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Best of Annecy Kids | Films d’animation
The Best of Annecy Kids 2024 brings together funny, moving and poetic short films that will delight children! On the program: Lencos dos namorados (GOBELINS Paris)*Tête en l’air by Rémi DURIN (France) – 11 min*Wing It! by Hendrik SCHUTTE (Netherlands) – 4 minLa Boulangerie de Boris by Masa AVRAMOVIC (France, Switzerland, Croatia) – 8 minBonjour l’été by Martin SMATANA and Veronika ZACHAROVÁ (Slovakia, Czech Republic, France) – 11 minFrites sans maillot by Matteo SALANAVE PIAZZA (France) – 4 minUne guitare à la mer by Sophie ROZE (France, Switzerland) – 30 min *Featured Pictures
Marching in the Dark
QUEBEC PREMIERE Intent on providing a better life for herself and her children after her farmer-husband’s suicide, Sanjivani struggles against her culture’s traditional abandonment of widows, until she joins a discussion group with other farmer-suicide widows. Empowered by community, shared stories of resilience, and unexpected solidarity, Sanjivani forges a path forward. Official selection – Hot Docs – 2024Official selection – Zurich Film Festival – 2024
All We Imagine As Light
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest. Official Selection – Golden Globes – 2025Grand Prize – Cannes Film Festival – 2024
When the Light Breaks
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty. Official Selection – Cannes Film Festival – 2024Silver Hugo – Chicago Film Festival – 2024
Oink
7 and over When 9-year-old Babs receives a pig named Oink as a present from her grandfather, she convinces her parents to keep it. But her parents are not the biggest threat to Oink because her grandfather is secretly taking part in the sausage competition with her pet on the chopping block. Best Feature Film – Netherlands Film Festival – 2022Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film – European Film Awards – 2022Official Selection – Berlin Film Festival – 2022
Ennio
Not recommended for young children A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone. Official Selection – Venice Film Festival – 2021
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Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bondis suddenly, tragically torn apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes FilmFestival, Lukas Dhont’s second film is an emotionally transformative and unforgettableportrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, andheartbreak and healing. Grand Prize – Cannes Film Festival...
Best of Annecy Kids 2022 | Films d’animation
The Best of Annecy Kids 2022 assembles funny, touching and poetic short films that children will adore! In the program:Renouveau, by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image (France)*Luce and the Rock, by Britt Raes (Belgium, The Netherlands, France, 2022) – 12 minLa Soupe de Franzy, by Ana Chubinidze (France, Georgia, 2021) – 8 min*Histoire pour 2 trompettes, by Amandine Meyer (France, 2021) – 5 minCat and Moth, by India Barnardo (Canada, United Kingdom, 2021) – 7 minBellysaurus, by Philip Watts (Australia, 2021) – 7 minLa Reine des renards, by Marina Rosset (Switzerland, 2022) – 8 min 6 years and older. *Featured Pictures
Pari
QUEBEC PREMIERE Audience choice grand prix – Sakhalin International Film Festival – 2020Rimbaud Award – Les Rimbaud du Cinéma – 2020 Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn’t show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. All their attempts to find a clue that might lead them to him prove to bein vain and they soon reach a dead end. But Pari can’t give up looking for him, even when returning to Iran seems like her only choice. Following the steps of her rebellious son in the darkest corners of the city, she will exhaust her inner strength to achieve more than a mother’s search for her missing son.
Last Days of Spring
QUEBEC PREMIERE New Directors Competition – San Sebastian International Film Festival – 2020Best Interpretation – Les Arcs Film Festival – 2020 The Spanish family Gabarre-Mendoza is celebrating the birthday of their grandson, when they are interrupted by a police inspection. In « La Cañada Real », a shanty town just outside Madrid, tensions between the officials and the inhabitants arise since the land has been sold and the different families are forced to leave their self-build homes. While mother of the house Augustina turns from a full of laughter mother into a woman tormented with fear, father David a hardworking scavenger tries to find a solution but fails the bureaucratic system. Meanwhile the younger members in the family, the adolescent Davíd Jr (16), daughter-in-law and teenage mother Maria (17) and the young Alejandro (9) struggle in their own way with their lives in between places.