Neum Animated Film Festival
Also known as: NAFF
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Neum Animated Film Festival (NAFF) combines an international short animation competition with practical workshops where children learn animation techniques and make their own cartoons. Based in Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the festival focuses on animation education and creative exchange between young people from the country and their peers abroad.
The programme includes professional and student films, with recognition for animation techniques, music and visual art. The festival’s published participation rules accept animated films up to 15 minutes long and invite selected filmmakers to join the event and contribute to work with children.
Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Categories
Animation
Awards and prizes
The published 2024 awards list includes the Grand Prix; best 2D animation; best 3D animation; best plasticine or puppet animation; best music; best student film; best art; and the Dušan Vukotić Award.
Festival rules
The published 2024 regulations accept animated films up to 15 minutes long, produced within the preceding three years. Each author may submit up to three films. Films promoting racism or pornography are excluded. Submissions require a film file, a completed and signed entry form, a director biography and photograph, and film stills. Films with dialogue or commentary from outside the former Yugoslavia require English subtitles. Selected films screen in their original version. The festival offers accommodation for one representative of each selected film; travel costs remain the author’s responsibility.
Contacts
- naff.ba
- sanja.rajic-banjac@tel.net.ba — Festival submissions and organisation (published 2024 regulations)
- naff.neum@gmail.com — Festival general contact
- +387 63 350 149 — Festival office
- Agava 8, 88390 Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Festival office
- filmmakers.festhome.com — Festival submissions and published regulations
- filmfreeway.com — Festival submissions and published regulations
- facebook.com — Official Facebook page
- instagram.com — Official Instagram page