Festival Ànima Jove (3)

Festival start: 29 November 2025      Festival end: 30 November 2025

Ànima Jove, Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges d'Animació d'Altafulla is an animation film festival, whose main objective is to create a space to disseminate the art of animation in the territory of Tarragona.

Cash Prizes: 200€

>Audience award

An audience award will be awarded for each category:

● “Ànima Infantil” Award for Children’s Competition, with an accreditation diploma.

● “Ànima Documental” Award for Documentary Competition, with an accreditation diploma.

● “Ànima Ficció” Award for Fiction Competition, with an accreditation diploma.


>Jury Award

A jury award will be awarded to a single short film, selected from among all the entries in the categories of “Ànima Infantil”, “Ànima Documental” and “Ànima Ficció”.

● “Ànima Jove” Award, with an accreditation diploma and 200€.

REGULATIONS ÀNIMA JOVE 2025
Open call from May 1 to July 31, 2025

**(Festival postponed to november, 2025)**


>Presentation

ÀNIMA JOVE, Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges d’Animació d’Altafulla is a cultural event organised by Associació Ànima Jove, which has the support of the Ajuntament d’Altafulla. The 3rd edition of the festival will take place in Altafulla (Catalonia - Spain), in November, 29-30 of 2025.

The main objective of the festival is to create a meeting space between the different agents of the sector where they can share, educate, and disseminate the art of animation, with a special focus on our territory, Tarragona.


>Registration period

From May 1 to July 31, 2025.
Once the registration has been made and communicated, the film cannot be withdrawn.


>Works and participants

● Distributors, producers, and/or filmmakers, national or international, may register a work.

● Each participant may register an unlimited number of works, as long as they meet the registration requirements.

● The work must be created frame by frame, in any technique (analog, digital, or mixed). The animated sequences must correspond to a minimum of 75% of the total duration of the film.

● The maximum duration of the film will not exceed 15 minutes.

● The works will be produced from January 1, 2023.

● Films, if selected, must be available as a screening copy in any of the following formats: HD QuickTime or mp4.


>Audience award

An audience award will be awarded for each category:

● “Ànima Infantil” Award for Children’s Competition, with an accreditation diploma.

● “Ànima Documental” Award for Documentary Competition, with an accreditation diploma.

● “Ànima Ficció” Award for Fiction Competition, with an accreditation diploma.


>Jury Award

A jury award will be awarded to a single short film, selected from among all the entries in the categories of “Ànima Infantil”, “Ànima Documental” and “Ànima Ficció”.

● “Ànima Jove” Award, with an accreditation diploma and 200€.


>Registration process

Registration is free. To participate in ÀNIMA JOVE it is necessary to register through the FESTHOME platform.


>Copyright

The festival undertakes to use the registered films exclusively for their selection and the materials of the selected films exclusively for screening during the festival and/or its satellite programs.

ÀNIMA JOVE expands its animation film diffusion activity beyond the festival dates, organizing screenings in various places. These satellite programs include the films selected in any edition of the festival and depend on the requests that promoters and cultural entities interested in organizing the festival make. The organization will always inform applicants of the inclusion of their film in these programs, as well as dates and screening sites.

The author, producer, or distributor who registers the film declares to be the owner, has acquired or made legitimate use of all the contents of the audiovisual and its copyright.

The festival is not responsible for any complaint resulting from a copyright claim for the public exhibition of films that contain protected material.

Applicants authorize the projection of their film, both in the festival and in satellite programs.


>Selection

The management of ÀNIMA JOVE will select according to the appropriate criteria. The organization will make those publicly chosen on its website on November 15, 2025.

Before that date, ÀNIMA JOVE will contact those selected, since the selected films must be sent in the optimal projection format before October 15, 2025.


>Diffusion

The images provided may be used to illustrate the different dissemination and communication materials of ÀNIMA JOVE and the satellite programs (handheld program, magazine, catalog, press, website, and other media). The organization undertakes to use the different dissemination materials only for the promotion of the film, respecting the conditions indicated in these bases.


>Sending and returning copies

Once the festival is over, the films shown will not be returned. The copies sent for registration, both those selected and those not selected, will not be returned either and will become part of the ÀNIMA JOVE database and video library, and may not be shown in public without the express authorization of the author.
Damage

The festival is not responsible for any damage caused to the copies for reasons beyond the control of the organization.


>Acceptance of the bases

Registration in the festival implies full acceptance of these rules.