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47th Annecy Festival
Official poster of the 47th Annecy Festival designed by Jorge R. Gutierrez featuring a rajinera (traditional Mexican boat in Xochimilco) arriving on Lake Annecy full of happy, excited Mexicans ready to party.
Opening filmSirocco and the Kingdom of Air Streams
LocationAnnecy, France
AwardsCristal for a Short Film (27), Cristal for a Feature Film ("Chicken for Linda!"),
No. of films20 (Feature Films), 71 (Short Films)
Festival date11–17 June 2023
Websitewww.annecyfestival.com/home
Annecy International Animation Film Festival
2024


The 47th edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023 ran from 11 to 17. This year's featured country was Mexico.

The festival opened with Sirocco and the Kingdom of Air Streams directed by Benoît Chieux

The Bonlieu Cultural Centre was decorated in the colours of Mexico, the featured country at this year's festival.

The winners were announced on the 17th of June: the short film 27 by Flóra Anna Buda won the Short Film Cristal and the feature film Chicken for Linda! by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach won the Feature Film Cristal[1],[2].

Juries[edit]

Feature films[edit]

Short films[edit]

Graduation films and Off-Limits shorts[edit]

Television and commissioned films[edit]

Contrechamp Feature Films[edit]

VR Works[edit]

Perspectives Short Films[edit]

André Martin Award for a French Short Film[edit]

Festivals Connexion and Festivals Connexion VR Awards[edit]

Jury for the Young Audience Award[edit]

  • Philomène Lacostaz, Manel Luesma-Saadia and Charlotte Meiffre
  • Arthur Chiabaut Salentiny, Yasmine Cocco and Thomas Leoutre

Speakers[edit]

Exhibitions[edit]

Previews[edit]

Work in progress sessions[edit]

Selection[edit]

Feature films[edit]

Official selection[edit]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
Art College 1994 藝術學院, Yìshù xuéyuàn Liu Jian  China
Four Souls of Coyote Kojot négy lelke Áron Gauder  Hungary
Kensuke's Kingdom Neil Boyle et Kirk Hendry  United Kingdom, and  France
The Siren La Sirène Sepideh Farsi  Germany,  Belgium,  France and  Luxembourg
Chicken for Linda Linda veut du poulet! Chiara Malta et Sébastien Laudenbach  France and  Italy
Lonely Castle in the Mirror かがみの孤城, Kagami no Kojō Keiichi Hara  Japan
Mars Express Jérémie Perin  France
Sirocco and the Kingdom of Air Streams Sirocco et le Royaume des courants d'air Benoît Chieux  Belgium and  France
The Inseparables Les Inséparables Jérémie Degruson  Belgium,  Spain and  France
The Inventor Léo Jim Capobianco et Pierre-Luc Granjon  United States,  France and  Ireland
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes 夏へのトンネル、さよならの出, Natsu e no Tonneru, Sayonara no Deguchi Tomohisa Taguchi  Japan

Contrechamp[edit]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
When Adam Changes Adam change lentement Joël Vaudreuil  Canada
Tender Metalheads Heavies tendres Carlos Perez-Reche and Joan Francesc Tomas Monfort  Spain
Johnny & Me - A Journey through Time with John Heartfield Johnny & Me: Eine Zeitreise mit John Heartfield Katrin Rothe  Germany,  Austria and  Switzerland
Komada: A Whisky Family 駒田蒸留所へようこそ, Komada Jōryūsho e Yōkoso Masayuki Yoshihara  Japan
The Sacred Cave La Grotte sacrée Daniel Minlo and Masso Cyrille  Cameroon
Robot Dreams Pablo Berger  Spain and  France
Rosa and the Stone Troll Karla Nor Holmbäck  Denmark
Saleem Cynthia Madanat Sharaiha  Jordan
Slide Bill Plympton  United States
Toldi Marcell Jankovics and Lajos Csákovics  Hungary
Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light Filip Pošivač  Hungary, Czech Republic and  Slovakia
White Plastic Sky Tibor Banoczki and Sarolta Szabo  Hungary and  Slovakia

