ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL - 9 TO 14 JUNE 2014

Annecy 2014 poster by Franck Dion

When I saw French animator and illustrator Franck Dion’s beautiful 2014 Annecy poster I felt it was going to be a good festival this year and it was.   For the first time in its history the festival team choose an animator to design the poster and let’s hope it won’t be the last time. It was also the first time in many years that the sun shone brightly down on the entire six days of the festival. There was no rain, just hot and hotter weather.

The festival got off to a splendid start with the presentation of a Honorary Award to Isao Takahata at the opening night ceremony.  The seventy-seven year old Japanese animator was honoured for his outstanding career and life-long contribution to animation.  His films include Grave of the Fireflies, Pompoko, and My Neighbors Yamadas.  Along with Hayao Miyazaki and the Tokuma Shotem Company he also founded Studio Ghibli.

Following the presentation of the award The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Isao Takahata’s latest film was screened.  The Tale of Princess Kaguya, based on the ancient Japanese folk legend The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, is the story of a thumbelina sized princess who is found in a bamboo stalk by the bamboo cutter.  She quickly grows into a beautiful young woman that is coveted by the greatest princes in the land who are prepared to face impossible challenges to win her hand.  The beautifully hand drawn film looks like an ancient scroll painting come to life.  G-KIDS has announced that they will handle the US release of the film in the Fall.

The five short competition programs were a very mixed bag for me.  There were some really bright spots but over all I wasn’t that impressed and I heard the same comment from many other people.  A bright spot was the The National Film Board of Canada (NFB)  who consistently produces good films and this year was no exception.  No Fish Where To Go from the French Canadian duo Nicola LeMay and Janice Nadeau made a deep impression on me.  It is about the consequences of intolerance when civil war breaks out as seen through the eyes of a little girl who is forced to leave her home with her family.  Her plight is made even more painful when she has to leave her best friend who belongs to the other clan and her beloved pet fish behind.  The film is even more intense because it begins so gently and builds to a horrific conclusion.

Canadian directors Janice Nadeau and Nicola Lemay at the morning directors' chat

No Fish Where To Go is beautifully hand drawn by Janice Nadeau and faithfully adopted from a well known  Canadian children’s book of the same name which Ms. Nadeau also illustrated.  Nadeau and Le May received the Fipresci Award which is given by the International Federation of Film Critics at the festival.

Seeing a new film by Latvian animator Vladimir Leschiov is always an event to me because I am a big fan of his work and Rainy Days definitely lived up to my expectations.  His latest film was also produced by Marc Bertrand at the NFB.

Each of his previous films have used a different technique and for his latest film Vladimir employed black tea and ink on paper in muted shades of browns, white, and black to tell the story of an elderly Japanese man who boards a ferry for an unknown island.  As he looks out over the water the falling rain triggers a string of memories.  Rainy Days looks at three pivitol moments in the man’s life when events that should have happened never came to pass, yet change the course of his existence.  The soft, flowing tones of the black tea is the perfect medium to portray the man’s graceful acceptance of fate and his awareness that “all we have is what is”.

Vladimir’s films always have to be watched several times to peel back all of the layers and catch every detail.  As of this writing I have watched the film three times and look forward to several more viewings.

Annecy Artistic Director Marcel Jean is a thoughtful, well prepared interviewer so the morning director’s chats were very informative this.  It was extremely interesting to hear him talk with Mexican animator Pablo Angeles about creating Pickman’s Model  which he based on his favorite H. P. Lovecraft story.  Pablo said that there are very few animation schools in Mexico and almost no financial support for short animation.  He financed his eleven minute film himself and carved the wooden figures and the intricate set at night after working his regular job, devoting every free moment of his life to creating Pickman’s Model .  Pablo is currently searching for financing to make a feature film.

This year there were nine feature films in competition and another nine screened out of competition and twelve screened on the big open air screens in the park and in the courtyard of the Chateau Museum.  Being a big fan of Estonian animation I was looking forward to Mait Laas’ seventy-three minute animated puppet opera Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A Rapid Love Story.  On one level the opera sung interchangeably in Estonian, English, French, and Italian by oranges and lemons is a Romeo and Juliet love story but on a far deeper level the film recreates the Lampedusa boat disaster and the plight of refugees fleeing to Europe in search of a better life only to find more misery.

