Annecy International Animated Film Festival
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The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (Festival International du Film d'Animation d'Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy
, France
. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became annual in 1998. It is one of the four international animated film festivals sponsored by the Association d'International du Film d'Animation (or ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association
).
The festival is a competition between cartoon films of various techniques (animated drawings, cut out papers, modelling clay, etc) classified in various categories:
Throughout the festival, in addition to the competing films projected in various cinemas of the city, an open-air night projection is organized on Pâquier, in the centre of town, amongst the lake and with the mountains. According to the topic of the festival, classic or recent films are projected upon the giant screen. In 2003, Pink Floyd's The Wall
, Corto Maltese
, Secret Court of the Mysteries were shown, in 2000, South Park. On Saturday evening, all the award winners are presented.
Annecy
Annecy is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy , 35 kilometres south of Geneva.-Administration:...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became annual in 1998. It is one of the four international animated film festivals sponsored by the Association d'International du Film d'Animation (or ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association
International Animated Film Association
The International Animated Film Association or ASIFA is an international non-profit organization founded in 1960 in Annecy, France by the best known animation artists of the time such as the Canadian animator, Norman McLaren...
).
The festival is a competition between cartoon films of various techniques (animated drawings, cut out papers, modelling clay, etc) classified in various categories:
- Feature films
- Short films
- Films produced for television and advertising
- Student films
- Films made for the internet (since 2002)
Throughout the festival, in addition to the competing films projected in various cinemas of the city, an open-air night projection is organized on Pâquier, in the centre of town, amongst the lake and with the mountains. According to the topic of the festival, classic or recent films are projected upon the giant screen. In 2003, Pink Floyd's The Wall
Pink Floyd The Wall (film)
Pink Floyd—The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated musical film directed by Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. The film is highly metaphorical and is rich in symbolic imagery and sound...
, Corto Maltese
Corto Maltese
Corto Maltese is a comics series featuring an eponymous character, a complex sailor-adventurer. It was created by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt in 1967...
, Secret Court of the Mysteries were shown, in 2000, South Park. On Saturday evening, all the award winners are presented.
Short films
| Year | Title |
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| 1960 | Lev a pisnicka (Grand prix) |
| 1962 | The Flying Man (Grand prix) |
| 1963 | Spatne namalovana slepice (Grand prix) |
| 1965 | La demoiselle et le violoncelliste (Grand prix) |
| 1967 | Arès contre Atlas (Grand prix) |
| Klatki (Grand prix) | |
| Krotitelj divljih konja (Grand prix) | |
| The Breath (Grand prix) | |
| 1971 | Apel (Grand prix) |
| Nevesta (Grand prix) | |
| The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam (Grand prix) | |
| 1973 | Frank Film Frank Film Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short film. It is a compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is... (Grand prix) |
| 1975 | Le Pas (Grand prix) |
| 1977 | David (Grand prix) |
| The Sand Castle The Sand Castle The Sand Castle is a 1977 stop motion animated short by Co Hoedeman. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 50th Academy Awards, the film was produced by Gaston Sarault for the National Film Board of Canada.-External links:*... (Grand prix) |
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| 1979 | Afterlife Afterlife (animated short) Afterlife is a 1978 animated short by Ishu Patel that takes an impressionistic look at life after death. Based on recent studies, case histories and myths, the afterlife state is portrayed as a working-out of all the individual's past experiences... (Grand prix) |
| Mr. Pascal (Grand prix) | |
| 1981 | Tango (Grand prix) |
| 1983 | Možnosti dialogu Dimensions of Dialogue Dimensions of Dialogue is a 1982 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer. It is 14 minute long and created with stop motion.-Plot:The animation is divided into three sections... (Grand prix) |
| 1985 | Een griekse tragedie (Grand prix) |
| 1987 | L'homme qui plantait des arbres The Man Who Planted Trees The Man Who Planted Trees , also known as The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met, and The Man Who Planted Hope and Reaped Happiness, is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953.It tells the story of one shepherd's long and successful... (Grand prix) |
