Category: Retrospective

TICKETS Pannonia Studio Retrospective Way back in 2018, MIAF was granted access to the extraordinary archive of animated shorts created at Hungary’s Pannonia Studio. Formed in 1951, the studio operated throughout nearly 40 years of Hungary’s communist governance, and continued for nearly two decades more after that. This meant a lot of shorts to choose…

TICKETS The International Competition Programs are the backbone of the entire MIAF mission. Drawn from more than 2,300 submissions they showcase the best, most imaginative animating talent on the planet in a series of programs in which the only rule is diversity. This screening focuses entirely on films that centre around one very strongly defined…

TICKETS “Nuku” is Estonian for “puppet” and Nukufilm is one of the greatest fountains of imaginative, boundary-pushing puppet films in the world. No European programming trip was complete without a visit and no MIAF was complete without the latest Nukufilm offerings up on the big screen where they belong. The covid lockdowns put paid to…

TICKETS Here at MIAF, we’re not the only ones to notice it. The rise and rise of Hungarian animation is one of the subjects that comes up over and over at festivals when programmers get together to try and outsmart each other. The reasons for it may be elusive but the results speak for themselves.…