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ANIMA FEST ZAGREB Day Two

The second day at Anima Fest Zagreb was packed full of special events to go along with the numerous screenings. The festival hosted a lovely lunch for the guests at the Restaurant Dvorisce. Since there is really no central meeting place at the festival this year it was the perfect opportunity to catch up with old friends over a leisurely meal and good wine.


Following the lunch many of us took the funicular up to the old town for the opening of Portuguese filmmaker Regina Pessoa's exhibition of original studies and designs for her film Tragic Story With a Happy Ending. The exhibit was beautifully presented, showing the various steps that she went through to create her award winning film. The setting in the Campana Latrunculorum (The Bell of Theives) was equally charming. The 13th century tower is located at the site of the old city wall and the bell was rung every night to signal the closing of the city gates.

Regina Pessoa and Abi Feijo at the opening of the exhibition

There was a special evening screening of the Lotte Reiniger silent classic The Adventures of Prince Achmed with live piano accompaniment. Three screening sessions will be devoted to African animation and five screening sessions of Anima Docs, the hybrid form mixing animation and documentary. The first two parts of the International Competition were also screened. Just in case my readers don't think that I am having any fun, I was out with a group of young animators from all over the world at a bar that stayed open until 5 AM for us. More tomorrow.


late night in Zagreb with an international group of young animators