THINK SOMETHING NICE in London
London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2023), the UK’s largest and longest - running international animation festival.
LIAF will be running from Friday November 24 to Sunday December 3 and we will be screening the best of the world’s most recent animated shorts alongside several specialised programmes and retrospectives.
THINK SOMETHING NICE is selected out of more than 2,400 films viewed by our programmers.
The international competition programmes consist of 9 themed screenings featuring the best 100 short films produced in the last 18 months. THINK SOMETHING NICE has been chosen to screen in the competition programme titled ‘Playing with Emotion’.
www.liaf.org.uk.
THINK SOMETHING NICE in Odense
Denmark premiere: OFF - Odense International Film Festival will take place from August 28 to September 2. “Think something nice” has been selected among a total of 4129 films submitted to OFF23.
Think something nice will be part of the official OFF23 competition programme consisting of a total of 129 short films from all around the world and compete for our coveted prizes and a chance to qualify for an Oscar at the Academy Awards and the European Film Awards (if eligible).
filmfestival.dk
THINK SOMETHING NICE in Palm Springs
The Palm Springs International ShortFest will take place from June 20-26, 2023. ShortFest is one of the largest showcases of short-form cinema in North America. The seven-day competitive festival is Academy Award, BAFTA and Goya-qualifying, annually screening hundreds of shorts from approximately 60 countries. ShortFest accepts submissions up to 40 minutes in duration, in the form of both fiction and non-fiction shorts. Categories include Animation, Documentary, and Live-Action.
ShortFest 2023
THINK SOMETHING NICE in Krakow
Polish premiere: The 63rd Krakow Film Festival is dedicated to documentary and short films. For over 60 years of existence, its goal is promotion of artistic cinema. The festival offers a diverse competition programme complemented by a whole range of accompanying events, such as retrospectives, thematic series, concerts, and KFF Industry addressed for film professionals. It is one of the very few festivals which qualify the films both, for Oscar and EFA selection in the documentary, animated, and short fiction category. The 63rd KFF will be held from 28 May to 4 June in cinemas.
krakowfilmfestival
THINK SOMETHING NICE in Vienna
Austria premiere: VIENNA SHORTS will take place from June 1 to 6, 2023. The festival presents short cinematic forms in the cinema and online. VIENNA SHORTS is a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards® (Oscars), the European Film Awards (EFA), the British BAFTA Awards, and the Austrian Film Awards, and awards prize money of approximately EUR 25,000 annually. Prizes are awarded in all competitions by independent juries.
viennashorts
THINK SOMETHING NICE in Aspen
North America premiere: Aspen Shortfets, USA, April 10 -16, 2023
Aspen Shortsfest is an Oscar®-qualifying film festival recognized as one of the premier short film festivals in North America. Each April enthusiastic audiences, filmmakers and special guests from around the globe gather to participate in public screenings, panels, workshops, and other festivities that spotlight the art and craft of short moviemaking.
aspenfilm
FILMTOUR
THINK SOMETHING NICE an der Kurzfilmnacht Tour 2023:
Die lange Nacht des kurzen Films auf Tour. Am 14. April startet die Kurzfilmnacht ihre Tour im kult.kino atelier in Basel, danach geht es weiter in 11 Deutschschweizer Städte. Neben aktuellen Kurzfilmen aus der Schweiz und aller Welt präsentiert die Kurzfilmnacht- Tour in
jeder Stadt eine lokale Premiere von Filmschaffenden aus der Region.
kurzfilmnacht
Die Kurzfilmnacht zieht auch durch die Romandie und durchs Tessin. Mehr Infos
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FILMFESTIVALS 2022/23
National premiere:
• 26th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Swiss competition. 8.11.22 - 13.11.22.
