Animation
Following the FIPRESCI Centenary General Assembly, the FIPRESCI board has established an animation subgroup.
In 2025, animated cinema can no longer be considered “niche” or “children’s content”. Animated features such as Memoir of a Snail, Arco or Flow have proven that the medium is limitless, while short and animated docs explore the richness of animation daily. FIPRESCI
As of 2023, there were more than a hundred and fifty festivals dedicated to animation around the world, yet none had FIPRESCI juries.
Our Federation is now taking steps to correct this shortcoming, by establishing new jury collaborations, and bringing together members from national sections and individual members who share an interest in the animated medium.
Starting from the second Federation’s century, new partnerships with animation festivals are unveiled by FIPRESCI, and other initiatives and activities are planned to connect animation experts and members together around the animated medium.
Kévin Giraud, member of the Belgian section and a film critic / journalist specializing in the medium, has been confirmed by the Board as animation liaison. Interested parties can reach out to him via email : kgiraud@1030waysto.be
Children Cinema
Children’s cinema represents one of the most vital yet historically undervalued areas of film culture. While today’s young audiences are the cinema-goers of tomorrow, films made for children have often been marginalized, misunderstood, or reduced to market categories rather than assessed through critical and artistic lenses.
FIPRESCI recognizes children’s films as a distinct cinematic form—neither films about children for adults, nor simplified entertainment—but works that engage directly with young audiences through meaningful storytelling, aesthetic ambition, and respect for their intellectual and emotional capacities. These films span genres and styles, from realism to animation and fantasy, reflecting the everyday realities of children across cultures while daring to explore new themes and cinematic approaches.
FIPRESCI seeks to strengthen its engagement with children’s and youth cinema by expanding jury presence at major international festivals and bringing together critics with a specific interest in this field, reaffirming children’s film as a crucial pillar of cinematic art and an essential investment in the future of cinema itself.
Health&Sustainability
The accelerated pace of the contemporary film industry, combined with increasing economic pressure, shrinking cultural spaces, and global uncertainty, has profoundly reshaped the working conditions of film critics and journalists worldwide. Extensive travel, demanding deadlines, constant content overload, precarity of income, and political or editorial pressure have made questions of mental and physical health, professional sustainability, and ethical practice impossible to ignore. At the same time, cinema itself has become a crucial space for reflecting on medicine, well-being, trauma, care, ecological responsibility, and the human cost of creative industries.
In response, FIPRESCI is establishing a Health & Sustainability subgroup to bring together members with expertise or strong interest in these intersecting fields—critics with medical or academic backgrounds, practitioners of mindfulness and well-being, specialists in sustainable cultural practices, conflict mediation, or labor ethics, as well as those seeking to better understand and address these challenges.
FIPRESCI aims to foster dialogue, research, workshops, and partnerships that promote a healthier, more sustainable critical practice, while encouraging cinema that engages thoughtfully with health, care, and responsibility—both on screen and within the industry itself.