The story deals in a very critical and thought provoking manner with illegal immigration.  It is also the story of impossible love between orange Maroc, a singing boat refugee and lemon girl Lisa who collects singing sea shells and dreams of finding love.  Lisa is also the daughter of a rich businessman who owns a tomato ketchup plantation.

At the press conference Mait was asked why he made the film as an opera in four languages.  He said “That when you go to see an opera you may not understand the language but the emotions are conveyed by the voices.  It is the same with the story of Lisa and Maroc.

The film is also in 3D.  I usually don’t like 3D because it is frequently added just to tack on a higher ticket price, but in this film the 3D is used much more like it was in the 1950’s horror films for special emphasis and suprize.  It worked perfectly.

La, la, la, la, la . . . I left the theatre singing.  I hope that Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange:  A Rapid Love Story will receive the wide audience it deserves so you can all leave the theatre singing too!

Nancy and Mait with some puppets from his film

For years the short competition programs were the center piece of the festival.  For the past few years feature films seemed to hog the spotlight but this year there were so many wonderful special programs and exhibits that they were the highlights of the week for me.

A world view of stop-motion animation was a primary focus of the 2014 festival.  The seventeen programs devoted entirely to stop-motion were a mini festival by itself.  The films spanned the entire history of the art form from historical works by such great pioneers in the field as Ladislas Starewitch and Segundo de Choman to entire programs of contemporary Mexican, Estonian, Canadian, and Croatian stop-motion.  Whether you wanted to see an entire program of one person’s work such as a tribute to Bretislav Pojar who won the first Annecy Cristal in 1960 for The Lion and the Song or the contempory genisus Bruce Bickford, or you wanted to explore a body of work from one country or see two programs commerating the centenary of the First World War there was something for everyone.  Pianist Stephan Oliva and clairnetest Jean-Marc Foltz preformed live improvised  musical accompaniment to three films of the great early twentieth century  special effects pioneer Segundo de Chomon  at a special screening.

In conjunction with the stop-motion screenings French animators Julie Nobelen and Bastien Dubois curated a parallel exhibition in the Centre Courier, the main shopping mall in downtown Annecy.  Specially constructed display cases held puppets from classic stop-motion films such as Harvie Krumpet and Oh Willy.  Julie told me that they had been very worried about having the puppets, many of which are old and delicate, shipped so they did a lot of traveling this year personally picking up as many of the puppets as possible themselves.  Large television screens were set up in two locations in the exhibit which run a continuous program of stop-motion film clips and another display explained the basic process of stop-motion animation.

I always make sure that my first screening every year is The Big Sleep to honor those great animators who passed away since the last Annecy.  It is always bitter sweet to watch the films and this year is was especially painful because among those honoured:  Nag Arsorge of Switzerland, Canadian Frederic Back, Xavier Julliot from France and South Korea, Michael Sporn of the US, and French animator Rene Borg, was my dear friend Jimmy Murakami.  Watching his beautiful film Breath which won the 1965 Annecy Grand Prix I still find it hard to believe that I will never see Jimmy’s warm smile again.

As part of the world wide celebration of the great Scottish/Canadian Norman McLaren’s centinnary NFB (National Film Board of Canada) and Annecy joined forces to pay homage to the great man who left his lasting impact on the history of cinema and inspired so many filmmakers world wide.The films in the three programs McLaren Now included films by animators Steven Woloshen, Ryan Larkin, and Paul Bush whose work reflect the influence of McLaren’s films.  Sprinkled through the three programs were films by Norman McLaren.

Canadian director Stephen Woloshen and Lithuanian director Ilya Bereznicka

Over the past thirty years MIFA located adjacent to the Imperial Palace Hotel has become an important part of the festival and a major industry event.  This year over 2,400 industry professionals were at MIFA along with 513 exhibitors and 334 buyers and distributors from 61 countries.

As I went from booth to booth I had the opportunity to see the latest technological innovations in the industry and get an overview of what films companies have just completed along with seeing works in progress.  I was particularly attracted by the beautiful set on display at the Miraclefilm booth for their feature film Little From the Fish Shop, a work in progress at the Czech studio.  I also saw a bit of the film and if the completed project is a lovely as what I saw the completed feature will be a hit.