Short Films[edit]

Official Short Films[edit]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
11 Vuk Jevremovic  Croatia and  Germany
27 Flóra Anna Buda  France and  Hungary
Astoria Franck Dion  France
Box Cutters Naomi Classien Van Niekerk  South Africa,  Netherlands and  France
Flesh of God Carne de Dios Patricio Plaza  Argentina and  Mexico
Catisfaction André Almeida  Portugal
Whatever Moves Is Alive Ce qui bouge est vivant Noémie Marsily  Belgium
Christopher at Sea Tom CJ Brown  France,  United States and  United Kingdom
Way Better Daug Geresnis Skirmanta Jakaité  Lithuania
Drijf Levi Stoops  Belgium
From One Painting... to Another D'une peinture... à l'autre Georges Schwizgebel  Switzerland and  France
Eeva Morten Tšinakov and Lucija Mrzljak  Estonia and  Croatia
Electra Daria Kaschcheeva Czech Republic,  France and  Slovakia
Her Dress for the Final Haljina za finale Martina Mestrovic  Croatia
Smoke Humo Rita Basulto  Mexico
I'm Hip John Musker  United States
Intersextion Richard R. Reeves  Canada
Dog Apartment Koerkorter Priit Tender  Estonia
The Great Arc La Grande Arche Camille Authouart  France
La perra Carla Melo Gampert  Colombia and  France
The Purple Season La Saison pourpre Clémence Bouchereau  France
Last Order Jo Hang-jin  South Korea
Shadow of the Butterflies L'Ombre des papillons Sofia El Khyari  France,  Portugal and  Qatar
Love Me True Inés Sedan  France
Marie.Eduardo.Sophie Thomas Corriveau  Canada
Maurice's Bar Tom Prezman and Tzor Edery  France and  Israel
Nun or Never Heta Jäälinoja  Finland
Our Uniform Yegane Moghaddam  Iran
Regular Rabbit Eoin Duffy  Ireland
Salvation Has No Name Joseph Wallace  United Kingdom,  France and Czech Republic
Sweet Like Lemons Jenny Jokela  Finland and  United Kingdom
Telsche Sophie Colfer and Ala Nunu  Poland,  Saudi Arabia and  Portugal
The Miracle Nienke Deutz  Belgium,  Netherlands and  France
The Smile Erik Van Schaaik  Netherlands and  Belgium
Tongue Kaho Yoshida  Canada and  Japan
World to Roam Stephen Irwin  United Kingdom

Perspectives[edit]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Country of Production
White Bai Chen Ao  China and  United Kingdom
Lake Baikal Baigal Nuur Alisi Telengut  Germany and  Canada
Depersonalization Spartak Yordanov  Bulgaria
Fashion Victims 2.0 Maria Lorenzo Hernández  Spain
Hadis Nazrin Aghamaliyeva  Azerbaijan,  United States and Czech Republic
Island Michael Faust  Israel
K8 Miguel Anaya Borja  Mexico
Spirit of the Forest Kaadina Jeevantike Nandini Rao, Nirupa Rao et Kalp Sanghvi  India
Lost at Sea Andrés Alejandro Bartos Amory et Lucija Stojevic  Spain
Money and Happiness Ana Nedeljković et Nikola J. R. Majdak  Serbia,  Slovenia and  Slovakia
Nurit Sohini Tal  Israel
The Cactus O Cacto Ricardo Kump  Brazil
Saleeg Afnan Bawyan  Saudi Arabia
Shanghai in the Spring Shanghai Zhi Chun Xun Sun  China
Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse Sjeti se kako sam jahala bijelog konja Ivana Bosnjak Volda et Thomas Johnson Volda  Croatia
The Crowd Pelin Kirca  Turkey
To You Wafa Lazhari  Tunisia
Shifting Trasiego Amanda Woolrich  Mexico and  Canada
Where Is the Key? Indra Sproge  Latvia

