Black Sea Animation Shorts at Annecy

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ANNECY: The Black Sea Animation Shorts project presentation will take place on 12 June 2025 in the Berlioz Room at the Imperial Palace. Organised as part of the Partner Pitches at the Annecy International Animation Festival’s Market (MIFA), the event is open to all accredited badgeholders, and it will showcase five short animation projects from emerging talents across the Black Sea Region.

This is the next step in the collaborative process launched in 2024 through the Black Sea Animation Workshop, a professional development program co-organised by partners from Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. The initiative builds on a decade-long collaboration between SAQANIMA (Georgia) and the Annecy Festival through the “Animation du Monde” programme.

Georgian Animation Association (SAQANIMA) was founded in 2019 and already unites up to 100 animation professionals, animation students, artists, production and postproduction companies. SAQANIMA has been actively working towards the integration of Georgian animation in the development processes of the world animation industry; and attraction of partnerships, cooperation, and investment from around the World.

The 2024 edition of the Black Sea Animation Workshop was hosted in Tbilisi with mentoring support from Annecy’s expert network and brought together ten filmmakers from across the Black Sea Region.

Five of them were selected to present their work at Annecy:

Frescoes of Memory (Ukraine)
Directed by Alexandra Dzhiganskaya