call for animated shorts: animatou festival 2024

2024 starts today! Submissions for the competitive sections of Animatou’s 19th edition are now open. Animated shorts released between January 2023 and May 2024 can be submitted on the Short Film Depot platform between now and 1st May.

Animatou was founded in 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland, to promote Swiss and international animation cinema. The Association is active all year round, proposing a wide range of events for all ages and all audiences. The highlight of the year comes in early October with the Geneva Animation Film Festival.

The Festival film programme is made up of two parts:

• The competitive sections bring together animated shorts released in the preceding two calendar years. The films are selected by a committee of animation cinema professionals.

• Out-of-competition programmes include screenings dedicated to Swiss premieres for feature films, series, student films, programmes dedicated to the edition’s country of honour, and various carte blanche or thematic programmes.