🇽🇰 The 12th International Cartoon Festival – Ferizaj 2026 has announced its official list of participants, bringing together 369 cartoonists from 62 countries in this year's international competition.
🖼️ The participating artists submitted a total of 1,374 cartoons across the festival's two themes, reflecting a remarkable diversity of artistic ideas and creative approaches.
⚽ 238 caricature portraits were submitted for the special theme dedicated to Kosovo football legend Fadil Vokrri, while 1,136 cartoons were submitted in the Free Theme category.
👥 List of Participants:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
Mehdi Yosefi
🇩🇿 Algeria
Abdylghani Benhariza
Nasereddine Ghezaili
Sakhraoui Tarek
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Ameen Alhabarah
🇦🇷 Argentina
Andres Alvez
Gabriel Eduardo Ferrari
Gerardo Perez Rosario
Ernesto Moyano
Martin Fallocca
Santiago Cornejo
🇦🇺 Australia
Louis Pol
Paul Rochester
🇦🇹 Austria
Klaus Pitter
Peter Hagenauer
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
Seyran Caferli
Soltan Soltanli
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
Nasif Ahmed
🇧🇪 Belgium
Luc Descheemaeker
Partick Heymans
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hule Hanushiq
Senad Nadarevic
🇧🇷 Brazil
Acacio Junior
Angelo Pastro
Cival Einstein
Demetrio Koch Junior
Dimaz Restivo
Evaldo Santos Oliveira
Francisko Ferreth
Joacir Dias Xavier
Jose Antonio Costa
Jose Augustobde Oliveir
Junior Nascimento-Ray Costa
Luis Fernando Werle
Moises Masedo Coutinho
Neltair Abreu
Nilo Trovo
Raimundo Waldez da C. Duarte
Ricardo Freitas Donga
Ronaldo Cunha Dias
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Aleksandar Lyubomirov Simov
Chavdar Georgiev
Irien Trendafilov
Maya Tcholakova
Tsocho Peev
Valentin Georgiev
Zhivko Tenev
🇪🇬 Egypt
Ahmed Mansour
Ahmet Samir Farid
Dr. Hader Yehia
Ghada Mostafa
Hadir Meckawy
Khedr Hassan Habib
Ola Khalil
Omar Seddek
Rabab Ibrahim Al-Badrawi
Wesam Khalil
🇪🇪 Estonia
Roman Matkiewicz
🇫🇷 France
Gerald Peigneux
Joan Loic Belom
🇩🇪 Germany
Abdalmuhymen Badawi
Hossein Eskandari
Yousef Alimohammadi
Sabine Voigt
Steffen Jahsnowski
Valeriu Kurtu
🇬🇷 Greece
Demetrios Coutarelli
🇭🇺 Hungary
Gergely Bacsa
🇮🇳 India
Abani Kumar Rath
B.V. Panduranga Rao
Dr. Hemant Dhaval
Himanshi Tyagi
Malatesh Garadimani
Madhu K
Manu Mohan
Munduru Sekhar Rao
Shiva Thipparthy
Siva Subbarao
Soma Suresh
Venkatesh Jakkulla
Venugopal Galistetty
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Agus Eko Santoso
Agus Widodo
Armen Hamonangan
Hengki Reza Putra
Jitet Kustana
Madhu K
Munadi Hp
Taufan Hidayatullah
Tito Alexi
🇮🇶 Iraq
Handren Khoshnav
Jabar Saber Qader Lasi
🇮🇷 Iran
Abbas Naaseri
Abolghasem Tahanian
