Festivals

DOVRE, July 2026 – The program for this year's Turku Animated Film Festival (TAFF) is out, and we are glad to find both Anita and myself in it. From 26 to 30 August, we will be in Turku, Finland, for what promises to be a rich few days among people who care deeply about handmade animation. There is something fitting about being invited to Turku. It is a festival with a strong feel for the craft – for the physical, made-by-hand side of our art form – which happens to be the gr

Dovre, June 16, 2026 Black Box has been officially selected for the Main Competition at Imaginaria — International Festival of Authorial Animated Films in Conversano, Italy. Imaginaria is an Oscar-qualifying festival and one of Europe's most respected platforms for auteur animation. To have Black Box included in this year's competition programme means a great deal to us. The timing feels right. Next week, we travel to Annecy for the world premiere of Black Box in the Official

DOVRE, March 25, 2026 – There are moments in this work that catch you off guard. You send a film out into the world, you wait – and then, quietly, something extraordinary happens. Black Box has been selected for the Official Short Films Competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival , taking place from 21st to 27th June 2026. I have been part of many festival journeys over the years. But this one feels a bit different. What Annecy Means Annecy is not just a

TOKYO, November 3rd – When the invitation arrived to lead a stop-motion workshop at Kineko International Film Festival for young Japanese children, Anita and Claus knew this was a challenge worth every ounce of preparation. And what a preparation it became. The weeks leading up to this day were filled with careful planning, creative problem-solving, and one very ambitious build: three portable multiplane stands, custom-designed and ready to travel across the world. A young a

Anita Killi's films get dedicated screening day at prestigious festival DOVRE/TOKYO, 2nd of September 2025 – Trollfilm AS with director...

We're delighted to participate in MIFA 2025 as part of the Nordic Animation Pavilion at Stand D.05. Trollfilm looks forward to...

Capture from the puppet animation musical "9 Million Colors" directed by Bára Anna ( Czech Republic) On Sunday, July 8th, the film 9...

Now just a couple of days before we are off to this years Le Festival du film d'animation in Annecy we got our hands on the new and...