Annecy, the longest-running and largest animation fesival, has announced the feature film selections for their upcoming festival in June. Nine films were chosen to compete for the Cristal award for feature film, which will be decided by a jury consisting of producer Didier Brunner (Les Armateurs), Cartoon Network exec Brian Miller and director Robert Morgan (The Cat with Hands, The Man in the Lower-Left Hand Corner of the Photograph). An additional fourteen features will screen out of competition.
Marcel Jean, the festival’s artistic director, said of this year’s feature selections:
“Many films have been created in a totally independent way, using traditional means, which illustrates the change in production habits that is opening the way for smaller companies and happening at the same moment as the production of digital 3D features is becoming more accessible. Japanese production has also particularly stood out through the number and quality of science fiction, horror or genre films.”
Feature Films—In Competition
- Arjun, The Warrior Prince
Directed by Arnab Chaudhuri (India)
Directed by Toshiyuki Kubooka (Japan)
Directed by Alain Ughetto (France)
Directed by Anthony Silverston (South Africa)
Directed by Daniel St. Pierre and Will Finn (U.S.)
Directed by Marc Boréal and Thibaut Chatel (France)
Directed by Fernando Cortizo (Spain)
Directed by Enzo D’Alo (Italy, Luxembourg, France, Belgium)
Directed by Luiz Bolognesi (Brazil)
Feature Films—Out of Competition
- After School Midnighters
Directed by Hitoshi Takekiyo (Japan)
Directed by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie (France)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani (Japan)
Directed by Ekaterina Mikhailova (Russia)
Directed by Christopher Sullivan (U.S.)
Directed by Alejandro Lozano (Mexico)
Directed by Gisaburo Sugii (Japan)
Directed by Don Hertzfeldt (U.S.)
Directed by Tatsuya Nagamine (Japan)
Directed by Kevin Schreck (U.S.)
Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Japan)
Directed by Nancy Savard (Canada)
Directed by Maxim Sveshnikov and Vladlen Barbe (Russia)
Directed by Max Andersson and Helena Ahonen (Sweden)