Anima, The Brussels Animation Film Festival, seeks to promote animated films from all over the world and encourage dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public.

The Festival presents an Official Selection with a national and international competition for short and feature films, an information category with retrospective and themed programmes and a series of conferences entitled Futuranima.

Anima comprises eight official categories:

1)  International professional short films

2)  International student films

3)  International children's short films

4)  Feature films

             5) Feature films for children

             6) Belgian short films

             7) "Animated Night" short films

             8) Music videos and commercials (non competitive)

The Festival nominates a selection of films from its European prizewinners for the Cartoon d'Or and is also qualified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the short animated film category.

Anima does not have a film market