Animation Festivals Directory

Zabut is a Festival of animated short-films that will be held in Santa Teresa di Riva (Messina, Italy). Zabut Festival aims to have the ambition to achieve an international appeal, to propose a path of strong cultural innovation and to become a reference point for fans, insiders and audience of animation film. Zabut shows special interest to the soundtracks of animation films and to “drawing” and aims to create an archive/museum of operas by directors, animators and designers selected by the Festival Committee.

Zabut was born and is set in the Savoca city center, a small Art heritage village in Sicily, and in particular between the Door of the City and the Saint Michael Church. Zabut is primarily an event that will connect space and community, people and places, a Festival that will involve everyone in the evocative city center of Savoca, that becomes a space of cultural enjoyment in a charming and comfortable atmosphere.

Is this festival exclusively animation?: Yes - this is exclusively an animation festival

Is there a marketplace at this festival?: No