Dallas, Texas!!

Thrilled to announce that the animation short film THE MAGICIAN, by Bogdan Muresanu, is an Official Selection at the amazing DIFF Shorts, taking place at the fabulous Angelika Film Center in Dallas, TX, October 16–18.

DIFF Shorts is a three-day celebration of short-form storytelling, taking place October 16–18, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. Featuring screenings of over 100 films, the festival transforms Dallas into the epicenter of short cinema for one unforgettable weekend.

THE MAGICIAN had its world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.
Since then, it has competed at countless film festivals around the world, including numerous festivals that qualify for the Hollywood Oscars.

Bogdan Muresanu won the European Film Academy Award and was also an Oscar finalist for his previous short film, THE CHRISTMAS GIFT

Bogdan Muresanu about THE MAGICIAN:

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.