Young Audiences[edit]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Country of Production
Wild Housemates Colocation sauvage Armelle Mercat-Junot  France
To Be Sisters Entre deux sœurs Clément Céard and Anne-Sophie Gousset  France
Harvey Janice Nadeau  Canada and  France
Paperplanes Arvind Singh Jeena  India
Pete Bret Parker  United States
Princess Aubergine Prinzessin Aubergine Dina Velikovskaya  Germany
The Goose Jan Míka  France and Czech Republic
What's in That Crate? Wat zit er in die kist? Bram Algoed  Belgium

Off-Limits[edit]

English Original Title Director(s) Country of Production
Algodreams Vladimir Todorovic  Australia
Cave Painting Siegfried A. Fruhauf  Austria
Silent Chirping of Invisible Digits Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer Vera Sebert  Austria
I Can't Go on Like This by Aria Covamonas from Planet Earth Aria Covamonas  Mexico
Is Heaven Blue? 2 Menno De Nooijer et Paul De Nooijer  Norway  Netherlands
Motus Nelson Fernandes  Portugal
The Transient Pink Twins  Finland

TV Films[edit]

Title Episode Director(s) Production Country
Agent Elvis Full Tilt Gary Ye  United States
Artur y Dropsik ¿Me lo puedo quedar? María Rosario Carlino and Matias Ferreyra  Argentina
Astronome Gastronome Au début était la crème fouettée Geneviève Anhoury  France
Baby Bot Baby Bot Knows Bees Guillermo Garcia  Spain and  United States
Big Nate The Legend of the Gunting Jim Mortensen and Kimberly Jo Mills  United States
Boys Boys Boys Tristan Valentine Vendroux and Clawdia Prolongeau  France and  Belgium
Chainsaw Man Episode 01 Ryu Nakayama  Japan
Chiquifantástica Episodio 3 Ana Sofia Franco Zafra  Colombia
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Family Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling and Baker Terry  United Kingdom
Edmond et Lucy Goodbye Piney Pine Tree François Narboux  France
Le Show du Dr Gecko Sex Gender Marcos Almada Rivero  Mexico
Gegone, in the Museum Eufyros Joan Zhonga  Greece
Hideous Henk Pranked! Junaid Chundrigar  Netherlands
Karaté Sheep Trico's Treats Cédric Dietsch andRenaud Martin  France
Pebble Hill - Marjolaine Perreten  Belgium,  France and  Switzerland
Liv&Bell Hearty Soup of Fruitful Forest? Natsuki Kida  Japan
Lloyd of the Flies The Wasp Sting Matthew Walker and Jane Davies  United Kingdom
Mech Cadets Underdogs Patrick Toru Awa, Kazuma Shimizu and Hiroyuki Hayashi  United States and  Japan
ONI: Thunder God's Tale The Demon Moon Rises Dice Tsutsumi  United States
Red Iron Road In the Heat Sam Chou  Canada and  Moldova
Samuel Épisode 1 Émilie Tronche  France
Scavengers Reign The Wall Vincent Tsui  United States
Shape Island Square's Big Prank Drew Hodges  United States
Mr. Passenger The Shapes José Cavalheiro  Portugal
Szmatkowe krloestwo Zabi Królewicz Bartosz Zarzycki  Poland
Sandman A Dream of a Thousand Cats Hisko Hulsing  United States
The Sound Collector Panning for Sound Chris Tichborne and Barry J. C. Purves  United Kingdom and  Italy
Tufo - Victoria Musci  France and  Italy
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell The Cartoon Dave Willis and Chris Kelly  United States

Commissioned Films[edit]

Artist/Product/Brand Title Director(s) Production Country
12th StopTrik IFF The Doppelgänger Sasha Svirsky  Slovenia
Billy Strings Catch & Release Robert Bohn  United States
Burger King Glitch Gabriel Nobrega  Brazil
Cécile McLorin Salvant D'un feu secret Amanda Bonaiuto  United States
Common Seas Blood Type: Plastic Diego Huacuja  United States and  Mexico
Creem Boy Howdy! Rises Again Thiago Martins and Mateus De Paula Santos  United States
Der Kurzfilmtag Potato Falls Janina Putzker  Germany
DJ Piper RIP TXL Raman Djafari  Germany
Google Heroes of Small Business: Casa Botín Jeanette Norgaard  Spain and