The set from Little from the Fish Shop

MIFA also serves as a discussion platform with Pitching Session and Share With sessions which gave producers the opportunity to meet with potential key investors.  Another important function is the MIFA recruiting sessions where studios have the opportunity to meet new talent and give film makers a chance to present their portfolios to studios.  The numerous conferences open to all MIFA badge holders and the press ranged from The Role of the Web in Diffusing Short Animated Film to Music and Sound Design in Animated Series.

If you go to Annecy to do business or write about the festival the parties are the most important place to be because it is an opportunity to talk to old friends and make new ones.  It is also the place to find out what new projects people have in the works.

The opening night party following the opening ceremony and screening at La Plage is always full of anticipation for the week ahead.  It is also the first real opportunity to see who is at the festival this year.  With the warm evenings this year parties at La Plage were particularly nice because you could sit outside and enjoy a lovely view of the lake.

Juan Carlos Concha from the festival Non-Stop Barcelona and Nancy dancing at the opening night party


I always look forward to the lavish reception hosted jointly by Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Films (ITFS), MFG Filmforderung Baden-Wurttemberg, FMX, German Films, and the German Short Film Association.  After a brief bus ride down the lake the guests arrive at a lovely restaurant with a lawn reaching down to the lake’s edge.  Tables were scattered around the lawn, the sumptuous  buffet was delicious and drinks flowed.  Dining under the trees is the perfect place to chat with friends and for a couple of hours I can just relax before heading back to the hustle and bussel of the festival.

Wednesday I took a trip to MIFA for the Czech reception where I was treated to delicious spicey sausage and good cold Czech beer.  It was also where I had the chance to meet the people from Miraclefilm and learn about other Czech projects in progress.  Next Nik and I rushed back to the main part of town for the Swiss reception at the Hotel Splendid.  I particularly enjoy this reception because the Swiss Film Commission always presents me with a promotional DVD of their films.  This year’s addition includes Hasta Santiago which earned animator Mauro Carraro the 2014 Annecy Crystal for best first professional film as well as the Sacem Award for origonal music in a film.  I am continually amazed that a small country like Switzerland which has four different languages continually turn out so many high quality animations each year as the 2013/2014 Swiss Shorts DVD proves.

Next we were back off to La Plage for the Nicheloden VIP cocktail party preceding the MIFA opening night party.  At the MIFA opening I had the opportunity to talk to producer Jose Inesta from Mexico.  I really didn’t know a great deal about the state of animation in Mexico and we don’t get to see very much of it at festivals in Europe so I was very interested to hear what he had to say.  Jose told me “Even though the Mexican government prefers to support documentary formats, the animation industry is growing because of the passion of the directors and producers of animation”.  He also said that “The number of independent studios has grown significantly, and the universities are starting to offer animation programs.  Currently there are 10 animated feature films being produced with directors that have been recognized in the international industry like Rene Castillo, Karla Castandeda, Rita Basulto, Pablo Angeles, etc.  There is a lot of hope for the industry and we are looking for producers world wide that might be interested in co-productions with Mexican studios since government funds are limited”.

German director Thomas Stellmach at the Nickelodian VIP reception before the MIFA opening party

Jose also told me about animation festivals in Oaxaca and Cuernavaca that he is involved with.  You can find out more information about the festivals and submitting your films on their website:

www.oaxacafilmfest.mx

If elections in the US have “super Tuesday”, Annecy has “super Thursday” which is the ultimate party day.  I am not sure exactly how many receptions there were that day but we had invitations to twelve.  Our day began at La Plage at noon with the Cartoon Network Picnic.  With the very hot sun overhead it was delightful to sit under an umbrella by the lake with a gentle breeze blowing.  The picnic food was delicious and pleantiful.   It was so hot that I even forsook red wine in favour of a nice chilled rose with ice cubes.

The picinic was followed by the Polish party where they had drinks and badminton on the lawn of the MIFA chill out area.  An hour later it was just a few steps across the lawn to the annual Finnamination picnic.  This year we all raised our glasses to toast the 100th Anniversary of Finnish animation.  Of course there was a fabulous multi-tiered cake complete with sparklers to go with our drinks.

