Animaphix New Contemporary Languages Film Festival (Animaphix Nuovi Linguaggi Contemporanei Film Festival)

Animaphix New Contemporary Languages Film Festival

Animaphix Nuovi Linguaggi Contemporanei Film Festival

Also known as: Animaphix International Animated Film Festival
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Animaphix New Contemporary Languages Film Festival takes place at Villa Cattolica – Museo Guttuso in Bagheria, Sicily, with evening screenings in the Arena Guttuso. Conceived by Rosalba Colla and organised by the cultural association QB, founded in 2015, the festival promotes the art and culture of animated cinema in Sicily and seeks collaborations and co-productions with other European countries.

Its competition favours authorial and experimental work and accepts films of any genre and technique up to 20 minutes long, with separate Kids and GoGreen selections. Around the competition, the festival presents retrospectives, special screenings, exhibitions and video installations, as well as Animaphix Memorie Audiovisive, a project with schools. The dates of the 2026 edition are 3–9 August 2026.

Country

Italy

Focus

Animation

Categories

Animation, Experimental, Short

Awards and prizes

For the 2026 edition, the international jury awards Best Animated Painting, Best AniDoc, the Giannalberto Bendazzi Award for the best Italian film in the National section, and Best Experimental Film. The Grand Prix for Best International Film is chosen across these four competition sections. The Pescatore di Suoni Award recognises the best sound design among competition films. Spectators select the Audience Award, while a youth jury drawn from the Animaphix Memorie Audiovisive workshops chooses its favourite film. The festival also presents the Renato Guttuso Award, conferred by the Archivi Guttuso in Rome for artistic work connecting animation and the visual arts.

Festival rules

The 2026 call accepts films completed on or after 1 January 2024, with a maximum running time of 20 minutes including credits. Films may use any technique, medium, genre or language, and there are no restrictions on subject matter. Entry is free and is made through FilmFreeway. The festival selection committee may make exceptions to the production-year and running-time limits. Selected films require an original-language screening file, with English subtitles supplied separately when the original language is not English. Delivery includes a DCP and an additional digital copy in 1080p MP4 or MOV using H.264, together with an English synopsis, director biography, film stills, director photograph and a trailer or extract; posters and press kits are supplied when available. Rights holders authorise festival screenings, promotional extracts of up to 50 seconds and subsequent Best of Animaphix screenings. Submitted films become part of the festival archive.

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