ANIMAFEST Zagreb, which has been organized since 1972, is the second oldest festival in the world focused on animated cinema. Every year it shows the latest international full-length and short films.

This years it is running from 2 to 7, June.

Here are our animated films in the festival programme:

* STUDENT COMPETITION *

THE CROOKED HEADS, 2025
Synopsis: The smell of mine smoke envelops a forgotten Polish housing estate. The young man shaves his head, puts on a tracksuit, and confronts the shadow of his big brother and his past.

Credits:
screenplay, direction, animation, editing and production management: Jakub Krzyszpin
music: Maria Dakszewicz (animation student)
artistic supervision: Piotr Dumała, Marcin Podolec
cast: Krystian Kanclerz, Artur Kujawa, Dorian Zypper

See the trailer: vimeo.com

* SPECIAL PROGRAMME *
The World on the Edge

THE OTHER dir. Marta Magnuska, 2018
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE FOREST dir. Szymon Ruczyński, 2023
Animation for Belarus #2, dir. group of authors - students, graduates and lecturers of animation, 2020

That’s what she said
SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN dir. Barbara Rupik, 2022

Complete festival programme: animafest.hr/en/2025/program/grand_competition

Fingers crossed!

1 – organizer’s press materials
2 – still from the film THE CROOKED HEADS