REX Animation Festival 2024

We are thrilled to announce that the 10th edition of the REX Animation Festival will feature a record-breaking 700 submissions. The evaluation process has concluded, and we are eagerly preparing to unveil the complete program very soon.

Meet our Jurors for the 10th edition of REX

Minna Floss

My name is Minna Floss and I’m a director, animator and animation teacher from Stockholm, Sweden. Some of my work includes lead 2d animation for the Iron Maiden music video Stratego and art direction and animation for the documentary The Second Shore. I’m currently working on an animated movie about a child who discovers an abandoned house.

Lucija Smodiš

Lucija Smodiš works as a curator and producer in the field of contemporary art and animation. She is the initiator, programe collaborator and producer of the International Film Festival StopTrik, dedicated to stop motion animation (Maribor, Slovenia / Lodz, Poland). She was the program director of the residency platform GuestRoomMaribor (2014 – 2024), Gallery K18 (2011, 2013 – 2022) and recently of OBRAT – space for art and participation (2023-2024). At the moment she is employed at the DSAF – Slovenian animated film association, establishing and coordinating an international artist in residency program for animators and curating exhibitions of Slovenian animated film.

Marko Dješka

Graduated at the Academy of Fine arts in Zagreb, animation department. His student films ‘Slaughtered’ (2010) and ‘The Son of Satan’ (2012) earned notable success at many festivals, and the film ‘Slaughtered’ was bought by the TV station El Rey Network owned by producer Robert Rodriguez. Film ‘Ghost Town’ won the Octavian award at a festival in Zagreb as the best animated film in Croatian production in 2016. His recent animated film, ‘All Those Sensations in my Belly’ has won 25 awards and mentions and has been shown on around 200 festivals worldwide, such as Annecy in France, Outfest and Rhode Island Festival in USA, Message to Man and Big Cartoon in Russia, Animafest in Zagreb and OIAF in Ottawa (Canada) where it won the best script award too. He is also the co-founder of the Adriatic Animation Studio for animation production in Zagreb, and one of the organizers of the OHOHO Festival of Comics and Street Art since 2019. He’ve been publishing short comics in many magazines worldwide. He is also the editor of two comic magazines OHOHOzin and Strip-Prefiks.

Kids Trailer 2024

Many thanks goes to The students of Animationsakademin for making this yeares trailers

Main Trailer 2024

Animation Day will take place on the 24th of October

FIlmhuset

13:00 – 19:00

Arranged by Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Stockholm in collaboration with REX Animation Film Festival.

Tickets available soon

Zita Folkets Bio

Zita at Birger Jarlsgatan 37 is the venue for the main festival event, with screenings 28.10.24-02.11.24.

Information on the programme and ticket sales on Zita.se available sook. Membership card (mandatory for all screenings except REX Animation Student Award 2024) and festival pass are bought at Zita Box office.

For additional venues for REX events outside of ZITA 28.10.24-02.11.24, see REX C/O.