PRIMANIMA World Festival of First Animations

PRIMANIMA is a festival dedicated to up-and-coming animation filmmakers.
We accept only student and workshop films, graduation films and début animated shorts. As this year’s jury member Max Andersson, a comics artist from Sweden, noted, at Primanima we look forward to animations that are “rough and original rather than technically perfect clichés”.

The following 70 minutes long compilation will give you an idea about what we see as “rough and original” in today’s extremely diverse young animation scene. On the one hand this selection includes titles which we find visually stunning, while on the other hand these shorts either make use of the concise and parabolic as well as abstract qualities of animation form, or take personal life stories to a more universal and/or surreal level, which you will certainly find more compelling and perhaps even more tangible than reality in the end.

(Curated by Anna Ida Orosz, programming director of Primanima.)