Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival

Het internationaal animatiefilmfestival van Brussel

Also known as: Le Festival International du Film d’Animation de Bruxelles
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2026
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Award for Best Animated Feature

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Zaven Najjar
Allah Is Not Obliged
One moment you’re playing in the streets of Guinea; next, you’re a child soldier. On his way to his aunt in Liberia,…

Award for Best Animated Feature for Children

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David Súkup and 3 co-directors
Tales from the Magic Garden
Three kids spend the night at their grandpa's house. To fill the silence after losing their grandma, the family's…

Special Mention – Animated Feature Competition

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Yuan Shui
Nobody
Yu Shui’s feature debut (an expanded episode from the popular series Yao-Chinese Folktales, 2023) broke Chinese box…

Audience Award for Best Animated Feature

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Zaven Najjar
Allah Is Not Obliged
One moment you’re playing in the streets of Guinea; next, you’re a child soldier. On his way to his aunt in Liberia,…

Audience Award for Best Animated Feature for Children

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Adrián García Pascalín
The Treasure of Barracuda
Captain Barracuda is obsessed with finding the treasure of Phineas Crane — the most valuable treasure in the…

BE TV Award for Best Animated Feature of the Official Selection

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Kim Bo-Sol
The Square
Isak Borg, first secretary of the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang, is secretly dating Bok-joo, a local traffic officer. One…

Mouv CinéTeens Award for Best Animated Feature of the Official Competition

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Zaven Najjar
Allah Is Not Obliged
One moment you’re playing in the streets of Guinea; next, you’re a child soldier. On his way to his aunt in Liberia,…

Mouv CinéTeens Special Mention

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Alberto Vázquez
Decorado
Arnold, a middle-aged mouse who challenges everything, from the ruling corporation that governs his society to the giant…

Grand Prix for Best International Short Film

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Agnès Patron
To the Woods
Sister remembers that Brother had dark eyes, hair like her own, shoulders as fragile as a bird's wings, and that he knew…

Special Jury Award – International Short Film Competition

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Michael Granberry
Les Bêtes
A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his…

Award for Best Student Short Film – International Competition

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Masataka Kihara
Q
In the middle of the night, on a mountain road, a man was struck down in a motorcycle accident. This was the cue.

Award for Best Short Film for Children

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Éric Montchaud
I Found a Box
Guy comes across something unexpected while flying through the forest: a discarded box. But a dropped box can be used in…

Audience Award for Best Short Film

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Oscar Jacobson
The Undying Pain of Existence
A nude model is posing with statuesque stillness for an elite drawing class — until an unfortunate mosquito bite…

Audience Award for Best Animated Night Short Film

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Robinson Van Hoof
Cowboys
Excerpt from the short film COWBOYS (pilot), directed by Robinson Van Hoof in 2024 as part of the Bachelor 3 at the…

Audience Award for Best Short Film for Children

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Elena Walf
Lena's Farm: Full Nest
The squirrel's nest is warmly padded for the cold winter with all kinds of stolen goods. But then a flood breaks out and…

Press Award for Best Short Film

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Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked…

Award for Best Belgian Short Film

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Sylwia Szkiladz
Autokar
8-year-old Agata's journey from Poland to Belgium in the 1990s transforms the reality of migration into an imaginative…

Grand Prix for Best Short Film of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

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Mathieu Georis, Théo Hanosset
La Petite Reine blanche
Plunged into the warm darkness of a summer night, the streetlights of Ottignies illuminate cars floating in the air. The…

Author Award

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Nicolas Fong
Hugs
Join us aboard the luggage rack of my bicycle to enjoy a sensory roller coaster as it passes through a territory full of…

Award for Best Animation

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Rémi Durin
The Great Dreamscape
As the school show is about to begin and the applause of the audience resounds, the Child does not dare to join his…

Award for Best Student Short Film – National Competition

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Camille Britte
The Casting
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BE TV Award

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Bruno Tondeur
Like a Beast
After yet another billionaire’s trip to space, after Winter Olympics held in the middle of a desert, we were sure of…

Cinergie Award

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Gwenaëlle de Ville
Charli & the Wolf
After a series of depressing events, Charli wishes to stop feeling emotions and decides to go live a mundane life in the…