Insomnia
at night the light is brightest
international open air
animation film festival
July 18—22, 2024
Russia. Kaluga and Moscow

Insomnia is a truly independent animation festival. It takes place every year in a spacious and scenic field surrounded by a forest and a river.

Hundreds of the best fresh animated films from all over the world are showcased on three large screens for four consecutive nights!

Throughout the day, our guests can enjoy other festival activities, including lectures, live music concerts, performances, workshops, craft fairs, exhibitions, and art installations.

For those who prefer to avoid tents and mosquitoes, competition screenings are available in Moscow movie theaters.

Dear friends!

Insomnia International Animation Film Festival 2024 is open for entry submissions.

You can send us your new films via FilmFreeWay.

See you in July!

Pavel Shvedov,
Program Director

The Jury of the 10th Insomnia International Animation Film Festival 2022 revealed the award winners.

The Insomnia Grand Prix

Electra / Daria Kashcheeva / Czech Republic, France / 2023

 

The Profnastil Prize (the best animation of the international competition – short animation)

Bird in the Peninsula / Atsushi Wada / France, Japan / 2022

 

The Debutoriya Prize (the best animation of the international competition - young animation)

Above the Clouds / Vivien Hárshegyi / Hungary / 2022

 

The Equilibristics Prize (the best non-narrative or experimental animation of the international competition)

backflip / Nikita Diakur / Germany, France / 2022

 

The Special Prize of the Jury

Amok / Balázs Turai / Hungary / 2022

 

The Child Dreams Prize (the best animation for young audiences)

Go Away, Alfred! / Arnaud Demuynck, Celia Tisserant / France / 2023

 

The Music of the Night Prize (the best music video)

Day In My Dream / Pei-Hsin Cho / Taiwan, UK / 2022

 

The Best Russian Animation Prize (the best animation of the national competition)

Wormwood-25 / Nadia Goldman / Russia / 2023

 

The Special Distinction of the Jury

Family Portrait / Lea Vidakovic / Croatia, France, Serbia/ 2023

 

Granny's Sexual Life / Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard / France, Slovenia / 2021

 

The House of Loss / Jinkyu Jeon / Japan, South Korea / 2022

 

The Diplomas of the Jury

Whale’s Song / Adeline Faye / France / 2022

 

Her electric light / Anastasiya Lisovets / Russia / 2022

 

From the Corner of my Eye / Domonkos Erhardt / Hungary / 2023

 

Funeral at Nine / Mamadou Barry, Rodrigo Veras, Ziyu Wang, Junhao Xiang, Wang Yu, Linfeng Zhou / France / 2022

 

A Story for Two Trumpets / Amandine Meyer / France / 2022

 

The festival jury: animation directors Nina Bisyarina, Varya Yakovleva, and Alexander Chernogorov, composer Alexei Prosvirnin, and film critic and producer Maria Tereshchenko.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – PROFNASTIL (Shorts)

11 / Vuk Jevremovic / Croatia, Germany / 2022 / 05:28

A Journey with my Dad / Mor Israeli / Israel / 2022 / 10:00

Aaaah! / Osman Cefron / France / 2022 / 12:00

Amok / Balázs Turai / Hungary, Romania / 2022 / 14:17

An End to War Enough / Simone Massi / Italy / 2022 / 05:00

backflip / NIkita Diakur / Germany, France / 2022 / 12:30

Bird in the Peninsula / Atsushi Wada / France, Japan / 2022 / 16:00

Brixton Bustle / Shaun Clark / United Kingdom / 2023 / 04:50

Carne de Dios / Patricio Plaza / Mexico, Argentina / 2022 / 21:00

Dear Passengers / Max Kulikov / Russian Federation / 2023 / 11:00

Dissolution / Sujin Kim / United States / 2023 / 03:09

Electra / Daria Kashcheeva / Czech Republic, France, Slovakia / 2023 / 26:33

Family Portrait / Lea Vidakovic / Croatia, France, Serbia / 2023 / 14:30

Giraffe / Natalya Mirzoyan / Russian Federation / 2022 / 02:35

Go Away, Alfred! / Célia Tisserant, Arnaud Demuynck / France / 2023 / 11:00

Granny's Sexual Life / Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard / France, Slovenia / 2021 / 13:40

Ice Merchants / João Gonzalez / Portugal, France, United Kingdom / 2022 / 14:00

Intersextion / Richard Roger Reeves / Canada / 2022 / 04:00

Kharms / Svetlana Andrianova / Russian Federation / 2023 / 13:15

Millions of Scarlet Roses / Galina Golubeva / Russian Federation / 2023 / 14:10

Miracasas / Raphaëlle Stolz / Switzerland, France / 2022 / 13:40

My Crow Don't Know to Fish / Divakar SK / India / 2021 / 05:20

Pink Noise / Martin Wiklund, Athrur Lemaitre / France / 2022 / 02:00

PLSTC / Laen Sanches / France / 2022 / 01:37

Prinzessin Aubergine / Dina Velikovskaya / Germany / 2022 / 07:37

Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse / Ivana Bosnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda / Croatia / 2022 / 09:57

