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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
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
Queens
QUEBEC PREMIERE Everything happens very fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora and their mother Elena are about to leave. They are apprehensive about saying goodbye to a country, to family and friends, but above all to Carlos, a father and ex-husband who has all but disappeared from their lives. In the midst of Peru’s social and political chaos, this announced departure will give rise to contradictory feelings, reviving old regrets and generating new illusions. Facing the uncertainty of their future head on, their frustrations and fears are mixed with excitement and expectation, as the family faces the difficult truth about the losses this departure implies. REINAS is an intense, choral and moving tale of initiation, in the spirit of the 90s. World Cinema Dramatic – Grand Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival – 2024Grand Prize of the Generation Kplus International Jury – Best Film – Berlin International Film Festival – 2024
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...
La ligne
After a violent argument with her mother, Margaret, 35, is subject to a restraining order before her trial. She is no longer allowed to contact her mother or go within 100 meters of the family home for three months. This distance separating her from her home only makes her want to be closer to her family and she comes back every day to be confronted by this invisible border. Official selection – Berlinale – 2022
Dear Memories
Thomas Hoepker is one of the most important living photographers worldwide. His pictures became icons of photojournalism. In 2017, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The man whose art has become part of the collective memory is now slowly losing his own memories. His one last big dream: A road trip through the USA with...
Sous les figues
On a hot summer day, a crew of workers – men and women, young and old – arrive at dawn at a picturesque fig orchard in northwest Tunisia. We eavesdrop, through the sun-dappled leaves of the fig trees, on the young women stealing away precious moments from the foreman’s watchful gaze. Meanwhile, the older women,...
Best of Annecy 2022 | Films d’animation | Sélection 1
Best of Annecy 2022 program combines a selection of shorts, mainly winning films from the latest Festival with two tailor-made opening sequences by second year students from the GOBELINS, l’école de l’image. In the program: Watch closely, from the Gobelins image schoolPersona, by Sujin Moon (South Korea, 2022) – 6 min*Terra incognita, by Pernille M....
Hive
Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.Kosovo’s official submission for the Academy AwardsWinner of 13 international awards and nominated 11 times. Sundance triple award winner, and Kosovo’s official submission for the Academy Awards®, HIVE is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije (Yllka Gashi), who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands but their will to begin living independently is met with hostility. The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her, starting a feud that threatens their newfound sovereignty and the financial future of Fahrije’s family. Against the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest and lingering misogyny, Fahrije and the women of her village join in a struggle to find hope in the face of an uncertain future. Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, HIVE is a pithy, devastating portrait of loss and our uphill journeys to freedom.