Festival's Type:
Original Children’s / Young People’s Film Festivals
Film Festivals with section for Children’s / Young People’s Films
Country:
Film Festivals with section for Children’s / Young People’s Films
- Anibar Animation Festival, Peja
- Anima – Brussels International Animation Film Festival, Brussels
- Animafest - World Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb
- Biennale of Animation Bratislava (BAB), Bratislava
- Buster - Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Copenhagen
- Cannes Cinema: Ecrans Juniors, Cannes
- Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema and Comics, Rimini
- Chania Film Festival Edu, Chania, Crete
- Children and Youth Film Festival Just Film, Tallinn
- Cinanima – International Animated Film Festival of Espinho, Espinho
- Cinemagic - International Film & Television Festival for Children and Young People, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Corti a Ponte International Short Film festival – BY 3.20 section, Ponte San Nicolò (Padova)
- Docpoint / Dokkino, 21 cities all over Finland
- DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh
- Espoo Ciné Junior Film Festival, Espoo
- Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Baden
- Fest – New Directors | New Films Festival, Espinho
- Festival Augenblick, Strasbourg
- Festival de Cinéma d'Alès Itinerances, Alès
- Festival Internacional du Premier Film, Annonay
- Festival international de Cinéma du grain à démoudre, Gonfreville l'Orcher (Normandie)
- Festival International du Film de Cannes, Cannes
- Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, La Rochelle
- Filmfest Dresden - International Festival for Animation and Short Films, Dresden
- Filmfest Hamburg, Children's and Youth Film Festival "Michel", Hamburg
- Filmfest München - CineKindl, Munich
- FilmFestival Cottbus (Festival des Osteuropäischen Films), Cottbus
- Filmkorte, Flensburg
- FIPADOC International Documentary Festival, Biarritz
- Free Zone Film Festival, Beograd, Nis, Novii Sad, Kragujevac
- Gijón Int. Film Festival, Gijón, Asturias
- IndieJunior, Lisboa
- Int. Short Film Festival Hamburg; Children's Film Festival "Mo & Friese", Hamburg
- Interfilm Short Film Festival: KuKi & Teen Screen - Short Films for Children and Young People, Berlin
- International Documentary Film Festival Munich, DOK.education, München
- International Festival of Animated Films (ITFS), Section "Tricks for Kids", Stuttgart
- International Filmfestival Berlin, Generation, Berlin
- International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim & Heidelberg
- International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen
- Internationales Filmfest Emden Aurich Norderney, Emden Aurich Norderney
- Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg, Würzburg
- Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Cologne & Dortmund & online
- Kinofest Lünen, Lünen
- Locarno Film Festival: Locarno Kids, Locarno
- London International Film Festival, London
- Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxembourg
- Milano Film Fest, Milano
- Molodist Film Festival, Kyiv
- New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw
- Nordic Filmdays Luebeck/ Section Films for Children & Young People, Luebeck
- Odense International Film Festival, Odense
- Pula Film Festival, Children's and Youth Film Programms, Pula
- Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik
- Riga International Film Festival, Riga
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajewo
- Sevilla International Film Festival, Sevilla
- The Norwegian International Filmfestival / "Cinemagi", Haugesund
- Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Mures
- Unabhängiges FilmFest / Independent FilmFest, Osnabrück
- Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala
- Your Cinema - International Competition Program for children and youth audience, as part of International Festival of Cinematographic Debuts "Spirit Of Fire", Khanty-Mansiysk and other cities in the district of UGRA (Siberia)
- Zagreb Film Festival, Zagreb
- Zurich Film Festival, Zürich, Switzerland
Biennale of Animation Bratislava (BAB)
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
No date available
Rhythm: bi-annual, next Festival afterwards (probably): October 2026
Competitive Children's Film Section
Prizes: The Grand Prix – The Viktor Kubal Prize for Best Film, The Children’s Choice Award, The UNICEF Award, The St. Vojtech Prize for Best V4 Film, The Prix Klingsor for Lifetime Achievement, The Albín Brunovský Honorary Medal
Programs: Animations
Number of films (app.): 100
Number of spectators (app.): 50.000
Festival's recognition: international
Media coverage: international
Notes/description: This nearly 50-year-old event is the world’s only biennial dedicated exclusively to animation for children. Its close collaboration with ASIFA-Hollywood Vice President and Annie Awards Executive Director Frank Gladstone (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King) led to the Biennial’s Grand Prix winner nomination for the 52nd Annie Awards as Best Short Subject. The 2024 month-long Biennial screened in 13 cities, impacting 50,000 children and schools nationwide, with award nominees seen by kids simultaneously in 11 cities. The Biennial includes workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions, special events and an international forum for industry leaders and students.
This festival is a member of 
Contact:
Bibiana International House of Art for Children
Panská 41
81539 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Phone: ++421-94803903
Internet: www.bienaleanimaciebratislava.sk