes. Traditions include lectures by foreign guests, meetings and workshops.

Program

• International competition of short-length animated films
• Student film competition
• Non-competitive programmes, retrospectives and special presentations

Awards

• Grand Prix for the Best Film
• Up to three (3) Special Mentions
• Best Student Film Award
• Student Film Special Mention

Rules

• short or half-length films (up to 45 minutes): fiction, documentary, experimental or VR; live-action or animation.
• Premiered after 1 January, 2023.

By submitting a film to the festival the applicant agrees by the submissions deadline to:

• fill and submit the entry form via the festival’s online submission form
• provide a screening link with a password via the online submissions page or via e-mail
• deliver additional materials (biography and filmography of Director, stills of the film, synopsis of the film, trailer and poster art-work if already available) by means specified by the festival

Screening Media Type: DCP, DVD, BluRay or digital files (.mov or .avi) 

Audio language: original

Subtitles language: english

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Team