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The national Czech Horizon competition presents Czech short and feature films, student work, series, music videos and commissioned work. The winner of the international Best Short Film award qualifies for the Academy Awards, and Czech Horizon winners can be nominated for the European Animation Awards (Emile Awards). The festival traces its history to AniFest, held in Třeboň from 2002. Anifilm has been organised since 2010 by the Citizens’ Association for the Support of Animated Film (OSPAF); after AniFest ended in 2013, the two teams merged, and since 2020 the festival has taken place in Liberec. Its industry programme includes the Czech Horizon Grant pitching forum, the CEE Animation Market and the Game Pitch Arena. 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Czech works may enter both.\n\nEligibility:\n- Films must be completed after 1 January 2026 or not premiered before that date; videogames must be officially released after 1 January 2026 and before May 2027.\n- More than 50% of the work must be animation; any technique is allowed, but the use of AI must be stated and specified.\n- The work must not have competed at Anifilm in any previous year.\n- One work can compete in only one international competition category.\n- Feature film categories are for films longer than 60 minutes; Short Film and Student Film are for films of 59 minutes or less. Student works must be made by a team mostly of students at an educational institution, as part of a course or study programme; the student or the school may submit.\n\nSubmission:\n- Through the online submission form on Eventival; the call runs from 1 September to 31 December 2026.\n- Films: a downloadable screener (Full HD or similar, up to 6000 kB\u002Fs); streaming-only links may be rejected. Videogames: promo codes or download links in the form.\n- Selected works are chosen by the festival selection committee; submitters are informed during February 2027 and the selection is published by the end of February 2027.\n\nSelected works:\n- Screening copies (DCP preferred, Full HD file or 35 mm print, plus a back-up Full HD file) must arrive by 31 March 2027.\n- Competition films are screened in the original language with English subtitles, except English-language works and music videos.\n- The submitter covers transport of the screening copy to the festival; the festival insures the copy while it holds it.\n- Submission confirms that all rights, including music rights, are cleared, and grants one screening within Echoes of Anifilm in Prague in the two weeks after the festival.\n- Competing videogames are presented in the Anifilm Game Zone.\n- Works selected for Czech Horizon (except music videos, series and commissioned works) are deposited with the Czech National Film Archive.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.anifilm.cz\u002Fen\u002F",[119,123,126,130,133,136],{"type":120,"value":121,"note":122},"Email","info@anifilm.cz","General festival contact (OSPAF)",{"type":120,"value":124,"note":125},"program@anifilm.cz","Programme department",{"type":127,"value":128,"note":129},"Website","https:\u002F\u002Fvp.eventival.com\u002Fanifilm\u002F2027","Film and videogame submissions",{"type":120,"value":131,"note":132},"vojtech.spevak@anifilm.cz","Submissions and screening copies (programme coordinator)",{"type":120,"value":134,"note":135},"zuzana.kucerova@anifilm.cz","Industry programme",{"type":137,"value":138,"note":139},"Address","OSPAF, Slezská 134, 130 00 Praha 3 – Vinohrady, Czech Republic","Festival office (contact address)",1791978297]