The awards winners of the The World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb 2023.
The Grand Competition Short Film
Grand Prix
(Award for best short film of the festival)
Oneluv
Director: Varya Yakovleva
Golden Zagreb
(Award for creativity and innovative artistic achievement)
Zlatko Grgić
(Award for the best first film made outside an educational institution)
Mr. M
(Audience Award)
Scale
(France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Belgium)
Director: Joseph Pierce
A Kind of Testament
(France)
Director: Stephen Vuillemin
Ice Merchants
(Portugal, France, United Kingdom)
Director: João Gonzalez
[Juries’ Special Mentions]
- Compound eyes of tropical (Taiwan) directed by Zhang Xu Zhan
- Mariupol. a hundred nights (Ukraine, Germany) directed by Sofiia Melnyk
- The world’s after (France) directed by Florentina Gonzalez
- The garden of heart (Hungary, Slovakia) directed by Olivér Hegyi
- Our pain (Japan) directed by Shunsaku Hayashi
The Grand Competition Feature Film
Grand Prix
(Award for best short film of the festival)
Mr. M
(Audience Award)
My love affair with marriage
(Latvia, United States, Luxembourg)
Director: Signe Baumane
Unicorn wars
(Spain, France)
Director: Alberto Vázquez
[Juries’ Special Mentions]
- White Plastic Sky (Hungary, Slovakia) directed by Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó
Student Film Competition
Dušan Vukotić
(Award for best student film)
Croatian Film Competition
Best Croatian Film
Above the clouds
(Hungary)
Director: Vivien Hárshegyi
[Juries’ Special Mentions]
- Sewing love (Japan) directed by Xu Yuan
- Fur (United States) directed Zhen Li
Eeva
(Estonia, Croatia)
Directors: Lucija Mrzljak and Morten Tšinakov
[Juries’ Special mentions]
- Her dress for the final (Croatia) directed by Martina Meštrović
Films for Children Competition
Best film for Children
VR Animation Award
Best VR Animation
Socks for the star
Director: Olga Titova
[Juries’ Special mention]
- Let’s roll (France) directed by Camille Flinois, Philip Gonçalves, Yann Laurent, Louis Lukasik, Chloé Musa, Annabelle Tamic, and Alexandre Terrier
All unsaved progress will be lost
(France)
Director: Mélanie Courtinat
[Juries’ Special Mention]
- From the main square (Germany) directed by Pedro Harres