Between July 28-30, the Animest film caravan stops at Câmpulung Muscel. The public is invited at the festival with a program of films and cine-concert, especially curated for the whole family. There is free entry to all festival activities.
The festival opens on Friday with an outdoor screening at the Câmpulung Town Hall Square and continues over the weekend with outdoor and indoor screenings and an original cine-concert performed by the Sebastian Burneci Trio. Trumpeter and soloist of the Radio Big Band and graduate of the Prince Claus Conservatoire in the Netherlands, Sebastian Burneci is an active member of several international jazz projects. The trio will perform animated Norwegian stories to original music composed and performed live for the enjoyment of the audience.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY JULY 28
21:00, Câmpulung Town Hall Square
Cats Don't Dance (USA 1997, 75 min., directed by Mark Dindal; Dialogues in English, subtitles in Romanian; Recommended age: 6 years+)
Danny, an ambitious and talented cat, wants to conquer Hollywood with moves like Fred Astaire, but he faces a lot of obstacles.
*Film nominated for OSCAR and awarded at numerous festivals dedicated to children's films
SATURDAY JULY 29
12:00, Dinicu Golescu National College Amphitheater
Titina (Norway-Belgium 2022, 90 min., directed by Kajsa Næss; Dialogues in Norwegian, subtitles in Romanian; Recommended age: 6 years+)
*Selected in the competition of major animation and children's film festivals: Gothenburg IFF 2022, Mon Premier Festival Paris 2022, Tromsø IFF 2023, New York CFF 2023.
An adventurous expedition to the North Pole, in which the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and the Italian aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile are accompanied by the dog Titina.
14:00, Dinicu Golescu National College Amphitheater
Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (Canada-France 2022, 72 min., directed by Marya Zarif and André Kadi; Dialogues in French, subtitles in Romanian; Recommended age: 6 years+)
With only a few black cumin seeds in her palm, but helped by a princess and encouraged by her family, little Dounia leaves Aleppo in a hurry to find a new place to call home.
20:30, Câmpulung City Hall Square
The Mysteries of the North (50 min)
Norwegian stories animated to original music composed and performed live by the Sebastian Burneci Trio.
21:30, Câmpulung Town Hall Square
Ernest and Célestine (France-Belgium-Luxembourg 2012, 80 min., directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner; Dialogues in French, subtitles in Romanian; Recommended age: 6 years+)
The story of the impossible friendship between a grumpy bear who dreams of becoming an artist and a mouse who refuses to become a dentist.
SUNDAY JULY 30
11:00, Dinicu Golescu National College Amphitheater
Perlimps (Brazil 2022, 80 min., directed by Alê Abreu; Dialogues in Portuguese, subtitles in Romanian; Recommended age: 6 years+)
*Awarded at the International Animation Festival in Ottawa, Canada and nominated at the International Children's Animation Festival in Chicago, USA
Lost in the Enchanted Forest, two secret agents join forces to save the mysterious Perlimps from some creepy giants.
14:00, Dinicu Golescu National College Amphitheater
My father's secrets (France-Belgium 2022, 74 min., directed by Véra Belmont; Dialogues in French, subtitles in Romanian; Recommended age: 9 years+)
Two boys with a happy childhood want to know what their always silent father is hiding. He learns that he was not a pirate, nor a treasure hunter, but the sole survivor of a concentration camp.
*Selected in the competition of major animation and children's film festivals: Annecy IFF 2022, Cinekid Amsterdam CFF 2022
21:00, Câmpulung Town Hall Square
A Trip to Gibberitia (France-Luxembourg 2022, 80 min., directed by Julien Chheng, Jean-Christophe Roger; Dialogues in French, subtitles in Romanian; Recommended age: 6 years+)
*Award winning film at the New York International Children's Film Festival
Ernest the bear and Célestine the mouse travel to Ernest's country, where the best musicians in the world live, but where music has been banned by law.
Partners: Câmpulung Town Hall, Tudor Mușatescu House of Culture
The ANIMEST+ project meets the urgent needs of the Romanian animation industry, young animators, future educated cinephiles, and communities lacking in film culture. The project is run by ANIMEST Association in partnership with Kool Produktion. Throughout 2023 the project proposes a series of acitivities: education through culture in rural areas of Romania, a summer school for highschool students, itinerant cinema in Romanian cities and a conference dedicated to professionals and young people interested in the film industry. The total budget of the project is 979.185,85 lei (199.066,02 euro), out of which 952.781,52 lei (193.698,09 euro) is the value of the non-reimbursable financial support.
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