Anima, the international animation festival, will take place February 20-29, 2009 at Flagey, Brussels in Belgium. Anima, Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival, seeks to promote cartoons and animated films from all over the world. It also seeks to foster a dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public, and to raise awareness of quality animation among film and television distributors. The Festival is organizing an international competition as well as a national competition for films produced in Belgium; both competition are open to all animated films and make no distinction between formats or techniques, regardless of its geographic origin. Official categories: Short-film, Student film, Music videos and Commercials, Feature-film, Feature-film for children, Belgian shorts. There is no registration fee.

Deadline is 15 October 2008. Visit the site to learn more.