Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, organized in Krakow since 1994, is the oldest international film event in Poland confronting the achievements of art and film school students from all over the globe with the works of the authors of artistic animation including professional, student and independent filmmakers.

Among events accompanying international contest of animated films and student etudes (films made at film and art schools made during didactic process) there are: the annual award for the outstanding artist and pedagogue, Etiuda&Anima ”Top Tens” – unique sets of the best of the best animations chosen by experts, ”Animators’ Self-Portraits”, a cycle which provides the audience with unique opportunity to watch some of the best authors of various animation genres creating their film works live, or the premieres of the most interesting feature animated films from all over the world.

For the past few years the festival has also included various film workshops in: script-writing, directing, cinematography, editing and animation conducted by well-known artists and pedagogues from the world’s leading film schools.

The festival enjoys highly reputable position among world’s film events of similar type and every year is becoming more and more popular among both artists and outstanding personages of the film world, as well as viewers who come to Krakow to attend it in large numbers. Our festival team has also organized a lot of interesting film events all over the world and on other continents. We love good partnership.

The following Prizes will be awarded at the ETIUDA 2024 competition:

- Grand Prix – Golden Dinosaur and a cash prize
- Silver Dinosaur
- Bronze Dinosaur
The Jury have also the right to award three Honorary Diplomas and a Special Mention for the best film school of ETIUDA competition 2024.

The Directors of the Festival shall decide on the right and mode of awarding the Special Awards, including the FICC – Fédération Internationale des Ciné Clubs Jury Award, the Audience Award based on the audience’s voting, and the Student Jury Award. Under certain artistically justified circumstances, the Artistic Director of the Festival also reserves the right to award a “The Great Underestimated” Prize to the most undervalued film of the competition.

UPDATE (14/03/2024)

New date of 31. IFF Etiuda&Anima Competition: 22nd - 27th October 2024

§3 - change from 16th September, 2024 to 31st August, 2024
§4 - change from 7th October 7, 2024 to 15th September, 2024
§8 - change from 23rd November 23, 2024 to 26th October, 2024

Regulations of the competition of student etudes - Etiuda 2024

§1

ETIUDA festival competition allows the applicants to submit student etudes and graduate films (excluding animated films) made in film and artistic schools as parts of the didactic process between years 2022 - 2024. The films should not exceed 30 minutes in length and need to be submitted to the Festival Organization Office in the form of a digital file (mp4, mov or a link to the film available on an open-access video platform).

§2

The Festival Office shall collect the incoming competition registrations from 15th February until 30th June, 2024. Films should be submitted for the preview through FilmFreeway – www.filmfreeway.com. It is also possible to submit a film by completing a registration form at www.etiudaandanima.pl and sending a public or private link (with or without password) to the film (e.g. Vimeo, Youtube, etc.) with no expiration date and no territorial limits. Films without filled-in online entry form will not be accepted. Festival does not charge any fee for the submitting of the film.

§3

The decision whether the film shall be accepted into the competition will be made by the Artistic Director of the Festival when the Selection Committee finish their work. The applicants will be informed about their films being accepted into the competition via email and on www.etiudaandanima.pl until 31st August, 2024.

§4

Authors whose films are accepted into the competition are obliged to deliver to the Festival Organizers, at their own expense, the screening copies of their films in the following formats: DCP or a link to a digital file (DCP, mov, mp4) until 15th September, 2024. Failure to deliver a screening copy of a film before the deadline will result in withdrawing it from the competition. Authors whose films are accepted into the competition are also obliged to deliver a film summary and a dialogue list in English, promotional materials including screenshots, and the director’s bio and photograph until the same date.

§5

The competition films are evaluated – foremostly on the basis of the artistic criteria – by the international Jury, headed by the Chairman of the Jury, selected by Festival Directors from among the members of the Jury. The Jury work and make decisions in accordance with the Jury Proceedings Regulations formulated by the Chairman of the Jury with the consent of the other members of the Jury and the Festival Directors. The Secretary of the Jury, who is appointed by the Directors of the Festival, facilitates the proceedings of the Jury.

§6

The following Prizes will be awarded at the ETIUDA 2024 competition:

Grand Prix – Golden Dinosaur and a cash prize
Silver Dinosaur
Bronze Dinosaur
The Jury have also the right to award three Honorary Diplomas and a Special Mention for the best film school of ETIUDA competition 2024.

§7

The Directors of the Festival shall decide on the right and mode of awarding the Special Awards, including the FICC – Fédération Internationale des Ciné Clubs Jury Award, the Audience Award based on the audience’s voting, and the Student Jury Award. Under certain artistically justified circumstances, the Artistic Director of the Festival also reserves the right to award a “The Great Underestimated” Prize to the most undervalued film of the competition.

§8

The official verdict of the Jury will be announced on 26th October, 2024, at the official closing ceremony of the festival during which all prizes will be awarded. Should the winners be absent from the ceremony, the awards will be sent by post or handed over to them in a different manner within a month after the end of the Festival.

§9

The Festival Office deems itself responsible to conform to all the rules concerning the exploitation of the films accepted into the competition.

§10

The submission of the film for the Festival competition is equivalent to the agreement for:

three screenings of the film during the Festival and – if the given film is awarded a prize – screenings at the “Travelling Etiuda&Anima 2024” event, which is organized throughout Poland and abroad and presents the prizewinning films of the Festival.
the Festival organizers have the right to use, free of charge, promotional materials and parts of the film (a trailer or 2-minute part of the film) in any promotional activities connected with the organization of the Festival.
§11

All transportation costs as well as any other shipment costs of the film copies submitted to competition shall be covered by the applicants, who are also responsible for paying all customs costs outside Poland. Applicants are obliged to observe customs regulations related to film transport. A pro forma invoice amounting to max. EUR 15 should be attached to all non-EU film shipments. Packages should be provided with the following sentence “For cultural purposes only – no commercial value”.

§12

DCP copies shall be returned at the Organizer’s expense within 4 weeks from the closing date of the Festival to the address specified by the applicant. A notice should be given to the Festival Organizers about any changes in the return address not later than one week before the commencement. The Organizer is not responsible for damages resulting from giving a wrong address. The Festival is obliged to return the film copy in a condition not worse than due to a standard use. The Organizer of the Festival shall assume financial liability for the submitted film copies, for the duration of the event in question, up to the amount specified in the entry form.

Kraków, 15th February 2023

Directors of the 31st IFF Etiuda&Anima 2024

Katarzyna Surmacz
Bogusław Zmudziński

Overall Rating
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  • Yoo Lee

    Thank you for making The Nectar Instead part of your lineup this year. The communication was excellent and your warm invite to the festival was much appreciated although I couldn't attend in person. Thank you again!

    December 2023
  • Christoph Büttner

    Great Festival in Krakaow besides KFF offering a broad line up and excellent festival communication. As the winner of the Special Golden Jabberwocky 2022 (In His Mercy) I can tell: the statuettes are just beautiful! Thank you, dear Jury!

    January 2023
  • Yuan Haitao

    I got FICC special mention, thanks,

    December 2022
  • Gisela Chicolino

    This festival is really a necessary one. Please keep working on generating this exquisite and outstanding programming for the audiences. Thank you for selecting us and we are very delighted for being awarded!

    December 2022
  • Ozan Mermer

    We showed had our short film REINA in competition and won a SPECIAL MENTION. The festival is very carefully curated festival with high quality films. Despite the pandemic they found a very good and professional way to do Q&A. The Q&A itself was entertaining and well done. The staff maintains a fast and good communication via mail.

    February 2022