Thrilled to announce that Bogdan Muresanu‘s short film THE MAGICIAN has been selected to be screened as part of the 14th Animation Dingle Program. This is yet another Hollywood Oscar qualifying festival to select this wonderful animated short film produced between Romania, Croatia, and France.

Animation Dingle will take place on 19-21 March 2026.

THE MAGICIAN is the new short film by Bogdan Muresanu, winner of the European Film Academy Award and FINALIST at the Hollywood Oscars.

Director Statement

“I wanted to revive a bygone world and the technique of animation allowed me to recreate, from stills, the settings in which the action of the movie takes place, but I also wanted to get to the essence of the story. And here I think animation was a medium that suited my intention: not to illustrate the glory of a bygone world, through the fate of a once exuberant and cosmopolitan port, now reduced to the dimensions of a forgotten small town, but to represent the substance of the story I wrote many years ago,” says Bogdan Mureșanu.
“Film, especially animated film, which is supposed to be a total visual invention, has to produce an image that, at best, then hangs on the walls of those ‘dark corridors’ in the viewer’s mind.”, adds the director.

THE MAGICIAN premiered worldwide at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.
It has since been selected for numerous qualifying festivals for the Hollywood Oscars.

Stay tuned. In a few days, we will announce new successes for this impressive European animated film.

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