Kurzfilmtage
International premiere:
• Zinebi
63rd Bilbao Int. Festival of Documentary and Short Films
animated short film competition. Spain, 11.11.22. - 18.11.22.
zinebi
• 11st Rome Independent Film Festival
Animated short film competition. Italy, 17.11.22 - 25.11.22.
riff
• 58. Solothurner Filmtage
Animated short film competition. CH, 18.01.23 - 25.01.23.
Filmtage
• 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam
Educational programme. Nederlande, 25.01.23 - 5.02.23
IFFR
• 24th Ismailia Int. Festival for Documentaries and Shorts Animation competition section. Egypt, 14.03.23 - 20.03.2023
Ismailia
• Kaboom
Animation Festival. Int. competition. Nederlande, 24.03.23 - 02.04.23
kaboom
• Aspen Shortfest
Short film competition. USA,10.04.23 -16.04.23.
aspenfilm
• 46. Int Grenzland - Filmtage
Short film competition. Selb · Aš · Regensburg, Germany & Czech Republic, 13.04.23 -16.04.23.
grenzlandfilmtage
• 35 Filmfest Dresden
Open air. Germany, 18.04.23 - 23.04.23
filmfest-dresden
• Visioni Fantastiche film festival
International Competition, conceived for middle and high school students. Italia, Ravenna, 03.05.23 -13.05.23
visionifantastiche
• Animatricks
International Animation Festival, International Competition.
Helsinki, Finland. 18.05.23 - 20.05.23
animatricks
• Fastnet Film Festival
Competition. Schull, Ireland 24.05.23 - 28.05.23
fastnet
• Videoex Festivals 2023
25. Ausgabe, CH - Wettbewerb. Switzerland 25.05.23 - 04.06.23 videoex
• 63rd Krakow Film Festival
International Short Competition. Poland, 28.05.23 - 04.06.23 krakowfilmfestival
• VIENNA SHORTS
International com. Animation Avantgarde.Austria, 01.06.23 - 6.06.23
viennashorts
• Filmfest Emden - Norderney
33. Internationalen Filmfest, THINK SOMETHING NICE nominiert für den „Ostfriesischen Kurzfilmpreis. Emden, Germany 09.06. -11.06.23
Emden-Norderney
• 14th Golden Cooker
International Animation Film Festival. International Competition.
Sofia, Bulgaria, 07.06.23 - 11.06.23
animationfest
• 20th In the Palace
Competition animation. Bulgaria, 10.06.23 - 17.06.23
palace
• Figari
Int. Short Film Fest. Int. Competition. Italia, 26.06.23 - 01.07.23
Figari
• XI Insomnia
International Open-Air Animation Film Festival, International Competition. Russia, 26.06.23 - 02.07.23
Insomnia
• 24th Fantosfreak
Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges Fantàstics i Freaks
Competition. Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, 17.07.23 - 21.07.23
fantosfreak
• La Guarimba
International Film Festival, Piccoli Competition. Amantea, Calabria, Italy, 07.08 -12.08.23
laguarimba
• OFF23
OFF - Odense International Film Festival, Animation Competition. Denmark, 28.08.23 - 02.09.23
filmfestival.dk
• SHORTS MEXICO 18
Festival International de Cortometrajes de México. Int. animation competition. Mexico, 01.09.23 - 30.09.23
shortsmexico
• FANTOCHE
International Animation Film Festival, swiss competiton. Baden, Switzerland, 05.09.23 - 10.09.23
fantoche
• 7th Chaniartoon 2023
International Comic & Animation Festival, International Competition. Chania of Greece, 01.09.23 - 24.09.23.
