20/02/2025 - The line-up includes five series, four features and three short films that will be developed over the course of two online and two on-site workshop modules

Goodbye Closet by Zohar Dvir

The CEE Animation Workshop, a year-long training programme intended for project development and advancing producers’ skills, has announced its selection for 2025. Twelve projects and 27 participants from ten European countries have been carefully selected from among the 38 applications from 21 countries.

The 12 selected animated projects include five series, four features and three short films. The programme once again welcomes projects and participants from across Europe, while maintaining a focus on the CEE region and low-production-capacity countries. This year’s line-up also includes two career-orientated participants joining the programme without projects, as well as one scholarship-winning project from the 2025 CEE Animation Forum. Detailed information about the selected projects and participants is available here, and the list is below.

“We are excited to start the magical seventh edition of the workshop with a group of interesting projects and motivated participants from all over Europe. This year will be really special, as we are bringing many highlights! Firstly, we are proudly welcoming new group leaders, accomplished producers Annemie Degryse and Reka Temple, and we are starting the first module in Nova Gorica – Gorizia, the 2025 European Capital of Culture. We are also looking forward to visiting Łódź for our summer module and attending the CEE Animation Forum in November as a really nice closure to this edition. We are counting on a busy and inspiring year!” says managing director Saša Bach.

Temple, of Hungary’s Cinemon Entertainment, and Degryse, of Belgium’s Lumiere Group and Beast Studio, are joining CEE Animation’s regular script consultants Phil Parker and Rita Domonyi. The workshop will take place from March-October 2025 and will consist of four one-week modules: two will be held online in May and October, while another two will be organised on-site, from 10-16 March in Nova Gorica and from 28 July-3 August in Łódź. 

The CEE Animation Workshop is organised by the Slovene Animated Film Association (DSAF), CEE Animation, the Slovak Association of Animated Film Producers (APAF) and the Polish Animation Producers' Association (SPPA), with support from the European Union’s Creative Europe – MEDIA programme, the Ministry of Public Administration, Republic of Slovenia, AIPA, GO!25, Nova Gorica/Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025, the Slovenian Film Centre, the Czech Ministry of Culture, the Czech Audiovisual Fund and the Czech Audiovisual Producers' Association.

Here is the full list of CEE Animation Workshop 2025 projects:

Series

The White Deer - Lucija Bužančić (Croatia)
Producer: Jure Bušić (Jaka produkcija)

Goodbye Closet - Zohar Dvir (Germany)
Producer: Fabian Driehorst (Fabian & Fred)

Scope of the Universe (Norway)
Screenplay: Anja Manou Hellem
Producer: Lillian Løvseth (LØV Film)

Natural Selection - Irida Zhonga (Greece)
Producer: Isavella Alpoudi (Neda Film)

Ucipuci (Latvia)
Screenplay: Zane Zusta
Producer: Kristele Pudane (Sunday Rebel Films)

Feature films

Breadcrumbs in the Snow - Skirmanta Jakaite (Lithuania)
Producer: Agne Adomėnė (Art Shot)

Until Death Do Us Part - Natalia Krawczuk (Poland)
Screenplay: Nawojka Wierzbowska
Producer: Zuzanna Maszka (GS Animation)

English Lessons - Ivan Tymchenko (Ukraine)
Producer: Svitlana Soloviova (Svitlofor Film)

Human Negligence - Erini Vianeli (Greece)
Producer: Danae Spathara (Heretic)

Short films

The Phonebook - Nina Chubinishvili (Georgia)
Producer: Irina Gelashvili (Radium Films)

Cherry Pierogi - Olha Havrylova (Ukraine)
Producer: Mykyta Moiseiev (Eleron Pictures)

The Last Bookstore in the World - Katarina Keti Zaharijev (Serbia)
Producer: Sanja Maljković (Le Studio)

Career-orientated participants

Geidre Burokaite, producer, Akis Bado (Lithuania)
Anna Pokorska, producer, Dikanka Films (Ukraine)