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The international film competition covers short, student, commissioned and immersive work (VR, AR and 360° films) under 30 minutes, and a separate international competition is held for feature films. MAF is on the Academy's list of qualifying festivals for the Short Films awards through its Short Film award. The Industry Excellence Awards recognise individual people for scriptwriting, storyboarding, character design and character animation on commissioned productions. Screenings sit alongside masterclasses, talks, workshops and a family day, while the Animation Nation Forum is a business-to-business conference for the animation industry held next to the festival. The 2026 edition runs in Manchester on 8–12 November 2026, with selected short film programmes and recorded events online in the UK from 13 to 30 November 2026.",[20,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41],{"year":21,"hasAwards":22,"hasSelection":22},"2025",true,{"year":24,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2024",{"year":26,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2023",{"year":28,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2022",{"year":30,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2021",{"year":32,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2020",{"year":34,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2019",{"year":36,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2018",{"year":38,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2017",{"year":40,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2016",{"year":42,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":22},"2015",[],[45],{"key":46,"title":9,"filmIds":47},"more",[48,49,50,51,52],13456,12776,13293,37582,37586,[48,49,50,51,52],[55,64,72,80,88],{"entryId":48,"urlTitle":56,"status":7,"title":57,"synopsis":58,"duration":59,"hasFullFilm":22,"hasTrailer":22,"image":60,"directors":61,"series":15},"cold-coffee-stephanie-lansaque-francois-leroy","Cold Coffee","Saigon, Vietnam. 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