ReAnimania international film festival kicks off in Yerevan

ReAnimania 2nd International Film Festival is kicking off in Yerevan today. With films from 45 countries the festival will last until 13 September.

The solemn opening ceremony will take place at the Moscow Cinema this evening. The festival will start with a French animation film - Juggler.

The festival incorporates 4 competition programs - feature films, short films, and films students shot as their diploma paper and TV films.

This year also the festival will have numerous guests among them also chairperson of the Exodus Film Group Max Howard, who used to work in Disney for 12 years, as well as David Sproxston, Director of the Aardan Studio.

Separate master classes will also be conducted in the framework of the festival.

In a separate program also will be screened Barking Dog - a film by French Armenian director Serj Avedikian that won a Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival this year as the Best Short Film.

A retrospective screening of the films by famous Armenian cartoonist Robert Sahakyants, will also take place.

A novelty of this year's festival will be the open-air screening of the feature films from the last year's festival in Cascade in downtown Yerevan.

David of Sasun - a film about an Armenian epic hero who drove Arab invaders out of Armenia - will close the ceremony.