Annecy Festival Residency 2024 Selection!
Festival 9-15 June 2024
Mifa 11-14 June 2024
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The Annecy Festival Residency will hold its 4th edition from 5th April to 28th June 2024. It will host 3 new artists in the Papeteries – Image Factory to work on the visual identity of their animation feature films.
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Here’s a few key figures, the 2024 edition of the Annecy Festival Residency includes:
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- 36 submissions
- 25 different nationalities
- 42% of the projects are led by women
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The selection committee had the delicate task of putting together an eclectic and equitable selection from these submissions. The goal was to identify projects that would reap the full benefits of the Residency, ensure an overall coherence, and demonstrate their appeal for the animation film industry.
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The selection committee is a broad-based group of animation professionals whose purpose is to thoroughly analyse the projects. For this 2024 edition, Aurel (Cartoonist, Director), Damien Brunner (Producer, Folivari), Jean-Christophe Roger (Director), Sara Wikler (Script Doctor) and Valérie Yendt (Distributor, Gebeka Films) collectively selected:
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Le Cabanon de l’oncle Jo by Marie Deboissy (France)
Production: Offshore/White Star (France)
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1967. With a heavy heart, 9-year-old Lili leaves Tunisia with her mother. She is going to live with her Auntie Denise and Uncle Jo in Saint-Denis. Lili doesn’t like it there. The buildings are grey, Auntie Denise is a cleaning fanatic, Uncle Jo is uncommunicative, the five cousins are noisy and the group of kids that hang around the streets call her a "dirty foreigner".
Escaping the neighbourhood hostility and her family, Lili decides to transform a piece of wasteland in the middle of the city into a luxuriant garden with jasmine, just like in Tunisia.
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Zako by Tigran Arakelyan (Armenia)
Production: OnOff Studio (Armenia), Sacrebleu Productions (France), Broom Films (Lithuania)
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The film is based on a true story. Zako is the name German soldiers gave to Soviet-Armenian painter Sargis Mangasaryan during the Second World War. Zako was in charge of drawing his tormentors’ portraits. Thanks to his talent, he survived the hell of the camps and avoided being exiled in Siberia.
In 1956, while visiting the famous Picasso exhibition at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, he was deeply moved by Guernica, which brought back his own memories of WWII.
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Insectarium by Sofía Carrillo (Mexico)
Production: Pimienta Films (Mexico)
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In a world where insects have become extinct, Cerulia works cataloging and preserving specimens for the private collection of a renowned entomologist.
One afternoon, as she leaves work, she accidentally knocks a valuable moth off the pin holding it in place. In an attempt to hide the evidence, she takes the moth home, only to discover that it comes back to life.
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"A zeitgeist selection. This is how the selection committee could describe its choices for this 4th edition of the Annecy Festival Residency.
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In the image of what festivals and cinemas fervently advocate, the committee was deeply moved by the stories that bring us face to face with the reality of our world and its complexity. Narratives led by authors who employ all their poetic gifts to tackle the 'woefully' familiar yet such topical themes as species becoming extinct, being uprooted or imprisonment in times of war.
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These promising animation filmmakers cast a candid, well-informed look on our society, acting as both witnesses and protagonists, because film provides us with this limitless scope for interpreting life.
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Their works tackle weighty subjects, captured by artists who admirably handle the scriptwriting, artistry and camerawork. The 2024 selection reflects this commitment to supporting courageous, distinctive projects, where hope and art permit the heroes, and the works, to fight the most glorious battles to uphold life.
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The committee trusts in the unity that will emerge from these unique encounters, revolving around projects that are so different yet so complementary! We look forward to seeing the results from this successful trio at the Mifa in June!"
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To find out more about the Annecy Festival Residency, head to its special page and check out previous editions in images:
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