Anima Brussels 2025 Announce Feature Films in Competition
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The Anima team has carefully curated a selection of films that deserve your full attention. Discover our feature film competition now! And this is just a glimpse, the rest of the program will be revealed on February 4, 2025.
Get ready to dive into unique worlds, brimming with emotion, and experience stories as original as they are unforgettable. The best of animated cinema is right here!
Join us from February 28 to March 9 at Flagey, Marni, and Cinematek.
GHOST CAT ANZU
Karin, aged 11, is abandoned by her parents and left with her grandfather, a monk in a small provincial Japanese town. He asks Anzu, his cheerful and helpful (if rather temperamental) ghost cat, to look after her. When these two headstrong characters meet, sparks fly. A Franco-Japanese production, full of fun and magic!
PELIKAN BLUE
With the opening of Hungary’s borders in 1990, travel finally becomes possible again, although prices remain exorbitant. Determined to discover Western Europe, three young people rig up some fake international train tickets. Will their scheme work? A film full of suspense, the portrait of an era and its rebellious young generation, hungry for freedom.
RULE OF THE HEART
In a faraway kingdom, a king is preparing to marry off his daughter, Princess Alda. But one evening, she meets a stranger who gives her a rather surprising gift: a heart … Shaken by this encounter and the new feelings it produces, she decides to run away from the palace and discover the truth: why don’t the people of the kingdom have hearts?
A BOAT IN THE GARDEN
In the 1950s, 11-year-old François watches his parents build a sailboat in their garden, inspired by Joshua Slocum. This project, carried out with his adoptive father nicknamed Slocum, accompanies him from adolescence to adulthood and feeds his passion for the sea and drawing, leaving him with a tender view of his childhood and family.
THE COLORS WITHIN
Totsuko can see other people as colours. Kimi has quit school and is afraid to tell her grandmother. Rui dreams of becoming a musician, despite pressure from his family to become a doctor. Together, they decide to form a band … Will they find their true colours? The new film by Naoko Yamada, director of A Silent Voice.
TOTTO-CHAN: THE LITTLE GIRL AT THE WINDOW
Totto-Chan is an unusual little girl, bursting with life. Her parents decide to enroll her at Tomoe, an unique school which prioritizes independence and creativity. As Japan descends into war, she discovers that the small experiences in life are more meaningful than her school lessons.
MEET THE FEATURE FILM JURY
The jury for this edition brings together three prominent figures in animation: Christophe Jankovic, director, accomplished producer, and co-founder of Golem&Linea Films; Mascha Halberstad, stop motion specialist whose feature film Oink was selected for the Berlinale; and Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo, Lyon-based director and choreographer, nominated for a César for Make it Soul.