Salvation Has No Name / Joseph Wallace / United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic / 2022 / 16:50

San La Muerte / Eze Matteo / Argentina / 2023 / 01:21

Sandwich Cat / David Fidalgo / Spain / 2022 / 10:54

Sasha / Serghei Chiviriga / Romania / 2022 / 12:43

Shadow of the Butterflies / Sofia El Khyari / France, Portugal, Qatar / 2022 / 09:00

Sit Down, Don't Touch Anything / Frederic Siegel / Switzerland / 2022 / 05:20

Somni / Sonja Rohleder / Germany / 2023 / 03:00

Sunflower / Natalia Chernysheva / France, Russian Federation / 2023 / 04:20

Terra Incognita / Pernille Kjaer, Adrian Dexter / Denmark, France / 2021 / 20:00

The Garbage Man / Laura Gonçalves / Portugal / 2022 / 11:50

The Miracle / Nienke Deutz / Belgium, Netherlands, France / 2022 / 14:58

The Sunset Special / Nicolas Gebbe / Germany / 2021 / 17:30

The Waiting / Voker Schlecht / Germany / 2023 / 15:35

The Witch's Lullaby / Dasha Vyatkina / Netherlands, Russian Federation / 2022 / 04:02

Think Something Nice / Claudius Gentinetta / Switzerland / 2022 / 06:00

Trace / Asparuh Petrov / Bulgaria / 2022 / 06:42

Whale’s Song / Adeline Faye / France / 2022 / 11:50

Whatever Moves is Alive / Noémie Marsily / Belgium / 2022 / 11:05

White / Keum-Taek Jung / United States / 2022 / 02:27

Witchfairy / Cedric Igodt, David Van de Weyer / Belgium / 2022 / 15:00

Wormwood-25 / Nadia Goldman / Russian Federation / 2023 / 17:39

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – DEBUTORIYA (Young Animation)

◆★PILIPALA●▲ / Yinan Liang / United States / 2022 / 01:10

A Story for 2 Trumpets / Amandine Meyer / France / 2022 / 05:26

Above the clouds / Vivien Hárshegyi / Hungary / 2022 / 12:41

Aeons Ark / Sophie Maria Vickers / United Kingdom / 2022 / 06:29

artifacts of you, artifacts of me. / Brecht De Cock / Belgium / 2022 / 09:00

Boywhood / Enrico Motti, Emanuele Motti / Italy / 2022 / 05:50

Burning out / Elina Sibgatullina / Russian Federation / 2021 / 03:25

Code Rose / Taye Cimon, Pierre Coёz, Julie Groux, Sandra Leydier, Manuarii Morel, Romain Seisson / France / 2022 / 05:08

Crosswalk / Daria Volchok / Russian Federation / 2023 / 01:55

Do Not Feed the Pigeons / Antonin Niclass / United Kingdom / 2021 / 08:41

Don't Die on Me / Ori Goldberg / Israel / 2022 / 03:00

Easy busy / Ekaterina Ganakh / Russian Federation / 2022 / 03:37

Friendly Fire / Tom Koryto Blumen / Israel / 2022 / 06:14

From the Corner of my Eye / Domonkos Erhardt / Hungary / 2023 / 06:06

Funeral at Nine / Mamadou Barry, Rodrigo Veras, Ziyu Wang, Junhao Xiang, Wang Yu, Linfeng Zhou / France / 2022 / 05:57

fur / Zhen Li / United States / 2022 / 06:36

Furrie / Lucie Grannec / France / 2022 / 08:36

Her electric light / Nastya Lisovets / Russian Federation / 2022 / 12:38

Human Resources / Trinidad Plass Caussade, Titouan Tillier, Isaac Wenzek / France / 2022 / 03:30

