ANIMATEKA

Animateka, a week-long international festival of animated film, takes place every year in Ljubljana’s Kinodvor and Slovenska kinoteka. Beginning on the first Monday in December, it focuses primarily on the latest production of East and Central European short films. It also includes a wide range of special programs, which offer the audiences an insight into the beginnings and the development of animation, and present them with a short overview of the best contemporary animations on a worldwide scale.

The festival annually hosts many authors and authorities in animation, both domestic and international, which has made it an important crossroads of experiences, ideas and opinions, as well as a creative environment and a hotbed of new projects. This dynamic atmosphere, however, never fails to reach the audiences, who visit every new edition of Animateka in greater numbers. Their number neared a round 10,000 in 2010, which was also due to the expansion of the festival to the Kino Udarnik in Maribor.

Animateka is a competitive festival, focussing mainly on the role of the author. Each year the international jury has selected and awarded the best contributing author, with the Audience Award becoming a festival fixture in 2005. Short animated films compete in the main Competition Program, the European Student Animated Film Competition Program, and the Elephant International Competition Programme for Children. One of the most popular regular features at Animateka is also Best of the World.

Animateka has been traditionally dedicating a great portion of the festival program to specialized retrospectives (presenting stop-motion, avant-garde and experimental animated films, the relationship between animation, music and sound) and to a focus on the animated production of a selected nation (Finland, Yugoslavia, Poland, Spain, Germany).

Realizing the importance of introducing the younger generations to animated films, Animateka always pays special attention to children. To this end, we have created the Elephant program, which focuses on young audiences, and includes year-round animation workshops (these are free of charge during the festival). The Elephant’s projections, an exciting experience for the entire family, are usually scheduled for the festival weekend.

Although revolving around films, Animateka strives to bring animation closer to the audiences through lectures, conversations with authors and diversely themed panels. The festival’s accompanying program also offers art exhibitions and audiovisual events, as well as the already traditional “wrap-up parties” at the end of every festival day.

Since 2008, Animateka has been organizing AnimaWeb, a competition of computer-made short animations viewable online and on mobile phones. We wish to inspire young aspiring artists to take on animation, and boost the production of animated film in Eastern and Central Europe.

After the festival’s conclusion, Animateka goes on the road. Animateka After Animateka, the program featuring the winning short animations from the Central and Eastern European Short Animated Film Competition Programme, visits youth centres, arts centres and cinemas all over Slovenia. As the festival itself, Animateka After Animateka is complemented with an accompanying program including animation workshops, a lecture and an audiovisual concert.

Festival Timetable 2011

Kinodvor, Ljubljana

Monday, 5 December

16:00 The Elephant/KUL Subscription: Animated Minds
18:00 Family Elephant I: Animated Feature Film A Cat in Paris
21:00 Festival opening
21.30 Opening Night Premiere Animated Feature Film Chico & Rita
23.00 Bosnian Flat Dog Exhibition Opening

Tuesday, 6 December

10:00 The Elephant in Competition I: for children aged 4 to 7
11:00 Working Breakfast On Spanish Animated Film
13:00 Regional Festivals: K3 International Short Film Festival
15:00 Cartoon East 2011
17:00 Jury Programme Max Andersson: World Premiere of the Feature Film Tito on Ice
19:00 Competition Programme I
21:00 Cartoon d'Or 2011
23:00 Premiere Animated Feature Film Metropia

Wednesday, 7 December

10:00 The Elephant in Competition II: for children aged 7 to 10
11:00 Working Breakfast Slovenian Day
12:30 Meet the Filmmakers
13:00 European Animation Schools: ESDIP Madrid
15:00 European Student Competition Programme I
17:00 Jury Programme Marcel Jean: Sing Along the NFB
19:00 Competition Programme II
21:00 Best of the World I
23:00 Premiere Animated Feature Film The Illusionist

Thursday, 8 December

10:00 The Elephant in Competition III: for children aged 10 to 14
11:00 Working Breakfast: Pierre Yves Drapeau’s Sound and Music for Films
12:30 Meet the Filmmakers
13:00 Eastern and Central European Panorama I
15:00 European Student Competition Programme II
17:00 Jury Programme Carolina López Caballero: Focus on Spain III
19:00 Competition Programme III
21:00 Best of the World II
23:00 Reprise: Metropia