 United Kingdom

Gorillaz Silent Running Jamie Hewlett and François-Xavier Goby  United Kingdom
Hermès International Ride of Joyfulness - A Gift for You Lei Lei  China
Hidden Heroes Anna Levinson  Germany
Jacques Rien Hugo Bravo  France
Kwoon King of Sea Stéphane Berla  France
La Chica Oasis Marion Castéra  France and  Venezuela
Le Théâtre du Passage Antonin Niclass  Switzerland
M+ Park Voyage Yuk Ki Florence Lee  Hong Kong
Municipal Waste Grave Dive Pierre Mousquet  Belgium
November Ultra Come Into My Arms Tamerlan Bekmurzayev  France
Omega Quality Campaign Giovanni Grauso  Italy
Ottawa International Animation Festival Signal Film Winston Hacking  Canada
Pharrell Williams, 21 Savage and Tyler, The Creator Cash In Cash Out François Rousselet  France,  United States and

 United Kingdom

Relevo The Rules Are Changing Mariano Ríos  Spain
Siamés All the Best Pablo Roldán  Argentina
TED-Ed Mao's Mango Cult Kayu Leung  United States,  France and  Hong Kong
The Beatles I'm Only Sleeping Em Cooper  United Kingdom
WWF A Flammable Planet Yannis Konstantinidis and Christos Lefakis  United Kingdom

Graduation Films[edit]

  • artifacts of youn artifacts of me., (des artefacts de toi, des artefacts de moi.) by Brecht De Cock (Belgium)
  • Bedroom People (Le Peuple des chambres) by Vivien Forsans (Canada)
  • Beneath by Beth Walker (United Kingdom)
  • Bottled Insects by Yuxin Gao (Japan)
  • Carp Xmass by Anna Heribanová (Czech Republic)
  • Conej Steps Out by Pablo Río (Spain)
  • Cyclepaths (Cyclepathes) by Anton Claeys (Belgium)
  • Glass Fingers (Degete de sticlǎ) by Alina Gheorghe (Romania)
  • "Dede Is Dead" ("Deniska umřela) by Philippe Kastner (Czech Republic)
  • Dodo by Yi Luo (Germany)
  • Dog, Ball, Park by Renana Palmor (Israel)
  • The Feast (El festín de last bestias) by Simón Bucher, Claudia Saldivia and Amanda Rivera (Chile)
  • "Fires" (Feux) by Mohammad Babakoohi (France)
  • Fox Tossing by Zénó Mira (Hungary)
  • Fur by Zhen Li (United States)
  • Furrie by Lucie Grannec (France})
  • "The Harbourmaster" ("Havnesjefen) by Mia L. Henriksen and Konrad Hjemli (Norway)
  • "Horse" (Hobune) by Jass Kaselaan (Estonia)
  • Horse by Diana Gong (United States)
  • "Heave" (Houle) by Timothée Sarran (France)
  • "Under Cover" ("Ispod Maske) by Darian Bakliza (Croatia)
  • La notte by Martina Generali, Simone Pratola and Francesca Rosso (Italy)
  • "The White Night" (La Nuit blanche) by Audrey Delepoulle (France)
  • "Holes" (Luknje) by Sofiya Kruglikova (Slovenia)
  • "Where's Ornicar" (Mais où est donc Ornicar") by Oscar Maso y Guell Rivet (France)
  • Makulatour by Tim Markgraf (Germany)
  • Mano by Toke Ringmann Madsen (Denmark)
  • "Origins of a World" (Origines d'un monde) by Emma Zwickert (France)
  • "Not in Love" (Pas amoureux) by Eugénie Bouquet (Switzerland)
  • "Passengers" (Passagers) by Celia Hardy (Belgium)
  • Pipes by Jessica Meier, Sujanth Ravichandran and Kilian Feusi (Switzerland)
  • "Dear Me" (Priyo Ami) by Suchana Saha (India)
  • Réalitude by Théophile Farant (France)
  • "Reincarnation" by Fang Zhou (China)
  • Ressources humaines by Titouan Tillier, Trinidad Plass and Isaac Wenzek (France)
  • "Saltwater" (Eau salée) by Declan McKenna (United States)
  • "Shuffle" ("Schoenmaten") by Quita Felix (Netherlands)
  • Sewing Love by Yuan Xu (Japan)
  • Smell of the Ground by Olivia Rosa (Poland)
  • Soaked In by Shiyu Tang (China)
  • " Such Miracles Do Happen" (Takie cuda się zdarzają") by Barbara Rupik (Poland)
  • The Eastern Rain by Milly Yencken (Estonia)
  • This Will Never Last by Julia Van Oppen, Katrina Lin and Holly May Fletcher (Australia)
  • Throng by Will Clarke (United Kingdom)
  • Tomoya! by Masataka Kihara (Japan)
  • Unique Time by Oh Yu-jin (South Korea)
  • Unusual Sunset by Noé Garcia (Belgium)

