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Anim’est is getting ready to start in Cluj-Napoca
During October 28 and 30th, at Victoria Cinema in Cluj-Napoca, takes place the traditional follow-up of the most important animation film festival in Romania, Anim’est. For the first time, the festival’s program contains an ample section, dedicated to the young audience: from Friday until Sunday, at Victoria Cinema are screened, starting 9am, respectively 11am, free entrance, short and feature films for children, parents and grandparents. Catch the sheep!, the first smartphone app especially developed by a film festival in Romania, will be available for the Anim’est fans in Cluj-Napoca: some virtual 3D sheep scores are spread across the city, awaiting to be found by the festival’s lovers and will bring the luckiest ones some t-shirts and bags.
Anim’est Cluj-Napoca starts on Friday, October 28th, 9am, with Ma Petite Planète Chérie, a series of children’s animation films, created by Jacques-Rémy Girard. The films offer a sensible and practical touch about the environmental issues. It’s an open program for all children and can be seen as a fun family film. The projection is animated by Nagy Boglárka, responsible for the audio-visuals at the French Cultural Centre in Cluj.
Dedicated not only to the young and very young audiences, is the 11 am projection, the whodunit A Cat in Paris / Une Vie de Chat, one of the most awarded animation feature films of the year, starring Dino, a cat leading a double life. By day, he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a police officer. By night, he works with Nico, a burglar with a big heart. Zoe has plunged herself into silence following her father's murder at the hands of gangster Costa. One night, Zoe decides to follow Dino. On the way, she overhears some gangsters and discovers that her nanny is part of the gangsters' team.
From 6pm, Victoria Cinema becomes the host of the first short film block in the Mosaic section, reserved for productions that created a stir in the film critique and projections within international festivals. Among the discussed short films is Flamingo Pride, the production that gathered the audience’s most votes at Anim’est in Bucharest, gaining the Audience Award. The second hit animations series can be followed from 10pm, within the Mosaic 2 section.
Paprika, by Satoshi Kon, one of the “sacred monsters” of anime, who was gone in 2010 and received homage from the 2011 Anim’est through a retrospective section, is going to be screened on Friday, 8pm, Victoria Cinema. An action story by Satoshi Kon, about a group of brilliant scientists who have developed a form of psychotherapy inventing a machine which enables a person to enter another one's dreams. When the device is stolen by a "dream terrorist”, it is up to Atsuko Chiba, a scientist under the code name Paprika, to track down the apparatus and save the world from madness.
The tickets for projections at Anim’est Cluj can be purchased at Victoria Cinema, from Friday, October 28th. The price of one ticket is 8 lei.
The tickets’ value for pupils, students and boarders is of 5 lei.
The children’s projections within the Minimest section (Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning- 9am and 11 am) have a free entrance.
The Anim’est International Animation Film Festival, a member of the Pan-European Cartoon Network took place between October 7-16 in Bucharest and will have a follow-up between October 28-30 2011, at Victoria Cinema in Cluj-Napoca.