The 1st Voronezh International Animation Festival is a review of contemporary professional national and global animated movies for the children's, teenagers' and family audience. A feature of the festival is its format of a workshop, which will include not only screenings and discussions of animated movies but also workshops, discussions and creative meetings for the wide audience by the leading experts of Voronezh Animation Studio and acknowledged professionals of the world animation industry. The program of the workshop will present animation as one of the most rapidly developing kinds of arts and creative industries.

The festival is held with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Voronezh Oblast Government.