“ReAnimania” 11th International Festival of Animation Films and Painting Art will be held this year on October 24-29.

The opening ceremony of the festival will take place on October 24 at the “Moscow” cinema. Special guests of the festival will also participate in the ceremony. Films will also be shown in other areas.

This year, the film festival received more than 350 full-length and short animated films from around the world, from which more than 100 will compete in the festival’s five main categories. In particular, feature and short films from USA, UK, Russia, France, Germany, Spain and other countries are presented.
A jury made up of professional experts from abroad and Armenia will consider them and at the end of the festival will award prizes in different categories.

A special program dedicated to the 95th anniversaries of artist, Honored Artist of the ASSR, director Valentin Podpomogov and the 90th anniversaries of Armenian film director, screenwriter, Honored Art Worker of the ASSR Arman Manaryan will be held within the framework of the festival.

Within the framework of the festival, as in previous years, master classes and seminars will be held.

This year, master classes will be held by Roger Kupelian (USA), the visual effects manager of the film “The Lord of the Rings”, Hugh Welshman (Poland), the director of the film “Love, Vincent”, executive director of the European Animation Awards, famous producer Jean-Paul Comin (France), experts in the field, producer Ron Dines (France), producer, author of the painting book, screenwriter, director Koryunikyan (France), artist, illustrator Dan Goldman (USA), painter and animation film art director Gevorg Murad (USA), director-animator Natalya Mirzoyan (Russia), director Arup Devividi (India), animator, illustrator Zorika Geta (Germany) and producer Alan Grangerard (France)

By the way, you will notice a red round symbol in all printed materials of this year’s “Reanimania” festival, including the poster. The festival included it in memory of the burning of the Kyoto Animation company building, which took place on July 18 of this year. An unidentified 41-year-old man poured gasoline inside the office and on employees, killing 35 people. It was the largest post-war mass killing in Japan. This step of the festival is a tribute to the memory of our colleagues who became the innocent victims of this accident.