Celebrating 100 years of Finnish animation

On our way back through MIFA we stopped by the Indian animation reception where we sampled delicious Indian snacks with our drinks.  The Indian delegation came to Annecy prepared to entertain and each guest was presented with a beautiful Indian scarf in rich red or gold.  I also did an all too brief visit to the Russian reception for a quick shot of vodka.  Unfortunately there just wasn’t any opportunity to attend the Irish Party.

Much too soon it was time to catch the festival shuttle bus back to the center of town for the Dutch Party at the Café des Artes on the island.  The café is the unofficial festival café where animators meet for a last nightcap or two on the way back to their hotels.  The Dutch party is always very popular and crowded but sadly after one glass of wine I had to rush off to the Belgian reception at the Hotel Splendid.  I left Nik and the Annecy + Band  where they were entertaining the guests at the Dutch party.

The Annecy+ Band playing at the Dutch party

At the Belgian party I had a chance to chat with Deb Singleton,  Director of the Bradford Animation Festival (BAF) held at the National Media Museum which is chocked full of film, television, and animation memorable and well worth a visit.  I had heard that the National Media Museum was in danger of being closed as an austerity measure by the British government and I was very happy to learn from Deb that the museum has been spared and is no longer in danger.

I met up with Nik again at the Croatian party a little later.  Torill Kove was there showing off her Moulton bicycle, the star of her new film Me and My Moulton.  The film is about a young girl who wants a bicycle very badly but most of all wants her parents to be like all of the other mothers and fathers.  When she and her two sisters finally do get their bicycle it isn’t a “normal” bike like all of the other kids have with big balloon tires, it’s a Moulton.  For those not up on their bicycles, a Moulton is the small wheeled, expertly engineered  light bike that can be taken apart quickly to take onto trams.  This is the third film in Torill’s semi-autobiographical trillogy, the other two being My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts and the Academy Award winning The Danish Poet.   Me and My Moulton is a charming story that everyone can relate to and brings back memories of our childhood longings that don’t turn out to be exactly what we want when we  got it.

Filmmaker Torrill Kove with her Moulton bicycle

The evening ended with a short bus ride out to Le Bowl for the Illumination MacGuff party.  I didn’t bowl but I did meet an animator from Cypress who is currently getting his Masters Degree in Spain.  It was interesting to hear about the political situation on the island.  Nik and I didn’t make it until the 3 AM end of the party, but it was pretty late when I finally got to bed after a very full day.

The Dreamworks picnic is definitely the place to be on Friday.  Shelly Page, Head of International Outreach for Dreamworks is always the perfect hostess providing us with all the right ingrediants for a picnic including perfect weather.  Everyone who is anyone is at their picnic and it is the perfect networking party with everyone relaxing with food, drink, and good conversation.  This year marked the 10th Anniversary of the picnic and to commerate the event an easel and drawing pad were set up and everyone was invited to draw on it.

Happy 10th birthday, Dreamworks picnic

I had not seen Jan Pinkava for quite a while so I was very happy to have an opportunity to catch up with him at the picnic.  He told me that he is now  living in Portland, Oregon where he has been developing MOTO X, the flagship phone of the Google powered handset maker Motorola Mobility.  Moto X turns into a player for a new form of media that combines computer animation and street theatre with virtual reality.  By moving your phone up, down, right, and left you can see the animation with the background of whatever you are looking at so no two people will “create” the same film.  One big difference between most animation on phones is that the films created  on Moto X cannot be recorded or copied.  He gave Nik and I a demonstration and it really does look like fun.
Jan Pinkova demonstrating the Google app MOTOX for Nancy and Daniel Šulji? at the Dreamworks picnic

On Friday evening Bill Plympton and I hosted our annual Annecy + screening of films that had been rejected by the Annecy selection committee but that Bill and I think deserve to be screened.  Since neither Bill or I live in Annecy or speak fluent French a good location for Annecy + has been a problem.  This year we were lucky to have Carole Martinato join the Annecy + team as our On Site Location Manager and she did a fantastic job, if fact I wonder how we ever did it without her all those years.
The Annecy+ Team - Bill Plympton, Nancy, Carole Martinato and Nik

After several years of noise complaints and an encounter with the local gendarmes last year, the problem was finally solved when Benoit Comte who runs Annecy Off on a permanently docked boat offered us Friday night for Annecy +.  It was a great location and I hope it will become our permanent home.   Although I don’t know how many people we had there it was very crowded and the audience was very enthusiastic about the films.  The evening began with the Annecy + Band:  Nik Phelps on horns and reeds,  Rolf Bachler playing percussion, Daniel  Suljic, percussion, violinist Anne Beal, and guitarist Jay Desrosiers entertaining the audience.
The Annecy+ Band playing on the boat

