GIRAF 14 Animation Festival 2018

November 22-25, 2018 @ Various Times
Globe Cinema - 617 8 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB
$50 Festival Pass

The Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival is Quickdraw's annual festival of independent animation, a look at the most exciting, artistically adventurous, and downright astounding animated shorts and features of the past year. We're working hard at finalizing the lineup and doing our best to contain our excitement, but trust us when we say, you won't want to miss it.

The full lineup, including short films, features and workshops, will be announced Friday, November 2, 2018. Check back soon for more details!

* Our featured visiting artist is award-winning Indigenous filmmaker, media artist and stop motion director AMANDA STRONG

*Festival artwork and signal film by Calgary-based artist, animator and musician ARIELLE McCUAIG

*Retrospective screening of the works of internationally acclaimed artist and animator SUZAN PITT

*Spotlighted films include THIS MAGNIFICENT CAKE! (winner of major prizes at the Ottawa, Zagreb & Annecy animation festivals); Hungarian art heist thriller RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR; and graphic novel adaptation UN HOMME EST MORT

*30th anniversary screening of Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer’s ALICE, a dark, stop-motion animated adaptation of Alice in Wonderland

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