In the dance / Katya Mikheeva / France / 2022 / 04:28

In-Between / Julia Benedyktowicz / Poland / 2023 / 05:58

It's Nice in Here / Robert-Jonathan Koeyers / Netherlands / 2022 / 15:00

Juice / Mona keil / Germany / 2022 / 04:55

Maro's Red Cheeks / Mariam Zhordania / Russian Federation / 2022 / 07:38

Mold / Shengxue Shi / Japan / 2023 / 02:41

Park Voyage / Florence Yuk Ki Lee / Hong Kong / 2022 / 03:13

Pentola / Leo Černic / Italy / 2022 / 07:12

Prisoner Outside / Igor Medvedev / Germany / 2021 / 06:41

RIM / Hagar Faibish / Germany / 2022 / 06:47

Salute to the Sun / Darko Masnec / Croatia / 2022 / 08:50

Small Hours / Marta Sniezek, Christian Spurling / Ireland / 2022 / 05:00

Sunset Singers / Jessica Poon / Germany, Hong Kong / 2022 / 10:40

The House of Loss / Jinkyu Jeon / Japan, Republic of Korea / 2022 / 09:34

The Moon Rises During the Day / Na Li / United Kingdom / 2022 / 03:13

To Be Sisters / Anne-Sophie Gousset, Clément Céard / France / 2022 / 07:20

Une belle nuit d’été / Arthur Dupuy, Enzo Leboucher, Sam Castelli, Aleksandar Savic, Yannis Brun, Barbara Derail / France / 2022 / 07:18

Unnamed Road / Songkai Zhou / United Kingdom / 2022 / 07:59

Vizionair / Vsevolod Bulavkin / Russian Federation / 2022 / 09:16

ZUMAN / Honor Price / United Kingdom / 2022 / 10:00

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – MUSIC OF THE NIGHT (Music Video)

A Once Lonely Man / John J.A. Jannone / United States / 2023 / 06:00

Aube / Vincent Gibaud / France / 2022 / 04:00

Be Gone / Sijia Luo / China / 2022 / 03:56

Ciarán / Simon Medard / Belgium / 2022 / 03:40

Cores | Bacará / Patrick Hanser / Brazil / 2023 / 03:42

Day In My Dream / Pei-Hsin Cho / Taiwan, United Kingdom / 2022 / 03:35

DJ Piper - RIP TXL / Raman Djafari / Germany / 2023 / 03:30

Do I Follow the Wall? / Ben Walden / United Kingdom / 2023 / 03:48

Emily / Yiyang Sun / China / 2022 / 05:24

End of the Night / Mawrgan Shaw / Australia, Canada, United Kingdom / 2023 / 02:27

Fuites Cathodiques / Charlie Mars / France / 2022 / 02:30

Get back / Théo Tonatiu Lenoble / Mexico / 2022 / 03:33

I Gotta Cry / Francesca Colombara / Italy / 2022 / 02:51

Jerks / Alessandro Gaspari / Italy / 2022 / 04:42

Juan Wauters - Milanesa al pan (Feat. Zoe Gotusso) / Dante Zaballa / United States / 2023 / 03:11

Medusa / Maëva Jacques / Belgium / 2022 / 03:34

Mr Lady / Pietro Leddi / Italy / 2023 / 02:49

No Lullaby / Ezequiel Torres / Argentina / 2022 / 03:58

Olivia Lumen / Ali Aschman / United Kingdom / 2021 / 06:05

Sleeping Cell - Elevator to the Gallows / Luis Antonio Guerra / Colombia / 2023 / 03:34

The Wave / Giovanni Antonio Aguilar Guiterrez, Eleanor Rosetta Mary Evans / Australia / 2022 / 03:00

Tulipomania: You Had to Be There / Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray / United States / 2022 / 03:45

Wooden Nickels / John J.A. Jannone / United States / 2023 / 03:36

RUSSIAN NATIONAL COMPETITION

Babugly / Evgeniya Zhirkova / 2023

Birds, by the way / Alla Vartanyan / 2022

Bright Souls / Anastasiia Zhakulina / 2022

Burning out / Elina Sibgatullina / 2021

Crosswalk / Daria Volchok / 2023

Dear Passengers / Max Kulikov / 2023

Easy busy / Ekaterina Ganakh / 2022

Giraffe / Natalya Mirzoyan / 2022

Her electric light / Nastya Lisovets / 2022

Jackdaw / Nastya Lisovets / 2022

Kharms / Svetlana Andrianova / 2023

Maro's Red Cheeks / Mariam Zhordania / 2022

Millions of Scarlet Roses / Galina Golubeva / 2023

Omichka / Liza Skvortsova / 2023

Stolen Melody / Georgy Boguslavsky / 2023

Sunflower / Natalia Chernysheva / 2023

The Legend of the Sisters / Pavel Pogudin / 2022

The Mole / Alexey Sukhov / 2023

The Witch's Lullaby / Dasha Vyatkina / 2022

Thinking Wolf / Yulia Evdokimova / 2023

Vizionair / Vsevolod Bulavkin / 2022

Where Jasmine Blooms / Polina Bovkoun / 2022

Wormwood-25 / Nadia Goldman / 2023

Every summer
Every summer
Every summer

Big open air festival, but with animation

Good vibes, warm atmosphere

Amazing people

Arts and architecture

Beautiful scenery

Best animation from around the world.
4 nights in a row!
Best animation from around the world.
4 nights in a row!
Best animation from around the world.
4 nights in a row!