The short film Keenie 166, directed by Blanca Bonet, closes the 7th edition of Animario
Organised by Matadero Madrid and hosted by Cineteca Madrid, the International Festival of Contemporary Animation of Madrid, Animario, has brought to Madrid the work of artists and storytellers who use animation as a vehicle for expression and a creative tool.
The festival, curated by Carolina López, Director of Animac Lleida, which this year celebrates its seventh edition, is the great celebration of the art of animation in Madrid and has presented a selection of the most outstanding titles of national and international animation in its different genres, formats and languages, from stop motion to virtual reality, including animated documentaries and the most experimental speculative fictions.
National and international animation
The festival has been able to bring together, in four screening sessions open to the public, the 24 titles that have competed this year in the International Short Film Competition; a select sample of current animation cinema, which continues to grow in quantity and quality year after year.
In addition, also for the first time in Madrid, Animario presented a great retrospective of Polish animation, one of the most audacious cinematographies in the world, with the participation of the brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay, leading exponents of animation, who presented their latest film Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.
The work of Blanca Bonet, the closing film of Animario 2024
For its part, Keenie 166, directed by Blanca Bonet, Director of the Degree in Animation at UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, was the short film chosen by the organisers to close this seventh edition of Animario, as a result of being the winner of the Animario Award for the production of an animated short film at the last edition.
Blanca Bonet also had the opportunity to participate as a jury member of the Animario Animation Production Award, together with the Art Director of Robot Dreams, José Luis Ágreda, and the Animation Director of Rock Bottom, Marta Gil. This award, aimed at works in progress, seeks to encourage the production of animated films with a prize of 18,000 euros.
