Seoul, Januar 2010

Dear all ASIFA members,

Happy New Year 2010 and Happy 50th Anniversary of ASIFA!

I wish all of board members, chapters, groups as well as individual members the very best year 2010… (read more)

Tokyo, December 2006

“Understand cultural differences”

Dear Friends,

ASIFA is an international association which aims to promote the exchanging and understanding of cultural differences, as well as to pursue lasting world peace through the development of animation art culture.

Although… (read more)

Teheran, January 2004

“Animation and Earthquake”

It has been more than three decades that I’ve been a member of ASIFA and quite a few years serving as its Board member. During these years many things inside and outside ASIFA have… (read more)

Vienna, March 2002

“Open the doors !”

Dear Friends,

I wish to thank Abi Feijo for the work he has done as a president of ASIFA, and the ASIFA Board members for their confidence in accepting me as his successor.(…)… (read more)

Porto, 2001
(Welcome Message in ASIFA News, Nr.1, 2001)

Dear Friends,

It is a great honour form me to be the new ASIFA President and a great challenge to continue the work of honourable presidents such as Michel Ocelot, Raoul… (read more)

Michel Ocelot (ASIFA president, 1994-1999)

Independence – moral power, a price to pay

The fundamental internationalism of ASIFA goes with a total independence. The association was formed by free individuals, with no intervention by governments, super national bodies,… (read more)

Raoul Servais (ASIFA president, 1988-93)

International without fuss

Many international associations began as local organisations which grew first to a national level and then, when their activities and reputations flowed across their national borders, to their legally constituted international identities.… (read more)