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Jakub Spevák & Ema Nemčovičová: Fest Anča wants to highlight spark of hope!
Anča is officially an adult — whoo-hoo, 18 years old! Eighteen years flew by in a blink! Your favorite festival is celebrating its birthday, and it wouldn’t be the same without you. Yes, Czechs and Slovaks understand each other perfectly — but we want to keep things open to everyone. So, we’ve put together this English-friendly podcast! We met online to dive deep into the festival itself — the ideas behind its famously juicy themes, this year’s selection, and the specific films you’ll find in the program. We also explored the state of Slovak animation and how current politics might be shaping it. And finally: Is the world of animation changing? Are its topics evolving? And can a short animated film really shift someone’s perspective in just five minutes? Tune in and find out!
„The authors of short films are becoming more intimate — not only with themselves, but also with us as the audience. There are so many films that feel like they’re speaking straight from the bottom of my soul.“
MENTIONED IN PODCAST
Fest Anča / Student Forum / New Synagogue / Stanica Žilina - Záriečie / Ivana Sujová / LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival / Ivan Li: Drizzle in Johnson (2023) / Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel: Exploding Girl (2024) / Daniel Sterlin-Altman: Carottica (2024) / Naomi Noir: Mother’s Child (2025) / Seunghyun Si: Number 32. Giant Fish (2024) / Re:Anima / Tata Managadze: Lights, Haze (2024) / Julie Černá: Stone of Destiny (2025) / Ariel Victor Arthanto: I Am A Flower (2024) / UMPRUM / EKA / Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF / MOME / Lodz Film School / FAMU / La Poudrière / RCA / LUCA School of Art / Universidade Lusófona / Aalto University / Kōji Yamamura / Sasha Svirsky / Yoriko Mizushiri / Amanda Bonaiuto / Anu-Laura Tuttelberg / Michèle Lemieux: The Painting (2024) / pinscreen / Corrie Francis Parks, Daniel Nuderscher: SKRFF (2024) / Ted Wiggin: MIMT (2024) / Junjie Xu: Hide and Seek (2024) / Matúš Vizár: Free the Chickens (2024) / VŠMU / David Súkup, Jean-Claude Rozec, Leon Vidmar, Patrik Pašš: Tales from the Magic Garden (2025) / Niko Mynarčík: Werewolf (2023) / Generation Z / Fond na podporu umenia / Raman Djafari: Elton John & Dua Lipa (2021) / Coldplay: feelslikeimfallinginlove (2024) / Aneta Ozorek / Sara Koppel / Sawako Kabuki / Lea Vidaković / João Gonzalez / Aurelia Aasa / Tzor Edery / Martin Smatana / Extremely Short Section of Extremely Short Films/ Anča in Mordor / Anča in Wonderland
Fest Anča (Juraj Starovecký)
