Best National Animation 2021 award has been awarded to The Last Matador by Katariina Lillqvist (2021). The Judge of National Competition, Estonian director Ülo Pikkov says; The best film for wonderful design and for broadening the boundaries of animation with…
The jury of this year’s festival is composed of experienced professionals from the field of animation. An Award Ceremony for the best films in their respective categories will be held on Sunday May 23 at 2 PM (Finnish time, UTC…
Animatricks has a great joy to have animation director Chintis Lundgren as online guest. Estonian-born, currently in Croatia living Lundgren is well-known of her quirky music videos and diverse short films featuring distinct anathropomorphic characters. Her award-winning short animations Life…
Animatricks has a great honor to have in addition to this year’s Masterclass series a lecture from Austrian animation director and media-artist Reinhold Bidner. Bidner is working in fields of animation, media art and games. Currently Reinhold lives in Vienna…
This year we received great number of submission, over 700 amazing animations. Thaank you all! But as always, we are able to screen only some of them. So here are Animatricks 2021 Official Selections; National Competition Freeze frame, Soetkin Verstegen…
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…
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…
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…
