🔸🔴SUBMISSION PERIOD🔴🔸
January 1 – May 29, 2026 (for Masters category)
January 1 – June 20, 2026 (for all the other categories)
Please read the Competition Rules & Regulations, and the description of the categories carefully: https://shorturl.at/fhRIF
🔻🟨ELIGIBILITY 🟨🔻
_your submission should be an animated film, meaning that it is produced frame-by-frame using various techniques other than live-action or animation mixed with live-action
_it should be completed after January 1st, 2024
_it should be no longer than 30 minutes
_it should have English subtitles included if the film has dialogues
_your submission should be eligible for one of the following categories:
🔹STUDENT FILM
your first step in animated short film directing, produced at a high school, various workshops, university education, or any other training programme as a student including DIY productions (the director should be older than 15 years old)
🔹GRADUATION FILM
your BA, MA, or DLA school-leaving short film
🔹FIRST FILM
your first animated short film production made without an educational background
🔹CHILDREN’S FILM
films suitable for children (aged 3–12) submitted for any of the enlisted categories can also be selected by the programmers for the Children's Films Competition category. You can also submit your film directly to Children's Films Competition category.
🔹PRIMATEEN FILMS
films suitable for teenagers (aged 13–18) submitted for any of the enlisted categories can also be selected by the programmers for the PrimaTeen Competition category. You can also submit your film directly to PrimaTeen Competition category.
🔹MASTERS COMPETITION
category for established filmmakers, all films are eligible which do not fit in the categories above; directors who previously competed in our festival and they are not first-time filmmakers anymore are encouraged to submit their films to this category; if you are teaching animation in an institution, please note it in your bio
🔻🔺🔷SUBMISSION🔷🔺🔻
If your film matches all the above mentioned requirements, please do the following!
Submit your film through FilmFreeway!
Send your film for pre-jurying by providing a video streaming link (Vimeo, Youtube, Google Drive or Dropbox).
Please also submit the following information to make sure we have an easier job when we are working with the catalogue information:
*the country of origin
*school/production company name
*short synopsis
*detailed credits
🔹🔸🔶TERMS AND CONDITIONS🔶🔹🔸
By submitting your film to Primanima you confirm that you own the rights of the film or you acquired full permission to submit, and you agree to the followings:
(1) The public screening(s) of your film(s) during the festival.
(2) The use of photographic material or other documents related to films entered to the festival solely within the framework of the festival and its promotion in the media.
You can optionally agree with the followings:
(1) the use of excerpts of maximum of 3 minutes or 10% of running time for publicity purposes of Primanima
(2) additional screenings of your film(s) in the follow-up events of Primanima promoting and circulating the festival results (e.g. screening of award-winning films); for any additional use of your film(s) besides the above cases the festival organizers will request a written permission from the filmmaker or producer
◾️▪️🟡SELECTION🟡▪️◾️
The official selection will be announced in August 2026.
Films will be selected by the festival’s pre-selection jury.
The chosen films will make up Primanima’s official selection in the following categories:
Young Directors Competition🔹
with three main subcategories (Student Films, Graduation Films, First Films)
Masters Competition🔹
Children’s Film Competition🔹
PrimaTeen Film Competition🔹
Silhouettes Competition🔹
There will be no verbal or written critique given on films submitted. Notifications will be sent to those competitors, whose films have been selected for the competition by August 19th. We will not notify those competitors whose film was not selected to participate in the competition.
◽️◼️◽️◼️SCREENING FILES◽️◼️◽️◼️
If your film is selected to Primanima (either competition or out-of-competition programme), you should send us the screening copy and additional materials of the film:
Only high-quality digital video files are accepted as a screening copy (format: Quicktime ProRes 422 or Quicktime H.264 Dimensions: 1920 × 1080 or higher).
Subtitles: in the case of films with dialogue, please make sure that the film has no hardsub and attach a time-coded .srt or a dialogue list in .txt or .pdf format separately for translation purposes in English. HQ videos can be sent by Wetransfer / Dropbox / as downloadable Vimeo files
The screening copy must arrive by 22nd August, 2026.
🟨▫️JURIES▫️🟨
Primanima’s organizing staff will decide on the composition of the international juries made up of 3 members. No jury member must be in any way involved in the production or distribution of competition films.
🔺🔻ORGANIZERS & PATRONAGE🔻🔺
Primanima World Festival of First Animations is organized by Animaprima Ltd. and Manifeszt-Asifa Hungary (Professional Association of Hungarian Artists of Animated Films).
For further information please get in contact with us!
tamas.partrovits@babter.eu (festival director)
primanima.festival@babter.eu (general)