This year the audience voted Mute directed by Dutch animators Job, Joris, and Marieke as the first place winner.  They received a copy of Giants First Steps, first films by such animation greats as Pete Docter, Nik Park, and Henry Selick among others.  The award was generously donated by Ron Diamond of Acme Filmworks.  Second place was Baby of the Fisher directed by Ivan Maximov of Russia and third place was awarded to The Ledge End of Phil from Irish director Paul I’Muiris.  Congratulations to the winner and thank you to everyone who submitted films to Annecy +.

Saturday afternoon is always set aside for Nik’s and my annual picnic.  Over the years this has grown into a really fun event.  Each year more and more people have gotten into the spirit and this year the Spanish contingent outdid themselves and brought a delicious whole Spanish ham and a traditional Spanish carving machine.


Spanish director Sam Orti carving the Iberian ham at Nik and Nancy's picnic

This year a Brazilian animator brought her partner to the picnic who offered haircuts on the spot.  The Annecy + band was joined by other people who brought instruments and there was an abundance of delicious food and drink.

Haircut at the picnic

Several years ago Joanna Quinn introduced the Rounders Game at the picnic.  Since she has been working on her film for the past few years and hasn’t been at Annecy Jamie Badminton founder of Karrot Animation has taken over organizing what has become known as “The Skwigly Rounders Match” in honor of Skwigly, the UK’s number one on-line animation magazine, because their team members are always active participants of the game.  I don’t quite understand the rules of the game but it has been explained to me as softball for dummies.  Both teams seemed to have a great time playing it.  Joanna always sends the trophy that is presented to the person from the winning team voted most valuable player.

The winning rounders team

Whether they are peddling or watching from the shore everyone always looks forward to the annual paddle boat race.  There are no rules except that everyone must go out and around the island in the lake and it is always very funny because everyone has different winning tacits such as jumping from boat to boat or attacking other boats with squirt guns.  Because it was so hot this year several people finished the race in the water.
The paddleboat race, the winners at far left

There are so many parties at Annecy that require an invitation, so ten years ago Nik and I started the picnic where everyone is welcome and we don’t ask who you are.  It’s lovely to see students and top professionals  eating and drinking together while relaxing on the grass.

All too soon it was time for the Saturday night Closing Ceremony.  Before the awards were handed out we were treated to a beautiful homage to Goddard’s classic Breathless created by the amazing and versatile Theo Ushev.  Theo captured Jean Paul Belmondo in his iconic role perfectly.  The film was accompanied live by pianist Stephan Oliva. Mr. Oliva also accompanied a beautiful piece painted on glass especially for the closing ceremony by the noted Swiss animator Georges Schwizgebel.

Joanna Toste, Jean Lic Slock, Nancy, Kristof Serrand, Inni Karin Melbye and Olivier Catherine before the closing ceremony

After the special screenings it was time to get down to the business of handing out the awards.  A complete list of the juries and award winning films is at the end of the article.  I especially want to congratulate Bill and Sandrine Plympton for the Jury Award they received for their feature film Cheatin’. Even if Bill and Sandrine were not good friendsI would have a great deal of respect for Bill who has truly earned his title of “King of the Indies” raising all the money to make his own films himself.  I am puzzled by the jury awarding the Grand Prix to Man on a Chair the French/South Korean short film by Dahee Jeong but I have sat on enough juries never to be surprised by who they give awards to.  When the award winning film was announced I really had to think hard to remember what Man on a Chair was like because it didn’t make an impression on me. I was happy to see  Giovanni’s Island, by Japanese animator Mizuho Nishikubo win a Jury Distinction award.  I wrote extensively about the film in my article about the Stuttgart Festival in April.  A complete list of all the winners is at the end of the article.

