From March 20 to March 29, the XIII «Big Cartoon Festival» International Animation Festival will be held in Krasnoyarsk. 

The festival venues will be the Film House platform, Mechta Theatre and the Ploschad Mira Museum Centre. Within the framework of the festival, residents of Krasnoyarsk and guests of the city alike will be able to enjoy new and beloved full-length and short feature films from Russia and around the world, as well as participate in the «Cartoon Factory».

The animation festival will open on March 20 at Film House with the «Marona's Amazing Journey», a touching French film about the misadventures of a stray dog.

Two brand new full-length animated features will be shown to the young audience of Krasnoyarsk: «Goal!», a puppet movie from Britain, telling the story of family traditions and love of football, and «Jacob, Mimmy and Talking Dogs», an adorable urban fairy tale from Latvia.

The newest festival shorts will be available to watch in the two central blocks of the festival: the Premieres and Winners competition programmes. Within the Premieres’ framework, the most peculiar Russian cartoons of the past year will be screened, while the Winners will present foreign films-laureates of international festivals and movie awards.

One of the special events of the international festival is the Cartoon Network exhibition, which will present the premiere of the «Mao-Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart» animated series. The festival’s guests will be able to meet the following brave heroes: the real cat Mao-Mao, who tirelessly guards over peace and order, and his friends Badgerclops and Adorabat, and also watch new episodes of how this courageous trinity protects the inhabitants of the Valley of Pure Heart from sky pirates and other insidious villains. The exhibition will open on March 20 at the Ploschad Mira Museum Centre.

During children's holiday, several animation studios will open again at the Museum Centre, where children and their parents can create, draw, voice and film cartoons in a wide variety of techniques and genres.

Even though on March 29 the festival screenings will end in Krasnoyarsk, the charity programme for showing contemporary Russian animation for children will continue until April 3 in cities and villages of Krasnoyarsk Region.

For additional information, please visit the festival’s websites multfest.ru and vk.com/bfmkrsk.