ANIMATION FESTIVAL 20.–23.5.2021 HELSINKI

Animatricks 2021 celebrates women in animation!

This year's festival themes are women directors and freedom of speech. Animation industry as film industry in general has been for long dominated by male directors. This has changed slowly in recent years and now a days more and more short animations are directed by great women.

Animatricks festival will be held in Helsinki 20 - 23.5.2021. Depending on the current restrictions festival will be held online or as a hybrid festival with both online and onsite screening. Nevertheless, in May we will celebrate the amazing art of animations!

MASTERCLASS: KATARIINA LILLQVIST

15.3.2021

Animatricks has an honor to have a Masterclass of one of the most iconic and awarded Finnish animation director Katariina Lillqvist. Katariina Lillqvist is well known of her puppet animations. Lillqvist studied and worked many years in Czech Republic with…

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MASTERCLASS: NANCY DENNEY-PHELPS

15.3.2021

One of Animatricks 2021 Masterclass lecturer will be journalist and animation specialist Nancy Denney-Phelps. Denney-Phelps has written multiple articles about animation and animation festivals and she's one of the journalist of Animation World Network website. Hence she is very well…

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ANIMATRICKS COMES BACK ON MAY

13.1.2021

This year's Animatricks Animation Festival will be held in Helsinki 20.-23.5. At the moment we are looking for entries to our competition categories. Deadline for the submission is 31.1.2021.We will keep you informed about the program and festival details closer…

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