Animation Festivals Directory

A BAFTA qualifying festival which takes over venues across Birmingham every May, Flatpack is not your average film festival. Substituting warehouses for red carpets, screenings pop up in all manner of unusual spaces, and the programme mixes film with music, performances, contraptions and surprises. Flatpack takes the traditional film festival and turns it on its head. The result? A “magnificently eclectic” (Time Out) and “joyously inventive” (the Guardian) celebration of film in all shapes and sizes.

Recurring themes include animation, music/sound, artists’ film, archive discoveries, offbeat shorts for kids, audiovisual performance, and live cinema. We’re excited by the fertile territory where film bumps up against other artforms, and love nothing more than bringing friends and strangers together to see something amazing they might not otherwise have seen – but are unlikely to forget!

Year established: 2006

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

Physical event or online?: Online Festival