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Best of Annecy | Films d’animation
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival travels the world with its Best of Annecy 2024 program, which brings together a selection of short films from the last edition, including a majority of award-winning films and an opening sequence created by second-year students at GOBELINS Paris. The program includes : Afterparty from the GOBELINS image schoolThe car that came back from the sea, Jadwiga KowalskaJury prize for a short filmFrance TV Prize for a short filmCarrotica by Daniel Sterlin-Altman[S] by Mario RadevPrix Jean-Luc Xiberras for first feature filmBeautiful Men by Nicolas KeppensPapillon by Florence MiailheAndré Martin Prize for a French short filmHurikán* by Yan Saska * Header photo Countries of production: France, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Bosnia-Herzegovina The CFAK team will be on hand to host the event. In partnership with the Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke Free activity
Reas
Yoseli has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower on her back and has always wanted to travel, but she was arrested at the airport for drug trafficking. Nacho is a trans man who was arrested for swindling and started a rock band in jail. Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long-term inmates or newly admitted: in this hybrid musical, they all re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison. REAS is a collective work that reinvents the musical genre: the performers dance and sing about their past in prison, relive their life as fiction, and invent, through fantasy and imagination, a possible future for themselves. Official Selection – Berlinale – 2024Best Film – San Sebastián International Film Festival – 2024Special mention for best documentary – Festival de Cine de Lima PUCP – 2024
The Village Next to Paradise
In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths. Official Selection – Cannes Festival – 2024Gold Hugo – New Directors Competition – Chicago Film Festival – 2024
Elli et l’équipe des monstres
When Elli, a little homeless ghost, knocks on the door of the eccentric residents of a Ghost Train ride in and amusement park in search of a home, she accidentally attracts the attention of the “outside world” and must team up with a crew of outsiders in a mad quest to save not only all...
Les graines du figuier sauvage
Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Sana and Rezvan. Special Jury Prize – Cannes Film Festival – 2024Official selection – Golden Globes – 2025
Les filles d’Olfa
The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors to re-enact the story of Olfa and her daughters. Best documentary film – César – 2024Official Selection – Oscars...
The Promised Land
With Mads Mikkelsen In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King. In exchange, he’ll receive a desperately desired Royal name for himself. But the sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik...
L’enlèvement
In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive...
La Sirène
After an Iraqi missile strike, the oil metropolis of Abadan descends into chaos. Fourteen-year-old Omid, who works as a food delivery boy, is searching for his missing brother – and for an escape route out of the besieged city. 13 year and older Best Original Music Award – Annecy International Animated Film Festival – 2023Best...
Sira, une héroïne africaine
After a brutal attack, a young nomad named Sira refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist terror.Source : IMDB Panorama Audience Award – Berlin International Film Festival – 2023Official Selection – TIFF – 2023Official Selection – Cinémania – 2023