Preparations are well underway for the 47th edition of Cinanima — Portugal’s prestigious, Oscar-qualifying animation festival — which today announced that a record 130 films have been selected to screen across its national and international short and feature film competition tracks. Ninety-eight works from 33 countries (including six feature films) will run in the international competitions (22 hours of films), with France (13 films), the United Kingdom (eight) and Israel (seven) being most represented.
The Grand Prize winner of the international short film competition at Cinanima automatically qualifies for the Academy Awards longlist for Best Animated Short Film.
International Competitions:
- Short Films: 57
- Feature Films: 6
- Student Films: 35
The António Gaio Award and the Young Portuguese Filmmaker Award (which is divided into films made by children under 18 years of age and first films made by youngsters aged between 18 and 30), will present 32 films as part of the National Competition. This is an increase compared to the 31 works screened in 2022, and it represents around four hours of Portuguese production.
In fact, this year’s edition marks the introduction of a second session for the António Gaio Award competition — a mark of the increasing quality of Portuguese animation production.
Portuguese Competitions:
- António Gaio (Short Films): 13
- Young Portuguese Director, ages 18-30 (Short Films): 9
- Young Portuguese Director, under 18 (Short Films): 10
The selections for the international feature films and Oscar-qualifying short film competition are listed below. See the complete selection roster at cinanima.pt.
Feature Films
- Nina and the Hedgehog’s Secret • Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli – France
- A Greyhound of a Girl • Enzo d’Alô – Luxembourg
- Four Souls of Coyote / Kojot Négy Lelke • Áron Gauder – Hungary
- Kensuke’s Kingdom • Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry – United Kingdom
- Robot Dreams • Pablo Berger – Spain
- Gonta: The Story of the Two-Named Dog in the Fukushima Disaster • Akio Nishizawa – Japan
Short Films
- Trace • Asparuh Petrov – Bulgaria
- Island • Michael Faus – Israel
- War Is Over • Dave Mulles – U.S.A.
- Rosemary A.D. (After Dad) • Ethan Barrett – U.S.A.
- Depersonalization • Spartak Yordanov – Bulgaria
- The House to Keep Time • Joana Imaginário – Portugal
- Madeleine • Raquel Sancinetti – Canada
- Teacups • Alec Green, Finbar Watson – Australia
- Pickles • Miri Dochikian – Israel
- Skinned • Joachim Hérissé – France
- Our Uniform • Yegane Moghaddam – Iran
- I’m Fine Mum • Jose Manuel Palenzuel – Spain
- Roped • Carmen Córdoba González – Spain
- Cold Soup • Marta Monteiro – Portugal
- Look • Nuno Amorim – Portugal
- Maurice’s Bar • Tzor Edery-Mordekovich, Tom Prezman – France
- Sit Down, Don’t Touch Anything • Frederic Siegl – Switzerland
- Lost at Sea • Andrés Alejandro Bartos Amory, Lucija Stojevic – Spain
- Our Pain • Shunsaku Hayashi – Japan
- Her Dress for the Final • Martina Mestrovic – Croatia
- Winking Out • Juliette Mauduit – Belgium
- The Marrons Glacés • Delphine Hermans, Michel Vandam – Belgium
- Telsche • Sophie Colfer, Ala Nunu – Poland, Saudi Arabia and Portugal
- Love Me True • Inés Sedan – France
- La Vitualla • Santiago Pousada – Colombia
- Family Portrait • Lea Vidakovic – Croatia
- Me and Me • Chiu Ling Chen – Taiwan
- Feather • Sadegh Javadi – Iran
- Cornucopia • Ani Antonova, Dimiter Ovtcharov – Australia
- Camino • Arevik d’Or – Belgium
- Two One Two • Shira Avni – Canada
- Hands Down! • Fred Philibert – France
- Nurit • Shini Tal – Israel
- Green Grass • Élise Augarten – France
- Dog Days • George Hampshire – Netherlands
- PINA • Jeremy Depuydt, Giuseppe Accardo – Belgium
- Botanica Exotica • Sofia Laszlovszky – Hungary
- Pink Mountain • Thomas Kunstler – Greece
- Deadline • Idan Gilboa – Israel
- Green Feet on Concrete • Max Leighton – United Kingdom
- Manimondo • Michele Tozzi – Italy
- Monk Seshin • Roytaro Miyajima – Japan
- An End to War Enough • Simone Massi – Italy
- The Aglonquin Bridge • Txesco Montalt – Canada
- The Rubbings of Trajectories • Cheng Chung – Taiwan
- The Garden of Heart • Oliver Hegyi – Hungary
- Cricket • Natalia Ryss – Israel
- My Dear Son • Lilian Fu – Hong Kong
- The Boy and the Crow • Tudor Om – Romenia
- Chasing Birds • Una Lorenzen – Canada
- The Cactus • Ricardo Kump – Brazil
- Chicken • Anna Benner – Germany
- The Long Legged Man • Vitor Hugo Rocha – Portugal
- Morning Shadows • Rita Curchinho Neves – Portugal
- Sweet Like Lemons • Jenny Jokela – United Kingdom
- Tomato Kitchen • Junyi Xiao – China
- Skins • Argentina Mazzarulli – Italy
Cinanima23 will be held November 13-19 in Espinho, Portugal. Find more information at cinanima.pt.
