On October 1, the official closing ceremony of LINOLEUM, 12th international festival of topical animation and media arts, took place. The general partner of the festival was Dovzhenko Center.
In 2017, LINOLEUM festival received over 2,000 films during two months of open call. The competition program of the festival presented 250 short animated films from 20 countries. Among them there were winners and participants of high-profile international animation festivals in Annecy, Melbourne, Ottawa, Venice, Berlin, and others. For the first time the national competition was presented in a separate program with 18 films, out of which five were music videos.
Except screenings, festival guests had a packed educational program prepared, and for the youngest visitors a children’s zone was organized for the first time during all four days of the festival: children created their own cartoons together with animator and jury member Sashko Danylenko, painted the main character of the animation feature film "Mavka. The Forest Song" on the Wacom festival partner's tablet, visited a presentation of AR-coloring book from Glowberry production, and girls could drop by a special zone of The Stolen Princess: Ruslan and Lyudmila animated film and have their hair braided exactly the way Mila has it in the cartoon.
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LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (from English line and Latin oleum 'oil') is the biggest display of original animation in Ukraine. Apart from national and international competition programmes, the festival offers workshops and lectures held by the field's best players, screenings of experimental animation and video art, topical out-of-competition screenings, and a programme for children. Our main aim is to prove that animation is not merely a tool to entertain kids but a form of contemporary art in which technological innovations—with the involvement of intellectual audience—tackle modern societal issues. The festival is organised by Animagrad.
