Animest.19 Kicks Off! 10 Days of Urban Adventure and 90+ Screenings
Animest returns to Bucharest and electrifies the city from today until Sunday, October 13, in seven spaces popular among film lovers and cultural events: Cinema Elvire Popesco, Cinemateca Eforie, Instituto Cervantes, RAM (Romanian Art Movement), CINETic and Sala Luceafărul.
The 19th edition of the Animest International Animation Film Festival opens its doors on Friday, October 4, with a premiere screening in Romania of the film that won this year’s Crystal at Annecy.
Memoir of a Snail will run, starting at 19:00, at Sala Luceafărul (former Cinema Pro) and will start 10 days of unique screenings of the newest animated productions from around the world, thematic events, activities dedicated to children, meetings with special guests and even accessible film screenings.
The program of the Animest.19 – Urban Frames edition is available online at animest.ro and in the Animest app (Android & iOS).
Tickets and subscriptions can be purchased through the Eventbook platform.
Street Spirit (Fade Out), Urban Discipline, Overpass Graffiti, There Goes the Neighborhood and Street Fighting Man are the songs that make up the urban playlist of Animest.19 and name the 5 thematic short films curated by the director and selector of the festival, Mihai Mitrică , together with French journalist and film historian Alexis Hunot, also invited to Bucharest this year. In all the molds of the thematic section, viewers will travel through the most diverse urban scenarios and re-evaluate their relationship with their own city.
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