Ahmed Reza Sohrabi
Alireza Pakdel
Ali Asadollahi
Ali Faridradpour
Ali Ghasemi
Ali Shabani
Ali Sheshkalani
Ali Zangooei
Amin Montazeri
Amir Reza Torkaman Rahmani
Armin Ganjdeh
Arshia Darabi
Arwin Sobati
Atefeh Yarian
Babak Pouladi
Bahram Zangenehnia
Banamar Brahim
Bani Shariat
Behrang Jeddi
Behtash Hezaveh
Davood Afrazi
Davood Kamali
Efat Amjadipoor
Elham Jahanfard
Elham Khoshanjam
Esmaeil Babaei
Fareshte Ramshini
Guilda Khalife
Fatemeh Abdi
Hadi Lagzyan
Hamed Mortazavi Alavi
Hamid Ghalijari
Hamid Soufi
Hassan Ali Sahzabi
Hossein Abdollahi Adli
Hossein Kazem
Hossein Sheshkalani
Jalil Saberi
Louisa Hedayati
Mahdieh Sabaghkar
Mahmood Nazari
Mahmoud Arabkermani
Mahshid Hashemi
Marzieh Mansouri
Mehdi Askari
Mehdi Azizi
Mehdi Gholamnejad
Meysam Jafarkhani
Mobin Saedi
Mohammad Hashemi
Mohammad Raei
Mohammad Reza Haghshenas
Mohammad Saleh Razm Hosseini
Mohsen Gholami
Mokhtar Esmaeili
Mozhdeh Malek Oghli
Naser Nargessi
Nazli Nagavi (nën 16 vjeç)
Neda Ganhaei Moghadam
Nilya Sadat Mirrezae (nën 18 vjeç)
Pardakhteh Mohammad Javad
Razieh Razeghi
Roham Amirpour
Salar Eshratkhah
Saeb Ziayi
Sejjida Fatima Zahra Hosseini
Shahab Torabi
Shahram Shirzadi
Shahram Yaghoubi
Sirous Abaspour
Vahid Alimohammadi
Vahid Khodayar
Yalda Hasheminezhad
Zahra Roozbahani
Zeynab Firozi
🇮🇹 Italy
Agim Sulaj
Emilio Isca
Friedrih Tasser
Giorgio Gino Giunta
Mario Magnati
Vladimiro Di Stefano
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Boris Erenburg
ilya Katz
Sergey Sichenko
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
Ansa Mustafa
🇨🇱 Chile
Jaimo Huerta (Galo)
🇨🇳 China
Ba Bilig
Cai Wei Bin
Daipei Cheng
Dong Hanyong
Fan Lintao
Fatemeh Masoumeh Boalhasani 13 vjeçe
Feng Deguang
Feng Guang Mi
Feng Youbin-Fenghuo (nuk janë hapur)
Fereshteh Rostami Chenari
Gao Lin
Gao Xiang
Guangjun Li
Han Yuchen
Hong Xue
Hou Lu
Huang Qigong
Huang Zhikai
Huanram Chen
Jia Ruijun
Jing Shan Li
Jingyan Qi
Kuang Zuhai
Lan Bo
Liang Yu
Liang Junqi
Lina Wang
Liu Tao
Liu Qiu Lian
Ning Bin
Ronghai Huang
Shen Hong Li
Song Xu Sheng
Qengkuang Wang
Qiao Wei
Wang Çen
Wang Da Peng
Wang Yiyang
Wang Wei
Weidong Cai
Wei Li
Wen Guo
Wenran Sun
Xiaoqiang Hou
Xinlu Li
Xinyu Li
Xinxin Yu
Xu Lin
Yang Lijie
Yang Xiaobo
Yanh Xinzhi
Yong Tao
Zhao Yunsheng Hi
Zheng Shuangbao
Zhijun Li
Zhonwei Yang
Zhu Tong
Zhu Yinying
Zhu Zizun
🇨🇴 Colombia
Fernando Pica
Hernán Darío Muñoz Sánchez
Raul Fernando Zuleta
🇽🇰 Kosovo
Fatmir Buqa
Gëzim Brestovci
Nevruz Musa
Qazim Tmava
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Luis Demetrio Calvo Solís
🇭🇷 Croatia
Ivan Grahovec
Josip Kovacevic Enco
Oleg Perčinić
Slobodan Butir
Valentina Tolstopiatova
🇨🇺 Cuba
Javier Cubero Torres
Jorge Sánchez Armas
Jorge Urgelles
Jose Zorilla
