Festival's Type:
Original Children’s / Young People’s Film Festivals
Film Festivals with section for Children’s / Young People’s Films
Awards allocatedCountry:
Original Children’s / Young People’s Film Festival
- "Zero Plus" International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Tyumen & Tobolsk Cities (Siberia)
- AniFest ROZAFA– International Film Festival for Children, for Teenagers and from Students, Shkoder
- Animateka International Animation Film Festival, Ljubljana * Maribor
- Athens International Children's Film Festival, Athens
- Belmont World Film: Family Film Festival, Cambridge, Belmont, and Arlington
- Bielefelder Kinder- und Jugendfilmfest, Bielefeld
- BIKY – Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival, Busan
- BKFF - Bucharest Kids Film Festival, Bucharest
- BUFF Filmfestival, Malmö
- Cactus International Children's & Youth Film Festival, Aosta
- Cartoon Movie, Bordeaux, France
- Castellinaria Festival del cinema giovane, Bellinzona
- Children Film Festival - Cine Junior, Val-de-Marne and Île-de-France
- Children Kinofest, 20 cities in Ukraine
- Children's Film Academy: Cinemira – Budapest International Children’s Film Festival, Budapest
- Children's Film Festival Seattle, Seattle
- China International Children's Film Festival, Guangzhou City
- Cine-Jeune – Festival International de Cinéma, Braine, Saint Quentin & Department of Aisne
- Cinedu – IFF For Children and Youth, Nove mesto nad Vahom and Bratislava
- Cinekid - International Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children and Young People, Amsterdam
- Doxs! - Documentaries for Children and Young People / Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg
- Dresdner Kinderfilmfest Kinolino, Dresden
- Dubrovnik Film Festival – European Childrens Film Festival, Dubrovnik
- Dytiatko - Int. Children's Media Festival, Kharkiv
- Festival du Cinema Jeune Public, Lausanne
- Festival Internacional de Cine Infantil de Valencia, Valencia
- Filem'On – Brussels Children's Film Festival, Brussels & Ghent
- Freeze Frame – International Film Festival for Kids of All Ages, Winnipeg MB R3B 1G7
- Galway Film Fleadh / Junior Film Fleadh, Galway
- GaztefilmFest, Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Giffoni Film Festival, Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno
- Goldener Spatz, Deutsches Kinder-Medien-Festival at Erfurt & Gera, Erfurt & Gera
- IFI Family Festival, Dublin
- IndieJunior Allianz, Porto
- Int. Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam IDFA, Amsterdam
- International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Yerevan, Armenia
- International Film Festival for Children and Youth Ojo de Pescado, Valparaíso
- International Film Festival Kinotrip – By the Youth, for the Youth, Ljubljana
- International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino!, Poznan
- JEF – Europees Jeugdfilmfestival Vlaanderen, Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Courtrai, Strombeek-bever
- Junges Filmfestival Köln Cinepaenz, Cologne
- JuniorFest - International Festival for Children and Youth, Plzen, Dobrany, Horsovsky Tyn, Prestice, Domazlice, Czech Republic
- Kekec Int’l Festival in Kranjska Gora, Kranjska Gora
- KiKiFe Kinderkinofest Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwaebisch Gmuend
- KinderDocs – International Documentary Festival for Children and Young People, Athens and Thessaloniki
- KinderFilmFest Münster, Münster
- Kinderfilmtage im Ruhrgebiet; Essen, Mülheim, Oberhausen, Essen, Mülheim, Oberhausen
- KinderKinoFest Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf
- KINEKO International Film Festival, Tokyo
- Kinolub Int. Film Festival for Children and Youth, Rzeszow and other cities in Southern Poland
- Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival (KICFF), Kristiansand
- La Matatena Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños, Ciudad de México
- Leeds Young Film Festival, Leeds
- Let's Dok Festival of Documentary Films for a Young Audience, Warsaw
- Lucas – Int. Festival for Young Film Lovers, Frankfurt/M.
- MICE - Mostra International Cinema Educatu Madrid, Madrid
- Mon Premier Festival, Paris
- Monstrale, Halle/Saale
- Montreal International Children's Film Festival (FIFEM), Montréal (Québec)
- My First Festival – El Meu Primer Festival, Barcelona and Madrid
- Nelson Mandela Children’s Film Festival, Johannesburg
- New York International Children's Film Festival, New York
- Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Pyrgos and Amaliada
- Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Oulu
- Piccolo Grande Cinema, Milano
- Plein la Bobine – Sancy Film Festival for Young People, Issoire & La Bourboule
- Prix Jeunesse International - Kinder- und Jugendfernsehfestival: Online this Year!, München
- Providence Children's Film Festival, Providence, Rhode Island - USA
- Salam – International Children and Youth Film Festival, Baku
- San Diego International Kids' Film Festival, San Diego
- Schlingel – International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience, Chemnitz
- SehPferdchen - Kinderfilmfest Hannover, Hannover & Burgdorf & Wunstorf
- Smile International Film Festival, New Delhi and other places in India
- Sottodiciotto Filmfestival (Under 18), Torino
- Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, Stockholm
- Stuttgarter Kinderfilmtage, Stuttgart
- Taartrovers Film Festival, Groningen, Amsterdam, Eindhoven and others
- Taiwan International Children's Film Festival (TICFF), Taipei
- Taoba International Youth Film Festival, Tbilisi
- Tauron Young Horizons International Film Festival, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Pozna?, and almost 20 other towns and cities
- TIFF Junior – Tromsø Children's Film Festival, Tromsø
- Uelzener Filmtage, Niedersächsisches Schüler- und Jugendfilmfestival, Uelzen
- Universal Kids Film Festival, Tuzla / Istanbul
- Viborg International Animation Festival for Children and Youth, Viborg
- Vienna International Children's Film Festival, Wien/Vienna
- Zlín Film Festival, International Festival for Children and Youth, Zlín
- Zoomz – Festival für Kinder- und Jugendfilm, Luzern
Viborg International Animation Festival for Children and Youth
Viborg, Denmark
07/09/2026 - 13/09/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Rhythm: annual, next Festival afterwards (probably): Autumn 2027
Competitive Original Children's Film Festival
Director/s: Søndegaard Isaaksen, Laura
Deadline for film entries: 03/05/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Programs: Animations
Notes/description: All Things Animated! A whole week of free cinema screenings, interesting talks, impressive exhibitions, and amazing experiences.
ANIMOK is part of N.A.N. (Northern Animation Network), the collaboration between:
Viborg Animation Festival (Denmark)
Fredrikstad Animation Festival (Norway)
BLON Animation & Games Festival (Lithuania)
REX Animation Film Festival
Submitted animated short films will be selectable for all 4 partnering festivals.
Contact:
VIA University College
Kasernevej 5
8800 Viborg
Denmark
Internet: viborganimationfestival.dk