This year a new ticketing system was inaugurated.  We were all instructed to get tickets on line before the festival however when the appointed day, hour, and minute arrived the system was so overloaded that it took repeated  tries over many hours and in some cases days to get tickets.  After the initial panic people had about the new on-line only ticketing system once the festival began most people seemed to get tickets for every screening that they wanted and by the end of the festival the ticketing problem had become a non-issue.  I enjoyed Annecy 2014 more than I have enjoyed the festival in several years.  I think Marcel Jean has made very positive changes and is beginning to put his personal stamp on the programing and the tone of the festival.   I also want to thank everyone in the press office for all of their assistance to make my job easier also.

The 2015 edition of the Annecy Animation Festival will take place from the 15th through the 20th of June.  Marcel announced that next year the festival will focus on Women in Animation and the spotlight will be on Spanish productions.  He also said that in 2015 repairs to the Bonloeu will be completed and will be the festival home once again after a two year hiatus.   After several past years of dreading Annecy I am actually looking forward to it.  Nik and I will be at the wonderful ANIMATOR ANIMATION AND MUSIC FESTIVAL in Poznan, Poland in July.

Annecy 2014 prizewinners:

OFFICIAL PRIZES


Cristal for a Feature Film

O menino e o mundo > Le Garçon et le Monde > The Boy and the World - Alê Abreu Brazil, FILMe De PAPeL

Cristal for a Short Film

Man on the Chair - Dahee Jeong France, South Korea,SACREBLEU PRODUCTIONS

Cristal for a TV Production 

En sortant de l’école "Tant de forêts"  - Burcu Sankur, Goeffrey Godet

France, TANT MIEUX PROD

Cristal for a Commissioned Film

Nepia "Tissue Animals" - Fuyu Arai, Japan, ROBOT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Cristal for a Graduation Film

The Bigger Picture - Daisy Jacobs Great Britain, nFTS

FEATURE FILMS


Jury Award

Cheatin’ > Les Amants électriques - Bill Plympton USA, PLyMPTOOnS

Jury Distinction

Giovanni no Shima > L’Île de Giovanni > Giovanni’s Island - Mizuho Nishikubo Japan, PRODUCTION I.G

Audience Award

O menino e o mundo > Le Garçon et le Monde > The Boy and the World - Alê Abreu Brazil, FILMe De PAPeL

SHORT FILMS


Jury Award

Patch - Gerd Gockell Germany, Switzerland, ANIGRAF

"Jean-Luc Xiberras" Award for a First Film

Hasta Santiago - Mauro Carraro France, Switzerland nADASDy  FILM

Jury Distinction

Histoires de bus > Bus Stories - TALI Canada, OnF

Jury Distinction

La testa tra le nuvole > La Tête dans les nuages > Absent Minded - Roberto Catani Italy, OTTOMAnI A.c.

Audience Award

La Petite Casserole d’Anatole > Anatole’s Little Saucepan - Éric Montchaud France,JPL FILMS

ANIMATION OFF-LIMITS


SHORT FILMS

"Off-Limits" Award

Corps étrangers > Foreign Bodies - Nicolas Brault canada

TV FILMS


Jury Award for a TV Series

Tumble Leaf "Kite" - Drew Hodges USA,BIX PIX ENTERTAINMENT

Jury Award for a TV Special

Le Parfum de la carotte > The Scent of Carrots - Rémi Durin, Arnaud Demuynck France, Belgium, Switzerland LES FILMS DU NORD

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Jury Award

Peau "Instant T" - Perrine Faillet France PEAUMUSIC

GRADUATION FILMS


Jury Award

An Adventurous Afternoon - Ines Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser  Germany, KUNSTHOCHSCHULE KASSEL

Jury Distinction

The Age of Curious Luca Toth

Great Britain, RCA

SPECIAL PRIZES


Festivals Connexion Award – Région Rhône-Alpes with Lumières Numériques

Through the Hawthorn - Anna Benner, Pia Borg, Gemma Burditt Great Britain, LIKELY STORY

Junior Jury Award for a Graduation Film

Interview > Entrevue Mikkel Okholm Denmark, THE ANIMATION WORKSHOP

Junior Jury Award for a Short Film

Histoires de bus > Bus Stories - TALI Canada, OnF

Fipresci Award

Nul poisson où aller > No Fish Where to Go - Nicola Lemay, Janice Nadeau Canada, OnF

"Gan Foundation Aid for Distribution" for a Work in Progress Award

Adama - Simon Rouby France, NAÏA SAS, PIPANGAÏ PRODUCTION, GAO SHAN PICTURES