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MOGILEV, 11 October (BelTA) – The 19^th international festival of animated films Animayevka 2016 will take place in Mogilev and Mogilev Oblast on 27-30 October, BelTA learnt from the organizing committee of the festival.

This year the forum will feature 381 films from 45 countries, including Austria, Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, the UK, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Israel, India, Iran, Spain, Italy, and other countries. Venezuela, Cyprus, Macedonia, Finland and Croatia will take part in the forum for the first time. The festival commission of experts has selected 103 animated films from 34 countries for the competition program of the festival. All of them will be seen by a big international jury that will be headed by Honored Figure of Art of the Russian Federation Leonid Nosyrev. The festival will also showcase 439 children’s works of fine and applied art from Belarus, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Russia.

The program of the festival will include the screening of films for children and adults. Visitors will be invited to take part in animators’ master classes. The festival will also feature a meeting with General Director of "Puppet is a Human too" Theater Marek Chodaczynski (Poland). Children will be treated to the Polish Music Theater production Pan Satie. The screening of the golden collection of animated films will mark the 80^th anniversary of the Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm. The demonstration of the films of the Polish Animation Film Festival O!PLA will also make part of the program.

Mogilev, Bobruisk and other cities of Mogilev Oblast will host meetings with singer and dubbing actor Valery Pankov. He is a soloist of the duet PankoffLaVa and the first of the Russian actors who successfully came through the audition to do a voice-over for Walt Disney films.

The forum will feature a retro-screening of the films from the collection of the National Film Foundation of the Russian Federation. The official opening of the festival will take place in the Rodina Cinema House on 28 October, International Animation Day.

Among the organizers of the festival are the Culture Ministry of Belarus and the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee.