2006 Neum Animated Film Festival (Neum 08.01.2006. – 15. 01. 2006.) RFAF 2006 developed from three working camps of animated cartoon: NEUM 2005, MOSTAR 2004 and NEUM 2004. 68 children from Bosnia and Herzegovina, including 16 of their professors were participants of these camps. 4 short animated films were made in these three camps: MODELINA, OLOVKO, MOSTARSKI LETAČI and MOJA MALA VALA.
More than 80 films from 22 countries applied to RFAF 2006 out of which 48 are competing for awards. By the decision of the Jury the prize(1 000 €) for best film goes to "The Candles" made by Russian author Victor Azeev . The Jury consisted of Asaf Dzanic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Josko Marusic (Croatia) and Robert Bubalo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

The first prize of the Festival, the Grand prix (1 500 € + art painting) goes to "King of Fools" made by German author Olaf Encke . The prize for the best 2D animation (500€) goes to film "Smoke" made by German author Claudia Romero . The prize for the best 3D animation (500 €) goes to film "Bibi" made by authors Lola Kamalova and Bek Shakirov from USA. "Vent" made by author Erika van Schaaik from the Netherlands. One of the prizes in the competition is given by the Jury while the other prizes are voted for by 10 young animators: Aleta Rajič, Zoran Bačić, Matej Kužić, Rajna Rajič, Sabina Pezo, Edin Durmišević, Mario Udženija, Ivo Mikulić, Emir Durmišević i Zdravko Cvjetković. During the "Working part of the festival" participants made animated film "Naša posla“ (3 min).

Members of international expert jury 2006 Neum Animated Film Festival

		Asaf Džanić was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1953. He graduated from School of Philosophy at the Univesity of Sarajevo, in 1975, majoring in comparative literature and essayist. On 1971, Mr. Dzanic was pronounced the Editor in Chief of the same magazine. A jury member for the film festivals in Valencia, Angers, Lille, Budapest, and a selector and organiser for presentations of B&H and Balkan films on different international film festivals. Mr. Dzanjc produces and hosts two TV shows on FTV BiH. He is as well author of four books.
		Joško Marušić was born 1952, in Split. He graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb. Mr. Marusic was an editor for HTV (Croatian TV), an art director for “Zagreb film”, a chairman of the Croatian Independent Artists Association and the program director for World Festival of Animated Films in Zagreb. Since 1999, he has served as principal of the Department of Animation at Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Mr. Marusic works as professor at University of Zagreb, and guest professor at few universities in Europe. He was member of many juries at festivals of short films. In several Croatian newspapers and magazines he has permanent cartoon-columns, and columns about theory of animation. For his animated films Marusic has won many awards. His the most important films are: «Inside and Out», «Perpetuo», «Home is the best», «Over there», «Miss Link»... His films «Fisheye», and «Skyscraper» were selected as outstanding films of the year at the London film festival. Teoretic and critic Gianalberto Bendazzi selected his film «I love You, too…» in collection «The best 84 films in the history of animation». He lives in Zagreb.
		Robert Bubalo, was born on December the 25,1969 in Zagreb, Croatia. Since 1993. he has been working for Croatian daily newspaper “Vecernji List”. In 2000, Bubalo was one of the organizers of the film festival (Film Revia) in Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In six years, Revia, grows into Mediterian Festival of Documentary films, and Mr. Bubalo has become the director of the festival. Bubalo directed several documentaries which were shown on different festivals. Now, he is the vice president of the Film Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Films in competition 2006 Neum Animated Film Festival

AUTOR	FILM	TRAJANJE	ZEMLJA
DARKO BUCAN	BESKONAČNA PRIČA	7:45	CRO
JURINKO RAJIČ	EMINA	4:00	BiH
RASTKO ĆIRIĆ	METAMORPH	10	SCG
PENCHOKUNCHEV	PLAVOOKI MJESEC	08:30	BULG
SIMONE MASSI	TINY SEA	04:00	ITL
SIMONE MASSI	PICOLA MARE	04:00	ITL
SUSANNE SEIDEL	A SLIPERY TALE	07:00	GER
STUDIO NEUM	MOLA MALA VALA	03:00	BiH
STUDIO NEUM	MOSTARSKI LETAČI	02:00	BiH
JURINKO RAJIČ	SPOMENIK	4:00	CRO
JURINKO RAJIČ	DELFIN	4:00	CRO
BRANKO ILIĆ	KONCERT	09:40	CRO
Lucy Lee	THE GATES OF HEAVEN	02:00	UK
Lucy Lee	WAITING	03:30	UK
Lucy Lee	SAFE	01:00	UK
LOLA KAMALOVA - BEK SHAKIROV	BIBI	06:40	USA
ERIK van SCHAAIK	VENT	04:30	NL
LUCETE BRAUNE	BEK	12:00	NL
PRIIT TENDER	MIRIAMS PLAYS HIDE-AND-SEEK	05:00	ESTONIA
RAO HEIDMETS	INSTINCT	10:00	ESTONIA
JELENA BEŠIR	OGLEDALO	08:00	SCG
LUCIE SUNKOVA	GERANIMUS	12:00	CZ
JORGE DAYAS	MANIPAI	11:00	ESP
DZINTARS KRUMINSH	CLOSET	05:00	LATVIJA
SHIVANI KHANNA	GIDOO S COSMIC  CRISIS	11:30	USA
DAVOR MEĐUREČAN	CIGANJSKA	09:19	CRO
MARKO MEŠTOVIĆ	- /  / -
DARKO KREČ	KUČICA U KROŠNJI	06:30	CRO
OLAF ENCKE	KING OF FOOLS	09.21	GER
STOJAN DUKOV	JOMEO I RULIJA	02.00	BUL
KHRISTOPHER KELLNER	ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HART	09.28	GER
CLAUDIA ROMERO	SMOKE	01:40	GER
ALEXEJ TCHERNY	FISH SOUP	13:00	GER
DIEK GROBLER	SANAS GARDEN	12:00	JAR
ROBERT TURLO	THE ICE MOUNTAIN	13:00	PL
ARTUR WROTNIEWSKI	THE LITTLE SOEMAKER	13:00	PL
MIROSLAVSIMONOVIĆ	U POZNU   JESEN	02:45	SCG
MAHBOD BAZRAFSHAN	KEJ	07:00	IRAN
STEVE CINIK	VATRENI POLJUBAC	01:30	CRO
DARKO MARKOVIĆ	PECKO		MAC
ALEXSANDR GORIEMKO	JEDNA OD TISUĆU NOĆI	17:55	RUS
DARKO KREČ	NIVO9	04:20	CRO
STIV CINIK	LJUBIMAC		CRO
VICTOR AZEEV	THE CANDLES	15:00	RUS
MELINA SIDNEJ PADUA	AGRIKULTURAL RAPORT	02:00	IRSKA
RICO GRUNENFELDER	PICO TAKES OFF	08:00	SVICARSK
JAN ANDERSSON	HANDKERCHIEFS FOR SALE	17:00	FINSKA
ROGER BLONDER	WONDER WATER WEB	06:00	USA