VR Works[edit]

Title Director(s) Production Country
Balck Hole Museum + Body Browser Su Wen-chi  Taiwan
From the Main Square Pedro Harres  Germany
I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs Yvette Granata  United States
Immortelle Line Katcho  Canada
Red Tail Fish Wang  Taiwan
Shadow David Adler and Ole Bornedal  Denmark and  United Kingdom
Sol-Air Mihai Grecu  France

Awards[edit]

Short Films[edit]

  • Cristal for a Short Film: 27 by Flóra Anna Buda
  • Jury Award: Drijf by Levi Stoops
  • Alexeïeff – Parker Award: Eeva by Morten Tšinakov and Lucija Mrzljak
  • Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film: Our Uniform by Yegane Moghaddam
  • Off-Limits Award: Is Heaven Blue? 2 by Menno De Nooijer and Paul De Nooijer
  • Audience Award: Nun or Never by Heta Jäälinoja
  • Young Audience Award: To Be Sisters by Clément Ceard et Anne-Sophie Gousset
  • CANAL+ Junior Jury Award: Pete by Bret Parker
  • Best Original Music Award for a Short Film: 27 by Flóra Anna Buda

Feature Films[edit]

TV and Commissioned Films[edit]

  • Cristal for a TV Production: Pebble Hill by Marjolaine Perreten
  • First Jury Award for a TV Series: Shape Island "Square's Big Prank" by Drew Hodges
  • Second Jury Award for a TV Series: Scavengers Reign - The Wall de Vincent Tsui
  • Cristal for a Commissioned Film: Come Into My Arms - November Ultra by Tamerlan Bekmurzayev
  • Jury Award for a Commissioned Film: I'm Only Sleeping - The Beatles by Em Cooper

Graduation Films[edit]

  • Cristal for a Graduation Film: La notte by Martina Generali, Simone Pratola and Francesca Sofia Rosso
  • Jury Award: The Harbourmaster by Mia L. Henriksen and Konrad Hjemli
  • Lotte Reiniger Award: Mano by Toke Ringmann Madsen

VR[edit]

  • Cristal for the Best VR Work: Red Tail by Fish Wang

Special Prizes[edit]

  • City of Annecy Award: Island by Michael Faust
  • André Martin Award for a French Short Film: The Purple Season by Clémence Bouchereau
  • Festivals Connexion Award: Maurice's Bar by Tom Prezman and Tzor Edery
  • Festivals Connexion VR Award: From the Main Square by Pedro Harres
  • France TV Award for a Short Film: Nun or Never by Heta Jäälinoja

References[edit]

  1. ^ "'Chicken for Linda!' Wins 2023 Annecy Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. June 17th 2023. Retrieved 22 juin 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).
  2. ^ "'Chicken For Linda!,' 'Robot Dreams,' '27,' Take Top Honors At 2023 Annecy Festival". Cartoon Brew. June 17 2023. Retrieved 22 juin 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link).

External links[edit]

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