The Animattikon Project

The Animattikon Project is a festival celebrating the art of animated film in all its aspects. Along with projections of animated films, it offers a series of animation workshops, organized by animators from all over the world. The Animattikon Project takes place in the town of Paphos, Cyprus. It takes its name after the Attikon Cinema, a historical theater, dating from 1938. As the second oldest cinema in Paphos, the Attikon cinema is one of the few points of reference that all generations of people of Paphos share. Along with the workshops, the Animattikon Project proposes exhibitions, lectures, conferences and performances around the art of animation. It aims at presenting Animation as a true and complete form of art, in all its levels and at giving access to its techniques and secrets to the wide public. It started as a project of the European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017 and is now an annual event having a double function: a venue for animators to show their work and an opportunity for the public to learn in depth the art of animation. What's new for the 2021 edition: The 2020 edition of the festival was cancelled due the restrictions imposed in order to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. We are now planning our return in 2021. Films selected for the 2020 edition will participate, be screened and considered for the 2021 Golden Hat Awards. We are opening a call for new films, in order to be able to showcase films produced during this year. The submission deadline is on the 31st of July 2021. A special category concerning the subject of the pandemic is added, in order to showcase films created during the pandemic and which tackle the issues raised by the pandemic (illness, pandemics, social and psychological issues arising from the long period of uncertainty, fear and confinement etc). These films don't have to necessarily be about the specific pandemic of COVID-19. We are looking for films dealing with the subject of illness, confinement, death, fear and hope. This category is called "Animation in Times of Plague" and is destined to complement the publication of a volume of articles concerning the same subjects (and which bears the same title).