The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film is the largest German and one of the most important and traditional international documentary film festivals. The festival was founded in 1955 by the Film Club of the GDR as the All-German Leipzig Week for Cultural and Documentary Film and was thus the first independent film festival in the GDR. Under the direction of Wolfgang Kernicke, it was established as an annual international film festival from 1960 onwards. The festival programme consists of competitions, information and special programmes and retrospectives. Artistic animated film has been an integral part of the festival for decades and has been represented by an independent competition since 1995.

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