“People would not imagine that there’s a film festival in Panama that can be exciting, that can be a new experience – bu there is”.

Animation is not only for kids.

“It’s a week of friendliness and celebration of film”.

“The ICO is really an organisation that believes that cinema can change people’s lives”.

“We invest a lot in short-film makers: if you want to grow an industry, that’s where it starts”.

“In Switzerland people know about the short film culture, and they love, adore and respect it; in other places we have to build it up”.

“The idea is that you can kind of take a journey with film through Europe”.

“Our mission as a film festival is that we want people to understand that short films matter!”

A project dedicated to the development of films for a young audience

From book to film: the challenges of “adaptation”