chaniartoon
• MINIKINO FILM WEEK 9
Bali International Short Film Festival, International Competition. Indonesia, 15.09.23 - 23.09.23
minikino
• ANIMANIMA
Film Festival, International Competition. Serbia,19.09.23 - 23.09.23 animanima
• ITFF 2023
20th International Thai Film Festival 2023. International Competition, Art & Culture Centre Bangkok, Thailand, 21.09.23 - 22.09.23
thaifilmfestival
• EIFF
Edmonton International Film Festival, International Competition.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 21.09.23 -1O.10.23
edmontonfilmfest
• Viborg Animation Festival
International Competition. Denmark, 25.09.23 - 01.10.23
viborg
• 15th Weird Market
International Animation, International Competition, Video Games and New Media Market and Festival. Valencia, Spain, 26.09.23 - 01.10.23
weirdmarket
• Edinburgh Short Film Festival
International Competition. Great Britain, 26.09.23 - 5.10.23
edinburghshortfilmfestival
• 10° Torino Underground Cinefest
Int. Competition. Torino, Piedmont, Italy, 22.09.23 - 01.10.23
tucfest
• Animatou
International Animation Film Festival, International and Swiss Competition. Geneva, Switzerland, 05.10.23 - 14.10.23
animatou
• ANIMALAB
20th Sedicicorto Forlì International Film Festival. International Competition. Forlì, Italia, 07.10.23 - 15.10. 23
sedicicorto
• VIDEOMEDEJA
27th International New Media Art Festival. KS Svilara, Novi Sad, Serbia, 12.10.23 - 14.10.23
videomedeja
• 49th FILMETS
Badalona Film Festival, International Competition. Barcelona Spain, 20.10.23 - 29.10.23
festivalfilmets
• Skepto
Int. Film Festival, Competition. Cagliari, Italy, 26.10.23 - 28.10.23
skepto.
• CRAFT
International Animation Festival, International Competition. Malang, East Java, Indonesia, 23.10.23 - 28.10.23
craftanimfest
• Beirut
International Children and Family Film Festival
live screenings around the films topics and other related issues in an edutaining environment. October and November 2023.
bicaffilmfestival
• ISFFC 2023
International Short Film Festival Canton, Competition Programme. Canton, Guangzhou, China, 2.11.23 – 4.11.23
festival-canton
• TIAF
6th International Animation Festival, Experimental and Abstract - Competition. Tbilisi, Georgia, 2.11.23 - 5.11.23
tbilisianimationfestival
• AJAYU
International Animation Festival. International Competition, Peru 04.11.23 - 08.11.23
ajayufest
• Interfilm
39th International Short Film Festival Berlin / KUKI, 16th Young Short Film Festival Berlin. Germany, 14.11.23 - 19.11.23
interfilm
• exground filmfest
Wiesbadener Kinofestival e.V. International Short Film Competition. Jury award, in Wiesbaden, Germany, 17.11.23 - 26.11.23
exground
• Festival Scope
Digital Video Library for Exground Festival Scope Pro.
Festival Scope Pro
• International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
International Competition. Rialto Theatre, Cyrus, 07.11.23 - 13.11.23
isffc
TOFUZI
18th International animated film festival, Experimental Animated Film Competition. Batumi, Georgia, 13.11.23- 18.11.23
adf.ge
• Lublin Film Festival
Competition Programme. Lublin, Poland, 17.11.23 -- 25.11.23.
lff.lublin
• Etiuda&Anima
30th International Film Festival, Anima Competiton, Etiuda&Anima. Krakow, Poland, 21.11.23 - 26.11.23
etiudaandanima
• Future Film Festival
Competition. Bologna & Modena, Italia 24.11.23 - 26.11.23
www.futurefilmfestival.it
• LIAF 2023
London International Animation Festival. International Competition. London UK, 24.11.23 - 03.11.23
liaf
• Animateka
Eastern, Central European (Main) Competition Programme. Ljubljana, Slovenija, 27.11.23 - 03.12.23
animateka
• LES NUITS MAGIQUES
Compétition de courts métrages du festival du film d'animation. France, Bègles, 29.11.23 - 10.12.23
lesnuitsmagiques
• Oslo Film Festival
Competition Programme. Oslo, Norway, 15.12.23 -16.12.23
oslofilmfest