Joze Alberto Rodriguez Avila
Miguel Morales
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Ilja Bereznickas
Vladimiras Beresniovas
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Hoor Effanizah Binti Jasni
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
Keti Radevska
Mile Mancevski
Zlatko Krstevski
🇲🇦 Morocco
Derkaoui Abdellah
Jamal Sahif
Aziz Bouzekri
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Mark Winter
Talimanov Alexei
🇲🇽 Mexico
Arturo Rosas
Gabriel Lopez
🇲🇲 Myanmar
Ngai Oo
Thein Tun Oo
🇲🇳 Mongolia
Bing Ling
Jia Meng
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
Wilber Chavarria Centeno
🇵🇦 Panama
Hildebrando Surce
🇵🇪 Peru
Berly Revadeneira Sanchez
Edwin Morales Gonzales
Julio Carrion
Omar Zevallos Velarde
Walter Toscano
🇵🇱 Poland
Dariusz Dabrowski
Henryk Cebula
Jacek Frackievicz
Michal Graczyk
Tadeusz Krotos
Tomasz Rogowski
Zbigniew Piszczako
🇵🇹 Portugal
Antonio Santos
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Evžen David
Tomáš Truneček
🇰🇷 South Korea
Yong Myong Lee
🇷🇴 Romania
Cretu Marin
Cristinel Vecerdea
Cornel Marginean
Liviu Stanila
Marcel Claudiu Morariu
Marin Chiorean - Cornel
Marian Lupu
Mihai Gabriel Boboc
Sandu Teodora-Gabriela
Silviu Bartis
🇷🇺 Russia
Aleksej Kivokurcev
Alexander Shmidt
Fedor Alekseev
Igor Smirnov
Jurij Kosarev
Konstantin Chakhirov
Nikolay Chernyshev
Nikolay Popov
Roman Peshkov
Viktor Khrushch
Vladimir Khakhanov
Vladimir Tjurin
🇷🇸 Serbia
Goran Celicanin
Milorad Rankov
Mladen Oljača
🇺🇸 USA
Rozbeh Jafarzadeh
🇸🇾 Syria
Raed Khalil
🇸🇰 Slovakia
Darina Kličková
Roman Sika
🇦🇱 Albania
Arben Meksi
Elidor Kruja
Endri Beqo
Nikola Papalilo
🇪🇸 Spain
David Vela
Gerard Kosta
Juan Gabriel Benavides
🇸🇪 Sweden
Midhat Ajanovic
🇹🇭 Thailand
Tawan Chuntraskawong
🇹🇼 Taiwan
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🇹🇷 Turkey
Abdullah Torun
Ayten Köse
Ayaz Metin Nën 18 vjeç
Banu Mogulkoç
Beyza Inan
Eda Uzunoglu
Ender Tunal
Erhan Yasar Babalik
Fahriye Çitakli
Hülya Kölüke
ilker Mansuroglu
Ismail Kar
Kemal Yilmaz
Mehmet Eren Koç
Mehmet Tubay
Mehmet Zeber
Mustafa Yildiz
Oguz Gurel
Oktay Bingöl
Ozcan Çaliskan
Sabit Aydin
Sahra Makara
Seyit Saatçi
Tanju Özkan
Tuna Ceylan
Zeki Ozan Soyman
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Alexander Dubovsky
Evgenij Grigoriev
Ivan Turucko
Michael Mayevsky
Talimanov Alexei
Valery Momot
🇺🇾 Uruguay
Luis Haro Dominguez
César Andrés Leal Ramirez
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
Husan Sodiqov
Makhmud Eshonqulov
Muzaffar Yulchiboev
🏆 The international jury is currently evaluating the submitted works, with the award ceremony, exhibition opening, and official catalog launch scheduled for September 2026 in Ferizaj, Kosovo.