Anima 2027 - Brussels Animation Film Festival

Anima 2027 - Brussels Animation Film Festival is now open for entries!

The Anima 2027 - Brussels Animation Film Festival, international annual competition organised by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently has opened its call for entries to its selection programmes for the 46th edition of the festival.

Short description

Anima 2027, the Brussels Animation Film Festival, has opened the call for entries to its selection programmes for the 46th edition of the festival, seeking to promote animated films from all over the world and encourage dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public.

The Festival presents animated films exclusively, namely films created frame by frame (traditional animated cartoons or using puppets, plasticine etc. or digital films), and not shot in live action.

The Festival offers an official selection with national and international competition of short and feature films, as well as an information section (retrospectives, thematic programmes…).

Anima considers all films completed after June 2025 and belonging to the following categories as eligible for competition:

➜ Feature Films
➜ Feature Films for Children
➜ International Professional Short Films
➜ International Student Films
➜ International Short Films for a Young Audience
➜ National Short Films
➜ Short films in virtual reality

There are other non-competitive categories available as well.

The 46th edition of the Brussels Animation Film Festival will take place 19 to 28 February 2027. In addition to attracting professionals from all over the world, Anima is also a popular and family festival that welcomes more than 40,000 festival-goers every year.

Results will be announced in February 2027.

Eligibility

The Anima 2027 - Brussels Animation Film Festival is open to all filmmakers worldwide.

Prize

Selected film will be sreened during the 46th Brussels Animation Film Festival.

The winner of the Anima 2027 Grand Prix will automatically be included on the Academy Award® longlist in the Best Animated Short Film category. British short films selected in one of our competitions are also eligible for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation.