CEE Animation Workshop Presents The 2026 Selection

This year’s lineup includes 6 feature films, 3 TV series and 3 short films. Once again, the workshop welcomes participants from across Europe while maintaining focus on the CEE region and low production capacity countries. Producers and their creative teams with selected projects, including a scholarship-winning project from CEE Animation Forum 2025, will be joined by two career-oriented participants without projects, as well as two animation script consultant trainees.

Throughout the year, participants will engage in group work, masterclasses, expert lectures, and individual consultations, under the guidance of group leaders: esteemed producers Réka Temple (Cinemon Entertainment, HU) and Annemie Degryse (Lumiere Group / Beast Studio, BE), and seasoned script consultants Phil Parker (UK) and Rita Domonyi (HU).

The workshop will consist of four modules: two online (May and October) and two on-site (February 23–March 1 in Lillehammer, Norway, and July 27–August 2 in Budapest, Hungary). Upon completing the workshop, participants will gain privileged access to the CEE Animation network and various industry and market events across Europe.

“We are ready to launch the 2026 edition of the year-long workshop with new partners and old friends. We are grateful for the continuous support of the Creative Europe – MEDIA, and thankful to our partners Lillywood and Animation Norway to have the opportunity to visit Lillehammer now and to the Hungarian Animation Producers Association to be able to go to Budapest in the summer, and connect with both animation industries. We are excited to meet and to welcome the eighth generation of international participants, who are coming as part of interesting project teams, career-oriented participants and the new script consultants in animation trainees”, commented Saša Bach, the Managing Director of the CEE Animation Workshop.

Selected animated projects

Fairy Tale for Gnomes
p. Aneta Zagórska, Krakow Animation Center, Poland
d. & s. Maria Görlich-Opyd
Feature film

Holy Moly
p. William Holten, Microfilm AS, Norway
d. & s. Margrethe Danielsen
Short film

In Between
p. Irene Sparre, Sparre Production, Denmark
s. Marie-Louise Højer Jensen, Ditte Lundsgaard Nielsen, Metteline Ibsen
d. Marie-Louise Højer Jensen, Ditte Lundsgaard Nielsen
TV Series

Inner Glow
p. Gabrielė Vaičiūnaitė, WHY Films, Lithuania
s. Emilija Juzeliūnaitė
Short film

Mould
p. Tereza Havlová, BATCH film, Czechia
d. & s. Philippe Kastner
TV Series

Recordanza
p. May Odeh, Mayana Films, Germany
d. & s. Jalal Maghout
c.p. Zorana Mušikić
Feature film

The Climbing Girl
p. Christopher Zitterbart, Watchmen Productions GmbH, Germany
d. & s. Benjamin Quabeck
Feature film

The Ghost of the Riverbend
p. Bella Szederkényi, CUB Animation, Hungary
d. & s. Bálint Gelley
Feature film

The Summer of the Moth
p. Petri Kemppinen, Good Hand Production, Finland
d. & s. Vera Lamminpää
Feature film

Through the Blizzard
p. Sonja Đurić, Sonet, Bosnia and Herzegovina
s. & d. Igor Đurić
Short film

Trixi
p. & d. Katarína Kerekesová, Fool Moon, Slovakia
s. Katarína Moláková
p. Verona Dubišova
Feature film

Tulip
p. Valentin Maupin, Avec ou sans vous, France
s. & d. Juli Tudisco
TV Series

Peter Perunovic, producer
Aerodrom, Slovenia

Nataliia El Baba, producer
M1X, Ukraine

Jerneja Kaja Balog, scriptwriter
Slovenia

Petra Stipetić, scriptwriter
Croatia/Germany

CEE Animation Workshop is organised by Slovene Animated Film Association (DSAF), CEE Animation, Slovak Association of Animated Film Producers (APAF).

CEE Animation Workshop is organised with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union. The CEE Animation Workshop 2026 is supported by Ministry of Public Administration, Republic of Slovenia,  Østnorsk Filmsenter, Filminvest, Innlandet fylkeskommune, Lillehammer kommune, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Czech Audiovisual Fund, Czech Audiovisual Producers Association and National Film Institute Hungary.