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ASIFA HELLAS celebrates World Animation Day online on Tuesday 27 October 2020. The Animation film screening program includes, among others, award-winning and selected films from the ICONA Festival 2019, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, as part of the CIAK research project.

The ICONA 2019 Festival has been succesfully completed and the winners have been announced. Please visit the Awards page for a complete list of the Winners!

The final version of the ICONA Festival program has been announced, available at the Schedule page.
We also inform you that during the screening sessions, an online movie voting system will be available, in order to vote your three favorite movies. Read more about the vote instructions.

The first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University within the framework of the CIAK Intereg program under the scientific supervision of Assistant Professor Michalis Panagopoulos, had a great participation with almost 1.000 submissions of movies. Although competition was fierce, the committee's work was successfully completed with a selection of 135 films - 72 short films and 63 student films – from 48 countries.

The first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (within the framework of the CIAK Intereg program), had a great participation with almost 1.000 submission of movies.