Correspondent: Zhang Ruoqi
On March 11, the official website of the 2025 World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagrebannounced its selection list. The work “Bon Appetite” by Wang Ziyu and Yu Jinhong, 2021 animation majors from the School of Animation and Digital Arts at our university, stood out among 2,024 submissions from 92 countries and regions worldwide, securing a spot in the Student Film Competition category.
Screenshot of the 2025 Zagreb International Animation Festival Official Selection List
“Bon Appetite” is a joint creative coursework project completed by Wang Ziyu and Yu Jinhong under the guidance of professors Liu Dayu and Gao Weihua. The film explores the theme of symbiotic dependence in intimate relationships, using a sheep and a flower to symbolize male and female, respectively. It tells the surreal story of a sheep grazing in a garden that becomes fascinated by a unique purple flower. As the sheep consumes the flower, it is simultaneously absorbed by the flower, ultimately merging into the garden.
Founded in 1972, the Zagreb International Animation Festival is the second-longest-running animation festival in the world and is recognized by both the Oscars and the European Animation Awards (Emile Awards). Alongside the Annecy International Animation Festival in France, the Ottawa International Animation Festival in Canada, and the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan, it is regarded as one of the world's top four animation festivals. The festival aims to promote innovation in animation art, discover experimental works, and foster international collaboration within the animation industry, particularly renowned for its support of independent artistic animation. In 2025, the festival will be held from June 2 to 7 in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. The creators of “Bon Appetite” will be invited to attend the event in person.
(Editor: Li Jichu)
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