Friday, 9 December

10:00 The Elephant in Competition IV: for youth over 14
11:00 Working Breakfast: Edouard Salier's Animated Videos
12:30 Meet the Filmmakers
13:00 Eastern and Central European Panorama II
15:00 European Student Competition Programme III
17:00 Jury Programme Andy Glynne: Animated Minds
19:00 Competition Programme IV
21:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective Edouard Salier
23:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective Pierre Yves Drapeau’s Sound and Music for Films

Saturday, 10 December

10:00 Family Elephant II: Pre-Premiere: Animated Feature Film Eleanor's Secret
11:00 Working Breakfast: Composer Serge Besset
12:30 Meet the Filmmakers
13:00 Family Elephant I: A Cat in Paris
15:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Love Songs
17:00 Jury Programme Vuk Jevremović: Retrospective
19:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective VI
21:30 Closing Awards Ceremony
23:00 Audiovisual concert Animated ŠKM banda

Sunday, 11 December

11:00 Family Elephant II: Eleanor's Secret
13:00 The Elephant Panorama
15:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Feature Film The Ugly Duckling
17:00 Cartoon d'Or 2011
19:00 Reprise: Chico & Rita
21:00 Animateka 2011 Awarded Films
23:00 Best of the World I, II

Slovenska Kinoteka / Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana

Monday, 5 December

17:00 Round Table: Animated Film, Music, Sound
19:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective I
21:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Feature Film The Triplets of Belleville

Tuesday, 6 December

11.00 Competition Programme IV
17:00 Focus on Spain I
19:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Feature Film Allegro non troppo
21:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective II
23:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective III

Wednesday, 7 December

11:00 Competition Programme III
17:00 Focus on Spain II
19:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Love Songs
21:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective IV
23:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective V

Thursday, 8 December

11:00 Competition Programme II
17:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Pierre Yves Drapeau’s Sound and Music for Films
19:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Film Studio Poznan Animated Shorts on Classical Music
21:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Sing Along the NFB

Friday, 9 December

11.00 Competition Programme I
17:00 Focus on Spain IV
19:00 Reprise: Tito on Ice
21:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Allegro non troppo
23:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Clip, Klapp, Bum

Saturday, 10 December

11:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Feature Film The Ugly Duckling
15:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Film & Jazz (lecture by Milen Alempijević)
17:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Film & Jazz
19:00 Reprise: The Illusionist
21:30 Animateka 2011 Awarded Films

Sunday, 11 December

13:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective I
15:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective II
17:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective III
19:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective IV
21:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective V

Kino Udarnik / Cinema Udarnik, Maribor

Friday, 2 December

18:00 Family Elephant II: Animated Feature Film Eleanor's Secret

Saturday, 10 December

18:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Feature Film The Triplets of Belleville

Monday, 12 December

16:00 The Elephant: Animated Minds
17:00 KOYAA Exhibition Opening (lobby, Udarnik Cinema)
18:00 Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Feature Film The Ugly Duckling
20:00 Opening Night Premiere Animated Feature Film Chico & Rita

Tuesday, 13 December

10:00 The Elephant in Competition I: for children aged 4 to 7
18:00 European Student Competition Programme I
20:00 Focus on Spain

Wednesday, 14 December

10:00 The Elephant in Competition II: for children aged 7 to 10
15:00 Little Elephant: Mini
18:00 European Student Competition Programme II
20:00 Best of the World I

Thursday, 15 December

10:00 The Elephant in Competition III: for children aged 10 to 14
15:00 Little Elephant: Midi
18:00 European Student Competition Programme III
20:00 International Film Festival Stoptrik presentation
22:00 Regional Festivals: K3 International Short Film Festival

Friday, 16 December

10:00 The Elephant in Competition IV: for youth over 14
15:00 Little Elephant: Maxi
17:00 Cartoon East 2011
19:00 Best of the World II
21:00 Premiere Animated Feature Film Metropia
23:00 Music-Image, Animated Music Video Night (Gustaf, Pekarna)

Saturday, 17 December

12:00 The Elephant: The Best of VAFI festival
17:00 Family Elephant I: Animated Feature Film A Cat in Paris
19:00 Closing Awards Ceremony and Projection of Awarded Films
21:00 Audivisual Concert Animated ŠKM banda
23:00 Closing Party (Gustaf, Pekarna)

Sunday, 18 December

18:00 Premiere Animated Feature Film The Illusionist
20:00 Cartoon d'Or 2011

Kinodvor


Directions
Address and place of your departure point (point A)
and destination point, Kolodvorska 13, Ljubljana (point B)