International Animation Festival watching professional and foreign animation will focus on short films and animated series from the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
The international jury of the festival will include professionals in animation art. Experts will award prizes to films and series of different age categories: cartoons for children, schoolchildren, teenagers and adults. Separately will be awarded the People's Choice Award and Award of the Festival Directorate.
Film screenings, workshops, creative meetings, and lectures will once again bring together animation industry professionals and audience from around the world on the bank of the Amur River.
The director of the Animur festival is the chairman of the board of the Khabarovsk regional non-government organization for development of animation – Alexandra Dubovskaya.
Festival's prezident – Animated film director, President of the Guild of
Animation Professionals AAKR, Member of the artistic council of the project
«Gora Samocvetov» and the "Pilot" animation studio Sergey Merinov.
Program director - film critic, member of the Union of Cinematographers Russian Federation, member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), general director of Paranoid Animation Studio Alena Sycheva.
The first international animated film festival “Animur” was held in Khabarovsk in 2022. Over the past two years, more than 20 thousand viewers watched 547 animated films from 83 countries. Over the course of two years, the festival has turned into a professional platform for meetings and exchange of experience between representatives of the Far Eastern animation industry and their colleagues from other parts of the world. The festival highly valuesinternational cooperation, cultural exchange and strengthening the ties between talented animators of the Khabarovsk Kraiand the foreign professionals in the sphere of animation art.
Based on the results of their work, the jury awards the following prizes:
• Grand Prix
• Special Jury Prize
• Prize for best directing
• Prize for the best artistic solution
• Prize for best animation
• Prize for the best sound solution
• Prize for the best student film
• Prize for the best series
• Prize of the Festival’s Management Committee
Other prizes
• Audience Choice Award (all competitions)
• Prize of the Directorate of the Festival (all competitions)