| Smatchkan sviat (Grand prix) | |
| 1991 | The Hill Farm (Grand prix) |
| 1993 | Le Fleuve aux grandes eaux (Grand prix) |
| 1995 | Switchcraft (Grand prix du court métrage) |
| 1997 | The Old Lady and the Pigeons The Old Lady and the Pigeons The Old Lady and the Pigeons is a 1997 French animated short film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It tells the story of a hungry policeman who dresses up as a pigeon and tricks an old lady to feed him. It was Chomet's debut film... (Grand prix du court métrage) |
| 1998 | Nachtvlinders (Grand prix du court métrage) |
| 1999 | When the Day Breaks When the Day Breaks When the Day Breaks is an Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1999, the 9 min. 40 sec. film garnered numerous awards, including the Genie Award for Best Animated Short and the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film... (Grand prix du court métrage) |
| 2000 | The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea (1999 film) The Old Man and the Sea is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Animated Short Film... (Grand prix du court métrage) |
| 2001 | Father and Daughter Father and Daughter (film) Father and Daughter is a 2000 Dutch animated short film, made by Michaël Dudok De Wit. It won the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.... (Grand prix du court métrage) |
| 2002 | Barcode (Grand prix du court métrage) |
| 2003 | Atama Yama (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
| 2004 | Lorenzo Lorenzo (film) Lorenzo is a 2004 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation about a cat, Lorenzo, who is "dismayed to discover that his tail has developed a personality of its own." The short was directed by Mike Gabriel and produced by Baker Bloodworth... (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
| 2005 | The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello is a 2005 Australian short film. The first episode is labeled Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship.- Story :The First Voyage - Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship... (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
| 2006 | Histoire tragique avec fin heureuse (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
| 2007 | Peter & the Wolf (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
| 2008 | La maison en petits cubes La Maison en Petits Cubes is a 2008 Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katō, with music by Kenji Kondo. It won several prizes, the most important of which being the Grand prize for short films at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2008 and the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film... (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
| 2009 | Slavar (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
| 2010 | The Lost Thing The Lost Thing -Plot:Set in the near future, in dystopian Melbourne, Australia, The Lost Thing is a story about a boy who enjoys collecting bottle tops for his bottle top collection. One day, while collecting bottle caps near a beach, he discovers a strange creature, that seems to be a combination of an... (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
| 2011 | Pixels (Le Cristal d'Annecy) |
Feature films
| Year | English title | Original title | Director |
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| 1985 | Heroic Times Heroic Times Heroic Times is a 1984 Hungarian animated fantasy-adventure film directed by József Gémes. It is an adaptation of the Toldi trilogy, a 19th century epic poem in three parts by János Arany. The film was produced through Pannonia Film Studio and is notable for its visual style, which resembles oil... |
Daliás idők | József Gémes |
| 1987 | When the Wind Blows | Jimmy Murakami Jimmy Murakami Teruaki "Jimmy" Murakami, , is a Japanese American animator and director with a long career working in numerous countries. Among his best-known works are the animated adaptations of the Raymond Briggs books When the Wind Blows and The Snowman... |
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| 1989 | Alice Alice (1988 film) Alice is a 1988 Czechoslovak film directed by Jan Švankmajer. Its original Czech title is Něco z Alenky, which means "Something from Alice". It is a free adaptation of Lewis Carroll's first Alice book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, about a girl who follows a white rabbit into a bizarre fantasy... |
Něco z Alenky | Jan Švankmajer Jan Švankmajer Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.- Life and career :Jan... |
| 1991 | Robinson & Co | Robinson et compagnie | Jacques Colombat |
| 1993 | Porco Rosso Porco Rosso Porco Rosso, known in Japan as is the sixth anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by Studio Ghibli and released in 1992, of an Italian World War I fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates" in the Adriatic Sea. The man has been cursed and transformed into... |
紅の豚, Kurenai no Buta | Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli,... |
| 1995 | Pom Poko Pom Poko is a 1994 Japanese animated film, the eighth written and directed by Isao Takahata and animated by Studio Ghibli.Consistent with Japanese folklore, the tanuki are portrayed as a highly sociable, mischievous species, able to use "illusion science" to transform into almost anything, but too... |
