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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
The Return
After 20 years of absence, Ulysses washes ashore on the coast of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left for the Trojan War. His beloved wife, Penelope, is now a prisoner in her own home, relentlessly harassed by numerous ambitious suitors pressuring...
The Trouble with Mr Doodle
This is the story of an extraordinary boy born into an ordinary family in an unremarkable English town and how a childhood passion threatened to take over his life, his home and his mind.
The Old Oak
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, it is the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his hold is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village. An unlikely friendship develops when TJ encounters a young Syrian with a camera, Yara (Ebla Mari). Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about loss, fear and the difficulty of finding hope. Official Selection – Festival de Cannes – 2023
Young Plato
QUEBEC PREMIERE Young Plato charts the dream of Elvis-loving school headmaster Kevin McArevey – a maverick who is determined to change the fortunes of an inner-city community plagued by urban decay, sectarian aggression, poverty and drugs. The all-boys primary school in post-conflict Belfast, Northern Ireland, becomes a hot house for thinking and questioning, as the...
Brian and Charles
Brian lives alone in a remote village in the countryside. Something of an outcast, he spends his spare time inventing things out of found objects in his garage. Without friends or family to rely on, Brian decides to build a robot for company. ‘Charles’ is not only Brian’s most successful invention, but he appears to...
Sans filtre
With Woody Harrelson Social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl and Yaya, are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain. What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival. Palme d’Or – Cannes Film Festival – 2022
EO
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence. Jury Prize – Cannes Film Festival – 2022Nominated – Best Internationnal Feature Film – Academy Awards – 2023Nominated – Best Foreign Film – César Awards – 2023
God’s Creatures
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic.
Aftersun
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film. Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor – Oscar – 2023Best Film – British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) – 2022