International Animation Festival 21 - 27.09.2026
Agora Schedule 2025

Below you can find the Agora Schedule for ANIMASYROS 2025.

Agora presentations take place at the Cultural Centre of Hermoupolis.

Special accreditation is necessary for the Agora activities.

Greek Animation Talks take place at the Cultural Center of Hermoupolis with free entrance.

Animation Speed Dating powered by Enterprise Greece takes place at Apollon Theatre. 

You can find the full programme of ANIMASYROS 2025 here.  

9.30 – 17.00

International MIFA Campus Pitching Forum Workshop

Delphine Nicolini (FR), Jöelle Oosterlinck (FR), Agnѐs Patron (FR) 

*Open only to Pitching Forum Participants

9.30 – 17.00

International MIFA Campus Pitching Forum Workshop

Delphine Nicolini (FR), Jöelle Oosterlinck (FR), Agnѐs Patron (FR)

*Open only to Pitching Forum Participants

9.30 – 13.30

Animation Producer Workshop

Ivan Zuber (FR)

*Open only to Animation Producer Workshop participants

 

With the support of the Institut Francais

12.00– 12.50

Masterclass

Making Dandelion’s Odyssey

Momoko Seto (JP)

 

12.50– 13.30

Presentation

Animating Greek Gastronomy: The Plato’s Plate Experience

Sotiris Bolis (GR), Andreas Lambropoulos (GR)

 

17.00 – 18:00

Roundtable

The contemporary animation scene in Croatia

Sunčana Brkulj (HR), Veljko Popović (HR), Jure Bušić - Jaka Produkcija (HR)

Dalibor Jakus - Animafest Zagreb (HR) - Moderator


18.00 – 19.00

Roundtable

Tech Meets Art: Animation Futures

Argyris Chatzitofis – moverse (GR)

Lazaros Anagnostopoulos -3Deers (GR)

Lazaros Boudakidis – TIFF (GR)

Aristotelis Maragkos (GR)

Dimitris Delinikolas - Empty Film (GR) - Moderator

9.30 – 17.00

International MIFA Campus Pitching Forum Workshop

Delphine Nicolini (FR), Jöelle Oosterlinck (FR), Agnѐs Patron (FR)

*Open only to Pitching Forum Participants

9.30 – 13.30

Animation Producer Workshop

Ivan Zuber (FR)

*Open only to Animation Producer Workshop participants

With the support of the Institut Francais

10:30– 11.30

Presentation

How I learned to stop worrying and love Rig Animation

THE HIVE GREECE

 

11.30 – 13.00

Masterclass

The animated world of Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton (US)

 

17.00 – 18.00

Presentation

Making the cut: better animation through editing

Bill Kinder (US)

 

18.00 – 19.00

Roundtable

Joanna Quinn & Nancy Denney-Phelps Talk Books - and anything else that pops into their heads

Joanna Quinn (UK), Nancy Denney-Phelps (BE)

9.30 – 15.30

International MIFA Campus Pitching Forum Workshop

Delphine Nicolini (FR), Jöelle Oosterlinck (FR), Agnѐs Patron (FR)

*Open only to Pitching Forum Participants

9.30 – 13.30

Animation Producer Workshop

Ivan Zuber (FR)

*Open only to Animation Producer Workshop participants

With the support of the Institut Francais

10:30 –11:30

Presentation

Handsome frames: An introduction into character layout

Kostas Firinidis (GR)

 

11.30 – 12.30

Work in Progress

Animation meets VR in the development of ZAKO: Tools, Process and Possibilities.

Tigran Arakelyan (AM)

 

13.00 – 14.30

Greek Animation Talks powered by the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center with Eva Stefani

Eva Stefani (GR)

 

17.00 – 18.00

Roundtable

Choosing to produce animation films in Europe today

Kerdi Oengo – Nukufilm (EE), Martin Vandas – Maur Film (CZ),

Paulina Zacharek – Momakin (PL)

Athena Kalkopoulou (GR) – Moderator

 

Online Presentation

18.00 – 18.40

Visualizing Space at NASA

Eleni Kostis – NASA (US)

Parallel events 

15.30 – 16.30

International MIFA Campus Pitching Forum Workshop

Pitching Forum Workshop Presentations

Final presentations of Pitching Forum Workshop participants.

 

16.30-17.00

Awards Ceremony of Greek-speaking Projects – Agora Pitching Forum

With the support of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) & the music production company MUSOU

ANIMEGARON Competition Awards Ceremony

In collaboration with Megaron the Athens Concert Hall

10.30 – 11.10

Roundtable

Creative Europe-MEDIA talks…

Susana Costa Pereira – Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Portugal (PT),

Anna Kasimati - Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Greece (GR)

 

11.10 – 11.50

Roundtable

Creativity and art: teaching or learning? 10 principles that keep us going

Zozeta Miliopoulou (GR), Maria Anestopoulou (GR) - Moderator

With the support of the American College of Greece Deree

 

11.50 – 12.30

Roundtable

Shaping European Animation: Film Institutions, Promotion & Production in Europe

Leonidas Christopoulos – E.K.K.O.ME.Δ (GR), Ronan McCabe – Animation Ireland (IE), Petra Zlonoga – Zagreb Film (HR), Justė Michailinaitė – Broom Films (LT)

Athena Kalkopoulou (GR) – Moderator

 

13.00 – 14.30

Greek Animation Talks powered by the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center with Eva Stefani

Eva Stefani (GR)

10.00 – 13.00

Animation Speed Dating powered by Enterprise Greece

Joanna Quinn (UK), Tigran Arakelyan (AM), Kerdi Oengo (EE), Martin Vandas (CZ), Paulina Zacharek (PL), Viviane Vanfleteren (BE), Barbara Dukas (GR)

*Open only to Animation Speed Dating Participants