平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko | Isao Takahata Isao Takahata is a Japanese anime filmmaker that have earned critical international acclaim for his work as a director. Takahata is co-founder of Studio Ghibli with long-time collaborative partner Hayao Miyazaki. He has directed films such as the war-themed Grave of the Fireflies, the romantic-drama Only... |
| 1997 | James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach (film) James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation.... |
Henry Selick Henry Selick Henry Selick is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline... |
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| 1998 | I Married a Strange Person! I Married a Strange Person! I Married a Strange Person! is a 1997 musical animated feature film by Bill Plympton. When Grant Boyer's satellite TV dish is hit by two birds in mid-coitus, just days before his own wedding, he gains a special secret power. His imagination is no longer something that just goes on in his head -... |
Bill Plympton Bill Plympton William "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in... |
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| 1999 | Kirikou and the Sorceress Kirikou and the Sorceress Kirikou and the Sorceress is a 1998 Franco-Belgian animated film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. Drawn directly from West African folk tales, it tells of how a newborn boy saves his village by ridding them of the evil witch Karaba... |
Kirikou et la sorcière | Michel Ocelot Michel Ocelot Michel Ocelot is a French writer, character designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association... |
| 2001 | Mutant Aliens Mutant Aliens Mutant Aliens is a 2001 animated film by American filmmaker Bill Plympton. The film is more or less a spoof of B monster movies, featuring Plympton's own distinctive animation style and gratuitous sex and violence.... |
Bill Plympton | |
| 2002 | My Beautiful Girl, Mari My Beautiful Girl, Mari My Beautiful Girl, Mari is a critically successful South Korean animated film. It follows the story of a young boy during summer vacation and ascends into flights of surrealistic fantasy, which may or may not be dream sequences.-Plot:Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him... |
마리 이야기, Mari Iyagi | Lee Seong-kang Lee Seong-kang Lee Seong-kang is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He achieved notoriety with his animated films-Filmography:* My Beautiful Girl, Mari... |
| 2003 | My Life as McDull My Life as McDull My Life as McDull is a Chinese animated feature film from Hong Kong released in 2001. The film surrounds the life of McDull, a hugely popular cartoon pig character created by Alice Mak and Brian Tse which has appeared on comics ever since the 1990s... |
麥兜故事, Mak dau goo si | Brian Tse Brian Tse Brian Tse is the author of the Hong Kong children comic, "McMug and McDull" series. He is one of the two creators of the cartoon characters McMug and McDull. His wife is responsible for the illustration... |
| 2004 | Oseam | 오세암 | Sung Baek-yeop |
| 2005 | The District! The District! The District! is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a shortened colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület, the eighth district of Budapest, also known as Józsefváros, including an infamous neighbourhood where the film takes place... |
Nyócker! | Áron Gauder |
| 2006 | Renaissance Renaissance (film) Renaissance is a 2006 French black-and-white animated science fiction film by French director Christian Volckman. It was co-produced in France, United Kingdom and Luxembourg and released on 15 March 2006 in France and 28 July 2006 in the UK by Miramax Films... |
Christian Volckman Christian Volckman Christian Volckman , a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris, is a French painter, graphic designer, photographer, author and producer.... |
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| 2007 | Free Jimmy Free Jimmy Free Jimmy is a Norwegian/British computer animated feature film first released in Norwegian language in 2006, and later in English language in 2008. The film was written and directed by acclaimed Norwegian subculture comic book artist Christopher Nielsen... |
Slipp Jimmy fri | Christopher Nielsen Christopher Nielsen Christopher Nielsen is a Norwegian comics artist. He is especially known for his subcultural depictions. Nielsen got his first comics printed in 1980 after entering a competition in the Norwegian anarchist magazine, Gateavisa. Only three years later he got his first album published... |
| 2008 | Sita Sings the Blues Sita Sings the Blues Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley , primarily using 2D computer graphics and Flash Animation.It intersperses events from the Ramayana, illustrated conversation between Indian shadow puppets,... |
Nina Paley Nina Paley Nina Paley is an Americancartoonist, animator and free culture activist.She directed the animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues. She was the artist and often the writer of comic strips Nina's Adventures and Fluff, but most of her recent work has been in animation... |
