Animation Festivals Directory

AVANCA, one of the reference film festivals and one of the oldest in Portugal.

AVANCA is a festival where films are screened in rooms on the quality cinema circuit of EUROPA CINEMAS. The directors of the awarded films are normally guests of the festival. The films selected at AVANCA are invited to integrate the selection of several other international film festivals, in a system partly managed by the AVANCA Festival itself.

With around 100 films on display, bringing together the largest number of WORLD PREMIERS among festivals in Portugal, Iberia and Lusophony, each year filmmakers and guests from more than 40 countries participate in person at the festival.

Short films are automatically considered for the SOPHIA Awards of the Portuguese Academy of Cinema.

The IFFS (International Federation of Film Societies) annually awards a prize. AVANCA is one of the few festivals that make up the restricted list of film festivals recognized by this historic world organization.

Year established: 1997

Is this festival exclusively animation?: No - this is a film festival but with a specific animation category

Is there a marketplace at this festival?: No