Only audiovisual works created by animation techniques are accepted for the competition. If a work is created by a combination of multiple techniques, then animation must either prevail or be essential to the impression of the work.
Entries must not be created before 2024. Entries submitted AND accepted into the competition in previous years cannot be submitted again.
If AI has been used in any way in the creative process, we kindly ask you to state this in the registration form and specify which compoment of the film has been created by using AI.
We accept entries via FilmFreeway.com at https://filmfreeway.com/Animanie/. Registration is possible from 1 April to 1 August 2026.
The winners of Czechoslovak Competition can be, with their approval, nominated to the national film competition České vize.
After closing the applications, pre-selection of films for the competition will take place. The program council, consisting of Animánie lecturers, programme department and the festival management, decides about accepting the films submitted. The acceptance of the films into the competition falls fully within the competency of the organizer. The list of accepted films will be published in the first half of September 2026 at www.festival-animanie.cz in the section Accepted films“.
Entries have to meet the submitting conditions and technical requirements of the organizer.
The contestant is required to send subtitles in .srt format, not otherwise.
Festival Animánie is allowed to screen the films accepted into the competition free of charge within the event AND, in the case of the awarded films, also at the follow-up event "Animánie na Šumavě" or other third-party events that would show interest in the festival winners’ films.
The author whose film is screened at the festival provides Animánie, z.s. the permission to use the work itself free of charge, as well as submitted photographic, graphic and text materials of the work for the festival catalogue, website, promotional printed materials, final report and DVD with the festival output, all without limitation of territory, time, quantity and usage.