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| 2009 | Coraline Coraline (film) Coraline is a 2009 stop-motion 3D fantasy/horror children's film based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 novel of the same name. It was produced by Laika and distributed by Focus Features. Written and directed by Henry Selick, it was released widely in US theaters on February 6, 2009, after a world premiere at... |
Henry Selick | |
| Mary and Max Mary and Max Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian clay-animated black comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. The voice cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore, with narration by Barry Humphries. The film premiered on the... |
Adam Elliot Adam Elliot Adam Elliot is an independent stop-motion animation writer and director based in Melbourne, Australia. His five films have collectively participated in over six-hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Oscar for Harvie Krumpet and the Annecy Cristal for Mary... |
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| 2010 | Fantastic Mr. Fox Fantastic Mr. Fox (film) Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 American stop-motion animated film based on the Roald Dahl children's novel of the same name. This story is about a fox who steals food each night from three mean and wealthy farmers. The farmers are fed up with Mr Fox's theft and try to kill him, so they dig their way... |
Wes Anderson Wes Anderson Wesley Wales Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials.... |
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| 2011 | The Rabbi's Cat The Rabbi's Cat The Rabbi's Cat is a 2011 French animated film directed by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux, based on volume one, two and five of Sfar's comics series with the same title. It tells the story of a cat which obtains the ability to speak after swallowing a parrot, and its owner who is a rabbi in... |
Le Chat du rabbin | Joann Sfar Joann Sfar Joann Sfar is a French comics artist, comic book creator and film director.-Life and career:Sfar was born in Nice. He is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by... and Antoine Delesvaux |
Films produced for television
| Year | Title |
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| 1995 | Insektors Insektors Insektors was a 1994 French animated TV series about a conflict between two tribes of anthropomorphic insects: the Joyces and the Yuks . Made in a small studio, Fantome, in France, it was the 1994 recipient of a "Children and Young People" Emmy Award... : Le pont de la Konkorde (Grand Prix pour un spécial TV) |
| 1997 | Famous Fred (Grand prix du film TV) |
| 1998 | Die Hard (Grand prix attribué à une série TV) |
| 2000 | The Periwig-Maker (Grand prix du film TV) |
| 2002 | Hamilton Mattress (Grand prix) |
| 2003 | Verte (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |
| 2004 | Creature Comforts Creature Comforts Creature Comforts was originally a 1989 British humorous animated short film about how animals feel about living in a zoo, featuring the voices of the British public "spoken" by the animals. It was created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations... "Cats or Dogs?" (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |
| 2005 | Peppa Pig Peppa Pig Peppa Pig is a British animated television series created directed and produced by Astley Baker Davies and distributed by eOne Entertainment. To date, three series have been aired. It is shown in 180 territories.-Background:... "Mummy Pig at Work" (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |
| 2006 | Pocoyo Pocoyo Pocoyo is a Spanish pre-school animated television series created by Guillermo García Carsí, Luis Gallego and David Cantolla, and is a co-production between Spanish producer Zinkia Entertainment, Cosgrove-Hall Films and Granada International. Two series have been produced, each consisting of 52... "A Little Something Between Friends" (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |
| 2007 | Shaun the Sheep Shaun the Sheep Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion animated children's television series produced by Aardman Animations, and commissioned by the BBC and the WDR. It first aired in the UK on CBBC in March 2007... "Still Life" (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |
| 2008 | Moot Moot L'enfer de la mode "Moot Moot 'L'enfer de la mode'" (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |
| 2009 | Log Jam "The Log", "The Rain", "The Moon", "The Snake" (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |
| 2010 | Der Kleine und das Biest (The Little Boy and the Beast) (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |
| 2011 | The Amazing World of Gumball The Amazing World of Gumball The Amazing World of Gumball is a British/American animated television series created by Ben Bocquelet. It first aired on May 2, 2011 in the United Kingdom as a sneak preview and officially premiered on September 5, 2011. It premiered a week later on May 9, 2011 in the United States on Cartoon... , "The Quest" (Le Cristal pour une production TV) |