Mihai Mitrică discusses Animest 2020: „Ours was a happy case, compared to similar events”
Animest is one of the most beloved film festivals in the Romanian circuit - and for good reason too: always attracting a large and young audience, with a hip and quirky branding, heavily reliant on various forms of live performance, and, finally, with caravan-style screenings all across the country, so in its 15 years of existence, the festival has imposed itself as the number one forum for animation film in Romania. How is such a vibrant festival surviving 2020, the annus horribilis for film festivals?
Film critic & journalist. Collaborates with local and international outlets, programs a short film festival - BIEFF, does occasional moderating gigs and is working on a PhD thesis about home movies. At Films in Frame, she writes the monthly editorial - The State of Cinema and is the magazine's main festival reporter.
