Best of REX Animation Festival 2024

Najboljše s Festivala animacije REX 2024

Thursday, 25. 9. 2025 at 10.30 / Vetrinj mansion, big hall

Četrtek, 25. 9. 2025 ob 10.30 / Vetrinjski dvor, velika dvorana

Programme curated and introduced by Petrit Gora ( REX Artistic Director)

Program je kuriral in ga bo predstavil Petrit Gora ( REX umetniški direktor).

Vsebinske opombe

Vojna in vojni zločini

Content notes

War and war crimes

This is the Best of REX Animation Festival program, a collection of six short films that won awards or special mentions at our last festival. We've gathered some of the best animated films made in 2023 and 2024. These films were chosen by our jury and voted on by the audience. The program includes I died in Irpin (Ukraine), which won the award for Best European Film, and Weeds (Czechia), which received a Jury Special Mention. The jury also awarded Meteoria (Sweden) for Best Swedish Student Film and gave a Special Mention to Bus Ladies. The Best Nordic Film award went to Flower Show (Finland), while the audience of the festival voted for Zima Poland, giving it the Audience Award.
Petrit Gora was born in 1990 in the capital city of Kosovo, Pristina. He studied Graphic Design in the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Pristina. Raised in the city of Peja. In 2010 he joined Anibar Animation Festival as a volunteer, mostly by helping with the logistics of the festival and around the Cinema “Jusuf Gervalla”. In 2014 he became one of the film selectors and programmers of Anibar. Later In 2016, he was named as the Art Director of the Anibar and led the festival artistically for 7 years as he continues to do so. From May 2022 Petrit was named as the Artistic Director of REX Animation Festival in Stockholm which is one of the first film festivals in Sweden dedicated purely to animated films. Besides the festivals, Petrit led many stop motion workshops, lectures and presentations. He gave the first lessons at the Anibar Animation Academy, which now have developed and is preparing the fifth generation of young animators in Kosovo. Petrit was also a mural painter and a political graffiti artist. Currently he lives in Uppsala, Sweden.
REX, Stockholm, Sweden
14. – 20. 11. 2025

I died in Irpin / Ja pomerla v Irpenì (Я померла в Ірпені) / Umrla sem v Irpinu
Anastasiia Falileieva (MAUR film, Artichoke, Plastic Bag Films)
2024, Ukraine, Czechia, Slovakia, 11'

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