opportunity to network with their colleagues. Today the OIAF continues to grow and is known in the festival world for its practice of pitting both commercial and independent projects in competition with one another, a strategy which leads to a wide breadth of styles and formats. The OIAF features traditionally-drawn animated films, animation made with computer graphics, and more recently, even projects made in virtual reality. Grand prize winners 2022 - Best Feature: Dozens of Norths - Koji Yamamura (France) 2022 - Best Short: Bird in the Peninsula - Atsushi Wada (France) 2021 - Best Short: Honekami (A Bite of Bone) - Honami Yano (Japan) 2021 - Best Feature: Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People - Cesar Cabral (Brazil) 2020 - Best Feature: Kill It and Leave This Town - Mariusz Wilczynski (Poland) 2020 - Best Short: KKUM - Kang-min Kim (South Korea/USA) 2019 - Best Feature: On-Gaku: Our Sound - Kenji Iwaisawa (Japan) 2019 - Best Short: Don't Know What - Thomas Renoldner (Austria) 2018 - Best Feature: This Magnificent Cake! - Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels (Belgium) 2018 - Best Short: Solar Walk - Réka Bucsi (Denmark, Hungary) 2017 - Best Feature: The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan) 2017 - Best Short: Ugly - Nikita Diakur (Germany) 2016 - Best Feature: Louise en Hiver - Jean-François Laguionie (France/Canada) 2016 - Best Short: J'aime les filles - Diane Obomsawin (Canada) 2015 - Best Short: Small People With Hats - Sarina Nihei, (UK) 2015 - Best Feature: Over the Garden Wall - Patrick McHale, (USA, South Korea) 2014 - Best Short: Hippos (Hipopotamy) - Piotr Dumala, (Poland) 2014 - Best Feature: Seth's Dominion - Luc Chamberland, (Canada) 2013 - Best Feature: Tito on Ice - Max Andersson (Germany, Sweden) 2013 - Best Short: Lonely Bones - Rosto, (France, Netherlands) 2012 - Best Feature: Wrinkles - Ignacio Ferreras (Spain) 2012 - Best Short: Junkyard - Hisko Hulsing, (Netherlands) 2011 - Best Feature: Dead but not Buried - Phil Mulloy (UK) 2011 - Best Short: Moxie - Stephen Irwin (UK) 2010 - Best Feature: Goodbye Mister Christie - Phil Mulloy (UK) 2010 - Best Short: The External World - David O'Reilly (Ireland) 2009 - Best Short: Kaasündinud Kohustused (Inherent Obligations) - by Rao Heidmets, Estonia 2009 - Best Feature: Mary and Max - Adam Elliot (Australia) 2008 - Best Feature: Terra - Aristomenis Tsirbas (USA)